The mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana - a member of the Via Panisperna boys
Ettore Majorana was the nephew Quirino Majorana (1906–1938)
tag > Science
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When CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, some controversy sprang from Gianotti's use of the Comic Sans typeface in the presentation of the results. Alby Reid, a physicist, started an online petition calling for Microsoft to change the name of the font to Comic Cerns. Vincent Connare, the font's creator, tweeted support for the petition. Gianotti had used Comic Sans in previous presentations, but the controversy was generated due to the importance of the material presented.
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Learning about almost anything from first principles, means learning about how (sound) waves work
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Perspective
"All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news." - Willi Munzenberg
"I don't believe anything, but i have many suspicions." - Robert Anton Wilson
"Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature… because… we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” - Max Planck
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A fungal safari - A nonprofit has launched an ambitious effort to raise the profile of often invisible soil fungi
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"‘Bees are really highly intelligent’: the insect IQ tests causing a buzz among scientists" - This stories headline should really read "Western scientists and media are highly stupid and arrogant"
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Vladimir Gavreau an pioneering researcher in the field of Infrasound.
"In developing a military weapon, scientists intend to revert to a policeman's whistle form, perhaps as big as eighteen feet across, mount it on a truck and blow it with a fan turned by a small airplane engine. This weapon, they say, will give forth an all-destroying 10,000 acoustic watts. It could kill a man five miles away. There is one snag: at present, the machine is as dangerous to its operators as to the enemy. The team is working on a way to focus it. Various systems of baffles have been tried, but the most promising method appears to be propagation of a different and complementary sound a wave length backward from the machine. This changes the frequency of airwave length moving in that direction, thus protecting anyone to the rear. There is, of course, a much simpler means of protection: turn the machine on from a safe distance. This summary of Professor Vladimir Gavreau's experiments with infrasound is based on the Sunday Times article.[2] A much more comprehensive article has appeared in an American periodical, The National Enquirer, Vol.42, No. 27, March 10, 1968. Professor Gavreau's discovery has been patented, and anybody can obtain the plans and full description from the French patent office upon payment of two francs."
Related: The sonic doom of Vladimir Gavreau - The Sonic Weapon of Vladimir Gavreau - Acoustic Trauma : Bioeffects of Sound - Infrasound linked to spooky effects
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Akademgorodok - the educational and scientific centre of Siberia.
Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast - a science town near Akademgorodok
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Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise but Keep Your Window Open - Researchers in Singapore developed a system that’s sort of like noise-canceling headphones for your whole apartment (paper)
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Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment
"In quantum physics, a perpetual motion machine is fine as long as we keep our eyes closed" 🤡
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"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps everyone to see the same world differently." – Benoît Mandelbrot
