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My black body story (it's physics)
I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...
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Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future
I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level.
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The Deadliest place on Earth? Surviving The Giant Crystal Cave
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Are warp drives science now?
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A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers
A visual and intuitive intro to complex number system providing a historical overview of how it was developed and why it is useful.
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An Introduction to CubeSats
An introduction that answers the questions what are cubesats, why they are so popular, what are their main subststems, and how does thier future look?
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Quartz crystals
(This is an adapted version of part of an article I wrote for the Dutch amateur radio magazine Electron , August 2016.)
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Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript
(with thanks to René Zandbergen, Ray Clemens, Roger Easton, Claire Bowern, Bill Endres, and the curatorial and conservation staff at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) I have some exc…
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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
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Borges on Chaos Theory
About a weird, lovely short story
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Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math
This is mathematical section of the parent essay Gödel Incompleteness for Startups Gödel Numbering A formal system is just a collection of axioms and rules. Just like we did before we can record ax…
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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
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How renewables are saving Texans billions
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
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Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
There is a ten-foot long alcove in our lower-level hallway — we call it the gallery . This is the one place in our house I can hang whatever I want (i.e., my own art) and switch it out whenever I want. To facilitate this, I installed a hanging system — basically a slotted rail mounted near the ceiling, with sliding…
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Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
Today, the WHO issued a report that says, in essence, processed meats and red meats are carcinogens. This has been reported in a variety of…
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Last night I went to see a showing at the Tribeca Film Festival of the new movie about Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity. It was extremely good, infinitely better than the most recent high profi…
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Our Immune System
(On this page in Dutch I post daily bits of realistic but hopeful Corona news. Here is a somehat rough translation of an article on our immune system I posted there, because I think it might also be useful for people that don’t speak Dutch). Wednesday, April 1st COVID-19 can only live thanks to us. Viruses cannot…
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Forbidden Spheres
A document from 1947 points towards an interesting Los Alamos policy: banning all spheres, innocuous or not, from technical areas.
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Space Emerging from Quantum Mechanics
The other day I was amused to find a quote from Einstein , in 1936, about how hard it would be to quantize gravity: “like an attempt to breathe in empty space.” Eight decades later, I think we can still agree that it’s hard.
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Greenland Sharks
Greenland shark swimming under an ice flow in the Canadian arctic WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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An interactive guide to Fourier series (2022)
Drawing with the Fourier Series
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A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook
John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh This page at http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies
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Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
I. The Body Keeps The Score is a book about post-traumatic stress disorder. The author, Bessel van der Kolk, helped discover the condition and lobby for its inclusion in the DSM, and the brief fora…
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Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby
"How two ugly parents (mathematically) can make a beautiful baby"