Quotes of the day - October 20, 2009
“It is an action we do not take lightly and it’s one we do not take very often. This is a pattern of behaviour that is detrimental to our field and not up to our standards.”
Sean Tipton, a spokesman for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, explains the decision to expel from the society the doctor who treated ‘Octomum’ Nadya Suleman (LA Times).
“This refinery expansion is clearly going to dump additional pollution on the surrounding communities, and the law requires BP to control it. BP has been playing games with the numbers to try to duck that responsibility, but the jig is up.”
Ann Alexander, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, comments on wrangling over a huge oil refinery in the US (Chicago Tribune).
“We found that for older people with minimal experience, performing Internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can change brain activity patterns and enhance function.”
Gary Small, of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, has been researching how the internet can change your brain (press release).
“Michael Green has played a leading role in theoretical physics research … since 1993. He is internationally known as a pioneer in string theory which over the last 20 years has become one of the most important and active areas of the field.”
Peter Haynes, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, explains why Michael Green has been appointed as the new Lucasian professor, replacing Stephen Hawking (press release).
Comments
10^(50,000) string theory acceptable vacua reveal zero testable predictions. Quantized gravitation adds an odd-parity Chern-Simons term to Einstein-Hilbert action. Do opposite parity atomic mass distributions fall identically? Run glycine gamma-polymorph single crystal test masses, enantiomorphic space groups P3(2) vs. P3(1), in a parity Eotvos experiment. Abandon empirically inconsequential theory.
Posted by: Uncle Al | October 20, 2009 11:23 PM