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By FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE, FQXI • Jan. 18, 2023 @ 04:28 GMT
A number of reports have appeared recently that raise important questions about the integrity and values of philanthropic bodies and academic institutes, and their leadership.
The Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi, has a zero-tolerance policy for antisemitism, racism, misogyny, ableism, and other forms of oppression and hostility based on race, religion, caste, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
We at FQXi, would like to reiterate that we are committed to making science, in general, and the Institute, in particular, more equitable. Science is diverse, and so are scientists. There can be no doubt that scientific insight is not confined to one group of people but distributed across the whole of humanity.
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Testing Time -- FQxI Podcast by Fabrizio Piacentini and Laura Knoll
By ZEEYA MERALI • Jan. 8, 2023 @ 18:20 GMT
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Is Gravity Quantum? Deflecting Asteroids and Two Nuclear Fusion Breakthroughs -- FQxI Podcast by Zeeya Merali and Ian Durham
By ZEEYA MERALI • Jan. 8, 2023 @ 18:10 GMT
FQxI's Year in Physics Review concludes with part 3, as quantum physicist Ian Durham and Zeeya Merali reveal the number one physics advance of the 2022. Including an experiment demonstrating a weird quantum influence gravitational fields, NASA's DART mission to deflect asteroids and two major fusion results from the National Ignition Facility and First Light Fusion.
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Space Telescopes, Charming Particles and Solving a Superconductivity Mystery -- FQxI Podcast by Zeeya Merali and Ian Durham
By ZEEYA MERALI • Jan. 8, 2023 @ 18:06 GMT
FQxI's Year in Physics Review continues with part 2, as quantum physicist Ian Durham and Zeeya Merali discuss the James Webb Space Telescope's groundbreaking astronomy images, quantum weather, how protons can contain charm quarks that are heavier than the protons themselves and the discovery of the tetraneutron. And solving a 35 year old puzzle about the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.
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