Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

SETDA – Mary Ann Wolf

Scott McLeod

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Earlier in the day.

After she won her pink ‘Making It Happen’ jacket!

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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Hard Science

CERN experiment unlocks new insights into the W boson

CERN scientists achieved record-breaking accuracy in mapping the mass of a key particle in the Standard Model.

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The Present

Big tech fails transparency test: Gary Marcus on what we should demand of AI

AI has become a black box in more ways than one.

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Business

The essential skill to master across life and business

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Starts With A Bang

Hidden variable alternative to quantum spookiness fails

Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.

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13.8

Sara Imari Walker: Using physics to rethink the definition of life

It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.

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