Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’

Covid-19 Will Sharply Change Thinking About Architecture | by Dr. Patricia Farrell | BeingWell | Dec, 2020 | Medium

January 8, 2021

https://medium.com/beingwell/covid-19-will-sharply-change-thinking-about-architecture-3ce781fcf4f4

NYTimes: Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre

January 6, 2021

Really enjoyed this interview of @SteveMartinToGo. Neat that he’s an audiobooks freak. (I am too!) Also, agreed with his assessment: “Bookstores could easily have only two sections, Riveting & Kinda Boring.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/books/review/steve-martin-by-the-book-interview.html

Has the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize? | News | Chemistry World

January 5, 2021

A reasonable point, but beyond biochemistry, there’s a strong leading towards molecular structure. See this note from a decade ago: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5808/40.long “Chemistry Nobel Rich in Structure” @CForoutanNejad

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/has-the-chemistry-nobel-prize-really-become-the-biology-prize/4010993.article

Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery – The New York Times

January 3, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/upshot/why-markets-boomed-2020.html

new yorker Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work

January 3, 2021

I agree. Liked this quote: “Salesforce is paying $28 billion for an app that people shut down when they need to get things done.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work

Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything? – The New York Times

December 30, 2020

Does the quote mean that doing physics is just a glorified curve fitting to the data? What if the world only manifests highly biased & non-representative data? Do we get still get universal equations from an AI?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/science/artificial-intelligence-ai-physics-theory.html

Maps That Put The World In Perspective – Explored Planet

December 25, 2020

https://www.exploredplanet.com/guides/maps-that-show-us-a-new-perspective/?chrome=1&D2c=1

Liked this site too. My favorite map was “The Best Route To Hit All Of The Springfield Towns In The US”
https://www.exploredplanet.com/guides/maps-that-show-us-a-new-perspective/30

Mutant coronavirus in the United Kingdom sets off alarms, but its importance remains unclear | Science | AAAS

December 24, 2020

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/mutant-coronavirus-united-kingdom-sets-alarms-its-importance-remains-unclear

The weird genomes of domesticated fish | Ars Technica

December 24, 2020

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/the-weird-genomes-of-domesticated-fish/

Does new physics lurk inside living matter?: Physics Today: Vol 73, No 8

December 24, 2020

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4546