Only if we assume they can’t be ressurected

No sure what type, but I think it’s definitely a plant / gras. (Photo was taken in New York in October)

It’s from the first floor of the museum on Ellis Island

Obligatory mention of the novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild’s_Ladder](Schild’s Ladder) by Greg Egan.

Such a scenario would be interesting indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide

for the less-scientific-but-still-want-the-correct-wikipedia-article among us

I think that’s only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

Yes! There’s Monkey Island 1–3, linked from the bottom of https://networkscience.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/game-dependency-graph-day-of-the-tentacle/

Everybody knows you can factorize out the sum in the denominator because it doesn’t depend on j (It’s just a normalization factor)

Thanks!

It’s when going up the Sky 100 Observation Deck in Hong Kong

The Longest Journey

Thanks for the recommendation! I have a long list of games I want to play make graphs from, and I just checked and that game already on it. So one day, it should come

Cheers!

Why is the first picture a Paphiopedilum? (It’s an orchid)

Yes

The photograph is taken looking up in a room. There are thousands of cables hanging down from the ceiling to the floor, with LEDs attached at regular intervals. The room has mirrors on the walls, on the ceiling and on the floor, so in whatever direction you look you see this. The whole this is programmed to shown different colors changing over time, combined with music and sounds. You can go through the room through a predefined path where the cables are shorter and don’t reach the floor, allowing you to walk under them. It gives the illusion that you’re in the middle of some infinite arrangement of lights, going on in all directions, sometimes moving, sometimes rotating, or just pulsating with the music. The room is part of a wider art installation called “teamLab SuperNature”, in Macau, and it is quite a unique experience.

The view is nice, but I think if I lived there I’d go once and then not again because it’s expensive

I guess that (1) there are enough other roots in the ground, and (2) the root in the air may be able to extract humidity the air, and also water directly when it rains. Not sure what species this is but in some trees roots also have the function to help with stability, like extra stems.