March 16, 2025

Math

• The Neurology of Zero vs the neurology of nothing.
• A book on History of Maths

AI

• It seems everybody thinks that AI can break really difficult codes when really, no.

Miracles and Wonders

• Is this E-Taste or Smell-o-vision?
• Memory Transplants. Thank you Adrian Tchaikovsky for the pointer.

Discovery

• Thousands of previously unknown species in the Mariana Trench.

COVID

• This means (I think) better vaccines. Thank you Nick Harkaway for the pointer.

Language

• This is an analysis of animal sounds (onomatapoiea) across many languages.

Extreme

• An article that mostly clearly explains the non-intuitive dangers of plutonium exposure and concludes that “our fear of plutonium is overblown”. The article is quite unsettling to me.

Paranoia

• A font about fear of surveillance and censorship. True story: in the late 80’s, when the internet was tiny, one of my aging hippie co-workers had email .signature file that routinely added a list of marijuana-LSD-drug-related keywords on the assumption that the CIA/FBI was reading email.