Back!

It's so nice to be back in cold, dark, grey, windy London after a couple of weeks in Dubai. But the winter weather can't take the shine off the good news that our house purchase is all going ahead as planned and we'll be moving in the next 2 weeks. W00t!

Anyway, no time for detailed blogging right now I'm afraid, just a bit of a linkdump from my email and RSS reader. They're probably better than what I'd write anyway :-)

• Questioning the authority of people questioning the authority of peer review - but only, it seems, for papers on Intelligent Design. Hmmmm.
• Quantum computation a step nearer - as an outside to QC, I'm absolutely fascinated by the possibility it holds. Let's hope this brings quantum computers to a store near us soon.
• Black holes spinning at their theoretical maximum - 950revs/s sounds fast, but given the overall weirdness of these things, it doesn't surprise me too much.
• String theory causing more ruckus - it's nice to have some real passionate debate in science, and this one looks like it will run for some time.
• Good news from J-Parc - their high intensity proton synchrotron accelerator is up and running.