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More things that don't make sense
- alexgartrell 17y agore #11 (Existence of monopoles): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.ht... (second result on Google News)
- dhimes 17y agogood catch, but the fundamental question is magnetic monopole as an elementary particle.
- dhimes 17y agoI find several of these interesting: Dark flow, high-energy photons travelling more slowly, and the lack of gravitational waves are especially intriguing (moreso than the others for no particularly deep reason other than these are the ones I prefer to think about). However, the pop-science nature of the article is a bit annoying.
- bena 17y agoMagnetic monopoles don't seem rational. It would be like asking for something with only a front side, no back side. Whereas a charge is something completely different. It's basically, a ratio of electrons to protons.
- jerf 17y agoThe math for them work. The English doesn't, because English has already embedded their atomic nature into the language. But the math works just fine; in fact it makes Maxwell's equations even more symmetrical.
- skermes 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip There are plenty of problems with magnetic monopoles, but that was a particularly unfortunate choice of analogy.
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- joshu 17y agoI was under the impression that Morgellon's was viral media for A Scanner Darkly.
- thinkzig 17y agoI found The Bloop to be particularly interesting. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.500-13-more-things-the-bloop.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.500-13-more-t...
- mcantor 17y agoThe Bloop has always captured my imagination ever since I first heard of it years ago. I was delighted by The Slow Down as well! I love hearing and learning about strange undersea phenomena; that we have delved into space and still don't understand all of our own planet is a constant fascination of mine.
- Tichy 17y agoCthulhu?
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- dcminter 17y agoNew Scientist fell prey to the N Things meme a couple of years ago - or I started noticing it a couple of years ago. Either way I wish they would concentrate on more pithy articles instead of these, sensationalist borderline crank science (insufficiently reviewed TOEs) and the dreary engagement with religion and philosophy.
- wglb 17y agoThe segment about the bloop is worth the 'n things' pattern.
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- WilliamLP 17y agoNumber 14: Why are intelligent people from serious news sites fooled into thinking newscientist.com is a reputable news source?
- gaius 17y agoDo you mean us?
- Hexstream 17y agoOf course not; Everyone knows we're well above that.
- req2 17y agoSupporting evidence: Homeopathy in 2005's list http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?page=2 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things...