Pantelis Elinas, PhD

Jonathan Drori gives an interesting TED talk about why we don’t understand as much as we think we do.

The issue discussed in a New Scientist article about a group of physicists who can’t publish their journal papers because they want to retain the right to also publish derivatives of their work on Wikipedia or other online forums is one faced by many scientists in all disciplines today. It reminds of how the [...]

End-of-year lists are everywhere this week (the frenzy started last week.) You can find a list about everything including the 50 most loathsome people in America, top 50 albums of 2007, and the list of major incidents on the Internet in 2007 among many others. Science could not be left alone and even though the [...]

The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most [...]

I was doing some serious research online (hehe) and I came across the following two killer science quotes,
First you guess. Don’t laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to [...]