Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

Nov. 30, 2023 — David Tench, the 2023 Grace Hopper postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), describes discovering his fellowship opportunity as a “Goldilocks moment ...

A tweet directed me to an interesting article on world population. The author, Jonathan Good, asks the percentage of people who have ever lived that are alive today and then estimates the answer. The ...

Noam Chomsky, the outspoken and prolific linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher and social critic, is the subject of the first public Knowledge Graph, a compendium of Chomsky’s scholarly and other ...

Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. today launched Infinigraph, calling it a significant advancement in distributed graph technology. The company said the architecture allows users to run both operational ...