Wading Through Treacle

Quick trip down to Clarks Village , Street this morning to get Clare some summer cycling pants. The puma is go ... A category 4 , ...

My previous dentist was ethnically East-Asian. He was highly-competent, but visits to his surgery were marred by his addiction to an ambient...

A Relativistic Impact I first wrote about this on sciencefiction.com , but armed with information on highly-relativistic beam effects ...

Andy Murray has now left America after his nightmare third set in the  Miami Masters  final. No doubt he has other things on his mind right...

It could be a real bad day to be a hadron if you hang out near Geneva today . Q . What's a hadron, anyway? A . It's any particle...

Confession: I am an eternalist . Eternalist Sean Carroll has a post  up commenting on recent books by Lee Smolin and philosopher Robert...

Here's a little puzzle. Suppose you pick a number randomly between 0 and 1: call it x. Now pick a second one, also between 0 and 1: call...

Bombarded with comment spam, I long ago turned off comments for this blog. However, inspired by Andy Weir (below) I have now turned comment...

I still remember the excitement of my early teens when we established the first colony at Epsilon Indi A, a sun-like star about 12 light-yea...

Yesterday I was cast back to a now sadly-familiar role: the family's systems engineer. My mother had reported that her ancient (CRT) TV ...