Image: Robin, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
I almost had an existential crisis thinking about this tweet!
4 year old: is money real or pretend?
Me: *clears throat* *takes sip of water* *arranges notes on podium*— Emily Adrian (@adremily) March 5, 2021
Image: NASA
The NASA Sound of Mars website simulates how a range of sound clips sound on Mars versus on Earth. The differences in atmosphere and temperature mean sounds are attenuated, lower in volume, and slower.
Image: Natrium
Nuclear reactor company Natrium, which is backed by Bill Gates' Terrapower, has received a US$80m Department of Energy grant to build a demonstration reactor by the mid 2020s. The 345MWe reactor can power 225,000 homes and uses molten salt as an energy storage and transfer system, which is safer than pressurised water and removes the need for a large amount of concrete shielding. This storage system offers a capacity much larger than any grid scale batteries which means any surge demand caused by a dip in renewable sources can be marshalled by scaling the reactor up to 500MWe for 5.5 hours using the molten salt storage. Additionally, the underground nuclear reactor is power by High-Assay, Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU), which can produced by processing the nuclear waste of traditional uclear power plants.
Image: ThatComputerScientist.com
That Computer Scientist published a post that does a great job at explaining Big O Notation as easily as possible - "Big O Notation is a mathematical notation used to classify algorithms according to how their run time or space requirements grow as the input size grows."
Image: Ashley Blewer
For fans of the great TV show Halt and Catch Fire, technologist Ashley Blewer created a great course syllabus for the show. The site is split into 15 classes that link to important RFCs, articles, books, and other resources in the history of computer science and the IT industry that inspire the events of the show.
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This recent episode of NPR Shortwave is mind-blowing. As it turns out, the sperm race story of contraception that we all learn in school is not what happens in reality, and is littered with mysogonistic bias. The Shortwave team do a great job in this episode describing how the biological process actually works.
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