popular science
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On Lisa Randall’s ‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.’
I love cool stories as much as anyone, but not under the auspices of science for a general audience.
astronomy, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, dark matter, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, electromagnetism, Evicted, Gabriel Zucman, gold foil experiment, gravity, Lisa Randall, Matthew Desmond, Occam’s Razor, popular science, Rutherford, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, weakly interacting massive particles
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On time-traveling information and quantum mechanics.
K (who is better at reading the internet than I am) asked me, “Have you seen all those reports about future actions dictating the past?” I promptly rolled my eyes. Thinking, which ones? Because there are a lot of “scientific” studies of that ilk. One of my favorites (“favorite” here meaning “most laughably silly) is…
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