For science related issues, I can be reached at the email on my website. In addition, I post often abt my work, and that of others, on Babel Blog.

The latest post is on Borges, Oulipo + the impoverishing power of being able to see everything everywhere all at once.

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Does this principle apply to timeseries data collected during illegal surveillance?

Also not interested in helping family members or others protect cultural institutions they’ve built ‘if to give my help I must get married’. 🤔😂🤨

No, I will not get married to win a supposedly merit-based science prize.

And, no, as the legal heir to an inheritance I do not need to be married to receive it unless this is stipulated in the Trust, which it is not.

Painting by Leonora Carrington. Title and date unknown.

Image credit: John Wheeler at a Princeton blackboard discussing quantization but as if he were looking at Walton Ford’s painting, “Falling Bough’, a fantastic depiction of collective behavior. Composite image by JCF. Wheeler photo by Kip Thorne.

If you are unsure of the answers to these questions, a film that helps clear the fog off the mirror is The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

The Lives of Others | Official Trailer (2006)
youtu.be/n3_iLOp6IhM?...

And in case you’d like to know my take.

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That frozen star there,
Or this one on the water,—
Which is more distant?

Keep straight down this block,
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming

Juxtaposed they remind us to have humility, that what matters is how we treat each other, and that our lives must be lived on many scales at once—to cast our vision near and far.

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Image: composite made by JCF—info on website.

If you are unsure of the answers to these questions, a film that helps clear the fog off the mirror is The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

The Lives of Others | Official Trailer (2006)
youtu.be/n3_iLOp6IhM?...

And in case you’d like to know my take.

x.com/C4COMPUTATIO...

‘…he predicted an almost infinite range of structures could be produced, ‘open structures’ with large channels and cavities would be developed, and the frameworks could be ‘functionalised’ with catalytic sites, so, for example, a substance could […] be chemically transformed on the way through.”

Perhaps there are useful liminal spaces between the work behind the physics + chemistry Nobel Prizes. 💥

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

On the chemistry prize and Richard Robson’s contribution.

Please note my email, website, x, Bluesky and substack accounts are still under third party control without permission.

Image: Still from The Lives of Others

...negative liberties naturally and profoundly incentivizes behavior that contributes to the social good while protecting individual rights.

More at Babel Blog.

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Image: Composite made by JCF. See website for information.