Comment For Mark’s “Meta-cycles” post

I left this as a comment on Mark Shuttleworth’s recent blog post.  I am only posting it here because I was told it was removed as spam.  Perhaps too long?  Anyways, I hope Mark can see it now.
Mark,
I always enjoy your blog posts. This is my unifying philosophy:
1. 6 Month Cycles: These are [...]

Three Generations of Quarks are Needed To Avoid Anti-Matter

As we have already discussed, the reason we have particles without anti-particles is because of CP violation. CP-violation caused slightly more particles to be produced in the big bang then anti-particles. Then all the anti-particles annihilated with a particle leaving only the excess of particles we observe today.
However, it takes 3 generations of quarks to [...]

Generation Warfare, or Mr. Rogers is Evil.

At some point I have to stick up for my generation, especially following my TED talk post where it was pointed out most of science research is really being carried out by people of my generation.
However Fox News, catering to the beliefs of a +50 generation, would have you know my generation is lazy and [...]

Very Interesting Talk On Bacteria Communication

Seriously, you should watch this to the end. This lady shows how bacteria communicate and that the implications of this will be huge. This will be a game changer in the field of medicine and perhaps the rest of science as well.

more about “Very Interesting Talk On Bacteria Com…“, posted with vodpod

Cow Tipping Done Right

Once again we here would like to promote good science. Therefore, next time you go cow tipping make sure you are doing it right.

Brooks on Morality

David Brooks is one of my  favorite columnists.   He wrote a column today entitled The End of Philosophy where he discusses where humans get morality.
He points out that philosophers back to Socrates assumed morality came from good reasoning.  However, more and more it doesn’t seem like reason is what gives people their morals; emotions do.  [...]