Not Even Wrong reports: Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons, The ‘God Particle’ may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider’s rival project finds, US experiment hints at ‘multiple God particles’, Fermilab Experiment Hints at Multiple Higgs … Read more
In Österreich ist nicht alles besser, der Humor aber schon. Sonja Eismann über Realsatire und alternative Satire im österreichischen Fernsehen. Aber auch Projekte auf der Grenzlinie zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, wie das Nerd-Prankster-Kollektiv Monochrom, reitet der Schalk. 2002 ließen sie mit viel Getöse Georg Paul Thomann an der Kunstbiennale São Paulo für Österreich teilnehmen – Thomann … Read more
In 2001, Wilma Dunaway wrote that the “tentacles of the world-system are entwined around the bodies of women.” Yet her literary analysis revealed a profound silence about the role of women in reproductive labor, subsistence households, and commodity chain analysis. Dunaway characterized this omission as, “the greatest intellectual and political blunder” in her field. Nearly … Read more
It’s a simple test for the presence of women in movies, and it’s really remarkable how many movies fail. Link
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean. Link