Interesting Links for 01-08-2025

[andrewducker]

1. The real reason why modern media is making us dumber

(tags:media funny aliens comic )

2. Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality

(tags:quantum polls viaPatrickHadfield )

3. A cozy farming game set in The Shire? That's not a license to print money at all!

(tags:games farming lotr )

4. Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20,000 homes come on the market

(tags:housing economics )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Thank you! The list of interpretations is just funny. Every interpretation still relies on Newton's analysis, not on algebra.

[calimac]

2) The footnote - "In practice, it would be extremely hard to isolate the quantum state of a cat-sized object from that of its noisy environment; its state would have been resolved as alive or dead before measurement" - makes nonsense of the entire dilemma.

[threemeninaboat]

4) There are homes for sale in my neighborhood, which is rare. Most of these homes are now occupied by the 4th generation; as they are large enough to hold 4 generations of a family in each home.