@bellaxtsepi You're welcome! It's a great book. He also has one of the best podcasts once a week since years. Just look for his name in Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever and you'll find it. He has fascinating guests every week on a huge range of topics for very in depth discussions not just about physics but sociology, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and so much more. I think you'd like it a lot. 👍
@natharari thank you for the rec, definitely following and on the hunt for that book.
Slate ICYMI Podcast: Should We All Be Pirating More?
https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2023/04/history-of-napster-and-future-of-digital-piracy
There are good questions surrounding this question. Entire shows can vanish on the internet - it's happened already.
I'm "just asking questions".
I asked #ChatGPT if the waves on the ocean are a sum of sine waves with different orientations, amplitudes and phases...
And here's the cool 3D plot it generated for me:
https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/berniewolfram/Published/wavy-ocean-by-chatgpt
I had to manually copy-paste the code because the embedded link wasn't working, but it's still awesome.
@will I'm curious: How do you get invited...?
@seanmcarroll gave a fantastic presentation recently on the Wave Function in Quantum Mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOssfva2IBo
I've currently been re-reading his book "Something Deeply Hidden" (https://www.amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Emergence-Spacetime-ebook/dp/B07NTYJJDX/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1682832978&sr=8-1)
#science #quantum #physics #video #book
Also, he's here on Mastodon in case you want to follow another really interesting person.
I actually remember this cover art when it came out. We had just moved back to the states, I was in NYC at the time, and this completely caught my attention:
https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/715932103135608832/robert-tinneys-april-1981-byte-magazine-cover
Some classic feel good morning wake-up music:
Three Dog Night, Live
Shambala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyh6i9NvmE
If you sometimes feel as if you're missing the 70s, this video will not disappoint.
There's a petition on Moveon.org to keep Mifepristone legal.
I honestly have no idea what good these petitions do, but I do know that Moveon has had some impact over the last couple of decades, so I signed it. If you want to, here's the URL: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/reverse-the-mifepristone-decision-protect-abortion-access
The Common Sense Skeptic has yet another video with an entire forensics breakdown of the disaster that was the 4/20 launch of Starship. More and more has been coming out about what a disaster it has been, but a lot of it has been drowned out by the blatant ass-kissing in the press and websites from Musk fans. Well, it was a huge disaster and The Common Sense Skeptic breaks it all down. And not only that: They show where they predicted what would go wrong *before* the launch. Yet another huge win for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDuVomNd9M
If you're not subscribed to them, you're making a huge mistake.
#elon #musk #sucks #starship #spacex #faa #420 #environment #video
⚡️🇺🇦President Zelensky presents state awards to 419 defenders, including 105 posthumously (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3702516-zelensky-presents-state-awards-to-419-defenders-including-105-posthumously.html #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
@damonoutlaw @micahflee Thanks.
French philosopher and author Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, who died OTD in 1743, proposed an international organisation to maintain peace, and influenced Rousseau and Kant https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/flaneur-seine-banks/?s=mb #travel #France #history
@damonoutlaw @micahflee Well I only got one reply, but it was an interesting article link. Do you have something else to show me? I'd love to read more about it.
@Lockdownyourlife That's pretty hot. 🤣
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.