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Radioactive decay affected by solar activity?
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Seems hard to believe but Purdue and Stanford researchers report that the rates of decay of several radioactive elements drop somewhat during periods of solar flare. Amazing. Thanks to @bramcohen and @daveo for passing this on. UPDATE: Discover Magazine reports that other scientists are skeptical, with some supporting reasons, but in the same article the [...]
The Feynman Messenger Lectures on Physics are available online
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Several of the legendary 1963 Feynman Lectures on Physics are now available for viewing online at at Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva (direct link to videos). (UDPATE: oops, my mistake! It’s not the 1963 Caltech lectures, it’s the Messenger Lectures from Cornell — see first comment below). Feynman was one of the great physicists of the [...]