Science Mathematics Complexity

Engineers' Dreams by George Dyson: http://tinyurl.com/63puy9

The End of the World on Wednesday! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7600966.stm

A Japanese Plan for a Space Elevator – http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799369.ece

Facebook Friendonomics, Scientific Hoaxes, The First people on Mars – and more. Sci-Tech-Business shorts at http://tinyurl.com/6hys9w

Profile: Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford's new professor of the public understanding of science: http://tinyurl.com/5673mz

Mental: Physicists have worked out how to remotely cloak objects that sit outside a cloaking material: http://tinyurl.com/5ae6a6

Future-shorts – http://uk.youtube.com/user/futureshorts. I quite liked The Black Hole – http://tinyurl.com/638wcm

Best 50 Astronomy Pictures of Year 2008 – http://tinyurl.com/77xuc8

Five Physics Lessons for Obama – http://tinyurl.com/5uuvya

I really like this idea – Galaxy Zoo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7894071.stm

Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what? http://bit.ly/Zc4IB

How to Build the World's Most Powerful Warship – http://bit.ly/OOMkx

Visualizing up to ten dimensions – http://bit.ly/2EEVa

A physicist claims to have solved one of the more persistent problems in physics: why time flows in only one direction. http://bit.ly/W9FbN

Brilliant. New Pictures from Hubble. http://bit.ly/3IiBLI

Beyond space and time: Fractals, hyperspace and more – http://bit.ly/rxMf3

RT@SimoleonSense – 13 more things that don't make sense – http://bit.ly/umeA5

Companies measuring the environmental impact of their products find the math is fraught with complexity & imprecision – http://bit.ly/11H3GA

Synthetic biology was confined to the world's most sophisticated laboratories a generation ago. http://bit.ly/1bwpe

The strength of post-Soviet math stems from decades of lonely productivity – http://bit.ly/36UB8o

Mass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to a British scientist. http://bit.ly/1yJ2WK

Supercool. The Mandelbrot set in 3d. http://bit.ly/35ciR6

@Monbiot – George Monbiot's correspondence with Professor Ian Plimer http://bit.ly/7puFc5

I'm not a geek – Mandelbrot Set Zoom Set to Jonathan Coulton's "Mandelbrot Set" http://bit.ly/6f2P8P

Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2009 – http://bit.ly/6FKdux

2 great astronomy videos to put things in perspective: http://bit.ly/6zVCmZ and http://bit.ly/8YKOzY

Worldometers – real time world statistics – http://bit.ly/8ipiwF

Amazing Astronomy – wonderful images – http://bit.ly/6Y40vu

New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future – http://bit.ly/80ika3

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes – http://bit.ly/4V5VjU

Looking for Life in the Multiverse – Universes with different physical laws might still be habitable – http://bit.ly/4F8Cdf

A 2-day conference: 'The detection of extraterrestrial life and the consequences for science and society.' http://bit.ly/4mIY7o

Thankfully, you don’t need to be a mad scientist to master Quantum Jumping – http://bit.ly/dvbVGQ

Scientists believe there could be 10,000 civilisations in our galaxy and millions are being spent trying to find them http://bit.ly/bxY8ut

@SSRN Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus – http://bit.ly/ar4LKV

Grigoriy Perelman awarded the Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture – http://bit.ly/9aLp6E

Astronomers have underestimated the number of galaxies in parts of the Universe by as much as 90% http://bit.ly/bVKDGa

Is Our Universe in a Wormhole? http://bit.ly/aQw7cM

Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke: Applied Math & Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry http://bit.ly/cfOyqT

There is a strong link between the number of books a family owns and how well their child performs in maths tests http://bit.ly/cPOvKH

Think Mandelbrot: A Finer Formula for Assessing Risk http://bit.ly/c5tN3Y

RT @bengoldacre – Ben Goldacre tells Julian Baggini why he expects rigour in the reporting of science http://bit.ly/cGF8vu

The search for an evolutionary theory of altruism – http://bit.ly/cjEIsR

The Bathyscaphe Trieste – http://bit.ly/cutGYD

Probability and the Tuesday Boy puzzle – http://bit.ly/9KGC2f

Econophysics in the New York Times – http://bit.ly/cJJUnD

Bristol Uni Professor says Quantum time machine 'allows paradox-free time travel' http://bit.ly/bcKFOB

Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles – http://bit.ly/cLpEM7

Why 'scientific consensus' fails to persuade – http://bit.ly/csoqiB

A three dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star http://bit.ly/9lHFfC

"credible ignition experiments" at a high-security building in Livermore, Calif., the size of a football stadium – http://bit.ly/9QEfcb

Brilliant. This is a news website article about a scientific finding – http://bit.ly/aXdf2h

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 – http://bit.ly/cYL4zk

The True Size of Africa. http://bit.ly/ddzMpV

Andre Geim: in praise of graphene http://bit.ly/cz71Io

Royal Statistical Society warns on UK Treasury plan to switch inflation measure – http://bit.ly/aNpara

Uninformed twaddle and generalisations about Science Bloggers. http://bit.ly/dcTBBa

Benoît Mandelbrot Dies at 85 – http://nyti.ms/cBUy1r

For lack of a nail… Benoit Mandelbrot on the article that made a difference – http://bit.ly/amqYFi

Benoit Mandelbrot on Video – A Selection – http://bit.ly/aDQWuG

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal – http://bit.ly/cDQqfb

How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture http://bit.ly/dcZd2r

I used to work on New Journal of Physics: Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' http://bbc.in/coXDZf

Crikey. Impact: Earth! http://bit.ly/bFP70s

Great Stuff. Geological time spiral – http://bit.ly/dfvYx8

Not new, but still quite interesting. The 10 weirdest physics facts, from relativity to quantum physics. http://bit.ly/aoWifT

Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku – http://bit.ly/cGNqjI

The Neutral Model of Inquiry (or, What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver?) http://bit.ly/9OecBV

Maxwell's demon: Applied demonology – http://econ.st/9uEim0

The statistical laws of popularity: universal properties of the box-office dynamics of motion pictures – http://bit.ly/hYNyYj

RT @newhumanist – Baba Brinkman and the Rap Guide to Evolution http://bit.ly/hh46oN

The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 – http://bit.ly/gY1iDU

The Living Earth Simulator – http://bbc.in/f76O7U

Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010 – http://bit.ly/gLCmSZ

World’s Largest Cave: The Son Doong (Found in Vietnam) http://bit.ly/gYdqdw

Understanding tree ring science – http://bit.ly/eQG7cU

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Astrology http://bit.ly/gLUgbz

The Most Massive Black Hole in the Observable Universe – An Event Horizon 20 Billion Kilometers Across http://bit.ly/i6H2vf

Conference last week: Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change – http://bit.ly/fTPzfT

The Edge Question 2011: What Scientific Concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? http://bit.ly/dYVwdu