Habermas worked extensively on the conditions under which open discourse can establish truths (including moral truths).

Discourse Ethics, communicative rationality, and hierarchyless discourse, are key terms. From this analysis the outcome of the internet is maybe not so surprising.

This month, CTCS (IIT Madras) & PIK present a webinar:
📢: Dynamics of modern power grids - A complex systems perspective
🎙️: Dr. Frank Hellman @various.complexities.eu, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, Germany
📅: September 29 |⏰19:30 IST | 16:00 CEST,
🔗: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#ComplexSystems #phd

Our new article in Chaos. One of my favorite articles so far. Connecting different disciplines and building on recent breakthroughs in ancient fields (Linear Algebra!).

link.growkudos.com/1ebwrn9qkn4

doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

As the hydrogen bubble deflates, what are the alternatives? We present a "minimal methanol economy": using methanol as a gap-filler for the few sectors electrification can't reach.

New working paper together with Philipp Glaum, @fneum.bsky.social, @millinger.bsky.social:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.09277

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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