Antarctic weirdness, simulating nukes, talking to authors, why bees are so smart…

• 1 – Antarctica’s Underground Sphere-Cathedral
  “Rather than sewage bulbs, however, why not use the same technique to melt spherical chambers of a new, inverted cathedral one thousand feet below the Antarctic surface…?” This guy is some sort of random genius.
  (tags: riff cathedral ice bulbs sewage South Pole station research sciene Antarctica)
• 2 – Nice Work Retrieving That Magic Sword… But Now You Need To Pay Uncle Sam For It
  “Note that the politicians aren’t talking about virtual items in the game that have been converted to real dollars or other assets [...] Instead, they’re looking at actually taxing the items within the game based on the perceived value of those assets.”
  (tags: gaming assets government taxation legal MMORPG worlds synthetic metaverse)
• 3 – Hopes for lunar ice melt away
  “Moonbase planners hoping they might get oxygen and fuel as well as water from ice near the lunar poles have seen the idea melt away over the past two weeks.”
  (tags: disappointment ice polar base Lunar moon space)
• 4 – New Challenges to Our [...] Beliefs About Self and the Human Spirit
  “Consciousness is the defining feature of the human species. But is it possible that it is also no more than an extravagant biological add-on, something not really essential to our survival?” Long article; will probably take half an hour to read.
  (tags: neuroscience belief soul nature human spirit philosophy religion debate culture consciousness)
• 5 – Supercomputers Can’t Mimic Nuke Blast
  “So why should any nation test-blast weapons anymore if supersimulators can do the job? Because, nuclear experts say, it has turned out to be tougher than most people thought to mimic the ‘real thing.’” Very weird concepts in here.
  (tags: technology proliferation complexity detonation explosion nuclear simulation supercomputer)
• 6 – Bubbles never forget
  “Their study revealed that the initial conditions of bubble formation can affect the dynamics of the singularity that occurs when a bubble pinches off a nozzle.” This means that black holes may ‘remember’ their formation states.
  (tags: dynamics formation hole black singularity physics memory bubbles science)
• 7 – Fossilized Liquid Assembly: Nanomaterials Research Tool
  “Borrowing a page from nature’s playbook, researchers … have developed a novel platform for the self-assembly of experimental hierarchical surfaces in a fluid.” Heavy science, but interesting nonetheless.
  (tags: materials science self-arranging nanotech research nanomaterials assembly liquid fossilized)
• 8 – How to talk to authors
  “Never tell us that you don

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