Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, December 17, 2021
Giant Arc of Galaxies Puts Basic Cosmology Under Scrutiny
The cosmological principle — the idea that cosmos is the same everywhere and in all directions — is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.
Oxford Mathematician Advances Century-Old Combinatorics Problem
By ERICA KLARREICH
A new paper shows how to create longer disordered strings than mathematicians had thought possible, proving that a well-known recent conjecture is "spectacularly wrong."
Language models can generate uncannily humanlike prose (and poetry!) and seemingly perform sophisticated linguistic reasoning. How can we test if these machines actually understand what they're doing?
When a Gene Illness Discovery Means Breaking Bad News
By RACHEL CROWELL
When scientists discover genes linked to dangerous illnesses in their samples, how should they convey that news to the study participants? The geneticist Cristen Willer had to tackle that challenge.
Rebalancing Ocean Carbon Removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere is critical to fighting climate change. Equally important is its removal from our oceans, as Scott K. Johnson reports for Ars Technica. One key to removing CO2 from the ocean is fighting ocean acidification. In 2019, Christie Wilcox wrote for Quanta about how dead creatures on the sea floor can help maintain a healthy pH.
Be Chill but Don't Freeze Researchers managed to keep water in its liquid form down to -47.2 degrees Fahrenheit, Ashley Hamer reports for Live Science. Water's phase diagram is vastly more complicated than textbooks usually describe. Not only can it be a frigid liquid, but it can also be a sweltering solid. In 2019, Joshua Sokol wrote for Quanta about "superionic ice," water ice with a temperature of thousands of degrees.
