Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Never going to happen?

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True statement by a teacher (said with all sincerity) in one of my workshops this semester:

We’re so far behind our students. How do we catch up and move past them so that we can then teach them things they don’t know?

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Split-screen image: left side has the words "an excerpt from" on a pale blue background; right side shows the book cover of "After the Spike," which explores how population and environment shape our future, by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso.

Books

More people, more pollution? Dispelling an environmental myth

In “After the Spike,” Dean Spears and Michael Geruso show why policy, rather than high population density, has the most significant impact on the environment.

Two colorful, semi-transparent spheres, one blue and one red, represent a possible top quark bound state, toponium, surrounded by small particles inside a cloudy, circular enclosure.

Starts With A Bang

The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real!

Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.

A human skull and bone rest beside colorful flowers and sheet music in a detailed memento mori still life composition.

Smart Skills

Why memento mori is the ultimate life hack

A mid-flight scare reveals how embracing death can bring purpose and meaning to everyday life.

Black and white image of a star field with one bright object in the center, indicated by a red arrow, believed to be the third interstellar object detected passing through our solar system.

Starts With A Bang

Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now

First ‘Oumuamua, then Borisov, and now ATLAS have shown us that interstellar interlopers are real. Here’s what the newest one teaches us.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Could the CMB arise from galaxies, not the Big Bang?

The CMB has long been considered the Big Bang’s “smoking gun” evidence. But after what JWST saw, might it come from early galaxies instead?

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