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Appeal Against LHC Nixed by Constitutional Court

Posted by Michael Khan Posted in GO FOR LAUNCH

The German constitutional court, the highest court in the Federal Republic of Germany, on March 9, 2010 refused to accept an appeal filed by a German woman living in Zürich, Switzerland, for an injunction forcing the German government to take action to limit operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ...

 

Free will

Posted by Arvid Leyh Posted in Braincast

Braincast 013   The ship of free will is sinking – at least some influential brain researchers say so. Braincast 13 examines backgrounds and backdoors of one of the most controversial topics between our ears.   MP3 File  Duration 17:01   This is just great: Woody Allan about his psychotherapy . ...

 

Data Mining in Space

Posted by Gerhard Holtkamp Posted in SpaceTimeDreamer

Special statistical techniques in the so called field of data mining which are designed to find patterns in large volumes of data can be applied to detect anomalies in space missions... Although statistical methods for analyzing multiple parameters simultaneously have been around for much longer than the Internet the large amount ...

 

"This cannot happen"

Posted by Markus A. Dahlem Posted in Gray Matters

The statement made in the title often marks a major step in our understanding of something that happened but should not have. In a scientific context, this can result in a shift of paradigm. This cannot happen ... unless, of course, my assumptions were wrong. You may ask What cannot happen? I have indeed ...

 

Clips about the Evolution of Homo sapiens

Posted by Michael Blume Posted in Biology of Religion

Living in Europe, it is rather easy to assume that people around the world would share a perspective on the evolution of our species. But as I learned from some comments and mails, this is not the case. Therefore, I decided to present the scientific standard of knowledge about the evolution of homo sapiens before proceeding with ...

 
 
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