Monthly Archives: June 2011

Sustainable Energy Choices

Posted on 2011-06-29 by alan

Barry Brooks at ‘BraveNewClimate’ has made a brave effort at summing up the need for nuclear power as part of the CO2-free mix in a brief video, but parts of it still felt to me like “industry propaganda” – to the … Continue reading →

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Citizen Surveillance

Posted on 2011-06-23 by alan

I tend to agree with Stephen Downes that there is nothing wrong and much to be admired in the use of social media to record criminal acts and bring the perpetrators to justice. And I particularly object to Alexandra Samuel‘s apparent … Continue reading →

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Twisted Language in Physics

Posted on 2011-06-22 by alan

From the discussion in Quantum Diaries, it seems that helicity is a property of motion and chirality a property of shape (where, in the case of an elementary particle, this might be represented by something like the shape of a level … Continue reading →

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