A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory “In this post I want to try and paint a picture of what it means to have a field that respects the laws of quantum mechanics. In a previous post, I introduced the idea of fields (and, in particular, the all-important electric field) by making an analogy […]
The growing importance of social skills in the labor market from: August 21, 2015 at 09:43AM
Does Macbeth possess a weak character? What’s driving his actions? Is it his own ambition, the witches’ manipulation, or Lady Macbeth? I’m not as well versed in Shakespeare as you. I might be way off base. She seems to berate him for his lack of fortitude and even questions his manhood. Is he a puppet […]
How’d They Do That? Learn the Techniques of Social Media’s Most Successful Sharers from: August 19, 2015 at 09:38PM
How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – Page 2 of 5 “Landing on the moon is in the same category as putting the first man in space or the first person climbing Mt. Everest—it’s a great achievement for mankind. But if the first ocean animal to touch dry land simply lay there for a minute before being washed […]
How to Make Sales on Instagram in 3 Easy Steps (Full-Strategy Infographic!) from: August 18, 2015 at 12:52AM
When A Child’s Picky Eating Becomes More Than A Nuisance from: August 17, 2015 at 01:10PM
Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab | The Verge “It’s aspirational stuff, and as he riffs I notice the team shares an unexpected point of inspiration: Disneyland. “Walt Disney believed that he could take a fantasy world from cinema that he was making, and basically create a physical experience that you […]
I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried. The movement has a very real demographic problem, which contributes to very real intellectual blinders of the kind that give rise to the AI obsession. And it’s hard to imagine that yoking EA to one of the whitest and […]
Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato “We are living in a depressing era in which we no longer have courage. We no longer think governments should have missions. But the market never chooses anything. IT wasn’t chosen by the market. Biotech wasn’t chosen by the market. Nanotech wasn’t chosen by the market. So why should […]
Micromegas: Voltaire’s Trailblazing Sci-Fi Philosophical Homage to Newton and the Human Condition, in a Rare Vintage Children’s Book from: August 14, 2015 at 08:58AM
The Future of Work: Why Wages Aren’t Keeping Up “The custom is to think of value added in a corporation (or in the economy as a whole) as just the sum of the return to labor and the return to capital. But that is not quite right. There is a third component which I will […]
Science vs. religion… or science and religion? « The Berkeley Blog “By a huge margin, a Gallup Poll shows, Americans disagree that “science and religion are incompatible” (69% to 17%). Thus, underlying Americans’ views, these studies suggest, is not a simple divide – knowledge versus ignorance, Reason versus Faith, or science versus religion – but […]
Zero to Mandalay: Myanmar and the game nobody wins “I’d seen enough chinlone, or thought I had seen enough. I still honestly can’t say whether watching five minutes of the game or five days’ would be enough. It was hard to say you’d even seen it, or that it was even you seeing it. Something […]
How to Bully People Like Donald Trump
Perfect Compromise: Welcome to the nerve-wracking reality of being Finland. “What distinguishes Finland from France and even Hungary is its geographic proximity and historic intimacy with Russia. So another layer of romance and danger is added: Russia appeals to those who need to side with the more powerful. This is exactly what scares Sofi Oksanen […]