I've got no love for NPR, but as a result of the comments here I've had to do some self-reflection, and keep coming back to that saying about a table with ten people and that story about the bartender who kicked a dude out.

@dang please ban this account.

Huh, I wonder if climatologists might have based their analyses on more than just this single time series. No way of knowing.

You've never donated to your local npr/pbs station?

He's been dead for 104 years, where's the piracy?

Do they not teach the concept of linear time anymore?

> If published someone like Terrence Tao could write formal proofs for them like he and his team did some improvements for the work by Yitang Zhang.

From the second paragraph:

> George Andrews and Bruce C. Berndt (2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2018) have published several books in which they give proofs for Ramanujan's formulas included in the notebook

> There are too many high-level botanical terms here, I can't understand anything.

That's easily fixable, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsAFpSXj7Y

I'm not really sure there's a singular "now" that encompasses both here and there.

I don't see that this is relevant. Relativistically we are all in similar reference frames. And objectively, it is true that explosions within some sphere of earth will happen with some probability and take a fair bit of time to get here.

> ...vertebrate...Before machine-mediated transportation— trains, planes, boats and cars—individuals were likely to be exposed to the majority of pathogens in their local geography by the time of reproductive age

This hypothesis would be testable by looking at migrating animals, such as gray whales or arctic terns.