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Nature snapshots

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/nature-snapshots-6/

Published: September 18, 2024 22:24

Some quick breakfast reads from the 22 August issue of Nature, beyond the nice pun in the cover title (which reads like Lonely Planet at first glance!) capturing a rare blooming of plants in the drylands of the Judaean Desert in 2015, discussing the higher…

less bats, higher mortality

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/less-bats-higher-mortality/

Published: September 17, 2024 22:24

“…farmers compensated for bat decline by increasing their insecticide use by 31.1%. The compensatory increase in insecticide use by farmers adversely affected health—human infant mortality increased by 7.9% in the counties that experienced bat die-offs.”…

Nature snapshots

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/nature-snapshots-5/

Published: September 14, 2024 22:24

Some quick breakfast reads from the 15 August issue of Nature , the incredible discovery that the massive slabs of Stonehenge were transported from Scotland, 800km North. Reuniting with the Round Table legend that Merlin brought them from Ireland. (Through…

celebrating Ivar Ekeland⁸⁰ (24-25 Sept)

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/14/celebrating-ivar-ekeland-24-25-sept/

Published: September 13, 2024 22:24

Next week, our lab (CEREMADE) is celebrating the 80th birthday of our friend and colleague Ivar Ekeland with two days of talks and chats. (Registration is free.) Ivar is a leading figure in nonlinear functional analysis, calculus of variations, and…

The Guardian on [and on and on] Grothendieck

https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/the-guardian-on-and-on-and-on-grothendieck/

Published: September 10, 2024 22:24

A very looong piece in The Guardian of 31 August relates the life and achievements of Grothendieck in a highly romanticized way, hinting at hidden secrets contained in the tens of thousands of pages he wrote during his 26 years of retirement in Lasserre,…