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Simple equation predicts the shapes of carbon-capturing wetlands
- dukeofdoom 2y agoEveryone should kayak in a wetland at least once in their life. It's like going to another world...can recommend.
- datameta 2y agoI'm not sure if you're referring to peat bogs, which is a more apt term for the title. I do however agree, northeastern marshlands are an interesting place of biodiversity - I'd like to visit the Everglades some day.
- CapitalistCartr 2y agoThe Everglades are not pleasant. Vast swarms of mosquitoes decend on any people like a black cloud. They're a vast, flat grassland (about 75 miles across and more N-S) full of gators, snakes (including rattlers, water moccasins, cotton mouths, boas, anacondas), gators, Florida panthers, gators, bears, gators. And did I mention crawling with gators?
- zeckalpha 2y agoA Poisson!
- jey 2y agoSo what's the equation? Surprised they didn't share it given that it's "simple". The paper seems to be paywalled without any preprints online that I could find easily[1]. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=4150170998262626368&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=41501709982626263...
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoI really don't get who Quanta's audience is. They write all these articles about, like, recent technical advances in mathematical research, but for an audience that apparently can't ever be forced to look at, God forbid, an equation.
- magicalhippo 2y agoI read a lot of Scientific American when I was a young teenager. Really loved science, but wouldn't have had enough of a background to understand differential equations and such. So I've always imagined a similar target audience for Quanta. People who like science but lack any strong math background. Might be a plumber, might be a teenager.
- graycat 2y ago(1) For the audience, yup, uh, curiosity is a likely ingredient. (2) For the purpose, think of the real cause, James Simons and his background, e.g., in May 10, 2024, Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons, By Thomas Sumner at https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/remembering-the-life-and-careers-of-jim-simons/ https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/remembering-the-... So, yup, there is Quanta, but more advanced there is the Web site of that article. For more, there is, as I recall, what he has done with the old NYC Flatiron building. Then there are other science/math promotion efforts. (3) For the article mentioned in the OP, uh, just say that it is "unusual" for Quanta. One aspect to like: There's a lot of junk in society and on the Internet, but Quanta is not part of it.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoIt’s for people who are interested in science but aren't formally educated in that field. For the people who are trained in that field, they might read the actual primary papers or review articles with 150 sources, and scoff at all the gell-mann amnesia they see daily in the popular press.
- gumby 2y agoWetlands are also huge sources of methane (from mathenogen bacteria).
- MrDresden 2y agoHere in Iceland one of the main actions taken to fight climate change is the re-introduction of swamps, bogs and marshes in areas that have previously been drained for agriculture. It is a very slow process, and will take decades as farmers need to be bought out of their business before the land is flooded again.