Colorised footage of construction workers on the Chrysler Building: New York, 1929.

The tragic life of Andreas Floer:  Floer was a German mathematician who revolutionized the fields of low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology, and mathematical physics. His first significant contribution was (essentially) proving a conjecture of Arnold.

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

Quantum Gravity: From Gravitational Effective Field Theories to Ultraviolet Complete Approaches (July 29, 2024 to August 23, 2024) 1 - indico.fysik.su.se/event/8133/ Recordings youtube.com/playlist?list=…

I’m in America at the start of a five-week tour of America promoting this book, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie, which is being published on the 17th of September in America. I’m having a good time. I’m in Texas—the first stop was Dallas, and the second stop is

This visualizationshows the occurrence of earthquakes on Earth between July 2017 and July 2018, but differently from other charts, this ones shows them with their depth. [🎞️ nicolaraluk]

Early on in grad school, I asked my labmate (who had already gone through the PhD neuroscience courses) upon which experimental methods modern neuroscience depends. He gave me this list, with two entries (#2, #11) being my later additions: - Fiber photometry - 2-photon

Here's another GPT response that interested me. In fact it was ChatGPT o1, to which I have access. My question was whether if U is an open subset of a metric space X there is necessarily a real-valued function f on X such that f(x) is positive if and only if x is in U. 1/3

It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed

New paper by Wendy Freedman et al. finds no significant Hubble constant discrepancy. arxiv.org/abs/2408.06153

Books are teachers and grandparents I never had.

[Press Release] CMS Experiment CERN at CERN weighs in on the W boson mass The awaited result is the most precise measurement of the W mass made at the LHC so far Find out more: home.cern/news/press-rel…

John Baez turned his tweet-course/threads into a small book, and I think we should be having more such small books given that there's no scarcity of great math/sci threaders on twitter.

If you fill an Olympic swimming pool with marbles, is it possible to drive the system so they obey the Navier-Stokes equations? (Possibly related: liquefaction during an earthquake)

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT! Go get a copy for yourself and for a friend -> GreatBigUniverse.net

oh, the mighty X-planes! :purple_heart: