Taking a day off from political posts, for posts about reality. Or at least, the exploration of reality.
- Mathematicians solve a 125-year-old problem, perhaps;
- OnlySky’s Dale McGowan about the evolutionary mismatch between the world we evolved in, and the modern world (a key theme of this blog);
- Dalton Conley on a new scientific field that he claims resolved the nature vs nurture divide;
- How movies depict looking through binoculars;
- Dale McGowan again about how there are never normal times;
- Long interview with Ed Yong;
- Musical coda: Pettersson’s 9th.
To begin, I spent over an hour this morning installing “more” tags on my posts since early February, so that a viewer of this site would see only previews of each post, and not the entire posts. Making it much easier to browse through the site and see the subjects of each post. My plan is to do that every day for *yesterday’s* post, and leave the current one fully visible. Let’s see if I can keep up.
Via Facebook.
New Scientist, 14 Mar 2025: Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key laws of physics
Subtitled: “Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, first asked in 1900, now has a solution that could help us understand the complex behaviour of the atmosphere and oceans.”
I don’t have a New Scientist subscription, so I can’t read the full article. Interesting if true; if true, I’ll hear about it elsewhere.
