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Why for free? Wikimedia is very well funded, and I'm sure that Pangram could use a leg up...

In a podcast, Alain Aspect (Nobel Prize winner) explained that he does use the power of visualization and his imagination to generate new ideas, but that he always needs to check them with actual calculations because no mental picture can be an accurate representation of quantum physics.

That's a shame, because the Withings Scanwatch 2 was of great help for us when a family member was waiting for heart surgery after a pulmonary edema. Having the watch reassure her every day was a big boost to morale. Thankfully, we did not have to test this, but it may also have been very useful had it picked a problem.

Crows reach fabulous levels of (animal) intelligence with a brain that is a fraction of the size of the brain of great apes. I wonder what progress has been made in studying the differences in organisation between the two.

My 10 yo son just spent an hour clicking through the widgets and, frankly, learning quite a lot, with just a few additional explanations from me. Another hit from Bartosz!

Thanks, I came here to challenge this too. I cannot find any tweet supporting the OP's second assertion.

I agree. The precautionary principle applies to novel actions we take, not to leaving the status quo in place.

Hm, rather, as soon as (some) mosquitoes became resistant to DDT, eradication became a lost cause.

Social media had one benefit: to connect with like-minded people during the madness of the covid era. Ironically, the madness was fed by social media, in part because it allowed groups of like-minded people to connect. Note: this comment holds true no matter which side you considered mad and which side you considered reasonable.

It's also not computable, as in chaotic. Small differences in initial positions will lead to unpredictably large differences in trajectory (with small and large having specific meanings to match the formal definition of a chaotic system).

Note the disingenuous framing.