- Artist Feeds Her Childhood Diary Into an AI Chatbot — And Has a Moving Conversation With Her Younger Self
- Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers
- Does the Peer Review Process Need Blockchain?
- The Ants Have Not Read Kant: Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid – opening line: “Though he could not have cared less about fame, Kropotkin was one of the world’s first intellectual celebrities, known as both a brilliant scientist and a vocal proponent of the political philosophy of anarchism.”
- Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future
- The Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers
- Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?
- Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction
- Meta trained an AI on 48M science papers. It was shut down after 2 days – Meta AI built Galactica to “organize science”. It believed vaccines cause autism (they don’t), 1 + 2 ≠ 3, and produced nonsense notes on bone biology.
- Gigapixel panoramas – What do you think the smallest visible detail in an image 60,000 pixels wide could be?
- Shockley was a racist and eugenicist
- Basics of Concrete Barriers (2000) – “Concrete barriers appear to be simple and uncomplicated, but in reality, they are sophisticated safety devices.”
- Is Wine Fake? – by Scott Alexander Siskind
- The Toxic History of Color
- No Cure For Loneliness
- My black body story (it’s physics). – How we teach physics history can affect how we teach physics itself.
- Sine and Other Curves – Where the word ‘sine’ (as in the sine and cosine curves of trigonometry) comes from
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I’m a science editor and writer in India, interested in high-energy and condensed-matter physics, research misconduct, pseudoscience, science’s relationship with society, epic fantasy, open source/access/knowledge systems, H.R. Giger’s art, Goundamani’s comedy, Factorio, and most things that require a lot of time to get the hang of.