SpaceX, the world’s biggest space company, announced a deal in April with Cursor, an AI-code-writing start-up based in San Francisco, signaling the rocket firm’s intention to acquire it for $60 billion. That’s more than twice NASA’s current annual budget—and also …
Ask any HR manager how their team’s training is going, and the answer usually depends on what’s behind it. When there’s a system in place, it’s easy. Pull up a dashboard, share a report, done. When there isn’t, it’s a …
Fabrics flutter in seemingly impossible ways in artist Thomas Jackson‘s images. But despite first appearances, each photograph is true to life; the fabrics are suspended on taut lines. Their dance is driven by wind energy, drag, tension, and flow–not manipulated …
Male birdwatchers may have an unexpected advantage when sneaking in for a close-up in a city park. Scientists were recently surprised to find that dozens of common birds in Europe are more ruffled by the approach of a woman than …
About a year ago, a certain kind of cinephile took note of obituaries for Ted Kotcheff, a television-turned-film director who worked steadily from the mid-fifties to the mid-nineties. Even to readers only casually acquainted with movies, more than one title …
This posting is mainly intended to provide some links to material about AI in math and physics that I’ve found interesting. I confess that to a large degree I’m trying to avoid seriously learning about exactly what is going on, …
What did the New Scientist Book Club think of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars? I set the New Scientist Book Club something of a challenge in April: make your way through the 600-plus pages of Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson’s …
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As the Archives Fellow, I was most excited to interview women in the physical sciences for the American Institute of Physics (AIP) oral history collection . Oral histories create historical records of subjective experiences—the details not captured by solely looking …
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