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Chet Raymo
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Chet Raymo writes Science Musings, a personal blog at sciencemusings.com about science and philosophy. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chet Raymo's blog as a source for science history: Edward Teller's worry that the first atomic test could ignite the atmosphere, and the search for a quotation on intelligence. Comments cite it without judging it.
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by Chet Raymo
What Hacker News says?
It might get brought up because before the first atomic bomb was detonated, one of the physicists who worked on it (Edward Teller) suggested the possibility that detonating the bomb would ignite Earth's atmosphere. There's a bit more information here: http://www.sciencemusings.com/2005/10/what-didnt-happen.html
Comment linking /2005/10/what-didnt-happen.html
on “The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Nuke”Eureka! I have found the quotation, in what must be a verifiable source. http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/2006/10/imagination-and-k... I'll have to find the magazine interview soon, to see it with my own eyes.
Comment linking /blog/2006/10/imagination-and-knowledge.html
on “What Is Intelligence, Anyway?”The timing of this post is great! Not only V Day is coming up but the primrose is one of the earliest blooming flowers, hence the name ( Primus since it's among to earliest flowers to apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primula_vulgaris ). Here's an interesting post about the of number of petals of the flower: the English (common) primrose has five, as mentioned by Donne but other members of the family have differe…
Comment linking /a-primrose-is-a-primrose-well-not-always/
on “John Donne's numbers (2010)”