Science Mathematics Complexity

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History. Hmmm. Sounds a bit like psychohistory in Asimov. http://bit.ly/eK0bQ4

BBC Program: Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack http://bbc.in/hmxCIO

Pictures: Best Amateur Astronomy Images Announced – http://bit.ly/gqaTDc

Continued confusion about how freedom-of-information legislation should be applied to scientific research – http://bit.ly/fcZI01

Video – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D – http://bit.ly/gnKvMn

4 features in appreciation of the life and work of Benoit Mandelbrot – http://bit.ly/fCDK3g

RT @SLSingh: Bad karma for Indian skeptics RT @standupmaths: Indian High Court rules "Astrology is a trusted science" http://bit.ly/fjlwTi

BBC Documentary: The Secret Life of Chaos – http://bit.ly/eOy6PE

The von Neumann paradox – http://bit.ly/hkbpOo

IU mathematician credited with solving one of combinatorial geometry's most challenging problems http://bit.ly/eYbAis

Pretty Cool: 3D fractal zooms – http://bit.ly/i7FU1y

Stephen Jay Gould Speaks Out Against Science Paparazzi – The Onion – http://onion.com/gCmZOT

Hyperbole is without a doubt the single greatest thing in the history of the universe & Carl Sagan was pretty cool too http://bit.ly/gTCgZG

Pretty cool with a fast computer running Chrome or Firefox 4 beta – Fractal Lab – Interactive WebGL Fractal Explorer http://bit.ly/gVnoRU

Fact-Free Science – http://nyti.ms/hF3ilu

What Made This University Scientist Snap? http://bit.ly/eKERiC

RT @SLSingh: Robust quackbusting by @RichardWiseman – http://tinyurl.com/6c2fpgx

Quantum computing device hints at powerful future http://bbc.in/i7Q2Nr

Video: "The Pleasure of finding things out", Richard Feynman Interview (1981) http://bit.ly/gRwt48

@cxdig – The Latest Issue of Complexity Digest – http://bit.ly/hZCUSm

Bad Influence: McKinsey's Math and rainforest destruction: Bloomberg (http://bloom.bg/estQ53) Orig Report (http://bit.ly/fJ3xVK)

Meet "the world's leading anti-pi propagandist…" – http://bbc.in/jLAQHE

Can the convexity of an arbitrary polynomial function be efficiently determined? Apparently no. http://bit.ly/oRqctm

Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to the Pirate Bay in protest – http://bit.ly/q4PRYu

Audio – 'False balance' in BBC science coverage – http://bbc.in/nAEy29

Great Stuff – New Royal Institution club uniting the science and finance communities – http://bit.ly/nw0mec – @rigb_science

How a Holographic Universe Emerged From Fight With Stephen Hawking – http://bit.ly/p8y8be

"When I tell my male neuroscientist colleagues, they say: 'Wow, that's an exception to the classical homunculus!'" http://bit.ly/o4yZ4A

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity – http://bit.ly/pzQyPF

Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet http://bit.ly/qB5odx

What's it like doing a physics PGCE course? http://bit.ly/poH7Sn

Space elevator economics – can someone do the math please? http://t.co/NdwSFeL

30 supernovae per second in the observable Universe! http://t.co/pk778Ed

Niels Bohr Institute researchers have succeeded in maintaining quantum entanglement for up to an hour http://t.co/IiSpgWr

I like science news because it is invariably good.

Interesting. Did Einstein discover E = mc2? http://t.co/GjVp1z4

Richard Dawkins: "Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact" http://t.co/bflMA36

Homeopathy and "plausibility bias" versus science : @SLSingh – http://t.co/QABQEMb

Video – Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab points two chatbots, Cleverbots, at each other and let them talk – http://t.co/F3ktj66

What's an engineer's worst nightmare? To realize that the supports designed for a skyscraper are flawed – http://t.co/VYJ2W0w

Embracing Complexity: An Interview with Michael J. Mauboussin at Harvard Business Review – http://t.co/VQ6meh9

MT @physicsnews – The age of the qubit: A new era of quantum information in science and technology – http://t.co/c0bwl19L

Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin – http://t.co/JL1kQlis

Will Quantum Computing make it out of the Lab? http://t.co/fNzkL3Xm

RT @jonWturney: The future of physics (1): So long, and thanks for all the quarks – http://t.co/BOP9cvPO (good piece, good comments)

FTL neutrinos (or not) http://t.co/XMk4ElfP

Extract – The math genius who lives downstairs http://t.co/Ko2r6shS

Not exactly finance, but interesting: Experimental Mathematics and the Power of Computing http://t.co/8qpv3zlp

Relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal neutrino result. http://t.co/csq1r820 – oh well.

Inside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – http://t.co/jmtuaj8P

Occu-π: The Strange History of Counting To Pi – http://t.co/DvZYzZKN

Unusual to see power law distributions mentioned in the mainstream press – http://t.co/cp5nRpro

The nocebo effect: Wellcome Trust science writing prize essay – http://t.co/vaI1SXNw

Science journal Nature is being sued for Libel by a former editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals http://t.co/107JRqWW

Princeton University's annual Art of Science photo competition – http://t.co/dlDuLFlM

Parrondo's paradox – Losing strategies that win: http://t.co/zZ4HonmZ

Yet more neutrino results suggest neutrino energies are consistent with slower-than-light-speed travel http://t.co/q081FYus

"…a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change…" http://t.co/T4KqqhKL

New Scientist TV: 3D moon flyover – pretty cool http://t.co/XdrPBkEf

An elegant, 1-page solution to the so-called “fixed point” theorem opens up new perspectives in physics and economics http://t.co/NnDD8GQu

Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average http://t.co/nOx0hDmF via @comdig

You wait decades for discoveries that could revolutionise physics, then three come along at once – http://t.co/tV2rZZX7 @newscientist

Philip Pullman Fans: It appears that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered #dust http://t.co/M1iRLLYf

The race to crack the world's hardest puzzle has finished – two days earlier than expected http://t.co/sZFhTlYw

@SSRN 'Thank God for the Lawyers': Some Thoughts on the (Mis)Regulation of Scientific Misconduct – http://t.co/jumX30DX

Eugenie C. Scott on Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution – http://t.co/VA92qivZ

The Assault on Science in America – http://t.co/u7i4bNDs

There should probably be more of these: Scientific Retractions http://t.co/8fzE8kg9

Rather Cool: Living Science is a real time global science observatory – http://t.co/qd2EIUf0

Video – Dirk Helbing on Complexity, Society and the Living Earth Simulator – http://t.co/uXbHCJWz

The Mathematics of Lego http://t.co/PVW6W2uS

Free schools that teach 'intelligent design' as science will lose funding http://t.co/yIpKz00S

The new science of interrogation is not, in fact, so new at all http://t.co/V5poDluV

Have Academic publishers have become the enemies of science? The US Research Works Act – http://t.co/lU5cni0j

A short introduction to Benford's Law – http://t.co/oMARqyIL

From Economics to Psychological Science: The Mechanics of Choice – http://t.co/82FQCMv4 via @AbnormalReturns

MIT Computer Scientist offers $100k award for proof that scalable quantum computing impossible in physical world http://t.co/QrrbDJVz #tcm

The Physics of Finance: Minority Games "markets as ecologies of interacting agents" http://t.co/MDJEjrhy #tcm

The new anti-science assault on US schools – http://t.co/XiTPfu09

Impact of scientific #research correlates with early #twitter mentions – http://t.co/olUFO6qb @NewScientist @PhysicsWorld @timharford