To understand the universe, scientists look to its outliers. “You always want to know about the extreme cases — the special cases that lie at the edge,” said Carsten Gundlach, a mathematical physicist at the University of Southampton. Black holes are the enigmatic extremes of the cosmos. Within them, matter is packed so tightly that,… Continue reading Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About ‘Extremal’ Black Holes
Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, and It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore
Above, Jordan Kerger, an aviation graduate of Ignite Pathways in Iowa. It’s a “career and technical education” school that exemplifies growing national demand for non-college-oriented public education. By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 22, 2024 Jon Graft is on a mission to reignite the passion for learning by pushing a long-denigrated classroom practice: vocational education. Jon Graft,… Continue reading Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, and It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore
How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
The hallmark feature of ternary notation is that it’s ruthlessly efficient. With two binary bits, you can represent four numbers. Two “trits” — each with three different states — allow you to represent nine different numbers. A number that requires 42 bits would need only 27 trits. If a three-state system is so efficient, you… Continue reading How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
The Leftwing Judicial Ethics Crisis No One Is Talking About
The climate cartel is stooping to a new low, adding judicial corruption to its list of tactics. A deceptive and well-funded campaign is underway to corruptly influence judges presiding over dozens of climate change lawsuits now before many state courts. While the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) presents itself as a neutral entity,… Continue reading The Leftwing Judicial Ethics Crisis No One Is Talking About
The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem
After Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905, he spent the next decade trying to come up with a theory of gravity. But for years, he kept running up against a problem. He wanted to show that gravity is really a warping of the geometry of space-time caused by the presence of… Continue reading The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem
The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology
But Freedman suspects that the Cepheid-based H0 measurement is not as trustworthy as the others. It is extremely sensitive to assumptions about, for example, the elemental composition of the Cepheids, and each star’s neighborhood. Dust in the galactic disks where Cepheids live can absorb their light and dim them. The Webb’s infrared vision pierces the… Continue reading The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology
Is Technology in the Olympics a Form of Doping or a Reality of Modern Sport?
Today’s Olympic Games are a technological marvel. Slow-motion cameras play back the milliseconds-long difference between first and second place. Wearable sensors detect clean hits in a bout of fencing or a round of tae kwon do. Olympic athletes use motion tracking, microcurrents and lactic acid monitors to improve form, speed up recovery and prevent injuries.… Continue reading Is Technology in the Olympics a Form of Doping or a Reality of Modern Sport?
Are Robots About to Level Up?
Within just a few years, artificial intelligence systems that sometimes seem to display almost human characteristics have gone from science fiction to apps on your phone. But there’s another AI-influenced frontier that is developing rapidly and remains untamed: robotics. Can the technologies that have helped computers get smarter now bring similar improvements to the robots… Continue reading Are Robots About to Level Up?
The Viral Paleontologist Who Unearths Pathogens’ Deep Histories
You aren’t worried about catching a virus from your samples? Not at all. Everything inside is dead. Every biological process has been disrupted by formalin. This is why the preparation is so amenable to preserving viral RNA: You put a complete stop to every enzymatic process, including the degradation of RNA. But humans carry respiratory… Continue reading The Viral Paleontologist Who Unearths Pathogens’ Deep Histories
Guardian Angels
Podcast: Download MYS325: People have lots of questions about guardian angels and they often get posed to Jimmy Akin, so in this episode Jimmy and Dom Bettinelli discuss what the Bible and other ancient Jewish and Christian literature and Church teaching say about guardian angels. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by… Continue reading Guardian Angels