How pigs reconcile after fighting confirms their intelligence
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/11/09/how-pigs-reconcile-after-fighting-confirms-their-intelligence Bystanders offer consolation to losers Nov 9th 2022 “I like pigs,” Winston Churchill supposedly once said. “Dogs look up at us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat…
Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-die-without-sleep-20220322/ The reasons why sleep is so vital often hide in unexpected parts of the body, as host Steven Strogatz discovers in conversations with researchers Dragana Rogulja and Alex Keene.…
What is a Black Swan event?
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/what-are-black-swan-events-c721195bc3e Necessary and sufficient conditions “Why is surprise the permanent condition of the political and economic elite?”
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-math-error-overturns-year-old-perception.html by Los Alamos National Laboratory Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger…
Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/qubit-teleportation-between-non-neighbouring-nodes-in-a-quantum-network.html Future quantum internet applications will derive their power from the ability to share quantum information across the network. Quantum teleportation allows for the reliable transfer of quantum information between…
The most important thing to understand about queues
On 2016/08/26 By Dan SlimmonIn Statistics and probability You only need to learn a little bit of queueing theory before you start getting that ecstatic “everything is connected!” high that good math…
Raise your hand if you think this is a good idea
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/raise-your-hand-if-you-think-this-is-a-good-idea.html If the Food and Drug Administration decides to update Covid-19 vaccines to take better aim at Omicron or other variants, it is unlikely to go it alone. Instead, a…
The Eight Degrees Of Ignorance And Stupidity
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eight-degrees-ignorance-and-stupidity Authored by Darren Smith via JonathanTurley.org, Our host on numerous occasions makes a strong case in labeling today’s zeitgeist as “The Age of Rage”. It would certainly seem to…