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, February 25, 2022
Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy
Even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.
Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices
By MORDECHAI RORVIG
For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.
Extinction in Springtime Isotope analysis of fish fossils from North Dakota suggests that the meteor strike that caused the dinosaur extinction occurred in the springtime, Kenneth Chang reports for The New York Times. This is a new piece in the puzzle of dinosaur extinction, which has only recently started coming together. In 2020 the paleontologist Pincelli Hull found conclusive evidence that the extinction was caused by an asteroid impact rather than volcanism. Joshua Sokol interviewed her for Quanta.
Volcanic Skies on Saturn On Saturn, auroras are fueled by cryovolcanos on its moon Enceladus that spew plasma into the atmosphere. Robin George Andrews writes for WIRED about this new discovery. Last year, he wrote for Quanta about how auroras were finally identified as the solution to a 50-year-old mystery: Why are Saturn and Jupiter hot despite being so far from the sun?
