Cold Winter after Progress in Cold Fusion

| February 24, 2012

by Dr. Stoyan Sarg* February 24, 2012  From Foreign Policy Journal After the optimism from recent progress in cold fusion, as demonstrated in Italy, Nature surprised us with a severe cold winter in some parts of the world. However, we should not blame climate change for the human suffering when the solution to the problem [...]

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The Earl of Oxford’s annotations in Tacitus and Blondus?

| February 19, 2012

  An article in the November 2011 de Vere Society newsletter by  Elizabeth Imlay hypothesizes that marginal annotations and drawings contained in copies of Tacitus’ History of Rome and Blondus History of Europe  from Sir Thomas Smith’s library, now in the Queen’s College Library in Cambridge, are by the young Edward de Vere.

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I am an E-Cat Junky

| February 14, 2012

Ok, I admit it. I have a new online hobby. I like to follow websites featuring news about something called either CF (Cold Fusion), LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction), or LANR (Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction). At least those are the three most common names for this new and (to most of us anyway)  highly surprising [...]

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Roger that, CEDAR

| February 1, 2012

  Well, its been a few weeks since I’ve done a post, and I can only plead in my own defense for such lack of productivity that I have in fact been very productive indeed, just not on Facebook or on this blog  (Hey, we old fuddy-duddy scholars have to do real work sometimes…..with such [...]

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The Critics, Anonymous, and the Shakespeare Question

| November 16, 2011

I’ve noticed something striking about the critical response to Anonymous.  According to data available on Moviephone,  which not only collates reviews by professionals but  also supplies a forum for ordinary moviegoers to post their own evaluations, there’s a huge perception gap about how good or how bad a movie it is (if I were Sony, I’d [...]

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