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La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
Personal blog · francis.naukas.comscience
La Ciencia de la Mula Francis is a personal blog at francis.naukas.com about science. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Spanish-language physics blog as a source for particle physics results, such as the LHCb B-meson anomaly, and for the geoid behind accurate GPS positioning.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Heh, in Spanish, someone Spaniard did an astrophysics paper called "no LIGO, MACHO", which can be literally translated to I don't get LAID, DUDE. https://francis.naukas.com/2017/12/07/42781/ Ok, the peer reviewers didn't allow him to set that title on the paper, anyway.
Comment linking /2017/12/07/42781/
on “In 1783, an English rector predicted black holes using classical mechanics”Submitted Making rat skin transparent with safe chemical as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe article has too few details!!! It's difficult to google this, but after some tries I found: [In Spanish] "Crece la anomalía en mesones B de LHCb tras Moriond EW 2017" http://francis.naukas.com/2017/04/02/una-anomalia-a-49-sigma... Autotransation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A... "B-meson b-s-μ-μ anomaly remains at 4.9 sigma after Moriond" http://motls.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/b-meso…
Comment linking /2017/04/02/una-anomalia-a-49-sigmas-en-los-mesones-b-tras-moriond-ew-2017/
on “Physicists detect whiff of new particle at the Large Hadron Collider”For anyone not reading the article, she did fundamental work measuring the geoid, the non-spherical corrections to Earth's shape that is fundamental to very accurate GPS positioning. Here's some pictures of the EGM2008 geoid we use today: https://francis.naukas.com/files/2023/07/D20230711-Computers...
on “Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology”
