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When Water Isn’t Really Water

By Lew Ludwig The hamburger graph has become my unexpected companion this summer. It first appeared in a workshop I was co-facilitating, comparing the water usage of AI prompts to beef production. Then it surfaced again a few weeks later - and that's when I realized we weren't really arguing about water at all. The first...

Where do our numbers come from?

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social The numbers we use every day are so familiar, and so much a part of life, it’s easy to forget that they are a recent invention, having been introduced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sure, humanity has had some form of numbers for at least ten thousand years, and...
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