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The amount of radiation from regular flying probably has no risk as well. Aircrew have higher risk for certain types of cancers, but it's not clear if radiation plays a role in tha…

Do integers exist? Do sequences of integers exist? If they do, so do the real numbers. This is because any positive real number has a decimal expansion which determines it. For exa…

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/ Summary for Policymakers (37 pages): https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPo... Technical Summary (96 pages): https://repor…

There's now a keyboard as in wordle, and a writeup by the author: https://qntm.org/wordle

I'm not the author, see their writeup here: https://qntm.org/wordle

At least for me, doing examples and computations is the best way to learn math, and also very important in research. Often an opaque general statement becomes clear after doing a f…

Your guess is as good as mine. My guess is that all intelligent life in the universe would be "soooo unique", not just the one on Earth. So it would be very improbable any life for…

Well so far we do not know, so again this is just speculation. Your guess might be as good as mine. There does not seem to be any serious scientific results in this direction, othe…

Even assuming that the concept of "game" would exist elsewhere seems like a ridiculous assumption. All of the things you are saying, even "purely mathematical" are just reflections…

The Luzhin Defense is about chess. But perhaps the same novel could be written about a mathematician, I first learned about the novel while reading this article by V.I. Arnold: htt…

What you are saying is not really correct. A good book on this topic is "Tending the Wild" by M. Kat Anderson https://baynature.org/article/book-review-tending-the-wild/

I find that quote interesting when thinking about some of uglier history behind national parks. https://timeline.com/national-parks-native-americans-56b0dad... > Quickly after the …