In the third century BCE, Archimedes posed a riddle about herding cattle that, he claimed, only a truly wise person could solve. His problem ultimately boiled down to an equation that involves the difference between two squared terms, which can be written as x2 – dy2 = 1. Here, d is an integer — a… Continue reading Ancient Equations Offer New Look at Number Groups
Food Banks Across America Report Record Demand And Record Shortages
Food pantries and food banks are a key economic indicator for tracking poverty levels and financial instability in the US, and in the past few months they have been ringing alarm bells. Stagflationary pressures have all but wiped out the savings of the average American and driven up credit card debt to historic highs. Only… Continue reading Food Banks Across America Report Record Demand And Record Shortages
Don’t Think, Look! A Meditation on the Need for the Mystical
Our intellect is our greatest strength and one of our greatest blessings, yet almost nothing gets us into as much trouble. Our strength is also our struggle. We think we know a few things, and indeed we do—a very few things. The greatest intellects, if they have wisdom and humility, know this. St. Thomas Aquinas famously… Continue reading Don’t Think, Look! A Meditation on the Need for the Mystical
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
(09:20) And then we have a bunch of matter fields, they come in three groups of four. The most familiar ones are an electron field, two quark fields associated to the up and the down quark. The proton contains — oh man, I hope we get this right — two up and down and the… Continue reading What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
Court Rejects Google’s Attempt To Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
Authored by Glenn Greenwld via greenwald.substack.com, A federal district court in California on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Silicon Valley giant is violating federal antitrust laws by preventing fair competition against its YouTube video platform. The lawsuit against the search engine giant, which has owned YouTube since its 2006… Continue reading Court Rejects Google’s Attempt To Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
Psychologists Urge Peers to Take Climate Action
The field of psychology must bolster its ability to address the health effects of climate change, according to a new report from the nation’s largest professional organization of psychologists. The American Psychological Association says its more than 133,000 members can do more to address climate change by broadening their impact on everything from mental health care to… Continue reading Psychologists Urge Peers to Take Climate Action
Biden Tests Positive For ‘Rebound’ COVID, Goes Back Into Isolation
One day after hanging around a bunch of CEOs (without a mask), fully vaccinated President Joe Biden has once against tested positive for COVID-19 in a so-called ‘rebound’ case after being treated with Paxlovid, his physician said in a Saturday letter. Unlike Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, Biden reportedly “continues to feel quite well,” according Dr.… Continue reading Biden Tests Positive For ‘Rebound’ COVID, Goes Back Into Isolation
Jesus’ Place in the Assumption
Mary is assumed because of spiritual physics and her literal holiness. In the Fall, humanity chooses self over God. That Original Sin is passed down to every person ever born and it is an illness that we live with. Even after being wiped clean from Original Sin in Baptism, we feel the effects of the… Continue reading Jesus’ Place in the Assumption
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Rule of Law, and the Return to Normalcy
On July 8, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that ballot harvesting and the use of unsupervised ballot boxes is not consistent with the statutes governing Wisconsin election law and must be discontinued. The decision in Teigen and Thom v. Wisconsin Election Commission represents the latest skirmish in the national debate over election integrity versus ballot… Continue reading The Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Rule of Law, and the Return to Normalcy
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby cat” or “tiger cat,” for example, to “train” an artificial neural network to correctly distinguish a tabby from a tiger. The strategy has been both spectacularly successful… Continue reading Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works