Bookmarks destocking (in frenglish)

• Some great animated graphics explaining the inner working of a large language model (LLM) in AI.
• Cinq nouvelles du cerveau: un documentaire magnifique, pistes de réflexions sur les questionnements soulevés par l'IA.
• Finally an explanation that I get about what is a tensor in physics and mathematics.
• Une très bonne vidéo en français avec le même but explicatif.
• Science étonnante, l'excellent site de vulgarisation scientifique de David Louapre.
• I just want to know what I'm made of, great article about the few, difficults advances about quantum mechanics those last... 80 years!
• La plus belle expérience de la physique par David Louapre.
• Single photon trajectory reconstruction by weak measurements in the double-slit experiment.
• Hence my favorite quantum mechanics interpretation: Pilot wave and retrocausal models.
• Most prominents quantum mechanics interpretations on wikipedia.
• What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete, by David Tong.
• We know dozens of parameters about what a particle is, yet we don't know firmly what is a particle.
• La plus grand erreur de la physique par David Louapre, illustration des limites du savoir scientifique.
• A fascinating field of research: trying to understand totally, or "reverse-engineer" photosynthesis. Unraveling the Quantum Mysteries of Photosynthesis.
• Even after decades of study, mathematicians find themselves unable to answer questions about the repeated execution of very simple rules — the most basic “dynamical systems”. ‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules.
• Lillium: prototype d'un impressionant petit avion-taxi.
• Deux entretiens avec Slavoz Zizek, un génial philosophe contemporain du vieux continent, un sur arte l'autre sur iai tv.
• Mark Alfano et son travail magnifique de cardinalités sur des concepts du sens moral.
• Le site web de Marc Chesney, un économiste à l'avant-garde. Ici sa page wikipedia.
• Capitalism will eat democracy - unless we speak up by Yanis Varoufakis.
• Connaissez-vous la finance de l'ombre, dite "shadow banking" en anglais? Non? alors lisez impérativement sa page wikipedia!
• Signaling System #7 (SS7 - worldwide phone signaling protocol) hacking: in a single word: frightening, to say the least!
• Pegasus, un espion dans votre poche.
• polyvalens.com: A really friendly guide to wavelets for engineers (and not mathematicians).
• Snowflakes as you've never seen them before!

Global warming fight (and hopes), ecology

27.2.2024

Improving lithium-sulfur batteries with metal-organic framework-based materials

• https://phys.org/news/2024-02-lithium-sulfur-batteries-metal-framework.html

10.2.2024

A scalable photoelectrochemical system for green hydrogen production

• https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-scalable-photoelectrochemical-green-hydrogen-production.html

22.10.2023

Transmutex, a clean and safe thorium way in the making, by a nobel prize in physics and his friends

• https://www.transmutex.com/technology
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNHFHB6k5I

27.7.2023

Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen With 90% Efficiency Without Electrolysis

• https://www.autoevolution.com/news/israeli-researchers-produce-green-hydrogen-with-90-efficiency-without-electrolysis-218644.html
• https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/how-to-produce-green-hydrogen-for-1-kg/

18.10.2017

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas :

• https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

8.03.2023

Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab :

• https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/highest-temperature-superconducting-materials-metals-reddmatter-551382/

22.02.2023

New design for lithium-air battery could offer much longer driving range compared with the lithium-ion battery :

• https://www.anl.gov/article/new-design-for-lithiumair-battery-could-offer-much-longer-driving-range-compared-with-the-lithiumion

16.01.2023

How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future :

• https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future

20.11.2022

Digging 10 miles underground could yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth :

• https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/digging-10-miles-geothermal-energy

7.09.2022

Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100 million°C for 30 seconds :

• https://www.shiningscience.com/2022/09/korean-nuclear-fusion-reactor-achieves.html

6.09.2022

Hydrogen production from the air :

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32652-y

14.06.2022

Chemist pursues answers to why promising solar cell material quickly degrades :

• https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-chemist-pursues-solar-cell-material.html

10.06.2022

The secret carbon decisions plants are making about our future :

• https://phys.org/news/2022-06-secret-carbon-decisions-future.html

29.03.2022

Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density :

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmorris/2022/04/02/sulfur-battery-technology-could-make-electric-cars-go-three-times-further-by-2024/?sh=1befcce97eed
• https://www.whichev.net/2022/03/29/theion-sulphur-crystal-batteries-promise-breakthrough-in-energy-density/

7.06.2022

A strategy to attain amorphous silicon solar cells with over 25% efficiency :

• https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-strategy-amorphous-silicon-solar-cells.html

30.05.2022

Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste :

• https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/30/small-modular-reactors-produce-high-levels-nuclear-waste/

10.05.2022

Des chercheurs ont développé le système de capture de carbone le plus rapide au monde, efficace à 99% :

• https://trustmyscience.com/chercheurs-japonais-ont-developpe-systeme-capture-carbone-plus-rapide-au-monde/
• https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00065

2.05.2022

Cette enzyme artificielle décompose le plastique en quelques heures :

• https://www.journaldugeek.com/2022/05/02/cette-enzyme-artificielle-decompose-le-plastique-en-quelques-heures/
• https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/27/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/

30.04.2022

New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028 :

• https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climate/solutions/a-first-for-canada-new-type-of-nuclear-plant-opening-by-2028

29.04.2022

How a soil microbe could rev up artificial photosynthesis :

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-soil-microbe-rev-artificial-photosynthesis.html
• https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.2c00057#

31.03.2022

Scientists can predict carbon transfer in the ocean based on deep-diving tiny organisms :

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-carbon-ocean-based-deep-diving.html
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29297-2

21.02.2022

Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals :

• https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/02/bacteria-upcycle-carbon-waste-into-valuable-chemicals/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01195-w

3.02.2022

Ces feuilles artificielles sauveront peut-être la planète :

• https://korii.slate.fr/tech/science-environnement-feuilles-artificielles-photosynthese-rendement-capture-co2-sauver-planete
  
• https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D1EE03018C

2.05.2017

Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel :

• https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15174

12.04.2010

Viruses harnessed to split water :

• https://news.mit.edu/2010/belcher-water-0412

20.04.2009

Yeast and bacterium turned into gasoline factory :

• https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16989-yeast-and-bacterium-turned-into-gasoline-factory/?ignored=irrelevant

17.10.2008

New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color Of The Rainbow :

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016132836.htm

Psychology

Cognitive Dissonance wikipedia article. The french magazine Science et Vie got an article on this topic when I was young, found it enlightening.

Dissonance Cognitive en français.

Cognitive bias wikipedia article.

Biais cognitif en français.

Upper-Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Others’ Emotions :
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/upper-class-people-have-trouble-recognizing-others-emotions.html

Why Children Like to Share - People are programmed to avoid inequality :
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-children-like-to-share/

Social sciences

Research shows what it takes to make society change for the better :

• https://phys.org/news/2022-04-society.html
• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211743