Domain infos cosmicvariance.com

"The well-known “circular” collider is actually not a circle. It consists of 8 straight sections and of 8 arcs." Gen up on the Large Hadron Collider at Cosmic Variance!

"...what is dismaying is that a newspaper, which we trust to bring us a deeply-researched and impartial description of the situation, chooses to publish such an obviously biased, unscientific and

"Dark energy, which is apparently about 70% of the energy of the universe ... is characterized by two features — it’s distributed smoothly throughout space, and maintains nearly-constant density

"They like the free market, don’t they?" They sure do. Never thought I'd hear myself agreeing with economists, but there's a first time for everything.

"It’s frustrating to be so lukewarm about the Great Human Adventure in Space, about which I’d much prefer to be enthusiastic. But nothing about the operation inspires confidence, much less wonder