Science

Nobel Minds 2022

The 2022 laureates in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and economic sciences talk to Zeinab Badawi and students in the audience at the Royal Palace in Stockholm about their discoveries and achievements, and how these might find a practical application --YouTube

US succeeded with fusion reactor

The U.S. Department of Energy announced... a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a "net energy gain" was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California --llnl.gov

The Age of AI

Henry Kissinger and leading thinkers join to consider how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live --amazon.com

Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin

They take a longer view than the "world is going to end in ten years if we don't do something!!!" From Lex Fridman Podcast #339

quantum tunneling

"uncertainty in the exact location of light particles allows these particles to break rules of classical mechanics and move in space without passing over the potential energy barrier" --wikipedia

time travel

calibrated: depiction in popular culture, scientific models / explanations, accessing the Akashic record out-of-body

Bell's theorem (quantum mechanics)

a term encompassing a number of closely related results in physics, all of which determine that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden-variable theories given some basic assumptions about the nature of measurement --wikipedia

being an egg donor / in vitro fertilization

These practices have a calibrated upside as well as a downside. Ranges of calibration provided.

dark matter

nonluminous matter not yet directly detected by astronomers that is hypothesized to exist to account for various observed gravitational effects -- merriam-webster.com

Branch Education (YouTube channel)

in-depth engineering and technology education

T/F: man has set foot on the moon

Request: Some people believe it was faked.

normal distribution

important in statistics and are often used in the natural and social sciences to represent real-valued random variables whose distributions are not known --wikipedia

auto-tune

"to adjust or alter (a recording) with Auto-Tune software especially to correct sung notes that are out of tune" -- merriam-webster.com

HumanCondition.com

"imagine the predicament faced by an animal whose life had always been controlled by its instincts suddenly developing a conscious mind, because if we do that we will very quickly see how that animal would develop a psychologically troubled competitive and aggressive condition like we suffer from"

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Which sex has the highest rates of physical violence, hunger for status, and desire for a high number of sex partners? Just follow the testosterone --amazon