by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Science
Experimental demonstration of Pauli’s exclusion principle: bosons hang together, fermions don’t and because of that we are not all one big ball of stuff.
by Tom | Mar 16, 2010 | Science
As a race, we don’t quite understand the Sun (how it works, how prominences and spots form), but we are getting there. Stunning image created during a 2008 eclipse.
by Tom | Mar 11, 2010 | Personal, Science
Wiffy always critiques my listening skills: for my part, in common with many men, I think that I am not permanently listening to see if someone is trying to talk to me. This means I often miss the start of conversations. Clearly I actually have lazy ear, having had...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading, Science
DNA matches against the national database aren’t often used to solve crimes. Now 1 in 350 of crimes doesn’t seem high or low,really. I wonder how often DNA taken during an investigation is used? The figure in the article is that 33,000 (1 in 40)...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading, Science, Tech
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Science
I wonder if the call for new statistics for science will help avoid the scaremongering issue? If we can truly find a way of avoiding the false positive problem (we do so many tests on our data we see patterns that could be chance rather than actual) we should be able...
