Blogs about Science

Science and scholarship are global. If you want to find out the truth about the universe, you’ll have to employ the people best at figuring out that truth, regardless of where they come from. Research …

I have compiled a list of the top 6 awe-inspiring LEGO ideas that you can build at home, guaranteed to spark your creativity and test your building skills to the limit. Whether you are a …

There’s not much in this post, but I wanted to mark a significant date. It is the first day of the rest of 2023, but in addition, it is the beginning of a new chapter …

Want to learn applied category theory? You can now read my lectures here: • Lectures on applied category theory There are a lot of them, but each one is bite-sized and basically covers just one …

AntNet: Networks from Ant Colonies Posted 08/07/2023 Ant nests look kind of like networks - they have rooms, and tunnels between the rooms, analogous to vertices and edges on a graph. A graph representation of …

There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you …

We recently presented evidence of data tampering in four retracted papers co-authored by Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino. She is now suing the three of us (and Harvard University). Gino’s lawsuit (.htm), like many …

The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. Image: CC-BY Tom Stafford 2022 For me though, …

Testing alternative ways of displaying the index entries

I've written in the past a couple of blogposts on education and learning: these two on Bloom's two sigma and mastery learning, and spaced repetition systems (SRS) are the main examples. Something I noticed today …

Curt Jaimungal’s Theories of Everything podcast has a new episode featuring a long talk with Edward Frenkel (by the way, I’ll be doing one of these next month). A few months ago I wrote about …

Imagine you’re rolling down the street in a driverless car when you see a problem ahead. An Amazon delivery driver got their van halfway past a double-parked UPS truck before realizing they couldn’t make it …

Readers of this blog will know that I’m a Brit living in German. Well, since Brexit only half a Brit, as I’m now a dual national. In the good old pre-Brexit days, I could buy …

Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Yale professor’s book ‘systematically misrepresents’ sources, review claims Nature flags doubts over Google AI study, pulls …

We’ve made it to 1 million subscribers! Thank you all for making this happen. To honour the occasion, I want to summarize some of my thoughts about how YouTube works and what works on YouTube. …

Tomorrow at 1:30pm US Central time, I’ll be doing an online Q&A with Collective[i] Forecast about quantum computing (probably there will also be questions about AI safety). It’s open to all. Hope to see some …

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an AI Device Tripp Mickle and Cade Metz | The New York Times “[Sam Altman and Jony Ive] and their companies are teaming up …

Thanks to everyone who participated or voted in the Mysteries Contest! The winners are: FIRST PLACE:What’s the Deal With Airplane Food Iodine and Longevity? by Kevin Shea, writing as Lee S. Pubb. SECOND PLACE:Why is …

Reading this mini-obituary of the great third baseman reminds me of a passage from Earl Weaver’s autobiography. It has a great passage . . . I don’t remember the exact words, but it’s relating some …

Before you read this, I suggest you read section 10 of post 22.10. In post 22.10 we saw that integration reverses the process of differentiation. Suppose f and f’ are functions of x only and …