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Woodward Missed Everything That Matters About the Trump Presidency
The Atlantic - David Frum
The ultimate White House tell-all actually tells disturbingly little of what the American public most needs to know. The alleged killing of a Washington Post columnist on the orders of the Saudi crown
Geek
Last Night's Doctor Who Gave Some 'Who' Back to the Doctor
io9 - James Whitbrook
Much of Steven Moffat’s era of Doctor Who was dedicated to solving the mystery of the Doctor—why the name, where’s Gallifrey—and putting answers to …
U.S. Politics
I’m a sexual assault survivor. And a conservative. The Kavanaugh hearings were excruciating.
Vox - Rachael Denhollander
I’m appalled at the response from my own community on Kavanaugh. The real litmus test of whether our society cares about sexual abuse is how we respond when the allegations are against someone in our We
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Expert Generalist: Why the Future Belongs to Polymaths
medium.com - Zat Rana
Some of history’s greatest contributions have come from polymaths. Aristotle practically invented half a dozen fields of study across philosophy. …
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
wordpress.com - by RJLipton+KWRegan
How confident should we be that the Riemann Hypothesis is true? Andrew Odlyzko and Herman te Riele, in a 1985 paper, refuted a once widely believed …
Google Scholar
Single-shot real-time femtosecond imaging of temporal focusing
nature.com
1. Kolner, B. H. Space-time duality and the theory of temporal imaging. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 30, 1951–1963 (1994). 2. Foster, M. A. et al. …
Equations
The End of Time - Issue 64: The Unseen
nautil.us - Carlo Rovelli
Perhaps God has many more seasonsin store for us—or perhaps the last is to bethis winterthat guides back the wavesof the Tyrrhenian Seato break …
Gravitational Waves
Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
phys.org - RUDN University
RUDN mathematicians analyzed the properties of gravitational waves in a generalized affine-metrical space (an algebraic construction operating on the …
Quantum Mechanics
Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness
Quanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover
Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment, crushing a century-old dream that …
U.S. Politics
New emails reveal a central political motivation for changing the census
The Washington Post
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross instructed the Census Bureau earlier this year to a
U.S. Politics
The case for abolishing the Supreme Court
Vox - Sean Illing
A Harvard law professor on whether it’s time to rethink the nation’s highest court. When he was arguing for the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the judiciary “will always
Dark Matter
Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model? - Issue 65: In Plain Sight
nautil.us - Michael Segal
For something called the Standard Model, the foundational theory of particle physics is confronting a lengthy list of non-standard data. Neutrino …
Magnetism
Speculations on a Neutron Star
airspacemag.com - Dirk Schulze-Makuch
In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, a research team led by Bettina Posselt from Pennsylvania State University reported an …
Teens
Teenage Dolphins Get High on Puffer Fish Toxin
kottke.org - posted by Jason Kottke Oct 04, 2018
In 2014, BBC aired a two-part documentary that featured intimate and close-up footage of dolphins using remote-controlled cameras disguised as sea …
Donald Trump
What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?
New York Magazine - Jonathan Chait
On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee’s files and gained access to its …
Geek
Hidden Secrets of Pulsars Revealed by Trippy Computer Simulations
Gizmodo - George Dvorsky
A new computer model is revealing the unseen and often bizarre behaviors of particles streaming around rapidly spinning neutron stars, also known as …
Nobel Prize
This Is Why The 2018 Nobel Prize In Physics, For Lasers, Is So Important
medium.com - Ethan Siegel
This year’s prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it. Every year, the most …
Cyber-attacks
Watchdog: 'Nearly all' new US weapons systems vulnerable to cyber attacks
CNN - By Ryan Browne, CNN
Washington (CNN) — "Nearly all" the weapons systems that were being developed by the US military from 2012 to 2017 are vulnerable to cyber-attack, according to a new report by the Government Accountability
Mathematics
Gil Kalai: Why Quantum Computers Won’t Work | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Monica Almeida for Quanta Magazine Rosaly Lopes explains why it’s worth exploring the huge variety of volcanoes on other worlds. Emily Driscoll for …
Computer Science
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
Quanta Magazine - Erica Klarreich
Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum …
Mathematics
This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics - Issue 45: Power
nautil.us - Jordana Cepelewicz
It is 7 o’clock in the morning and Harvey Friedman has just sent an email to an unspecified number of recipients with the subject line “stop what you …
Fight Club
Naming the Unspoken Thing
medium.com - Ahmed Kabil
What the fuck is this,” asks Jeffrey, so high that he cannot see straight, his face a melting candle. By “this” I don’t think he means the chemicals …
Rembrandt
Did Rembrandt trace his self-portraits? | Cosmos
cosmosmagazine.com
One of the most noted painters in history may have used tricks of light to execute his incredibly detailed artworks, new evidence suggests. A pair of …
TV Series
The first trailer for Good Omens will make you long for the end of times
Ars Technica - Jennifer Ouellette
A demon (David Tennant) and an angel (Michael Sheen) team up as unlikely allies. Diehard Good Omens fans, rejoice, for the first trailer for the …
Aging
Want to live for ever? Flush out your zombie cells
The Guardian - Zoë Corbyn
It isn’t about just slowing down the clock but actually turning it back and rejuvenating people Aubrey de Grey It isn't like cancer: mouse studies suggest that getting rid of just 30% of senescent cells
Mental Disorders
Psychedelics have had a long strange trip in our society. Once maligned as insanity-inducing, microdosing or taking small
bigthink.com - Philip Perry
Psychedelics have been with humans for over two millennia. Ethnobotanist Terence McKenna’s “stoned ape theory,” postulates that the development of …
Ecstasy (Drug)
This genius chemist spent 50 years creating psychedelic drugs in his home lab…for a good cause
Timeline - Ahmed Kabil
For Alexander Shulgin, MDMA had huge therapeutic potential I am sitting in the garden of the late godfather of psychedelics, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” …
Latino News
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of …
Mathematics
∞⁰ = ∞, 1, or undefined. Which is it?
medium.com - Mark Dodds
A couple days ago I wrote an article about the Ramanujan Summation, which to cut a long story short is a mathematical series that looks something …
U.S. Politics
READ: Yale classmate's full statement on Kavanaugh
CNN
(CNN) — Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accused him on Sunday of being untruthful in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee and making a "blatant mischaracterization"

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Woodward Missed Everything That Matters About the Trump Presidency

Last Night's Doctor Who Gave Some 'Who' Back to the Doctor

I’m a sexual assault survivor. And a conservative. The Kavanaugh hearings were excruciating.

The Expert Generalist: Why the Future Belongs to Polymaths

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Single-shot real-time femtosecond imaging of temporal focusing

The End of Time - Issue 64: The Unseen

Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves

Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness

New emails reveal a central political motivation for changing the census

The case for abolishing the Supreme Court

Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model? - Issue 65: In Plain Sight

Speculations on a Neutron Star

Teenage Dolphins Get High on Puffer Fish Toxin

What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?

Hidden Secrets of Pulsars Revealed by Trippy Computer Simulations

This Is Why The 2018 Nobel Prize In Physics, For Lasers, Is So Important

Watchdog: 'Nearly all' new US weapons systems vulnerable to cyber attacks

Gil Kalai: Why Quantum Computers Won’t Work | Quanta Magazine

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics - Issue 45: Power

Naming the Unspoken Thing

Did Rembrandt trace his self-portraits? | Cosmos

The first trailer for Good Omens will make you long for the end of times

Want to live for ever? Flush out your zombie cells

Psychedelics have had a long strange trip in our society. Once maligned as insanity-inducing, microdosing or taking small

This genius chemist spent 50 years creating psychedelic drugs in his home lab…for a good cause

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

∞⁰ = ∞, 1, or undefined. Which is it?

READ: Yale classmate's full statement on Kavanaugh