<< and — voilà! pretty soon your laces are flopping around, looking like overcooked spaghetti >>
<< It’s catastrophic. Every day >>
Christopher Mele. Do Your Shoelaces Keep Coming Undone? Engineers Explain Why. Apr. 13, 2017.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/science/why-shoelaces-undone-untied.html
<< the probability for children to attain a higher income than their parents has dropped dramatically -- from more than 90 percent for children born in 1940 to 50 percent for children born in the 1980s >>
Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: study. Apr. 24, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-upward-mobility-fallen-sharply.html
Raj Chetty, David Grusky, et al. The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science 28 Apr. 2017:
Vol. 356, Issue 6336, pp. 398-406
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4617.
<< Growth in the first industrial revolution was driven by engineering, the second through electricity and production lines, and the third by technology and information >>
<< As robots increasingly take on manual labor, we will need to foster what differentiates human from machine (at least for now): creativity >>
Itai Palti. Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machines. Apr 11, 2017.
https://qz.com/954338/creativity-will-be-the-source-of-our-next-industrial-revolution-not-machines/
<< "The Scream" is globally famous but there are several different hypotheses as to its inspiration >>
<< The first version of "The Scream" was released in 1893. It depicts a dark humanlike figure clutching its head in apparent horror against the backdrop of a swirling, red-orange sky >>
<< In 2004, American astronomers theorised that Munch had painted a sky brightly coloured by particle pollution from the 1883 Krakatoa volcanic eruption >>
<< But the new paper, presented at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, [Helene Muri, a researcher at the University of Oslo] said he more likely depicted a rare sighting of "mother-of-pearl" clouds over Oslo >>
Mariette Le Roux. Weird clouds may have inspired 'The Scream': scientists. Apr. 24, 2017.
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-weird-clouds-haveinspired-scientists.html
also:
quasi-stochastic poetry
<< Naked mole-rats live in large colonies deep underground in hypoxic conditions >>
AA << found that these animals fuel anaerobic glycolysis with fructose by a rewired pathway that avoids tissue damage >>
Thomas J. Park, Jane Reznick, et al. Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat. Science. 21 Apr. 2017 Vol. 356 Issue 6335 pp.307-311 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3896
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/307
<< Ignore the whiskers and teeth - these are plants >>
Thomas Park. Naked mole-rats 'turn into plants' when oxygen is low. Apr. 20, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420141844.htm
<< In physics, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem—which found that certain nonlinear systems do not disperse their energy, but rather return to their initial excited states—has been a challenge that scientists have tackled repeatedly since 1955. >>
Grove Potter. Study unravels long-held Fermi puzzle tied to nonlinear systems. Apr. 14, 2017.
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-unravels-long-held-fermi-puzzle-tied.html
<< As a by-product, we show how fluctuations of system quantities, and thus the distribution functions, are influenced by the Hertz potential. In particular, the variance of the system's kinetic energy probability density function is reduced by a factor related to the contact potential >>
Michelle Przedborski, Surajit Sen, and Thad A. Harroun. Fluctuations in Hertz chains at equilibrium. Phys. Rev. E 95, 032903 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.032903 Publ. 6 March 2017
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.032903
<< "That's what most things that we're used to do," said Forbes [Michael McNeil Forbes], hinting at the bizarreness to come. "With negative mass, if you push something, it accelerates toward you." >>
Eric Sorensen. Physicists create 'negative mass'. Apr. 17, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-physicists-negative-mass.html
<< The experimental findings (..) demonstrating that the emerging features — shock waves, soliton trains, self-trapping, etc. — originate from a modified dispersion >>
M. A. Khamehchi, Khalid Hossain, et al. Negative-Mass Hydrodynamics in a Spin-Orbit–Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155301 – Publ. 10 Apr. 2017. doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.155301
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.155301
