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To stay up with the latest developments in Python (a popular programming language), I listen to the Python Bytes podcast. Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken do the work of capturing the latest important news about Python and summarize it in…
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A Series of Fortunate Events
Today I finished the audiobook of A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of this Planet, Life, and You by Sean B. Carroll. (Sean B. Carroll, a biologist, and Sean M. Carroll, a cosmologist, are two different people.)…
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Sean M. Carroll’s “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe”
I am taking a class called Cosmology 101 (I will describe this in a separate post). The instructor posted the link to one of the videos in Sean Carroll’s “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe” series on YouTube. The series…
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Henrietta Leavitt: “Overlooked No More”
On March 27, 2024, the New York Times published an obituary for Henrietta Leavitt, the discoverer of the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars. Using this relation, astronomers were able to discover that the universe was much bigger than originally…