Adam Frank
Take five minutes of your day, watch this amazing video of the birth of a new island in Tonga, and let its story and science knock you to the floor, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.
The present moment is made of a lot of pasts — and just as Scrooge’s ghosts were really messengers of hope, the deepest truths of science and the infinite night are here for us, too, says Adam Frank.
New research using network science shows that shifting individual behavior in small ways could influence economic equality, says blogger Adam Frank.
In statistics, a frequentist interpretation looks only at the simple probability. But Bayes’ Theorem works with conditional information rather than just looking at a positive result, says Adam Frank.
Science shouldn’t be pinned to a political view; the whole point is that evidence should win over everything, regardless of the opinions you walked in the door with, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.
Every culturally imposed time-logic is an invention, it’s something we made up — and we lie to ourselves if we think we can get more out of time, says commentator Adam Frank.
It’s easy to make claims that the truths of different fields live in a shared space — but backing up those claims with new research and insights will take new research and insight, says Adam Frank.
We are part of something much larger than ourselves, and our ideas about ourselves, says astrophysicist Adam Frank. And how can we be sure? Because, without doubt, it is raining all over the universe.
What makes the Kavli HUMAN Project, which will follow 10,000 people over 20 years, so exciting is that it’s exactly the kind of approach that can show us if Big Data really works, says Adam Frank.
The organized denial of climate change science opened the doors to a very public retreat from the principle that a shared public reality could be the basis for our political debates, says Adam Frank.
