CDS Regulations SI 2001 No.1437 & ECHR Article 6

CDS Regulations SI 2001 No.1437 & ECHR Article 6.Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 1437The Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) Regula...

Ghosts in Transit

Ghosts around me. Caught in between, not really gone, not yet arrived. An airport terminal - hard to say which city or even which country. A...

Liquid Helium

This month has seen the centenary of the first liquefaction of helium , the lightest noble gas: On July 10, 1908, a complicated apparatus wo...

Is there life after CERN?

Is there life after CERN? Will a black hole swallow the earth? Such titled PM magazine in its July issue that my husband bought and kindly s...

Openness in Science

In a recent blog post on The Future of Science Michael Nielsen (co-organizer of our upcoming conference on Science in the 21st Century ) pu...

Catastrophe Conference

Over the last few days, the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford hosted the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (17-20 July, 2008) On the...

Nothingness

The recent issue of Discover magazine has an article by by Tim Folger Nothingness of Space Could Illuminate the Theory of Everything Could t...

This and That

In the absence of quality blogging time here's some unordered bits of information: A group of researchers around Philip Humphrey and Dav...

Interna

We have good news! As you might recall, after finishing his PhD Stefan started a position as editor for Springer - the scientific publishe...

Join MTEB Forum if your are in wireless / telecomms

Join MTEB Forum if your are in wireless / telecomms.If you work in forensics and/or examination devices, investigations or deal with evidenc...

The German Academy of Sciences

The UK has its Royal Society , France the Institut de France with its Académie des sciences , Italy has the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ...

We have only ourselves to judge on each other

Last week, I was talking to a string theorist. We were talking about black holes at the LHC , but I am admittedly presently somewhat tired...

SonyEricsson Hidden Evidence

SonyEricsson Hidden Evidence .I have discovered that it is possible when manually examining some SonyEricssons (such as "K" range ...

Scientists and the Mass Media

The recent issue of Science has an article about Interactions with the Mass Media Science 11 July 2008, Vol. 321. no. 5886, pp. 204 - 205 wh...

German Citizenship Test

As previously mentioned, Germany has introduced a citizen test for immigrants. Spiegel Online now has the full version with 33 questions: T...

Yes, he can have a dream

But a dream it will likely remain. German newspapers have been discussing back and forth during the last days whether Barack Obama while on ...

Research and Teaching

A main topics in today's issue of the Frankfurter Rundschau (one of the major German newspapers) is dedicated to the quality of teachin...

Recreating the Big Bang?

With the start of the Large Hadron Collider coming closer, the topic is present in the media more than ever. A commonly used motivation is ...

This and That

It's summer in the city again - last week saw the first really hot days in Frankfurt. One of the many nice things about Frankfurt is tha...

PS to The End of Theory?

" 'If Darwin had had a computer on his desk,' [the ruddy-faced nonlinear economist W. Brian Arthur] exclaims, 'who knows wh...

The End Of Theory?

Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired Magazine , wrote last week an article that you find at the Edge proclaiming The End of Theory: ...

PS to Canada Day

After you could recently test whether you qualify to be German , for Canada Day the Globe and Mail offers a similar questionaire "What...

Happy Canada Day

July 1st is Canada Day. Seems I missed it every time since I live in Canada, much like I've missed every 4th of July while in the USA. A...