A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling

Quanta Magazine > 0; if (typeof predicate !== ‘function’) { throw new TypeError(‘predicate must be a function’); } var thisArg = arguments[1]; var k = 0; while (k We care about your data, and we’d like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy.Agree… Continue reading A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling

Hamas Ally CAIR Has Been Operating With Impunity Inside America for 30 Years

Above, Nihad Awad of CAIR is featured with pro-Palestinian Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar in 2019 in a magazine opposed to Israeli “aggression and oppression.” The FBI has been investigating CAIR for decades — with no charges filed. By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 8, 2023 After Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women and children in Israel… Continue reading Hamas Ally CAIR Has Been Operating With Impunity Inside America for 30 Years

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Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media

Above left, from the cover of the Election Integrity Partnership’s 2020 election report. It’s not the full story: Previously undisclosed Stanford documents now show in detail how the federal-private alliance flagged social media posts for censorship.  By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 6, 2023 In the runup to the 2020 election, cybersecurity experts at the Department of… Continue reading Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media

Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often

CLIMATEWIRE | The drought-driven wedge of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River is deepening a mystery about one of the world’s mightiest waterways. How will climate change affect the river? There are relatively few scientific studies on how warming is reshaping the Mississippi, and even fewer on saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico. The… Continue reading Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often

How to Watch the Northern Lights and Other Awesome Auroras

Imagine standing under the starry vault, bundled against the cold, when the sky erupts overhead. Rippling curtains, ribbons and streamers of colors across the rainbow light up the night, shimmering and majestic and all eerily silent. That’s what it’s like to see a vivid auroral display, and being able to witness one for yourself is… Continue reading How to Watch the Northern Lights and Other Awesome Auroras

The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

Every online interaction relies on a scaffolding of information stored in remote servers—and those machines, stacked together in data centers worldwide, require a lot of energy. Around the globe, data centers currently account for about 1 to 1.5 percent of global electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency. And the world’s still-exploding boom in… Continue reading The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

Our Lady of Zeitoun (Egyptian Apparition, Coptic Church)

Podcast: Download MYS283: Christianity has a long and fruitful history in Egypt, and when witnesses reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Coptic church in Cairo suburb of Zeitoun in 1968, thousands of people came to see. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened there and whether the apparitions were genuine. Get all… Continue reading Our Lady of Zeitoun (Egyptian Apparition, Coptic Church)

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Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid?

They’d based their prediction on the orbital dance of Jupiter’s largest moons. For every four orbits that Io completes, Europa makes two and Ganymede one. This orbital configuration, known as a resonance, causes Io to wobble back and forth, making its orbit elliptical. When Io is closer to Jupiter, the planet’s gravity yanks on it… Continue reading Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid?