15 Jul 23
description: The OC star has made a ‘bizarre career pivot’, embedding himself in the cryptocurrency community, and co-writing a book exposing the truth behind digital currencies
14 Jul 23
13 Jul 23
description: Stephen Wolfram shares the behind-the-scenes process of his NKS book. From years of research to working with publishers, book design, getting the right photos and images, and printing and promotion.
11 Jul 23
10 Jul 23
description: Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with
description: Entropy is a measure of how many configurations could yield the same macrostate, and thus how probable the macrostate is. It can be a measure of information, or a measure of disorder in a physical system. But what about the entropy of biological systems? Relatively few configurations yield life, compared to the many that don’t.…
09 Jul 23
description: How a random stream of events ended up creating a picture with 57 million views
08 Jul 23
description: Surreal and otherworldly.
description: The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years. Israel went from having a serious water problem to being a net water exporter to neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the population grew from ~1 million to…
description: We use stories to make sense of the world. What that means is that when events occur that don’t fit neatly into a narrative, we can’t make sense of them. As a consequence, these sorts of events are less salient, which means they’re less real. In The Invisible Victims of American Anti-Semitism, Yair Rosenberg wrote…