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Those who keep a close eye on my work page (yeah, right) will have noticed a new preprint appeared there recently: Efficiently constraining...

Every year, the Asahi Glass Foundation awards " The Blue Planet Prize " to two individuals or organizations "who have made ...

A short article in the Grauniad a couple of days ago concerning prediction markets: Markets have now been shown to out-perform collections ...

Following on from previous posts on chaos , I'm now going to look at a bit of theory in more detail, in particular the shadowing lemma...

As an update to my previous post , Prof Eykholt has emailed to say that I have misrepresented him. However, although of course I apologise f...

(See here for previous.) Well, RP Snr's promised followup post consisted of an odd quotation from Richard Eykholt who works in the ph...

This comment on Slashdot is worth a read (thanks Michael Tobis).

There's recently been a bit of a flap on some blogs concerning the " butterfly effect ". As that wikipedia page indicates, thi...

You have to feel sorry for the scientists who saw several years of work go bang in a few minutes. The Guardian describes it as a disaster ,...

Bill Gray is Professor at Colorado State University. Today at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, he st...