Monday, January 10, 2022

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 AMICOR 3.065 

#Dra. Valderês A. R. Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)
(Sete meses em 15/01/2022)

Em Moscou (1985) junto ao Kremlin, e o Czar Sino, que nunca soou. (1737)
Tsar Bell
Царь–колоколTsar'-kolokolTsarsky KolokolTsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell

#LiveScience
Surgeons transplant pig's heart into dying human patient in a first
Doctors have transplanted the heart from a genetically modified pig into the chest of a man from Maryland in a last-ditch effort to save his life. The first-of-its-kind surgery is being hailed as a major step forward in the decades-long effort to successfully transplant animal organs into humans.
#QuantaMagazine

NUMBER THEORY | ALL TOPICS

 

Mathematicians Clear Hurdle in Quest to Decode Primes

By KEVIN HARTNETT

Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem, bringing mathematicians one step closer to understanding the Riemann hypothesis and the distribution of prime numbers.

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COVID-19

 

Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus

By CARRIE ARNOLD

As SARS-CoV-2 mutates, scientists are using topographical maps called “fitness landscapes” to chart the virus’s evolutionary history and predict its future.

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Related: 
A Lack of COVID-19 Genomes
Could Prolong the Pandemic

by Puja Changoiwala (2021)

QUANTUM GRAVITY

 

Symmetries Reveal Clues About the Holographic Universe

By KATIE McCORMICK

Physicists are using fundamental symmetries to work out the basic rules for a theory of our universe — one independent from the concepts of space and time.

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Related: 
Gravitational Waves Should
Permanently Distort Space-Time

by Katie McCormick (2021)

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

 

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

By DANIEL GARISTO

A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler’s famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.

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Related: 
Mathematician Answers Chess
Problem About Attacking Queens

by Leila Sloman (2021)

Around the Web

Clocking Memories
A new study helps clarify how the brain keeps a record of the timing of events by firing special neurons called “time cells,” as Abdulrahman Olagunju reports for Scientific American. Although scientists have known certain cells time-stamp our memories, they haven’t known how. In 2019 Jordana Cepelewicz wrote for Quanta about one theory: Our brain encodes the information with a mathematical function called a Laplace transform.

Clarified Incompleteness
A logic puzzle from Alex Bellos for The Guardian illustrates a simplified proof for Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. While simple logic puzzles can capture its essence, Gödel’s actual proof is much more involved. Natalie Wolchover explained how it works for Quanta in 2020.


#ArsTechnica

How the immune system targets viruses and shapes viral evolution.

Immune System vs. Virus: Why Omicron Had Experts Worried From the Start



#FOOD52

Italians Hated Pizza for Centuries—Tourism Changed Everything
Italians Hated Pizza for Centuries—Tourism Changed Everything
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, Food52
Pizza’s dominance on the international gastronomic stage hinges not on a glorious past rooted in antiquity so much as an anthropological phenomenon that has come to be known as the “pizza effect.”

#AEON

#The New York Times Book Review

“The most important Cultural Revolution document published in China in the 1990s, this harrowing, stylishly written book’s English-language edition benefits from Chenxin Jiang’s deft translation and Zha Jianying’s superb introduction.”
—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times

THE COWSHED
MEMORIES OF THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Ji Xianlin Translated from the Chinese by Chenxin Jiang. Introduction by Zha Jianying

Ji Xianlin was a professor of Sanskrit at the prestigious Peking University. An early member of the Chinese Communist Party with a working-class background, he was an ideal citizen in communist China. But in 1966 a student-led coalition, the Red Guards, began to call out the supposed elitism of teachers and intellectuals. Thus started the Cultural Revolution, a time of censorship and extreme discipline in the upper reaches of the academy, but also one when millions of people were imprisoned and starved and countless died.

Refusing to go along with the baseless attacks and internal power squabbles at the university, Ji was labeled a counterrevolutionary and was subjected to a year and a half of torture, and finally a year of detainment and physical labor in appalling conditions. His faith in the Communist Party and all it had stood for was shattered. The Cowshed recounts this excruciating experience in a narrative full of sharp irony, empathy, and remarkable insights into a central event in Chinese history.

“At the center of Ji’s account, ably translated by Chenxin Jiang, is the ‘cowshed’ of the title. . . . Ji’s description of this institution, really a kind of mini concentration camp, is unforgettable.”
—Richard Bernstein, 
The New York Times Book Review


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