Edward Lorenz was staring at the new sets of output data that were streaming on his computer screen. They were totally different from what he had seen a few minutes before he went to get his coffee. The variance was now increasing with every new line of output. As the assistant professor at MIT’s meteorologyContinue reading “The Butterfly Chaos”
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Slaying the Speckled Monster
Ramesses V was a boring Pharaoh. But the skin lesions found on his mummified face made him famous : the first known case of smallpox death in 1145 BC. The ‘speckled monster’ killed humanity for centuries. Inoculation was the earliest treatment. Fresh matter from a smallpox patient was grafted into another. But it lead toContinue reading “Slaying the Speckled Monster”
The Current Wars
‘There is $50,000 for you, if you can do it’. Edison told Tesla. He hired him in 1884 to redesign his DC generator and make it efficient. Tesla cracked it but Edison just paid him $10 extra on his $18 weekly pay. Tesla was enraged. He quit working for Edison and found an ally inContinue reading “The Current Wars”
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