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  • 24
    Jan

    2023

    Computational Design of Engineering Materials

    A revolution has been underway for several decades, transforming materials engineering from costly and time-consuming process of trial-and-error experimental “materials by discovery” to “intelligent...

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  • 18
    Jan

    2023

    Brave New World: Political Philosophy and AI

    “I know a person when I talk to it.” With these words Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines in June 2022, thinking that a Google chatbot had become sentient. Google did not appreciate these...

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  • 6
    Jan

    2023

    Black Holes and Galaxies

    More than a century after Einstein formulated General Relativity (GR), black holes are firmly established as one of its most striking and inescapable consequences. This realisation itself arrived only...

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  • 2
    Nov

    2022

    Relativity applications in radiation and plasma...

    Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity using “thought experiments’’ to illustrate the consequences of a constant speed of light.  Many measurements have validated Einstein’s...

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  • 4
    Jul

    2022

    What are Effective Field Theories?

    The quantum world is governed by a large number of different energy or length scales, as clearly seen in the hydrogen atom, where an essentially point like electron is bound to a proton. The proton size...

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  • 29
    Mar

    2022

    An introduction to “Big Data and the Welfare...

    A central function of the state is to provide insurance against the vagaries of life and markets, such as accidents, ill health, old age, or unemployment. Collectively, these mandatory risk pooling arrangements...

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  • 28
    Mar

    2022

    I Want to Save the World!

    My co-authors and I were having our first meeting with Sara Epperson, Yale’s Director of Digital Education, to discuss our proposal to record a Coursera online class based on our then-upcoming textbook...

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  • 11
    Nov

    2021

    How reliable is wind energy?

    Using wind energy to generate electricity has been a big topic in the climate change discussion for many years. But can we rely on renewables like wind to take up the slack as we begin to phase out...

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