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An anecdote that I shared about rolling around on the floor back in 2000 to solve a math problem, both in my at https://www.masterclass.com/classes/terence-tao-teaches-mathematical-thinking/chapters/transforming-problems , and on at https://mathoverflow.net/a/38882/766 , as well as the https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html , has for some reason recently gone viral on various social media. Just for the record, I wanted to add some mathematical background behind the story, which eventually led to my paper https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010068 . At the time, I was trying to construct solutions to an equation known as the wave maps equation on the sphere: the solution was like a solution to the wave equation, except being forced to take values in a sphere rather than in a vector space.

I was trying to solve the equation iteratively, breaking up the solution to a low frequency base solution and a high frequency correction. …

"Thousands of years ago, 80 percent of Ireland was forested. Trees now cover just 11 percent of the country, one of the lowest rates in Europe, and are predominately nonnative Sitka spruce. Native trees cover just 1 percent of the land." Good article in the about in Ireland. Particularly love that the guy is a sculptor. Gift link to bypass the paywall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/climate/ireland-ecological-desert-rewilding.html?ogrp=ctr&unlocked_article_code=1.TE4.qe3R.EAgMG1pUBYSF&smid=url-share




That Israeli sniper are shooting Palestinan children very precisely in the head and chest
is documented by medics in many times
but still some people claim that this digitally altered or created material which was only produced to incite antisemitic hatred.

not only presents several witness accounts but also a statement by the who was forced to defend itself against accusations of fake news.

5:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_LdCJdYwOI