“Launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, becoming the most distant human-made object ever. Traveling at around 11 miles per second (17.7 km/s)…”
scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is...

chiuhans111.github.io/fluidglass/

RFK Jr., health secretary, tells Congress “people shouldn’t take medical advice from me” - The Guardian

“Vaccines are considered one of public health’s greatest victories, and the measles vaccine alone is estimated to have saved 90 million lives in five decades.”

When fitting a non-linear model using linear regression, we typically generate new features using non-linear functions. We also know that any function, in theory, can be approximated by a sufficiently high degree polynomial. This result is known as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E...
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There’s Life Inside Earth’s Crust www.noemamag.com/theres-life-...

Foraging for breakfast...quite successfully #pawleys_island #sc

The economist Amartya Sen defined unfreedom as constraints beyond our control which undermine our ability to pursue lives of meaning. Inadequate access to food is a source of unfreedom, as is being homeless or not having an education. 1/2

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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
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www.popularmechanics.com/science/a467...

“Instead of spreading out as one would expect, these superfluid quantum gasses “slosh” heat side to side—it essentially propagates as a wave. Scientists call this behavior a material’s “second sound” (the first being ordinary sound via a density wave).”

“To keep track of this cosmic decay, physicists employ a concept called entropy. Entropy is a measure of disorderliness, and the declaration that entropy is always on the rise — known as the second law of thermodynamics — is among nature’s most inescapable commandments.”

www.quantamagazine.org

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