Dispatches From Turtle Island

* I think that it is very likely that the Korean language family and the Japanese language family are related, even if it is challenging to ...

The basic intuitive gist of the proposal of this paper is one that I've entertained myself, although I don't have the theoretical ph...

There are various unresolved questions in physics about which I have an opinion. I'm not 100% sure of any of them, but more sure of some...

I'm skeptical of all of the theories described in the abstract below, but I lack the expertise to say with confidence that none of them ...

Overview: An Improvement But Worse Than MOND Another day, another dark matter particle model .  This time, a spin-0 massive scalar boson and...

Overview A new pair of preprints, whose abstracts and citations are set forth below, examine the sphaleron energy threshold with newly updat...

Ancient DNA from the Iron Age and classical Greco-Roman era reveals that the Punic people were much closer genetically to the Greeks and mod...

Overview Anthropologists have found partial Homo erectus remains in Spain from 1.1-1.4 million years ago, adding to 1.97 million year old Ho...