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What physics can teach us about Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls

Physicists from Argentina and Spain have studied the pedestrian dynamics at the annual running of the particular bulls in Pamplona. In his first and arguably most famous novel, The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway wrote tersely but lovingly about the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, during the seven-day Festival of San […]

2021 iPad mini suffers from uneven “jelly scrolling” in portrait mode

Enlarge / The 6th-generation iPad mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Apple’s newest iPad mini was released to the general public on Friday, and over the weekend, users began to complain about a subtle scrolling problem when using the tablet in portrait mode ( MacRumors has a good round-up post ). The tablet appears to refresh the […]

Trump tries to claw back billions from COVID vaccine distributor

Enlarge / A picture taken on January 15, 2021, shows a pharmacist holding with gloved hands a vial of the undiluted Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. (credit: Getty | JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) With mere days left in office, President Donald Trump has proposed $27.4 billion in brutal budget cuts—including clawing back 5.1 billion from global public health […]