Archive for the ‘Science & technology’ Category
Some of the toughest questions in science
August 20th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Does the Higgs boson (or God) particle exist? Is there life on any other planet? Is there a pattern to to the occurrence of prime numbers? How will the universe end? Some discussion of these questions – but no answers – here
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The healing power of electricity
August 18th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
It seems that electric fields can speed the healing of cuts and grazes. It sounds incredible and it will boost the confidence of people I know who claim to be healers, but I argue in my essay “The Reason For Truth” that one should be guided by the evidence and there is scientific evidence for […]
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The magic of cobalt green
August 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
We are reaching the physical limits of miniaturisation of micro-electronic components, but a new technology called spintronics may be coming to the rescue. Spintronics involves manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do the work of computers. A major advance in this development is the use of something called cobalt green. Cobalt green is a […]
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Ever heard of Indigo children?
August 7th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
One of the themes of this weblog and of my web site is that lots of people believe lots of strange things and we have to have a rational means of identifying truth based on evidence. I’m currently working up a short essay on this subject for my web site. Meanwhile today let’s look at […]
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What a piece of work is a man
July 26th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
At the moment, we have a Czech medical student staying with us for six weeks. He is 24 and has done five years of a six-year medicine degree at the University of Prague. He is spending six weeks with us while he works at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London. It’s great to […]
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What is it with labyrinths?
July 14th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Almost everyone I know believes – always sincerely and often passionately – things about which I am (to be kind) deeply skeptical and which (to be less kind) I suspect are crackers. There are countless examples of such beliefs and I think that I’ll have to write an essay on the subject for my web […]
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The end of the human race
July 8th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Now that’s pretty BIG issue for any blog. How might it happen? And how might it be prevented? For ideas on how the human race could end, look no further than a book I read recently by Martin Rees titled “Our Final Century”. You can read my review here. For thoughts on how the human […]
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