Category: Balance
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Day or Night?
NIGHT OR DAY? 21st December. The great night. The fewest hours of daylight. What does make you feel more creative? A sunny day or an endless night? When does philosophy come alive? Under the scorching sun or beneath the silver light of the moon? When do you feel better? In the clear view of a…
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Primitive. Actions. Ecology. Pendulums.
Fossil data, historical records, and underwater survey data have been used to reconstruct the abundance of staghorn and elkhorn corals over the past 125,000 years. Researchers show that these corals first began declining in the 1950s and 1960s, earlier than previously thought. (1) Even the most primitive actions of people alter the planet. Even the…
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Irregularities…
A study exploring the coupling between heat and particle currents in a gas of strongly interacting atoms highlights the fundamental role of quantum correlations in transport phenomena, breaks the revered Wiedemann-Franz law, and should open up an experimental route to testing novel ideas for thermoelectric devices. (1) Irregularities between thermal and electrical conductivity. Just an…
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Water. Dancing…
Liquid water is part of our everyday lives and due to its lack of color, taste and smell, it is often assumed to be very simple. On a molecular level the water molecule is indeed very simple, However, when many molecules come together they form a highly complex network of hydrogen bonds. Typically, we consider…
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Optimizing farming. Fractals and global optimums. Balance. Letting go.
Bali's famous rice terraces, when seen from above, look like colorful mosaics because some farmers plant synchronously, while others plant at different times. The resulting fractal patterns are rare for human-made systems and lead to optimal harvests without global planning. To understand how Balinese rice farmers make their decisions for planting, a team of scientists…
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