Categoría: Blog
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The physics of Interstellar: Miller’s Planet
Today I am going to try to explain some of the cool stuff you can see during Interstellar on Miller’s Planet (yes, the one with the giant waves) without using any equation. Let’s see if I can manage to make it easy to follow. When the Endurance crew goes through the wormhole, the first plane…
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A rotten Apple, FPGAs, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#49)
One less week to end the year and, as always, it seems that these last weeks before holidays get more and more packed. So much stuff to do and so little time… anyway, on the brief periods of calm, I’ve been reading a lot of cool stuff. Let’s start: Rotten Apple? A couple of weeks…
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The great CEO exodus, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#48)
Already in December! The year almost finished without really noticing. Holidays are getting closer and closer (crossing fingers for the new Covid variant…). Lots of cool stuff this week: more crypto nonsense, interesting moves on Twitter, math curiosities and an impressive example of facial animation. Let’s start. Goodbye and thanks for all the fish This…
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Crypto nonsense, x-ray time-lapses, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#47)
Pretty busy week (this post was not published at its common time, in fact), but some cool links to share. Christmas is coming! Hats hats hats vs NFTs and crypto Companies love money, and videogames industry is particularly greedy. They were one of the first industries to switch to digital (probably we are in the…
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Blah, blah, blah; Bezosism moves, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#46)
Super interesting news this week. The Climate Change Conference ended and it kinda sucked (as expected). Amazon keeps screwing around (as expected). The metaverse is coming, and its start is not really impressive (as expected). On the bright side, a couple really cool articles on eyeglasses and the press. Let’s start: The invisible tech Good…
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The Unity of the ring, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#45)
Super nice week where the only screen I used was the one protecting me from the sun. Ran a half-marathon using summer clothes, ate paella and empanadillas de pisto, saw family and friends. I read a couple books and saw some movies, too. I call it a win. Just a couple links that I could…
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Mistborn videogame? Asimov’s genius, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#44)
Writing this from the airport, on my way back home to spend a few days with the gang! Busy week, but with cool stuff to share. Let’s start: October’s best science images from Nature Another month, another astonishing compilation of science-related pictures. While I have been following the news from La Palma, I did not…
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Human history, the metaverse, and more: THE WEEKLY RECAP (2021#43)
Autumn is here (gonna miss the sun for a while now…), but there is a lot of interesting stuff to read while indoors. Let’s start: How did we get stuck? Really nice review about an upcoming book written by David Graeber and David Wengrow, about how societies came to be the way they are now.…