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Nothing is Real : Amanda Gefter is Thinking About Life, the Universe and Everything
Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is a coming of age story—not only for an exceptional science writer, but for the entire cosmos itself.
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A Conversation With Jacek Dukaj
He is Poland’s most popular science fiction author, with his work adapted for both the silver screen and a Netflix original series. He also engages deeply with geopolitics, on Earth and beyond.
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A Conversation With Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli is an author and an experimental physicist. His team at CERN was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
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Quantum Bootcamp
Sweden has been lagging badly behind when it comes to quantum tech. Most of the funding has been provided by private players and there’s been no national strategy. That’s starting to change now.
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Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.
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Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord
When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”
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Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were
In a funny kind of way, a study like this seems to produce knowledge which extends our ignorance.
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The 2023 Reading List
Reading. The ultimate unfair advantage.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Quantum Entanglement
I’ve gained a valuable insight into how humanity’s collective understanding of this enigmatic field has evolved over time. I feel that goes a long way.
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The World’s Not Enough : Steve Jobs Held Hostage By Own Exquisite Taste
It’s sad to think that we need disaster to strike in our lives, in order to sober up and see what’s worth a damn. Sad, but at the same time also somehow hopeful.
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Trying to Grasp Photonics
What other branch of science can claim to solve teleportation and levitation? Where else to turn for invisibility cloaks and computers which run on light alone?
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BUST! the Productive Failure of LK-99
Ambient pressure room temperature superconductivity didn’t happen. But the LK-99 debacle was kind of inspiring in at least two ways.
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BOOM!
Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally *happening*!
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The Science of Science
There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.