March 7

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that physicist and mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor served as a meteorologist aboard the Ice Patrol vessel Scotia in 1913, where his observations formed the basis of his later work on a theoretical model of mixing of the air?

• ... that the anonymous author of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) code reviewed the config files for the universe, concluding that "a universe where people die before they are born is not the universe you want to live in"?

Topic of the Day

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