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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics... | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | Neil DeGrasse Tyson often claims the Islamic Golden Age of science was ended in the twelfth century by Al-Ghazali. But historians disagree. | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle.... | |
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theworthyhouse.com
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| | | This outstanding book, by the anarchist-tending academic James C. Scott, might be (but isn't) subtitled "Barbarians Are Happier, Fatter and Better Looking." The author does not believe the myth of the noble savage-but he thinks the savage is, on average, a lot better off than the peasant. Scott's project is to remold our view of | ||
