Undermatched.
“Undermatching” is a term to describe when high-performing students, typically from economically-disadvantaged households, attend less competitive colleges than their qualifications …
Category Archives: gods
Forest shapes… Platonic triangles… Forests dying…
Tropical forests have been called the lungs of the planet. And these hot ecosystems are being deeply altered by logging …
Gods… Society… Punishment… Freedom…
Today’s most popular religions have one thing in common: gods or supernatural laws (such as karma) that dictate moral behavior …
Neutron stars colliding. Theories destroyed.
When during 2017 scientists recorded a rippling in space-time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed …
Boltzmann’s idea of entropy and the Creator: An unexpected end…
While reading a scientific paper for thermodynamics (Ted Jacobson, Entropy from Carnot to Bekenstein, arXiv:1810.07839 [physics.hist-ph]) I came up to …