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Andréa Morris canvasses Nobelist Adam Riess, who's contributed so much to our understanding of the expanding universe and dark energy, and Harvard and The Galileo Project's Avi Loeb, who's been popularly touted as a "Nobel Laureate-in-Waiting," on our headline's important topic. Centering the discussion is the "unicorn" case of theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, whose wacky-sounding theory about how matter could become living was shunned by Science In General. Kauffman's speculation …

After taking a long break from working on belief systems(and writing a book in the meantime), I think it’s time to get back to belief system. The problem that got me stuck was how to define the term ‘Belief Systems’. The concept is not new(the oldest usage I could find goes all the way back to Plato and his...

Big in Holland........wasn't there a band called that?Whatever, either way The Executive Slacks were.......Big In Holland.A fact this live in Europe Cassette demonstrates nicely as all of the Dates on this tour seemed to be in The Netherlands....except a couple,which were in Gay Paris,and the inevitable appearance in Belgium where every band sounded like this with all that Belgian New Beat stuff and EBM.As listed in the insert notes,as if …

In 2018, I first visited this grove of Reed avocados. The trees had been planted ten feet apart. In avocado-world parlance, they call that “high density” planting. Traditional tree spacing is more like twenty feet apart. But then the farmer further added a tree in between each tree to make the spacing only five feet […] The post Reed avocado high-density grove appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern …

jamisonwieser:Caltrain is the commuter rail line on the San Francisco – started full electric service last month.This is a huge deal because it cuts the travel time between San Francisco and San José (the 17th and 13th largest cities in the US by population) by 25%.A local train making all stops went from 100 to 75 minutes, limited stops trains to a little over an hour and peak hour express …

It is with great excitement and a little bit of sadness that we announce the final DCR Cave Open House in Amsterdam, Netherlands (we’re sure this time). So if you’ve put off coming to the event, you’ve now been served notice to get your behind in gear and get signed up for this final event! With the event right around the corner, we have lots to do, but first, we …

Ruckert, coloured tea service, 1887-96, AlamyEarly medieval Russian silver often included calm niello work and ornamental lines with black enamel. But under Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725), who west­ernised the Russ­ian Empire, local silversm­iths began explor­ing modern forms. The Imperial family and weal­thy cl­asses dined from fash­ionable, solid-silver Baroque, Rococo, then Neoclassic-style gob­lets, plat­ters, caviar dishes and bas­kets. Showy gilt-silver cigar­ette cas­es, cigar cas­es and tankards sat on shelves. Silver …

$\newcommand\C{\mathbb{C}}$ I came up with the proof below while preparing a lecture for my complex analysis course. I learned from Sinan Gunturk that Peter Lax showed him the same proof back in 2007. Let \(O\subset\C\) be open and convex. Let \(z_0 \in O\) and \(c: [0,1] \rightarrow O\) be a closed piecewise \(C^1\) curve. Recall that the winding number of $c$ around $z_0$ is defined to be \[ W(c,z_0) = …

Following on from my big result on the R.Wye and only 36 miles from the R.Teme it seemed to be the logical next step, at 7am I was cruising up the M50 bound for a date with a Teme Tiger, a Barbel from here is reputed to fight harder than any other Barbel in the country, that was a reputation I wanted to test. Having seen the Teme for the …

Chibitronics asked me to participate in a #LightUpPopUpTober project they are coordinating with prompts from @5am_popup. My prompt was “reverse.” Thus, the switching mechanism for this card works by reversing the covers of the card, touching the front and reverse sides.I took inspiration from a design by the late Professor Masahiro Chatani for the mechanical functioning of the card. The electronics and everything else were improvised as quickly as I …

For a long time, I've been trying to learn more about my husband's 3d great-grandparents, William Tyler Bentley (1795-1873) and Olivia Morgan Bentley (1799?-1838). The earliest official document I have for this family is the 1830 US Census, where they're enumerated in the town of Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York. Other documents confirm Oswego as the birthplace of William and Olivia's children in the 1820s and 1830s.Browsing the 1830 …

The Kiss, Francesco Hayez, oil on canvas, roughly 43 x 35 inches ( 110 x 88 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimdeia Commons, original is in the Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery) in Milan. In this beautiful painting by mid-19th century Italian painter Francesco Hayez, the woman’s stunning gown is the first thing to attract our attention. The shimmering blue material (satin?) is offset by the …

CSS gradients have been so long that there’s no need to rehash what they are and how to use them. You have surely encountered them at some point in your front-end journey, and if you follow me, you also know that I use them all the time. I use them for CSS patterns, nice CSS decorations, and even CSS loaders. But even so, gradients have a tough syntax that can …

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]