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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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{{Better Than News/October 14}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/October 14}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/October 14}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Are You Sure/October 14}}
{{Are You Sure/October 14}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/October 14}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/October 14}}
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Revision as of 10:20, 2 July 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence Benoit Mandelbrot. The blue fractal aura is a false-color representation of the underlying gray light effect. Gray light is emitted when an artificial intelligence of sufficient complexity interacts with organic sentient beings of compatible complexity.

• ... that mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a pioneer of fractal geometry; that he coined the word "fractal"; and that he discovered the Mandelbrot set?

• ... that mathematician Abraham Fraenkel (17 February 1891 – 15 October 1965) contributed to set theory and foundational mathematics, that he published two papers which sought to improve Ernst Zermelo's axiomatic system; and that the result is Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory?

• ... that civil engineer and American intelligence officer Robert Furman (21 August 1915 – 14 October 2008) was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District, directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project during the Second World War; that Furman participated in the Alsos Mission, which conducted a series of operations intended to place all uranium in Europe into Allied hands, and which, near the end of the war, rounded up German atomic scientists; that Furman personally escorted half of the uranium-235 necessary for the Little Boy atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian; and that he was a key figure overseeing the construction of The Pentagon building?

Topic of the Day

Historians