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"One of the most important developments in the history of science"
The New Scientist has a paywall up on its story about the mathematical work that says there are multiverses/multiple worlds/parallel universes. Somewhere, then, the story is not behind a paywall. So how can you find out more about “one of the most important developments in the history of science”? Luckily, there is an online FAQ…
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Asymptoting towards zero…
Nearly ten years ago Hal Varian wrote a paper called Markets for Information Goods. It’s none too elegantly expressed, but it has what you might call “profound” implications: I would like to coin a “Malthus’s law” of information. Recall that Malthus noted that number of stomaches grew geometrically but the amount of food grew linearly.…
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Ethics of television editing discussion
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Public information – it’s not rocket science
One of my favourite pub-bore topics is the importance of public information. And I like collecting examples. Here is one from Richard Feynman’s conclusion to the report on the disaster which destroyed the space shuttle Challenger in 1986: If a reasonable launch schedule is to be maintained, engineering often cannot be done fast enough to…