A TESTABLE Alternative to String Theory

Alain Connes redefines space, resulting in a beautiful alternative that finally brings theoretical physics back into the realm of falsifiability.
Connes’ noncommutative geometry theory proposes that the mass of the Higgs boson is 160 Gev. Very intersting theory.
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A concise sumary of the war on terror

Via reddit: the war terror viewed through the bash shell.

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Czech It Out – Marijuana Isn’t The Problem, Drug Laws Are

The Czech Republic is the only place on Earth to have completely thumbed their noses at the common drug charter of the U.N. So you would think that the country must have a serious drug problem right? There must be tons of crime and disgusting elements in public, right?
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Dark matter detected. Wee!

My status as an astronomy graduate student compels me to mention this, even though you’ve probably heard about it: dark matter has been directly detected, for the first time. This was done by measuring the gravitational lensing effects in a colliding cluster of galaxies observed using the Chandra X-ray observatory. The point is that the [...]

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Welcome to Neo-Fascism 101

A simple summary of what Fascism looks like today, how it relates to current trends in America, and what we can do about it (if we it’s not too late already).
In short, if we’re not careful the U.S. is well on its way to becoming a fascist state.
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Wiretap ruling faulted by legal scholars

Even experts who believe the program is illegal said that “the opinion overlooked important precedents, failed to engage the government
â��s major arguments, used circular reasoning, substituted passion for analysis and did not even offer the best reasons for its own conclusions.”
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Atheist

Awesome video of atheist people and their accomplishments…disproving how atheists are thought to be.
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One of the comments describes an inherent logical contradiction in believing that morals come from God, summed up by this quote: “God may be our judge, but we judge God to satisfy ourselves that God is a [...]

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The universe is not 15% older and bigger than we thought

Ned Wright, an actual cosmologist, has dissected a recent ‘discovery’ that the universe is older and larger than initially thought on this page:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
Quoth the cosmologist:
…the claim in the OSU press release that “the universe could be [...] 15 percent older” is incorrect. If the Hubble constant is lower, then CMB anisotropy data require [...]

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AOL releases search data with nobody’s consent

If you use AOL to search, your search history may now be publicly available for all to see:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dangelo/aol-search-query-logs/
(my sister Sabrina sent me this link). It now appears AOL has taken down the link, though. Ostensibly for research purposes, but one wonders if they forgot the Google-DOJ brouhaha a few months ago.

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Beef Producers Not Allowed to Test for Mad Cow

A Kansas beef producer, wants to reassure customers that its cattle are safe to eat by testing them all for mad cow disease. Sounds like a smart business move, but there’s one problem: The federal government won’t let the company do it.
Proof for my earlier post about why I won’t eat beef.
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