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Where do scientists communicate their work?
A group of Spanish researchers analysed the mentions of scientific papers authored by scientists (affiliated with Spain) on the social media, on Wikipedia, and on news outlets, blogs and policy documents to understand where the consumers of such scientific information … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, clinical medicine, Facebook, mathematics, science communication, scientific communication, social media, Twitter
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Is mathematics real?
I didn’t think to think about the realism of mathematics until I got to high school, and encountered quantum mechanics. Mathematics was at first just another subject, before becoming a tool with which to think intelligently about money and, later, … Continue reading
Science v. tech, à la Cixin Liu
A fascinating observation by Cixin Liu in an interview in Public Books, to John Plotz and translated by Pu Wang (numbers added): … technology precedes science. (1) Way before the rise of modern science, there were so many technologies, so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernhard Riemann, Cixin Liu, glass ceiling, Large Hadron Collider, mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry, particle physics, Riemannian geometry, technology, Three Body Problem
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The worst poem ever
I’m just a lousy science journalist, writing the worst poem ever. Continue reading
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Tagged Ed Yong, Kip Thorne, mathematics, poem, Science, science journalism, unknown unknowns
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The literature of metaphysics (or, ‘Losing your marbles’ )
For a while now, I’ve been intent on explaining stuff from particle physics. A lot of it is intuitive if you go beyond the mathematics and are ready to look at packets of energy as extremely small marbles. And then, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, equations, mathematics, natural philosophy, particle physics, systems
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“God is a mathematician.”
The more advanced the topics I deal with in physics, the more stark I observe the divergence from philosophy and mathematics to be. While one seems to drill right down to the bedrock of all things existential, the other assumes … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator physics, elegance, G. Rajasekaran, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, mathematics, philosophy
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