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Yeah, I've been trying to figure out what the problem is with this. Why not have a map of the internet?

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Nearby, on Madison Square Park, is the National Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath, an educational center he helped finance. It opened in 2012 and has had a quarter million visitors.

Amazing, 250k visitors to a math museum? Who knew?

Simons Foundation - MoMath

There was a story yesterday about life being the best way matter found for thermodynamics second law. Humain activity this is an improvement over general life: we burn as much energy as we can. And now a jet fuel, which obviously cost more to produce than conventional fuel.

Preserving environment was not easy, and now we have thermodynaics second law against us.

Although there has long been a connection between math and physics, as people dig further into the math they are finding some unexpected things, and ways to better understand, simplify, or extend the equations.

Mathematicians Link Knot Theory to Physics
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics

There are a number of seemingly promising developments out there that are sharpening the investigative tools as well as providing interesting new lines of investigation, as well as new data to chew on.

Spooky Connection: Wormholes and the Quantum World
Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time
Schrodinger’s ‘Kitten’? Large-Scale Quantum Entanglement Achieved By Two Physics Labs

String theorists squeeze nine dimensions into three
New work gives credence to theory of universe as a hologram

Now we are developing a growing understanding of the interplay between biology and physics.

Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

Who knows where things may lead next? Of course people should be careful in performing experiments.

Collapse of the universe is closer than ever before

This is actually the second bit of recent news that supports the same notion. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/ is the other. Neither time or location are important to the math, which is a shocking result.

Cmoon If you say smething like: "On a hunch, Candes applied an algorithm designed to clean up fuzzy images, expecting to see a slight improvement. .. What appeared on his computer screen instead was a perfectly rendered image...", your readers (at least me) expect to see this image and to hear about hunch-algorithm. Anyway, here (many clicks later) is original article - https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131004-the-mathematical-shape-of-things-to-come/ (but still no pics)

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130318-treading-softly-in-a-connected-world/