MikeTommasi

Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project In November 2023, a large cache of Turing's wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many shee...

Alan Turing, known for code breaking during WWII, also made a working voice encription machine. spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turings...

Red sunset.

Mimosa is late this year.

The ‘Mother Tree’ idea is everywhere — but how much of it is real? A popular theory about how trees cooperate has enchanted the public and raised the profile of forest conservation. But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold.

There is not much evidence, and a lot of hype, for the existence of the "wood wide web", the idea that trees communicate signals and nutrients through a fungal network. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

CAT-telan artwork goes for millions.

I would love Bluesky, but:
1) the STUPID Twitter limit on the number of characters is something you could have ditched.
2) the impossibility of editing one's post is truly annoying.

A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” If we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. All life is fermentation. How vivid is the claret. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
[The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol I, ch 3]

The new administration thinks Greenland is part of the USA x.com/RepMikeColli...

Elon Musk may already be overstaying his welcome in Trump's orbit Musk has been a near-constant presence at Mar-a-Lago, where he has sat in on important meetings and calls.

Donald-Elon honeymoon over? Maybe ugly politics repel each other, like same charge particles in physics. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Ponte de la Panada on the way to San Giovanni e Paolo.