Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails: Has the love of “elegant” equations overtaken the desire to describe the real world?

Click Here to Read:  Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails: Has the love of “elegant” equations overtaken the desire to describe the real world? by Dan Falk on the Mach website on June 2, 2018.

An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a Higgs boson is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. More CMS events at CMS Media, Author: Lucas Taylor, CERN.

The disturbing history of Dr. Asperger and the movement to reframe the syndrome

Click Here to Read: The disturbing history of Dr. Asperger and the movement to reframe the syndrome: “It’s up to them to decide if they want to be named after someone like him.” By Hope Reese on the Vox website on May 22, 2018.

Photo: A comparison of the activity between (Temple Grandin’s) Asperger brain and a neurotypical brainBy cyndimccoy. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Appliance of science: Why do we dream?

Click Here to Read:  Appliance of science: Why do we dream? by Dr Naomi Lavelle in the Irish Examiner on June 04, 2018.

Gladstone dreams about Queen Victoria’s Christmas dinner. A political cartoon depicting William Gladstone as Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. He is being shown a vision by Benjamin Disraeli as one of the Christmas ghosts of Queen Victoria sharing Christmas dinner with people from different parts of the British Empire including India, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and North America. Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bbz2f6xx CC-BY-4.0