Dispatches From Turtle Island

Time and space are relative. The rate at which time passes is particular to the observer and depends upon things like one's speed and ...

What are the take away lessons about natural philosophy that an educated lay person should glean from reading about modern physics? 1.  Th...

Lubos Motl has an interesting  post inspired by the nomination of the Higgs boson to be a "person of the year" in 2012, notwithst...

Ancient lemming DNA from the North-West European tundra reveals a series of apparently climate change driven regional extinction events in t...

A new law review article argues that prehistory civilization continues to have a meaningful impact on modern law.  In particular, this artic...

Almost all of the anonymous postings at this blog over the past few months have been spam and there has been a surge in spam postings that t...

The linguistic orthodoxy that sees  Old English as a direct descendant of Old Frisian and later dialects of English as descendants of Old E...

The Standard Model has lots of moving parts.  They are categorized and described below, together with discussion of how the number of indepe...