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Simulating climate, air pollution, and nitrogen
Modeling in climate science is a complicated topic. These models have to do very difficult tasks - modeling climate, and are expected to inform future directions of climate change, air pollution, nitrogen deposition, and other questions that have huge consequences. The only way to deal with systems this complex is
Does using red light for reducing wrinkles work?
I was watching a Mrwhosetheboss Youtube video in which he showed off some Korean tech, including a red-light scalp massager. While watching I was getting a bit annoyed, as he pretty much just parroted the sales pitch of the red-light craze. It goes a little like this: shining certain wavelengths
State space in games
How do bacteria know which way the food is?
For E. coli, the trick is chemosensing: it swims in straight runs, occasionally tumbles around, and biases that run-tumble pattern so it slowly gets closer to a food source. It does this by trying to increase the amount of gradient it senses, ie. following the attractant gradient. There's