The Reference Frame

Some people talk about the proof of "almost twin" prime integers separated by at most 70 m...

Today, at 5 p.m. Boston Daylight Savings Time (11 p.m. Central European Time), James Hansen will give a talk over here . Live Video ...

Škoda is not just a carmaker; it is producing happy drivers. And you may see that even the engines in the factory are having a great time. ...

...but the paper is 100% crackpottery... In his text " Is Cold Fusion For Real? ", Tomm...

What is dark matter made of? We almost know that its mass should be dominated by a new light parti...

...including your humble correspondent... Another annoying event occurred to me on Friday – and it...

...more precisely screwing string theory... The 5,250+ TRF blog entries discuss various topics, mostly scientific ones, including minor a...

What is the most intensely discussed event in the Czech news these days? Czech president Miloš Zem...

Things have improved a little bit in the attitude of the media to the climate debate. Click here if you don't see a proper video ab...

The following paper by Jonathan Heckman of Harvard is either wrong, or trivial, or revolutionary: Statistical Inference and String Theory ...

U.S.: As predicted and discussed on TRF exactly 3 months ago , Ernest Moniz became the new U.S. secretary of energy. Valtr Komárek died t...

Paul O. helped me to possess an iPod Touch, because of my modest contributions to his Our Climate app. I have downloaded about 500 applicat...

Richard Dawid is a philosopher of science who was trained as a high-energy theoretical physicist and his new book that you may pre-order – i...

During my decade in the U.S., my tax returns got audited at least twice – both of them had to be fixed when I was already back in Europe and...

Richard Feynman would celebrate his 95th birthday today. BBC2 on Sunday: The Fantastic Mr Feynman...

Many texts about the climate and related issues are highly, boringly repetitive. I believe that a typical person who regularly follows the r...

Heterosis or the hybrid vigor or outbreeding enhancement is the lucky event (and an important component of Darwin's evolution) in which...

It is the second time when I was contacted by someone who seems to be a fan of Nassim Haramein. Who...