Cosmology
String theory now “thoroughly irrelevant” to Large Hadron Collider work?
Number of stars in old galaxies “defies all current models of galaxy evolution”?
The Higgs boson – the God particle – is still missing?
Hyperskeptic Michael Shermer thinks that gravity leaks out to other universes
Dead tree media starting to get it? Too much to hope, but still …
Technical limits on the colliders needed for fundamental physics
Gamma ray bursts as source of highest energy particles “all but ruled out”?
Study: No evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
Dark energy is accelerating expansion of the universe?
A “ratings agency” for cosmology theories?
Was Anders Breivik “not-insane”?
Other psychiatrists now find Norway massacre gunman Anders Behring Breivik ‘not insane’ – prison now possible
“The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the debate on whether the self-confessed killer can be sent to prison.
“That means that he is considered criminally responsible at the time of the crime.”
The new evaluation counters the findings of an initial probe that found Breivik was suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia,” which meant he would most likely be sentenced to psychiatric care instead of prison.
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