Areeba MerriaminCantor’s Paradise·1 day agoMember-onlyMathematics — A Young Man’s Game?“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.” — G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) was a brilliant mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. Born in 1877 in England, he was renowned for his eccentric personality and his predilection for pure mathematics, which he believed should be pursued for its own sake rather than for any…Science6 min readScience6 min read
The PyCoach·1 day agoMember-onlyA New Era of Photography? Unleashing Midjourney V5 with ChatGPT (GPT-4)Turn ChatGPT into a powerful Midjourney prompt machine with basic and advanced formulas. — GPT-4 and Midjourney V5 were recently released and one cool way to make the most of these AI tools is by creating outstanding photos that go beyond average AI art. How is that possible? We only have to feed ChatGPT (GPT-4) with formulas that will create Midjourney prompts that contain…Science6 min readScience6 min read
Avi Loeb·1 day agoIs `Oumuamua a Hydrogen-Water Iceberg?In a new paper published today in Nature, Jennifer Bergner and Darryl Seligman suggest that the peculiar acceleration observed for the first known interstellar object `Oumuamua, can be explained if `Oumuamua was made of water ice which was partly dissociated into hydrogen by cosmic-rays along its interstellar journey. In the…Science7 min readScience7 min read
Will LockettinPredict·1 day agoMember-onlyMcLaren Plans To Take On TeslaAnd they just might win. — McLaren has been pushing the automotive industry to new heights since the mid-’60s. They were the first to use carbon fibre to build a car chassis; the first to use anti-fade carbon ceramic brake rotors; pushed aerodynamic efficiency to the limit; made the world’s fastest road car; invented butter-smooth yet…Science5 min readScience5 min read
Charlie BrowninIn Fitness And In Health·2 days agoMember-onlyAs a Sommelier This Is the One Thing I Wish Everyone Knew About Alcohol and Health (That Is Seldom Talked About)Not all alcohol is made equal — Whether you like this fact or not, a lot of people in the Western world choose to drink alcohol. It’s been like that for 9000 years. If you’re someone who chooses to imbibe, I have some really important news for you. Something I have never seen talked about — especially…Science6 min readScience6 min read
David Todd McCartyinEllemeno·14 hours agoMember-onlyAmericans No Longer Dream Of A Better FutureIn which America needs to reject populism and embrace the elitism of intellectual superiority — The American Dream is dead. It doesn’t matter that it was always an illusion. American optimism was always tied to the idea of hope, hope that tomorrow would be better than today, next year better than the one we were in. For most of the 20th century, we relied on…Science9 min readScience9 min read
Brigitte Kayser — The Mind Awakened·21 hours agoScientists: Affluence Is Killing The PlanetOur Materialist And Neo-Darwinian Approach To Life Has Failed. Affluent, powerful people and their governments have a vested interest in deliberately promoting high consumption and hampering sufficiency-oriented lifestyles. Since consumption decisions by individuals are strongly influenced by information and by others, this can lock in high-consumption lifestyles. Those who have…Science4 min readScience4 min read
Avi Loeb·2 days agoExotic PropulsionIn a 1957 paper, the cosmologist Hermann Bondi considered the possibility that an object with a negative mass would create a repulsive force of gravity. When placed next to a positive mass, it would repel it but the positive mass would attract the negative mass. If the two masses are…Science4 min readScience4 min read
