After more than 60 years since it was first hypothesized, the elusive Ambipolar field—a subtle energy field around Earth—has finally been detected and measured (Nature Paper)
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Shao Yong (邵雍, 1011–1077) was a Chinese cosmologist, historian, philosopher, and poet, who played a key role in shaping Neo-Confucianism during the Song dynasty. Shao Yong ordered the I Ching hexagrams according to a binary sequence. His diagram influenced Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), coinventor of calculus, who contributed to the development of today’s binary number system and pioneered modern computation
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Just wait until they acknowledge that the planet and people unconsciously work together to find meaning in the randomness & guide the weather.
Predictive minds in Ouija board sessions: Paper shows that early moves are random, but as options for words narrow, people unconsciously work together to find meaning in the randomness & guide the pointer to finish sequences, without even realizing it.
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Ibn Ṭufayl (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Malik bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysiyy al-ʾAndalusiyy; ; c. 1105 – 1185) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, and vizier.
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Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact (Paper)
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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"Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention" - Richard Feynman
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High-dimensional phenomena bend our intuition like spacetime bends light. Yet, they're mere ripples in the cosmic Ouroboros. In this reality, the counterintuitive is the appetizer; paradox is the main course.
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"Science progresses one funeral at a time" - Planck's principle - hence, if you really care about science, you know what you must do...
"All revolutionary leaders, though they fervently preach change, know that people cannot change. Unlike Moses they have neither a handy desert nor the patience to wait forty years. Hence the purges and the terror to get rid of the grown-up generation." - Eric Hoffer
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Math puzzle: What fraction of the image is black?
Ignore the straight lines and express your answer as a fraction, not as a "series" extending to some asymptote. Answer from here: "If we ignore the lines, 1/3. Focus only on top left, bottom left and bottom right. 1 of them is black, 2 white. Top right is just a copy of it."
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February 6, 1970: Luis Alvarez (1911 - 1988, physicist, nobel price winner) publishes a paper in Science on Cosmic Rays and Pyramids
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Unraveling the Mystery of Scalar Waves: A Comprehensive Overview
Unlike conventional EM waves, scalar waves are believed to be non-Hertzian, meaning they do not travel through space in the same way as traditional electromagnetic waves. Scalar waves are often described as standing waves, meaning they do not move through space but exist as stationary patterns of energy.
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Against the flow - By Nick Sousanis
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This piece was prompted by Robert Frost’s “West Running Brook.” In starting to think on it and the connection between entropy and life, I came across Jeremy England’s very recent work at MIT. Readers might also be interested in E.D. Schneider and J.J. Kay’s work concerning thermodynamic evolution, and César Hidalgo’s writing on multiplier effects.
Nick Sousanis is a postdoctoral fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary. His graphic novel “Unflattening” was published in March. Follow him on Twitter @nsousanis.
