We went to an interesting lecture last night at Churchill College. There is a problem with the universe. It doesn’t quite behave as we would expect it to given the amount of mass we can see in it. To account for the difference in the observed universe and the what the gravitational models predict in [...]
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Simon Singh
As the nights draw in again it’s time to hit the lecture circuit. Cambridge is pretty well served with public lectures as well as a number of other organisations that organises talks in return for a small donation on the day or subscription. Last night I went to the IET’s “Christmas” lecture by author, producer [...]
For Science!
A couple of stories recently have gotten me thinking about the process of doing science and how it may change in the coming years. The current approach is to spend time doing your research and once your happy you have a defensible theory you write a paper explaining what you did and submit it to [...]
Bad Science
I finally finished Bad Science last night, written by the excellent Guardian science reporter Ben Goldacre. It’s a tour-de-force of rage against the combined forces of exploitative quacks, big pharma and of course the media. Throughout the book he lays down the basics of the scientific method and how it related to epidemiological research while [...]