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Richard A. Muller
Personal blog · muller.lbl.gov/TRessayssciencehealth
Richard A. Muller's personal blog at muller.lbl.gov covers science and health. Since 2008, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Physics For Future Presidents (voted best course at Berkeley)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Nobel laureate physicist Richard Muller's Berkeley Lab site, linked for open physics course materials (Physics for Future Presidents), essays on diet and energy, and papers on climate and the Nemesis hypothesis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-03
- Physics For Future Presidents (voted best course at Berkeley)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-27
- A Double-Blind Test of Astrology (1985) [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-04
What Hacker News says?
Richard A. Muller, Nobel Prize in Physics, posted an short article on energy efficiency and pollution in gasoline, hybrid, and pure battery powered cars. Gasoline vs best battery powered car is a factor of 40.The only car has zero pollution is the hydrogen powered. http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/old%20physics%2010/...
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on “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006)”Submitted The Nemesis hypothesis as a story · 76 points
HN discussionI always hesitate to point this out, because I'm firmly in the 'we are stewards of this earth and we need to be a lot more responsible about that' camp - which the denialists are anything but. But essentially what you're looking for, at least for the 'this is a bad thing' part is chart 1-5: http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/IceAgeBook/history_of_climate.ht... i.e. AGW might be a not entirely bad thing, from the northern h…
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on “NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses”Submitted A great physicist, and how he worked as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years ago. (and yes, astrology didn't work back then too) [1] https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Astrology-Carlson.pdf
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on “"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers"”Submitted A Double-Blind Test of Astrology (1985) [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe only diet advice you'll ever need: http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm
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on “You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition”Submitted Government secrets of the oceans, atmosphere, and UFOs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe class is available as open courseware, too. It is a no math physics course that focuses on concepts. This is the course site, click webcast lectures on the side: http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/pffp.html
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on “We should stop running away from radiation”Submitted The Physics of Gluttony (2004) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/33_Gluttony.htm
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on “The closest thing to a wonder drug is exercise”Submitted Astrology is not effective. A double-blind test from 1985. as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> You can build a nuclear power plant, then do nothing for 50 years Yes, that absolutely was a major problem, and quite the opposite of what anti-nuclear advocates claim. Nuclear is not too slow to build, it is too quick to build. Relative to the Hughe lifespan of the reactors. So you have to pace yourself and build out slowly. If reactors last 100 years and you want a fleet of 100 reactors, that's 1 per year. You c…
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on “Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years”Submitted Physics For Future Presidents (voted best course at Berkeley) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAn interesting follow-up paper: http://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Lunar_impacts_Nemesis.pdf
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on “The Nemesis hypothesis”http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/Nemesis2.htm
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on “The Nemesis hypothesis”It's an open directory. You can find more on the story http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/ (among other files)
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on “The Nemesis hypothesis”This is interesting, but the last sentence implies there's a part 2. No link. http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/nemch2.htm is a 404. Ah: http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/ A brief reminder: write for the web.
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on “The Nemesis hypothesis”Thanks for posting this, wonderful article. I have been a big fan of Muller since I heard his Physics for Future President's podcasts -- great stuff. - http://www.amazon.com/dp/142662459X - http://www.physicsforfuturepresidents.com/ Did anyone check his homepage, he's got a fantastic sense of humor. http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/welcome.html Rich's graduate students Tim Culler and Alex Kim have been hard at work setti…
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on “A great physicist, and how he worked”Well, it used to be called global warming, and now it´s called climate change - did you ever wonder why? The truly catastrophic climate change - human extinction - outcome is the runaway greenhouse scenario. That´s been floated, but it runs into the evidence that the earth has been considerably warmer before (both poles melted) without that happening. But I suspect it will get another look after this year. The sligh…
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on “Can Anyone Stop the Man Who Will Try Just About Anything to Stop Climate Change?”Physics for future presidents; entertaining, fun, educational http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html
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on “Ask YC: I have to iron. Where can I quickly find interesting non-fiction video besides ted.com”Do you really think that plot is complete bs though? Sure it cant be 100% accurate, but it seems to me if the "stamp collecting" effect were so strong you wouldn't see such clear trends. Also, wouldn't you think that such macroscopic analysis would account for the records incompleteness without necessarily destroying the truth of the trend? I tried to see how they derived that plot from the original article but I ca…
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on “We are not edging up to a mass extinction”>Here's a rule of thumb: exercise very hard for one hour (swimming, running, or racquetball) and you'll lose about one ounce of fat. Light exercise for an hour (gardening, baseball, or golf) will lose you a third of an ounce. Want to lose a pound of fat? You can work it off by hiking to the top of a 2,500-story building. Or by running 60 miles. https://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm Caloric restrictio…
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on “Pinterest bans all weight loss ads”Find this book and read it: https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.html
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on “Ask HN: How do I learn about energy?”
