For sheer brilliance, it was hard to beat John von Neumann. An architect of the modern computer and inventor of game theory, von Neumann was legendary, above all, for his lightning-fast mental calculations. The story goes that one day somebody challenged him with a puzzle. Two bicyclists start at opposite ends of a road 20… Continue reading How Infinite Series Reveal the Unity of Mathematics
UK Gov’t Advised Against 4th COVID Vaccine Dose
Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, The UK government’s vaccination advisory committee on Friday recommended against giving a fourth dose of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) said the three doses of the vaccines are still providing “very good protection against severe disease,” and an immediate… Continue reading UK Gov’t Advised Against 4th COVID Vaccine Dose
Youngkin Rips Off the School Mask Mandate
Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated and a school mask mandate. He embraced the radical idea of allowing parents to decide if their children mask up in the classroom, effective Jan. 24. Addressing a joint assembly… Continue reading Youngkin Rips Off the School Mask Mandate
Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number should completely change its multiplicative structure — meaning there should be no correlation between whether a number is prime (a multiplicative property) and whether the number two units away is prime (an additive property). Number theorists have found no evidence to suggest that such a correlation… Continue reading Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies
A flotilla of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US has finally arrived in Europe, increasing LNG imports on the fuel-starved continent to a two-year high. The fresh injection of natural gas is helping to offset declining Russian shipments. Prices of European natural gas fell Monday. Data compiled by Bloomberg shows LNG gas imports in northwest Europe… Continue reading European LNG Imports Hit Two-Year High As US Flotilla Delivers Much-Needed Supplies
Our Government Is Showing Its Age
In 1803 the British posted sentries on the cliffs of Dover to watch out for an invasion by Napoleon. Until 1945, 134 years after Napoleon’s death, the guards were still on the job. This episode is an extreme elaboration of one of C. Northcote Parkinson’s famous laws: Action expands to fill the void created by… Continue reading Our Government Is Showing Its Age
An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
Fluids can be roughly divided into two categories: regular ones and weird ones. Regular ones, like water and alcohol, act more or less as expected when pumped through pipes or stirred with a spoon. Lurking among the weird ones — which include substances such as paint, honey, mucus, blood, ketchup and oobleck — are a… Continue reading An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
Mass. Wastewater Data Suggests Covid-19 Cases Substantially Higher Than Reported
As the far more mild, yet hyper-transmissible Omicron strain continues to spread like wildfire, official figures for new infections are undoubtedly low. Between a shortage of home test kits and the fact that Omicron symptoms have been relegated to ‘common cold’ or asytmptomatic for most people, the real number is undoubtedly ‘significantly higher,’ according to… Continue reading Mass. Wastewater Data Suggests Covid-19 Cases Substantially Higher Than Reported
Excerpt: How MMA Fighter-Turned-Action Star Gina Carano Punched Back at Hollywood’s Cancel Culture
In his new book “Virtue Bombs,” film critic and RealClearInvestigations contributor Christian Toto finds Hollywood’s dream factory a woke nightmare for dissenters. But not everyone gives in. In this excerpt, Toto reports on pushback from “The Mandalorian’s” weaponized Gina Carano, above. Hollywood is all about female empowerment, when it’s not telling actresses to lose weight… Continue reading Excerpt: How MMA Fighter-Turned-Action Star Gina Carano Punched Back at Hollywood’s Cancel Culture
2021: A Story in Charts
2021 was a complete break from the norm of the last decade. We’re experiencing the first serious bout of inflation since the 1970s, a rally in commodities that some are calling a new “supercycle,” and some of the craziest short squeezes in history. Many of 2021’s most compelling stories will surely have some place… Continue reading 2021: A Story in Charts