Micro Softy 72: Necklace Cutting
A golden puzzle in daily payments and clever cuts.Sally tells her landlord she will give him one gold bead every day during the 30-day month.
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News From the Search for Extraterrestrial Life 12
Some stars seem to be defying the known laws of physics; others are found to produce specific rare elements when they collideIn our universe: Researchers are finding more evidence that colliding neutron stars forge not only gold but strontium, lanthanum, and cerium. They expect to discover more rare elements in the debris as well. (Universe Today, October 29, 2022) At this rate, we won’t run out. 😉 The paper is open access. When neutron stars collide: Speaking of stars, some seem to be defying the known laws of physics: “An international team of astrophysicists has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing certain star clusters. The finding challenges Newton’s laws of gravity, the researchers write in their publication. Instead, the observations are consistent with the predictions of an alternative theory of gravity. However, this is controversial among experts. The results have now Read More ›
Is There a Gold Mine in Electronic Waste?
Yes, and it is much bigger than most of us realizeRecovering more precious metals from our departed electronics would help both economic growth and sustainable development at once.
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Could Huge Chunks of Asteroid Gold Wreck Our Economy?
16 Psyche’s gold illustrates how AI affects jobs. Not the way many think…“By lowering the price of gold, it would create new, currently nonexistent, markets for other uses of gold,” says Jay Richards. In the same way, AI creates new, currently nonexistent, markets for human time and creativity.
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