The Fate Of Inquiry — Variables, Weekly

Physics has always prided itself as the prince charming of the sciences, racing to mind boggling and often universal revelations from the full gamut of simple observations to the more counter-intuitive ones, while the other sciences were still struggling to find their feet. But are the relatively speedy successes of physics illuminating some of its biggest failures?

The first post I have for you this week is titled ~ “Physics and the search for fundamental laws: Is physics turning into biology?” — Link

“Does Science Suggest Humans Have a Cosmic Role?” — Link

Is anything real? I will never tire of asking this question. Read ~ How perception shapes our reality — Link

Artificial Intelligence Is More Artificial Than Intelligent — Link

Where Should Machines Go To Learn? — Link

THE STATE OF TECHNOLOGY AT THE END OF 2016 by Stratechery’s Ben Thompson — Link

The outwork myth — Link

No Russia did not ‘hack’ our elections — Link

The year of the software developer by Victor Asemota — Link

For one of the better things I read this week ~ How Christianity invented modernity — Link

How do gravitational waves escape from a black hole? — Link

Get a look at Facebook’s new anti-fake news tools here — Link

Now for a journey into the world of speculation. Do you ever wonder, if Darwin hadn’t put forth his thesis on evolution, would another scientist have done it anyway? Is the history of science a story of near misses and just bland coincidence? Who apart from Einstein could have discovered the theory of special relativity?

Read — If Not Darwin, who? — Link

Also Amazon made its first drone delivery.

“See you next week” says the man to the regular readers he hopes he has acquired, in the painfully short time he has been doing this.