By Heidi Harley

science / science - 3 weeks ago

Uruguay, pioneer in renewable energy: a model for the world?

This is a& re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Johani Carolina Ponce Tacuarembó, Uruguay. (Image credit: Getty Images) [Haz clic aquí para& leer en español] It has a population of just under 3.5 million inhabitants, produces nearly& 550,000 tons& of beef per year, and boa...

science / science - 3 weeks ago

Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost

You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to biomedical imaging....