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I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Programming has changed. In first generation languages like FORTRAN and C, the burden was on programmers to translate
I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Today sees the publication of a significant new technical paper on dinosaur phylogeny. And it’s a game-changer or wat
Is Chomsky's Theory of Language Wrong? Pinker Weighs in on Debate Critics have bashed linguist Noam Chomsky for more than 50 years, but his claim that language is innate endures Asked for a comment on the language-acquisition theory of Noam Chomsky (in photo above), psychologist Steven Pinker says: “Chomsky has been a piñata, where anyone who finds some evidence that some aspect of language is lea
Bayes’s theorem, touted as a powerful method for generating knowledge, can also be used to promote superstition and pseudoscience This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ theorem. But I only really started paying attention to it over the last d
Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover [Video] Sure, I was familiar with the graphic—and I’m not alone. Drop this image (right) on someone’s desk and chances are they’ll reflexively blurt, “Joy Division.” The band’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album cover leaned entirely on a small mysterious data display, printed in white on black. This article was published i
On last Thursday at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Vladimir Voevodsky gave perhaps the most revolutionary scientific talk I’ve ever heard. I doubt if it generated much buzz among the young scientists in advance, though, because it had the inscrutable title “Univalent Foundations of Mathematics,” and the abstract contained sentences like this one: “Set-theoretic approach to foundations [...] This a
The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Scary myths and scary data abound about life as a tenure-track faculty at an "R1" university. Scary enough to make you wonder: why would any s
Exoplanet colour confirmed for first time: it's blue, but not pale -- and nothing like Earth This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed that a planet called HD189733b, which orbits a star 63 light years from here, is
I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What makes a Nobel Prize winner? There's several suggested factors: Perseverance? Good luck? Good mentors and student
Odds are you sometimes think about calories. They are among the most often counted things in the universe. When the calorie was originally conceived it was in the context of human work. More calories meant more capacity for work, more chemical fire with which to get the job done, coal in the human stove. Fat, it has been estimated, has nine calories per gram, whereas carbohydrates and proteins hav
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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I've engineered a fair number of inexpensive DIY camera hacks. This one is by far the cheapest: it's free! Simply place a drop of water on the phone's lens, carefully turn the device over, and the suspended droplet serves as a liquid lens. Behol
Ethical Questions Surround "Electrical Thinking Cap" That Improves Mental Functions This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What if a drug could improve learning and cognition and had no untoward medical consequences? Wouldn’t it be justified to make it widely available? A group of sc
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In June I wrote about a claim that babies in the U.S. were dying as a direct result of Fukushima radiation. A close look at the accusation revealed that the data used by the authors to make the argument showed no such thing. "That data is public
I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achi
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