"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" (www.youtube.com)
Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.
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Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.
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Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....
In today’s episode of “weird shit I stumbled onto on the internet”, I bring you: nuclear-powered pacemakers....
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I've lived in Finland for most of my 40-odd years but I can never get over how weird the nightless nights feel at the beginning of every summer....
One of Ukraine’s staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbour, as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates....
We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”
I’d love to hear about your quirky habits....
The image has a stock photo of a chemist with Samuel L. Jackson’s head photoshopped on, and he appears to be looking a graduated cylinder with some colored liquid in it....
This renewed interest in UFOs – excuse me, "UAPs" – is honestly pretty fascinating....
Hey does anybody know if there's a description of ActivityPub available that isn't just the spec? I realized I don't actually know how the protocol works, and I'd be interested in learning more. May have to just bite the bullet and dive into the spec – it doesn't actually look too bad based on a quick glance – but a summary...
Good explanation of the difference between work efficiency and step efficiency when talking about parallel algorithms.