Freedom of Science

Not Even Wrong writes
Blah, blah, more pseudo-science on hep-th, blah, blah, blah…
The post brought to mind the most famous Prof. Pangloss, the progenitor of all familes of anthropic principles. Prof. Pangloss was a doctor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolonigology. Anthropic Principle was a major branch of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolonigology (MTC) thought by Prof. Pangloss to Candide. Today’s version of MTC identified […]

Gauss became a European celebrity when he predicted the orbit of Ceres from three observations. Later Gauss published this book documenting his method. 
In the Introduction Gauss made the standard laudatory remarks about Newton’s genius and Newtonian mechanics. After paying his respect to Newton Gauss ignored him. In the astronomical part of the book Gauss used only trigonometric formulas […]

I added this article to my Cavendish wiki. Like Laurent Hodges Titchmarsh too calls the Cavendish experiment the Michell-Cavendish experiment. This reminds me the Ship of Theseus paradox. Cavendish’s pendulum had three components:
1) the wooden arm
2) the copper wire
3) the lead weights.

Cavendish had a new wooden arm made because what he inherited was warped. Cavendish […]

I am trying to compute the moment of inertia of the Cavendish pendulum. I used
I = 2(m r^2)
r = gyration arm
m = the weight attached to the pendulum
But this formula is for a dumbell type of torsion pendulum where the weights are attached to the bar.
Does anyone know the formula for a pendulum where the weights are […]

Nigel Cook points to an article by Alan Chalmers that exposes yet another rewriting of historical facts by physicists to save Newton’s authority. In this case the subject is that sacred cow physicists call Maxwell’s equations. Chalmers wrote that
history was constantly rewritten in such a way that it invariably appeared consistent with the reigning ideology.

Cook […]

The two recent unified actions by mathematicians for freedom of science are noteworthy.
A group of mathematicians active in n-category café started a mission to break the monopoly of giant organisms who take mathematicians’ work for free and repackage it and sell it back to them with an exorbitant mark up.1 This is the old colonialist […]

 
The data for the map is taken from Alexandre Borovik’s petition as of August 15. Top five: United States (127), Turkey (106), UK (55), France (20), Germany (13).
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Physics and physicists is a nice blog which contains wide-ranging and interesting topics presented from the point of view of a “practicing physicist.”
A recent post deals with the typical practicing physicist attitude regarding public’s belief in the occult. The practicing physicist is bothered that majority of humans believe in occult things like astrology and telekinesis. […]

Nigel Cook writes in Quantum gravity mechanism and prediction that
Cavendish produced a more accurate evaluation of G by measuring the twisting force (torsion) in a quartz fibre due to the gravitational attraction of two heavy balls of known mass located a known distance apart.
1. Cavendish did not know about G.
2. Cavendish never measured the Newtonian […]

Freedom of Science field is getting hot! After recent activism by international mathematics community to save the Mathematics Village now mathematicians are taking a stand against the multinational organisms controlling the distribution of mathematical knowledge. 
 
John Baez wrote:
There is really no reason for us to donate our work to profit-making corporations who sell it back to […]