UN's highest court orders:
- a halt to Israeli offensive in Rafah.
- Israel must take measures to preserve evidence relating to allegations of acts within scope of the Genocide Convention.
- Israel must allow aid to flow.
- Immediate and unconditional release of the hostages.

it used to be that you could be satisfied modeling inviscid flows in fluid dynamics, but you can’t anymore, because of Navier-Stoke

welp

Somehow missed this when it came out a few years ago. Always nice to read a feature that successfully synthesizes the human angle with scientific discovery without sacrificing either. This one even manages to bring in sociology and process. nature.com/articles/d4158…

not a physicist. anyways, good luck with your quantum resistant bitcoin wallet business

theorist: that was quite an experimental tour de force; I'm not trying to minimize it. but actually, it was mostly validating theoretical predictions

Bore witness to a couples counseling session between physicists and their journal editors last week. Here's my writeup of how it went down:

technologyreview.com/2024/05/15/109…

My main takeaway from the New Yorker Lucy Letby piece is that I did not realize the extent to which they gag the press and attorneys over there and I now don’t trust anything I read in British outlets.

Holy cow, most of Europe is glowing pink right now under the aurora! foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luckner…

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