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presenting paradox-free quantum time travel?

Quantum time travel experiments hint that physics creates closed time loops, meaning you can't change history.
presenting paradox-free quantum time travel?

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dear new scientist, are you missing a backbone?

The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
dear new scientist, are you missing a backbone?

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why it's so hard to argue with a famous crank

In response to a lengthy presentation debunking his claims, Christopher Monckton did the only thing he knows how to do: throw a massive tantrum.
why it's so hard to argue with a famous crank

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the amazing, shrinking science blogging network

Things are not looking good for ScienceBlogs as the aftermath of the Sodageddon propels more of its writers to escape velocity...
the amazing, shrinking science blogging network

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a brief addendum to the limits of philosophy…

Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.
a brief addendum to the limits of philosophy…

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trying to find the limits of philosophy

At what point do considering the limits of our knowledge and different ways of understanding turn into pointless navel-gazing?
trying to find the limits of philosophy

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why should professional science blogs be taboo?

Alt med skeptic David Colquhoun warns professional bloggers that money will taint their coverage, vastly estimating how much blogging pays.
why should professional science blogs be taboo?

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hold on to your protons. this could be huge…

Protons might be a little smaller than we thought, and that means we may need to rewrite a lot of the rules we thought we understood about the quantum world.
hold on to your protons. this could be huge…

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examining the aftermath of the pop-pocalypse

Pepsi's presence on ScienceBlogs caused an extreme overreaction and revealed a major lack of foresight, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea in the first place.
examining the aftermath of the pop-pocalypse

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does our planet need a biological reset button?

Can we recreate life on Earth after a mass extinction? And if we could, do we really want to?
does our planet need a biological reset button?

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pepsi's misguided foray into science blogging

Pepsi's venture into ScienceBlogs has been a rare slow-motion train wreck, from the internecine blog wars to waves of bloggers heading for the exits.
pepsi's misguided foray into science blogging

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making climate research a risky proposition…

Hyperventilating right wing conspiracy theories about climate science have inspired their less stable listeners to send a constant barrage of death threats and hate mail to climatologists.
making climate research a risky proposition…

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are we prisoners of biological determinism?

A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
are we prisoners of biological determinism?

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how to throw yourself a public pity party

As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
how to throw yourself a public pity party

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shifting the blame for scientific illiteracy

Chris Mooney is back with another rendition of the Unscientific America debacle to cement his status as the human version of a broken record.
shifting the blame for scientific illiteracy

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