The Dossing Times

Peta have launched a new campaign and I guess as they wanted it has been banned. It was supposed to air during the Super Bowl. Any way it has ladies in Lingerie so here it is for your enjoyment. 

‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad
Now I watched this video and saw the message. “Studies show [...]

Via Twitter I hear that Kathleen Lynch has objected to a communications mast being built by a company because It might have a negative Impact on the Health of local residents.Dear god is this level of public representation we have in this country that are sole ignorant of science. No wonder we have no innovation [...]

The Young Scientist exibition starts today so I probably should write a post about something to do with Science. However I spend most of my day doing science and reading scientific papers, like this one  so I am not sure what to write about. I will see if I get inspired.

Every Day this week I will make a prediction a day 
Number 1 A massive web company is going to wall. Most web companies exist on the back of projected Advertising revenue. The trend is for TV viewerships to go down and internet usage going up. Ergo the thinking being that with its ability to target [...]

The one area of physics I know least about is Particle Physics. It was not studied as part of my undergrad and mt Masters was and my PhD topic is in optics. But still exciting news is of course exciting news. Tevatron is the largest particle accelerator in the world. (until the LHC is up [...]

I read the blog post by Ian Wright via the Excellent stephen kinsella blog. Basically what he did was to model a type of Monopoly board in Mathimatica. So I decided to see if I could do the same in Mathlab.  Basically the board consists of different squares of varying values. A player roles a dice and [...]

Some papers have been covering the story of the new exo planet being discovered. From NY Times. 
 
Astronomers from the University of Toronto have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sunlike star.
The planet, according to their observations, is 7 to 12 times as massive as Jupiter and [...]

One of the major questions of the year has been….. If Usain Bolt had not slowed down to celebrate at the end of the 100 meters final what time he would have done.

Well someone has worked it out. .
Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?
Abstract
Since that very memorable [...]

We are used to Film sequels Godfather part 1 2 and 3 for instance. But I have never seen it in a scientific paper. From Optics Express

Intrinsic Raman spectroscopy for quantitative biological spectroscopy Part I: Theory and simulations

Wei-Chuan Shih, Kate L. Bechtel, and Michael S. Feld

Intrinsic Raman spectroscopy for quantitative biological spectroscopy Part II: Experimental [...]