Robert Low

Do you know ?? Ashoke Sen, the renowned String Theorist of India who produced Sen Conjecture & S-Duality is a student of Amal Raychaudhuri !! Raychaudhuri produced the Raychaudhuri equation. The Raychaudhuri Equation is often taught as a GR tool. But that’s like calling calculus “a physics trick.” Because Raychaudhuri’s equation is deeper than gravity: it’s a geometric statement about congruences and flows.

With this short Old English textbook, the pedagogical pioneer Henry Sweet attempted to instill in students an "unconscious and instinctive" knowledge of the language by exposing students to easy reading of authentic sources.

I've got a whole collection of 'non-psychopathic' leftist quotes right here.

incredible video by the national gallery of art

There are many great AI researchers at universities, but they pay a VERY steep price to be able to stay in academia and publish openly: “The top 1% of publishing industry scientists now earn $1.5 million more annually than comparable academics, a fivefold increase since 2001”

Of recent discoveries: If you are in London, I very much recommend checking this bookshop (near Tufnell Park). It specialises on classics and has a very nice collection of Greek & Roman literature I've been diving into Gibbon's footnotes and this place is an absolute treasure

For every bit of publicly-visible turbo-quackery that's enabled by AI, I imagine there's 1,000x as much happening out of sight