Many physicists like to drink coffee. Some of them like to write about coffee. Some of them like to write about things they notice while they look at a coffee cup. Here’s a new example of one or more of those things: “Science of a coffee cup: a physicist walks into a bar…,” Aleksi Bossart, […]
Karen Pryor died on January 4, 2025. Famed for teaching the world how to use a simple tool to teach skills to animals (very much including humans), she had a long life filled with adventures and animals (very much including humans) of many kinds. The photo you see here shows Karen Pryor at the 2019 […]
A new poem by A.S. Kaswell: So this is Cambridge, where turkeys all sleep in the trees. The turkeys look down on the people, and poop on their college degrees. Bonus poem: Boston There exists an old poem about Cambridge’s neighbor city, Boston.
In this new year, 2025, the world has few official centers for the unknown. Perhaps the best known and perhaps the only one is the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Its location is known: Lisbon, Portugal. This video shows the center’s architect, Charles Correa, explaining what he might know about the unknown: