Two True Things About Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener's theory of feedback grew out of aiming guns at aircraft. A signed essay holds both facts: the idea is true, and its origin is hard to look at.
The Photon That Shouldn’t Be Here
A detector in the Caucasus recorded one particle of light at about 300 trillion electron volts from the brightest explosion on record, far past where the universe should block it. If it is real, it points beyond the Standard Model.
Nobody Cut This
The third grant phase was written in 2021 with an end date on it, and the end date is arriving on schedule. What breaks is a storage layer that a great many institutions treated as permanent because it kept working.