Natalie Wolchover
@nattyover · New York, New York · joined 19 May 2010
Columnist @QuantaMagazine and @NYTScience. Curiosity, kindness, integrity.
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As someone correctly pointed out below, it’s actually “einstein” tile, lowercase. It means “one stone” in German and is not a reference to a certain physicist.
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@nattyover @kkakaes sentences never heard before 2026 "Mathematicians have de-slopped the proof"
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Breaking math news: The first-ever 3D Einstein tile, an object that tiles space in a never-repeating pattern, has been found by independent researcher Ioannis Tsiokos using GPT Astra. Resembles a chair. Mathematicians have de-slopped the proof. @kkakaes: https://t.co/KOMjtwluoH h
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@nattyover @NASA Perhaps more simply, all things seek equilibrium within the same foundational mechanics Natalie, that of covariant continuity.
Manifest as a path of least resistance according to the boundary conditions of the environment, it finds itself within.
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Sing, Muse, about that wily wanderer,
<mic drop>
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Yes, I need a sweatshop full of Natalies doing my bidding
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@nattyover @NASA if a horizontal stream drains a square, it's len would be 0.5 power of area.
but i suspect a stream could be a LOT more squiggly than 0.6 power of area.
this would mean feeder streams drain.. squares their length how would that all fit together? and every dra
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From the littlest brook to the mightiest river, a stream's length is proportional to the area of land that drains into it raised to the power 0.6. That's the familiar pattern of all river networks. Why? The explanation is quite beautiful: https://t.co/lXst46SaZH https://t.co/FLWW
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@AlexKontorovich We need many more Natalies @nattyover
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New, by me, digging into why the shapes of river networks follow universal laws: https://t.co/lXst46SaZH
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Just tracked down the source of this gif: structural biologist @prash_singh of Vanderbilt University. Should have done that initially. Thanks for making this, Prash.
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@nattyover A little science estranges man from God, but much science leads them back to Him
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Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️
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What's especially cool is that the flagellar motor exploits the indivisibility of 5 by 2 to run on a fuel of rising entropy as protons diffuse into cells. For me as a physics and math person, this is biology at its best. https://t.co/TBAP5H3vR3
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@nattyover Very exciting, Natalie! Congratulations! And can't wait to see the masterpiece you'll produce! #no_pressure
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@nattyover Good luck - look forward to reading that!
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📕Some personal news!📕
This will be my first book, an attempt to weave together the ideas and controversies of fundamental physics into a coherent narrative. Wish me luck! https://t.co/WUpaOjlLnA
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11 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.
Vues médianes2 363ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K
Portée, %5.03%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.71%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K
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| Vues médianes par post | 2 363 | 924 | 2.56× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 5.03% | 3.62% | 1.39× |
| Taux d'engagement | 1.71% | 1.52% | 1.13× |
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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
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Reposts8.0%5 302 in total
Replies1.3%873 in total
Quotes1.4%917 in total
Bookmarks22.3%14 670 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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