Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events I will attend to.>
Kevin Hays, 19, of Renton, Washington, is studying math, in Arts & Sciences, and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis - and now he has a new world record in the Rubik's Cube, taking the top spot from ... himself.Hays solved the “6x6” Rubik’s Cube in 1 minute, 40 seconds, 9 seconds>
I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turned scientific differences into policy. It created fairness.If you're>
Elite performance takes natural ability coupled with elite levels of training. That last part has an effect later in life, according to a new analysis. It found that one in four retired Olympians have some level of osteoarthritis, which causes changes in the joint and can lead to discomfort, pain and disability.>
It's political primary season and you know what that means, right? Right, it's time to rent movies and think about something else.
But you wouldn't be here if you could watch just any movies, you'd be a Huffington Post reader or Glenn Beck listener or whatever it is those people do that gets so much more attention>
You know my feelings on this. We need to embrace open post publication peer review. This way people can see the reviews and the reviews themselves should count as publications which can themselves...
"... a place where to store impressions, emotions, half-baked ideas ...: I say Professor Milgrom of the Weizmann Institute is the world's greatest living scientist — on the basis of...
"Scaling factors" for quark masses etc in that paper are due to the running of the coupling, i.e. top quark is formed at a higher energy so you have to us a different value of the...
I've also just started using AI to help do calculations, predicting particle masses from the energy absorbed by virtual particles undergoing vacuum polarization shielding. The most surprising...