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Improving scientific publishing: Huddled maths

An academic journal provides haven for rejected work

PAUL LAUTERBUR, the father of magnetic-resonance imaging, had his seminal paper rejected when he first submitted it to Nature. Peter Higgs, eponymous predictor of physics’s missing boson, faced similar trouble with Physics Letters. But Lauterbur went on to win a Nobel prize for his work, and Dr Higgs is an odds-on favourite to get one soon. A good, rejected paper, then, is by no means an oxymoron.

And that observation is the basis of Rejecta Mathematica, an open-source academic journal that recently went online. As its name suggests, the new journal publishes only papers that, like Lauterbur’s and Dr Higgs’s, have been previously submitted to, and rejected by, others. With Annals of Mathematics, one of the best, denying entry to more than 300 last year alone, Rejecta could be busy. …

Improving scientific publishing: Huddled maths

An academic journal provides haven for rejected work

PAUL LAUTERBUR, the father of magnetic-resonance imaging, had his seminal paper rejected when he first submitted it to Nature. Peter Higgs, eponymous predictor of physics’s missing boson, faced similar trouble with Physics Letters. But Lauterbur went on to win a Nobel prize for his work, and Dr Higgs is an odds-on favourite to get one soon. A good, rejected paper, then, is by no means an oxymoron.

And that observation is the basis of Rejecta Mathematica, an open-source academic journal that recently went online. As its name suggests, the new journal publishes only papers that, like Lauterbur’s and Dr Higgs’s, have been previously submitted to, and rejected by, others. With Annals of Mathematics, one of the best, denying entry to more than 300 last year alone, Rejecta could be busy. …

Science Weekly: In search of time

What it time? Is it the uniform, steady flow envisaged by Newton that helps us follow our daily routines? A spooky, purely subjective feeling? A dimension of Einstein’s space-time? Or simply the phenomenon that stops everything from happening all at once?

Science writer Dan Falk is on hand to discuss the neuroscience, the physics and the philosophy of chronology and poses the question – do we really know what time is?

James Randerson and Nell Boase join Alok for a round-up of the week’s science news including claims that vegetarians are 45% less likely to develop cancer of the blood compared with meat eaters, a monster haul of new dinosaur species discovered in the Australian outback, and the G8 nations’ battle with climate change.

We also visit the Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition to sink our teeth into some of the latest creations of science. Among the exhibits were a virtual cow, lasers that can treat cancer – and a very excitable and science-literate bunch of schoolchildren.

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Aspects of Physics New Album

Aspects of Physics to release Marginalized Information Forms 3 on July 21


Aspects of Physics

San Diego-based modern music-makers Aspects of Physics are not, as the name might imply, fixated on considerations of science. They’re a San Diego-based group that was formed in 1993 and exhibits distinct unhurried minimalism as they blend organic rock and electronic elements in a slew of slow-cooked music stew.

Comparisons to storied Krautrock acts were inevitably drawn but Physics was its own beast, at once loud and subtle, lumbering on to the new millennium with both membership modifications. San Diego native Rob Crow (Pinback, Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours et al.) is said to have never really been officially enlisted, but when he consistently showed up guitar-in-hand to make valued contributions at his Physics pals’ gatherings, he became an assumed, enduring part of the equation.

MIF3 is the final album in a three-part series by Aspects of Physics — spanning five years, seven members, and countless pieces of individual audio bits and bytes painstakingly pieced together to form the cohesive Marginalized Information Forms series. Whereas part one in the series represented the marriage of electronic and rock sensibilities and part two focused more on their electronic leanings, part three shifts towards the more organic live-rock-band side of the equation. MIF3 returns Aspects of Physics back to their roots of amp stacks and drum kits. Taken as a whole, the MIF series runs the gamut from the bleeps and bloops of synths and computers to the distortion and dynamics of guitars and the human condition.

Track List:
1. Logo (Other)
2. Level 3
3. Unwindings Are Sound
4. Oscilloscape
5. That Which Resists
6. Underclock
7. Default Actions
8. Psyklur
9. Junoverse
10. Swip Melp