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James Zimring discusses the struggle of how to evaluate the claims of science in a world that demands an ever more rigorous consideration of how much confidence to put in such claims. Each of us is taught what science claims to be the case, but to what extent are we taught the basis for such claims – the strengths and pitfalls of science itself?
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Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the public sphere…Yet, conversations about climate change have remained stuck. Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the public sphere. An evident swirl of extreme events linked to changes in the climate, new scientific research on climate change, Youth Climate Strikes, Extinction Rebellion actions, a New […]
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Author Mike Berners-Lee gives us an insight into what it’s like to record an audiobook version of his book “There Is No Planet B“ “ When I write, I am thinking of myself talking, which is why people say my books sound chatty and why, in a way, audio is the most natural format for […]
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From Doraiswami Ramkrishna and Hyun-Seob Song, authors of 'Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering'
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In this post Todd Timberlake author of Finding our Place in the Solar System, 2019 examines two different 'false positives' in the history of astronomy, discussing why they occurred, and how these false observations were eventually discarded.
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The first image from the Event Horizon Telescope, centered on the nucleus of the giant elliptical galaxy M87, does not show the shadow of the black hole’s event horizon per se. What it does show is a region somewhat larger than the horizon, where spacetime is so distorted that photons can go into orbit around […]
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For most of us, a month is a page on a calendar, a set of 30, 31, 28, or, in rare cases, 29 days. But for an astronomer a month is a period of time associated with a cycle of the moon. It turns out that the moon has many cycles, and thus there are […]
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My aim in writing Strategies for Managing Uncertainty was to understand how key players in oil and natural gas and automotive sectors have hedged their bets in making long term decisions, when the results of those decisions were unknown in advance. The purpose of the book is to reveal the hedging mechanisms of integrated oil […]
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