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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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What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Trying to get even the most ephemeral grasp of anything as complex as English language literature, might seem like a fools errand.
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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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Interbrain Synchrony
The hippies were right all along: brain-to-brain synchrony is really a thing.
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This Could Change Everything : Superconductivity Heating Up
If we could figure out how to achieve superconductivity at higher temperatures, it would be such a huge deal that the impact is hard to even imagine. This might just be on the brink of happening now…
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The Science of Science
There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.
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Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos
World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.
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What We Need Libraries For
I like to think of future libraries as places where we go to be inspired and surprised.
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Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics
His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.
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Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy
Public discourse is swinging back into favouring nuclear power, but this time there’s a visionary mismatch between politicians and scientists.
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Aspects of Fashion That Never Crossed My Mind
Representational aesthetics is all about what stories we’re trying to tell about ourselves.
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Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection
Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.