John Stout
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Science Fan & Animal Advocate. Run, Hike, Bike, Chase 50 (or 49) US high points.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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You thought you knew what the Second Law of thermodynamics is? So did I. Researching this piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social made me realise that I knew only the classical approximation to it. 🤯
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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You thought you knew what the Second Law of thermodynamics is? So did I. Researching this piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social made me realise that I knew only the classical approximation to it. 🤯
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermomete...
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This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows
First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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July 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
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Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? ABC Radio chats with Sandra Mitchell, Alan Guth, Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social, David Albert and me, as produced by @danfalk.bsky.social.
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www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? - ABC listen
Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These were people who studied the physical universe through observation and logic, using philosophical methods and r...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? ABC Radio chats with Sandra Mitchell, Alan Guth, Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social, David Albert and me, as produced by @danfalk.bsky.social.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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This week on “The Joy of Why,” I sat down with Elfatih Eltahir, a hydrologist, climatologist, and meteorologist at MIT. His goals for regional climate modelling are twofold: Inform mitigation and inform adaptation. Tune in to “The Joy of Why”: www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-regi...
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? | Quanta Magazine
Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges.
www.quantamagazine.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This week on “The Joy of Why,” I sat down with Elfatih Eltahir, a hydrologist, climatologist, and meteorologist at MIT. His goals for regional climate modelling are twofold: Inform mitigation and inform adaptation. Tune in to “The Joy of Why”: www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-regi...
“America must take a page from China’s playbook. Ten years ago, [China] created a blueprint for domination of next-generation technologies, funneling huge sums of money into the project, knowing it would take years to pay off. BYD is just one of many examples . . . .” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...
July 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“America must take a page from China’s playbook. Ten years ago, [China] created a blueprint for domination of next-generation technologies, funneling huge sums of money into the project, knowing it would take years to pay off. BYD is just one of many examples . . . .” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...
This arduous list of grievances, which never before appeared of interest worthy of reading with understanding, now some resonate with unexpected relevance.
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Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
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July 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This arduous list of grievances, which never before appeared of interest worthy of reading with understanding, now some resonate with unexpected relevance.
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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My "Math, Revealed" series is freely available to anyone -- no paywall! -- in the thread below.
July 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My "Math, Revealed" series is freely available to anyone -- no paywall! -- in the thread below.
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My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling (Gift Article)
A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
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June 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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New microwave background measurements from the South Pole Telescope - better than satellite data (Planck) at small scales! Mostly compatible with ΛCDM, except for the Hubble tension (still there) and hints of dynamical dark energy when combined with other data.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New microwave background measurements from the South Pole Telescope - better than satellite data (Planck) at small scales! Mostly compatible with ΛCDM, except for the Hubble tension (still there) and hints of dynamical dark energy when combined with other data.
pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/...
pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/...
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Want to see NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Cosmic Treasure Chest for yourself?
Explore using Rubin's Skyviewer! There are billions of pixels to explore, and you might be the the first to lay eyes on a small, distant galaxy! #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
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Explore using Rubin's Skyviewer! There are billions of pixels to explore, and you might be the the first to lay eyes on a small, distant galaxy! #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
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Skyviewer
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June 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Want to see NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Cosmic Treasure Chest for yourself?
Explore using Rubin's Skyviewer! There are billions of pixels to explore, and you might be the the first to lay eyes on a small, distant galaxy! #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
skyviewer.app
Explore using Rubin's Skyviewer! There are billions of pixels to explore, and you might be the the first to lay eyes on a small, distant galaxy! #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
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Happy #WorldHumanistDay! Are you a humanist, too?
June 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Happy #WorldHumanistDay! Are you a humanist, too?
An anecdote in @whippletom.bsky.social's great book 'Battle of the Beams' made me realise I was looking at a puzzle I knew well from my proof.kucharski.io research, but in a new disguise. The story begins in 1941, with a growing network of Nazi radar stations across Europe... 1/
April 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science:
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
1) There's no life on K2-18b
2) Vaccines cause adults
3) They are not Dire Wolves
Carry on.
April 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reminiscences about Steven Weinberg (This Time it's Personal)
C.P. Burgess
arxiv.org/abs/2504.01118
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C.P. Burgess
arxiv.org/abs/2504.01118
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Reminiscences about Steven Weinberg (This Time it's Personal)
Steven Weinberg productive scientific life teaches us many things, one of the most important of which is the power of his example. This essay contains personal reminiscences and a speculation about gr...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Even when we don't talk about the shitshow, we talk about it. johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...
How Friends Cope — John Horgan (The Science Writer)
HOBOKEN, MARCH 22. Even when friends and I don’t talk about the shitshow, we talk about it. We talk about how to cope with it , or we do something to forget it . Three examples: KAREN. Kar...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you have an iPhone and don’t want Apple AI monitoring/reading/learning from every single app you use, you need to make these changes (not just for Signal). 🧪
February 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next?
Back in 1928, the Darwin-and-Mendel rejecting scientist, Trofim Lysenko, was put in charge of Soviet agriculture.
This is why you don't want a government that embraces anti-science policies!
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#science
Back in 1928, the Darwin-and-Mendel rejecting scientist, Trofim Lysenko, was put in charge of Soviet agriculture.
This is why you don't want a government that embraces anti-science policies!
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science
Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next?
With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.
bigthink.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next?
Back in 1928, the Darwin-and-Mendel rejecting scientist, Trofim Lysenko, was put in charge of Soviet agriculture.
This is why you don't want a government that embraces anti-science policies!
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science
Back in 1928, the Darwin-and-Mendel rejecting scientist, Trofim Lysenko, was put in charge of Soviet agriculture.
This is why you don't want a government that embraces anti-science policies!
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science
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What does the remarkably early appearance of the Last Universal Common Ancestor tell us about the first days of life on Earth? My article in yesterday's Observer.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet
New research into the single-celled organism is providing clues about what the early planet looked like – and raising the prospect that we may not be alone in the universe
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
What does the remarkably early appearance of the Last Universal Common Ancestor tell us about the first days of life on Earth? My article in yesterday's Observer.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Wise Women is a sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century made by @philtalkradio.bsky.social www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen
Wise Women
Wise Women is a sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century, generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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January 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wise Women is a sixteen-episode series about women in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century made by @philtalkradio.bsky.social www.philosophytalk.org/wisewomen
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This is how things started in Erdoğan's Turkey two decades ago. Owners censoring their journalists, then laying them off. Then journalists censoring themselves in fear of retribution.
None of these stopped Erdoğan until there was full submission or takeover of the media by his cronies.
None of these stopped Erdoğan until there was full submission or takeover of the media by his cronies.
January 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is how things started in Erdoğan's Turkey two decades ago. Owners censoring their journalists, then laying them off. Then journalists censoring themselves in fear of retribution.
None of these stopped Erdoğan until there was full submission or takeover of the media by his cronies.
None of these stopped Erdoğan until there was full submission or takeover of the media by his cronies.
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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We start by defining something called the “Lagrangian,” L, which is the difference between kinetic and potential energy of some physical system, expressed in a convenient set of coordinates and their time derivatives (“velocities”). We assume that L does not explicitly depend on time.
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December 24, 2024 at 12:37 PM
We start by defining something called the “Lagrangian,” L, which is the difference between kinetic and potential energy of some physical system, expressed in a convenient set of coordinates and their time derivatives (“velocities”). We assume that L does not explicitly depend on time.
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