Pedro J. Hdez.'s Reading List

The Belle detector in Japan. O3/Wikimedia In the course of exploring the properties of a strange subatomic particle, physicists may have stumbled upon something even stranger: a mysterious and exotic…

ciencia-explicada.com 7min

Correlación, causalidad... y grafos: lo más fundamental (e ignorado)…

By José Luis June 6, 2013

Una deficiente comprensión de conceptos estadísticos y la enorme presión a que los investigadores de todas las áreas nos vemos sometidos para publicar podría ser la causa de…

blogs.scientificamerican.com 5min

Will “Pandora’s Promise” Start a New Environmental Movement for…

By David Ropeik | June 10, 2013

The last line in Pandora’s Promise , Robert Stone’s new documentary about the environmental advantages of nuclear power, comes from Michael Shellenberger, co-head of the Breakthrough…

marketwatch.com 10min

MarketWatch Top Stories

By Quentin Fottrell

Jason Scheinder As political gridlock in Washington threatens to stall a U.S. economic recovery, investors are once again turning to economists for guidance on what the future holds. But a Ouija…

scientificamerican.com 1min

Can Quantum Bayesianism Fix the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics?…

By Hans Christian von Baeyer June 10, 2013

Image: Caleb Charland In Brief Quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory but one full of strange paradoxes. A recently developed model called Quantum Bayesianism (or QBism) combines…

noticiasciencias.com 3min

Solucionado el eterno misterio de la formación planetaria

By Publicado por Francisco Gil Gonzalez Aug. 10, 2013

Solucionado el eterno misterio de la formación planetaria Utilizando el nuevo conjunto de telescopios ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) un equipo de astrónomos ha…

marklynas.org 8min

The past and future of DNA

Review of ‘Creation’, by Adam Rutherford, published by Viking/Penguin Buy from Amazon.co.uk: This book is divided into two sections, printed upside down and back to back. It is a neat…

esmateria.com 4min

Los beneficios colaterales de la bomba atómica

By Daniel Mediavilla June 9, 2013

Las partículas radiactivas que dejaron en la atmósfera los tests nucleares han servido para resolver misterios en biología o empezar a comprender la importancia del cambio…

eldiario.es 6min

Expertos, objetividad y odio a la democracia

El pasado 15 de febrero se hizo público el informe de la comisión de 9 personas —8 profesores y un vicepresidente del Banco Santander— nombrada por el ministro José…

sintetia.com 7min

Sintetia » ¡Nadie está imprimiendo dinero!

“En el Quantitative Easing puro, el foco principal de la política monetaria son las reservas bancarias, que son un pasivo del Banco Central; la composición de los…

theatlantic.com 5min

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

By Bruce Schneier June 6, 2013

Jason Reed/Reuters Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April. That's everything except the voice content: who…

blogs.elconfidencial.com 5min

'Fracking' sí, por favor - LLENO DE ENERGÍA - Cotizalia.com

June 8, 2013

"Spain must be very rich or very stupid to reject oil and gas investments" La energía es esencial para el crecimiento, pero debe ser competitiva, barata y abundante. El gas pizarra -shale gas-…

en.wikipedia.org 10min

Mani (prophet)

Oct. 6, 2011

Mani Mani (in Middle Persian and Syriac Mānī,

edge.org 82min

People Mentions:

PART ONE: NAPOLEON CHAGNON & STEVEN PINKER (WITH DANIEL C. DENNETT & DAVID HAIG) INTRODUCTION TO PART ONEby Steven Pinker During a sabbatical year at the University of California, Santa…

zientziakultura.com 19min

“Las tres grandes fronteras de la biología humana” por Francisco…

By zientziakultura June 6, 2013

Este texto de Francisco J. Ayala apareció originalmente en el número 4 de la revista CIC Network (2008) y lo reproducimos en su integridad por su interés. Existe un acuerdo…

jotdown.es 10min

¿Por qué hay algo en vez de nada? « Jot Down Cultural Magazine

By Cristian Campos

Imaginen el siguiente vídeo. Un hombre está sentado frente a una mesa. Encima de ella hay una caja con 100 dados. El hombre vuelca la caja y los 100 dados caen con la cara del seis boca…

m.guardian.co.uk 9min

'Recessions can hurt, but austerity kills'

By Jon Henley May 15, 2013

The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to…

economicprincipals.com 3min

Economic Principals » Blog Archive » Footnote to a Current Controversy

The current dust-up between Paul Krugman and the “austerians,” in which the Princeton University economist, a columnist for The New York Times, cast Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff,…

salon.com 22min

From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?

By Ajit Varki and Danny Brower May 25, 2013

The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world. Less obvious, but in the long term more dangerous, are threats resulting directly or…

qz.com 6min

Free information, as great as it sounds, will enslave us all

May 24, 2013

Imagine our world later in this century, when machines have gotten better. Cars and trucks drive themselves, and there’s hardly ever an accident. Robots root through the earth for raw materials, and…

simonsfoundation.org 9min

Is Nature Unnatural?

Is the universe natural or do we live in an atypical bubble in a multiverse? Recent results at the Large Hadron Collider have forced many physicists to confront the latter possibility. (Illustration:…

newscientist.com 2min

Weinstein's theory of everything is probably nothing

By Andrew Pontzen May 24, 2013

Exciting news: all the problems plaguing physics have been solved. Dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity – one amazing insight has delivered us from decades of struggle to a new knowledge…

guardian.co.uk 6min

Eric Weinstein might just have found the answer to physics' problems

By Marcus du Sautoy May 23, 2013

Eric Weinstein's theory is the first major challenge to the validity of Albert Einstein's Field Equations. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I've…

theatlantic.com 26min

The Girl Who Turned to Bone

By Carl Zimmer May 22, 2013

When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Doctors fitted her with toe braces and sent her home. Two months later, a bulbous swelling…

scientificamerican.com 3min

New Simulations Question the Gulf Stream’s Role in Tempering Europe’s…

By Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier May 23, 2013

Red-hot: Gulf Stream water (red) is the warmest in this

scienceblogs.com 7min

The Rise and Fall of Supersymmetry

By Ethan May 15, 2013

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been born.” -Denis…

tendencias21.net 6min

La libertad es un espejismo cerebral

El significado de tener libertad Pensemos lo que significaría tener libertad. Necesitaríamos ser conscientes de todos los factores que determinan nuestros pensamientos y acciones y tener un…

guardian.co.uk 7min

Syphilis, sex and fear: How the French disease conquered the world

By Sarah Dunant May 17, 2013

Cesare Borgia, who contracted syphilis in 1497 when he was 22. Photograph: De Agostini/Getty Images History doesn't recount who g

nytimes.com 30min

Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

By MICHAEL POLLAN May 15, 2013

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on Marc

guardian.co.uk 8min

Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking

By Daniel Dennett May 19, 2013

Daniel Dennett: 'Often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.' Photograph: Peter Yang/August 1 USE YOUR MISTAKESWe have all heard the forlorn refrain:…

Pedro J.'s Reading List

Mysterious Subatomic Particle May Represent Exotic New Form of Matter

Correlación, causalidad... y grafos: lo más fundamental (e ignorado)…