Glen Mark Martin
MCSE-Messaging. Exchange Administrator at the University of Texas at Austin. Unrepentant armchair physicist.
Blog- Stephen Weinberg (1933-2021)
- LIGO Does It Again!
- Catching the Wave: LIGO Validates GR’s Last Big Prediction
- Closing Out the UNESCO International Year of Light
- A Century of General Relativity
- A Nobel for the Study of Nature’s Poltergeists
- For Women’s History Month: The Heroines of STEM
- 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Higgs Revolution
- BICEP2 Redux: How the Sausage is Made
- BICEP2 Takes a Peek at Cosmic Inflation
- Spyglass’ Ramblings
- Asimov's Predictions for 2014
- Reflections On Sagan's Cosmos
- So Many Misconceptions, So Little Time....
- Continuing on with a LotR theme....
- Genealogy + Tolkien = Far Too Much Time Burned
- 2013: A Great Year for Comet Viewing
- The Feynman Interviews
- The Centenary of the Sinking of RMS Titanic
- Film Review: "John Carter"
- The 411 on the PPACA
Monthly Archives: July 2014
BICEP2 Redux: How the Sausage is Made
An ongoing problem with communicating science to the general public is the existence of widely-held misconceptions among the public regarding how science actually works. A case in point is the March 17 announcement by the BICEP2 Collaboration regarding the detection … Continue reading
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