TED Talk is a nonprofit that peddles “ideas worth spreading”, whose speakers’ success is banked on how “inspiresting” (inspiring and interesting) they can make their speeches. Oscar Schwartz cites neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk “My Stroke of Insight” as peak “inspiresting”. Bolte Taylor uses her story to sell the idea that we have power over our experiences in the world; “one morning she woke up to find that she was having a stroke. Instead of panicking, she saw it as an opportunity to study her own brain.” 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
