by Richard Easther | Mar 31, 2014 | Bad Science
Last weekend, New Zealand’s Dominion Post ran a scare-story, Waves of Uncertainty Over Wi-fi. Couched in the “on the one hand, but on the other hand” style of newspaper reporting, it plays off officialdom, a concerned parent and a scientist willing to go on...
by Richard Easther | Mar 27, 2014 | Academia
Whenever you throw a party, there is always someone who double-dips the guacamole. In this case the jerk was Ephraim Hardcastle, a pseudonymous correspondent in the Daily Mail. This nimrod thought the most important thing to say about one of the biggest...
by Richard Easther | Mar 17, 2014 | Cosmology
magine you set off a Big Bang. Imagine you set off many Big Bangs. Newborn universes are all small, grubby and just a little disorganised. But you love them, and want each of them to mature into a well-balanced cosmos with an evenly distributed...
by Richard Easther | Mar 14, 2014 | Cosmology
Today the cosmology community is full of chatter about an impending announcement – I heard the story from people on three continents. Moreover, the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard has scheduled a media conference on Monday with the promise of a major...
by Richard Easther | Mar 6, 2014 | Bad Science, New Zealand
Once upon a time, goes the story, there was a Frenchman who travelled between country fairs. He said he could tell mothers-to-be whether they were expecting a little boy or a little girl. He asked only a modest fee and promised a full refund on his next visit if he...
