Dispatches From Turtle Island

The first post on this blog was made on May 22, 2011. In the first 14 years of this blog, which ended on May 21, 2025, I made 2805 posts, wh...

A new, rather mediocre, study that emphasizes genetic diversity in South America tends to track the New World settlement paradigm rather clo...

In my view, this analysis is too critical and misses key achievements of MOND-derived theories in the cosmology realm (while doing to little...

The weak force, and neutrinos which only interact via the weak force, are the most chiral parts of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. I...

Next week, on June 2, 2025 , the final round of experimental results for muon g-2 will be announced. Ahead of that there is an update of the...

A new proposal to tweak general relativity, if it is correct (and it is consistent with observations), would break down the main barrier to ...

The Large Hadron Collider has measured the Z boson mass of 91.18842 ± 0.00093 GeV , which is about twice as precise as the previous world av...

Stacy McGaugh's latest post at his Triton Station blog explains why Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) poses a challenge to the LambdaCDM S...

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 ...

This paper makes some big claims. Let's see if it will be published and if others agree that it works. The author doesn't appear to ...

My previous post was number 2800 at this blog, which is one week short of 14 years old today, so I'm averaging just slightly over 200 po...

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