Social media has allowed for an unprecedented number of people to practise self-expression, giving rise to the “lazy author”. Lazy authors are people who express themselves in minute ways, like liking, sharing, or commenting on posts on social media. Although people are freer than ever before to express themselves, it’s not for the betterment of society. It’s all for profit; what you like, share, and comment is used by social media to feed you better advertisements. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
