The universe will end with a bang — and not a whimper — reports The New York Post, citing a new study by Harvard Researchers predicting exactly when (and how) the universe will end. But Gizmodo’s science writer takes issue with the media coverage: That paper predicts that the universe’s lifetime would be between 10**88 and 10**241 years, but probably probably around 10**139 years. “I think people don’t have a sense as to how big […]
With almost every election comes a push from some to change the way Americans elect their representatives in government. The problem is, there’s no perfect method of voting. The Exploratorium has produced a video that looks at how different voting methods fail in different ways, including through the spoiler effect, cyclic preferences, and the failure of monoticity. In short, every potential way of voting allows for some irrational outcome to arise out of the […]
Donald Trump’s enduring popularity has surprised just about everyone. And no wonder, argues Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen. Half the nation consistently fails to understand the other half because the US is a nation divided between those who watch the news and those who read it. The conversations on the two different media are starkly different, she says, making it increasingly difficult for those who read news to understand the perspective of those who watch […]
Laser Etched Paintings by Georgios Cherouvim Interesting. I”ll show these to my computational photography class. We have an upcoming assignment to use the laser cutters to create a photograph on some non-traditional material. More Here via prosthetic knowledge http://ift.tt/2fc7hgY