More things that don't make sense

http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things

by thinkzig • 17 years ago

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thinkzig• 17 years ago

I found The Bloop to be particularly interesting.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.500-13-more-t...

Tichy• 17 years ago

Cthulhu?

mcantor• 17 years ago

The 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.

dcminter• 17 years ago

New 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• 17 years ago

The segment about the bloop is worth the 'n things' pattern.

WilliamLP• 17 years ago

Number 14: Why are intelligent people from serious news sites fooled into thinking newscientist.com is a reputable news source?

gaius• 17 years ago

Do you mean us?

Hexstream• 17 years ago

Of course not; Everyone knows we're well above that.

req2• 17 years ago

Supporting evidence: Homeopathy in 2005's list

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things...

alexgartrell• 17 years ago

re #11 (Existence of monopoles): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090903163725.ht... (second result on Google News)

dhimes2• 17 years ago

good catch, but the fundamental question is magnetic monopole as an elementary particle.

dhimes2• 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

Magnetic 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• 17 years ago

The 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• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip

There are plenty of problems with magnetic monopoles, but that was a particularly unfortunate choice of analogy.

joshu• 17 years ago

I was under the impression that Morgellon's was viral media for A Scanner Darkly.

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