Take your time for expertise

Gladwell says genius doesn’t necessarily come at speed. I guess this links in to the 10,000 hours concept as well? It ws funny to hear the latter being mentioned on Radio 4 Thought for the day

Tough maths questions

Yikes – they are pretty out there. Example: “Computation at Scale: How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?”

Invisible to tsunami?

Lovely application of metamaterials (those whose structure affects their function) to shield objects from heavy waves, including tsunami.

Thousand rubies

Lovely galaxy. Not quite the milky way of the more recent post, but still beautiful.

Extraordinary picture

Great chutzpah to flash your flashlight for the time needed to not damage this long exposure. Amazing.

Fish oil is snake oil?

Must read on the Durham non-trials. Even the Indy was reporting some “interesting findings” or some such. Shocking.