September 2009
5 posts
You know things are bad in Iran when... →
The Iranian Minister of Science has had a 2009 paper retracted from the journal Engineering with Computers because a significant portion of it was plagiarized from a South Korean paper published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Greatest experiment ever
In 1842 a guy named Elias Loomis performed one of the most ridiculous experiments I’ve ever heard of. In order to figure out the windspeed of a tornado (a hitherto unknown measurement) he needed a proxy- something that had gone through a tornado with a qualitative change. This change, he reasoned, should be repeatable under controlled conditions and thus quantifiable. It had previously been...