New Scientist fell prey to the N Things meme a couple of years ago - or I started noticing it a couple of years ago. Either way I wish they would concentrate on more pithy articles instead of these, sensationalist borderline crank science (insufficiently reviewed TOEs) and the dreary engagement with religion and philosophy.
The Bloop has always captured my imagination ever since I first heard of it years ago. I was delighted by The Slow Down as well! I love hearing and learning about strange undersea phenomena; that we have delved into space and still don't understand all of our own planet is a constant fascination of mine.
The math for them work. The English doesn't, because English has already embedded their atomic nature into the language. But the math works just fine; in fact it makes Maxwell's equations even more symmetrical.
I find several of these interesting:
Dark flow, high-energy photons travelling more slowly, and the lack of gravitational waves are especially intriguing (moreso than the others for no particularly deep reason other than these are the ones I prefer to think about). However, the pop-science nature of the article is a bit annoying.
