The world of physics is anxiously anticipating with the LHC’s first beam, which happens in just a few hours. They are excited about the possibility CERN’s newest machine finding the Higgs’s boson, clues about what makes up dark matter or dark energy, and for hints of physics beyond the standard model. But apparently what is […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
In my last post I linked to a talk from David Deutsch about the possibility of decreasing the odds of a global increase in temperature (or of some catastrophes associated with it) with science. Well, it looks like Deutsch may be right: promising ideas are coming up from the scientific side. I’ve heard of cloud […]
I find carbon-trading an excellent idea. Well, at least it’s a good initiative. After all, our capitalist economic systems do not place much explicit value in environmental issues, since no one profits from a protected forest or from oil kept under the ground. So it’s a way of, as they say, “humanise” capitalism, I guess. […]
