"Leon N. Cooper, 94, Who Unlocked Secrets of Superconductivity, Dies"--NYT, 10/27/24
"He surmised that electrons attract positive ions in the lattices of the atoms that make up certain metals.That creates a charge imbalance in the lattices, making one side of them slightly more positive. In superconductivity, that is enough to attract other electrons flowing through the metals towards the lattices."
"At Brown he became interested I neuroscience..."
"Their theory was that as synapses approach saturated levels of activity, the electrical signals that were driving them would become less effective and the synaptic connections would revert to less saturated levels. The connections would thus oscillate between being saturated and unsaturated, like a skier gliding between two fences but never hitting either."
"Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Is Dead at 84"--NYT, 10/27/24
"In his autobiography, Mr. Lesh compared the Grateful Dead's music to life itself. 'Both,' he said, 'were a series of recurring themes, transpositions, repetitions, unexpected developments, all converging to define form that is not necessarily apparent until its ending has come and gone.'"
read "Why Big German Words Like Vergangenbangenheit Carry Weight" by Francis Levy, HuffPost
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