Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Science Links

1. Donald Knuth: Yoda of Silicon Valley (NYT)

2. Schrodinger Equation or Lunn Equation? (wikipedia, quora, Physics Today)
The Physical Review referee, G. S. Fulcher, found Lunn's paper to be unphysical and impossibly abstract, and he rejected it. Fulcher replaced Lunn as a member of Physical Review's editorial board early in 1922, and Lunn went on to withdraw bitterly from contact with most physicists...
3. CRISPR and human babies (The Atlantic)

QOTD: "Education is learning what man has discovered over the past 5000 years, in 20 years or less." (via @TheWeirdWorld)

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