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The Future with Fortran

This week’s reading is The Future with Fortran by Lily Turaski. Its themes are light, probability and time. Length about eight minutes. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. rjb

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Daylight Shifting Time

Please do not make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Not just because I don’t want to have noon coming at 1PM permanently, but for many other good reasons. If you’d like a good synopsis of the reasons, read this Scientific American … Continue reading

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Edvard Munch and Nacreous Clouds

Did Edvard Munch paint nacreous clouds? The hypothesis was put forward by Norwegian scientists at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna this spring (2017.) The long-held assumption is that the vividly colored sky in The Scream (1893) is … Continue reading

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