- Did We Receive a Message from a Planet Orbiting the Nearest Star?, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-we-receive-a-message-from-a-planet-orbiting-the-nearest-star/
- Fauci Explains How to End the COVID Pandemic, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fauci-explains-how-to-end-the-covid-pandemic1/
- Quantum Drones Take Flight, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/7
- Swarming Fish Robots, https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabd8668
- The Blue Hour, https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/01/14/the-blue-hour-isabelle-simler/
Reading List (Jan 3, 2021)
- Favorite Books of 2020, https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/19/favorite-books-2020/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
- On logic and science, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/on-logic-and-science/
- Let’s Search for Alien Probes, Not Just Alien Signals, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-search-for-alien-probes-not-just-alien-signals/
- The Ten Best Science Books of 2020, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-best-science-books-2020-180976414/
Reading List (Dec 27, 2020)
- 2020 Breakthrough of the Year, https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2020/
- Bumblebees’ Self-Image Gets Them through Tight Spots, https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/bumblebees-self-image-gets-them-through-tight-spots/
- Thunderbolt (interface), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
Reading List (Dec 20, 2020)
- Why everything we know about modern economics is wrong, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/why-everything-we-know-about-modern-economics-is-wrong/
- Quantum Mechanics, the Mind-Body Problem and Negative Theology, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-mechanics-the-mind-body-problem-and-negative-theology/
- Dive into a boundless cityscape with an immersive artwork inspired by the infinite, https://aeon.co/videos/dive-into-a-boundless-cityscape-with-an-immersive-artwork-inspired-by-the-infinite
- Hair Styling with Physics, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/s161
- Jupiter and Saturn will form rare “Christmas Star” on winter solstice, https://astronomy.com/news/sky-events/2020/12/jupiter-and-saturn-will-form-rare-christmas-star-on-winter-solstice
Reading List (Dec 7, 2020)
- Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?, https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2
- Light-based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-based-quantum-computer-exceeds-fastest-classical-supercomputers/
- Beyond Squares and Triangles: Deciphering the Mysteries of Complex Shapes, https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/11/30/beyond-squares-and-triangles-deciphering-the-mysteries-of-complex-shapes/
- Next-Gen Astronomical Survey Makes Its First Observations Toward a New Understanding of the Cosmos, https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/11/09/next-gen-astronomical-survey-makes-its-first-observations-toward-a-new-understanding-of-the-cosmos/
Reading List (Nov 30, 2020)
- Inside the new Mac mini: Does Apple’s M1 architecture really leave Intel behind?, https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-new-m1-mac-mini-is-intriguing-but-its-trade-offs-may-hint-at-unspoken-internal-chipset-limitations/
- Three qubits can be entangled in two inequivalent ways, https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.62.062314
- Boeing’s 737 Max Is a Saga of Capitalism Gone Awry, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/sunday-review/boeing-737-max.html
Reading List (Nov 24, 2020)
- scikit-survival: A Library for Time-to-Event Analysis Built on Top of scikit-learn, https://jmlr.org/papers/v21/20-729.html
- Econometrics in the 21st century, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/econometrics-in-the-21st-century/
- To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives, https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/to-save-the-economy-biden-must-first-save-lives.html
- Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vision-and-breathing-may-be-the-secrets-to-surviving-2020/
- 250-year-old Natural History Illustrations of Some of Earth’s Strangest, Sweetest, and Most Otherworldly Creatures, https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/11/18/george-edwards-gleanings-natural-history/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
- The Halfway Point, https://ritholtz.com/2020/11/halfway-point/
Reading List (Nov 15, 2020)
- Ergodicity, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/ergodicity-wonkish/
- The Denialist Playbook, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-denialist-playbook/
- How Do You Track a Murder Hornet?, https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/asian-giant-murder-hornet-washington-tracking-science.html
Reading List (Oct 31, 2020)
- Quantum Time Twist Offers a Way to Create Schrödinger’s Clock, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-time-twist-offers-a-way-to-create-schroedingers-clock/
- The Hidden World of Failure, https://ritholtz.com/2020/10/hidden-world-of-failure/
- A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-flu-shot-might-reduce-coronavirus-infections-early-research-suggests/
- The forgotten rescue of the Salyut 7 space station, https://astronomy.com/news/2020/10/the-forgotten-rescue-of-the-salyut-7-space-station
Reading List (Oct 7, 2020)
- Famous shadow of black hole provides novel test for new theories of gravity, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/famous-shadow-black-hole-provides-novel-test-new-theories-gravity
- Scientists Spot Giant Planet Orbiting Dead Star’s Corpse, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-spot-giant-planet-orbiting-dead-stars-corpse/
- How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market, https://ritholtz.com/2020/09/how-corporations-pillaged-the-free-market/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBigPicture+(The+Big+Picture)