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Sea Monkeys, Jupiter, and the Mystery of Turbulence Turbulence is all around us: bumping our planes, roiling our rivers, swirling milk into our coffee....
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Sea Monkeys, Jupiter, and the Mystery of Turbulence

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

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Turbulence is all around us: bumping our planes, roiling our rivers, swirling milk into our coffee. These systems quickly become extremely chaotic and complex. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with contributing writer Stephen Ornes about a recent...
The Invention of Islamic Invention How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
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The Invention of Islamic Invention

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

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How a rogue Wikipedia editor credited Muslims with... everything
Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests? A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The...
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Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

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A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will...
How Japan Redrew Asia Short article
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How Japan Redrew Asia

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

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Short article
Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings...
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Butterflies Are Masters of Illusion

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

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Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings in the Sunset, later published in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus) about artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer. Thayer wrote about how animals use coloration as camouflage...
Haunted by the ghosts of materialism Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
The arXiv - where it's been and where it's going Back in the ancient mists of time, scientists and mathematicians would circulate preprints of their...
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The arXiv - where it's been and where it's going

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

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Back in the ancient mists of time, scientists and mathematicians would circulate preprints of their articles among friends and colleagues via the postal service, as a courtesy, to get feedback and to try to make sure people in the community were aware of their forthcoming work. ...
370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is....
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370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter

from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science

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One reason it's been so hard to directly detect the dark matter is that we're not sure what it is. […]
The seven vices of highly effective Victorians The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank...
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The seven vices of highly effective Victorians

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

2 weeks ago
The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.
How funny are the frontier AI models? TLDR: yes, models are getting funnier over time I love laughing. Well, who doesn’t? Good jokes have...
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How funny are the frontier AI models?

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

2 weeks ago
TLDR: yes, models are getting funnier over time I love laughing. Well, who doesn’t? Good jokes have a certain notion of cleverness to them and I do believe that great comedians display high intelligence. Cracking a good joke requires astute observations about odd situations, and...
The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have a fluid-filled...
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The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

2 weeks ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have a fluid-filled system of pipes in your life, whether liquid or gas, (and who among us doesn’t?) there’s a very good chance that it passes through a simple device at some point on its journey to you....
What Will Happen to Indian IT? The past and future of the “world’s back office.”
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What Will Happen to Indian IT?

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

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The past and future of the “world’s back office.”
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A weird corner of healthcare: indemnity insurance | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2 weeks ago
the economics are especially interesting
In praise of questions Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to...
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In praise of questions

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

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Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to tolerate them, and sometimes even like them, but Zoom meetings are weird. Even in familiar contexts: I have weekly check-ins with … Continue reading →
Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve In a remote corner of the driest state in the country, Anne Heggli's team has been keeping watch...
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In a remote corner of the driest state in the country, Anne Heggli's team has been keeping watch over some of Earth’s oldest beings. Since 02012, Heggli’s NevCAN network has recorded conditions at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve every eight minutes. The result is more than 120...
The Visible Human Project Researchers created a dataset of photos of thousands of paper-thin slices of a male and female...
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The Visible Human Project

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

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Researchers created a dataset of photos of thousands of paper-thin slices of a male and female cadaver to create one of the most detailed datasets about the human body.
It took me seven months to get my baby an Australian passport I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless,...
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It took me seven months to get my baby an Australian passport

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

9 hours ago
I’m an Australian father of four, living in the US. Something of a corner case. Nevertheless, getting my kids Australian citizenship by descent, and then Australian passports so we can fly home legally, has kicked off a carnival of errors with a very dark side. Australia is...

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