Neutrino Bombshell
Neutrinos… nicknamed ghost particles because of their uncanny properties… are the most abundant particles in the Universe — around 100 trillion pass harmlessly through your… Read More »Neutrino Bombshell
Steve Levitt on teaching, learning and having fun
So, there aren’t really any incentives to teach well [as an economics professor]. No one really cares how you teach. But what I quickly learned… Read More »Steve Levitt on teaching, learning and having fun
Technology (27): Cosmology, totems and resistance to technological change among the Yir-Yoront aboriginal people
… the totemic system serves very effectively in inhibiting radical cultural changes. The closed system of totemic ideas explaining and categorizing a well–known universe as… Read More »Technology (27): Cosmology, totems and resistance to technological change among the Yir-Yoront aboriginal people
“What the Skunk Works does is secret. How it does it is not.”
I’ve just read the latest FreakTakes (from the excellent Eric Gilliam) on Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works. Highly recommended – here’s a snippet:
Edward Gibbon and Zhuang Zi on teaching, learning and tacit knowledge
… the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon – The History… Read More »Edward Gibbon and Zhuang Zi on teaching, learning and tacit knowledge
God’s own latency
This is from an amazing explanation of the airfoil by Bartosz Ciechanowski – one of many physics / engineering demonstrations on his (highly recommended) website.… Read More »God’s own latency
Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein on Habituation
Be careful what you get used to; or, Get used to what you care for By asking the volunteers to increase the voltage one step… Read More »Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein on Habituation
Bukele; or, The Search for a Saviour
Recommended, via MR. The Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, founded by the far-right death-squad leader Roberto D’Aubuisson, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or… Read More »Bukele; or, The Search for a Saviour
Three things about the world from Max Roser and Our World in Data
From the recently updated post at OWID. See also: Our World in Data is Great and Getting Better; or, How I Destroyed Several Billion Medieval… Read More »Three things about the world from Max Roser and Our World in Data