Can someone tell me what ideas of Wolfram have had an impact on mathematics & physics as a discipline? Every time I read his posts, without understanding them deeply, his accomplishments seem insane, to the point that I would expect everyone to talk about them - yet I have never heard anyone other than himself talk about them.

I don't recall ever reading anyone else who considered themselves a part of the giant nexus we call science and managed to place themselves always at the center of just about every story they had to tell.

The level of "I-ness" in Wolfram's writing is really an incredible outlier, at least in my experience of science writing (academic and popular).

Within the sea glass collecting subculture there is split between those who believe in seeding and those against.

Most sea glass is quite old, 60+ years, from a time when rubbish was thrown in the sea, so it's running out.

Seeding new glass would be needed to keep the hobby alive.

It's quite the 'what it sea glass' dilemma. (It also risks contaminating history for the sub-sub culture, historic collectors)

What to me is very wrong is some people seeding with fake sea glass, glass already rounded, or manufactured rounded.

To me there needs there to be a story behind sea glass seeding, like Banksy doing a (insert topical region) bottle dump, or something like that. Or an old cranky dude who lived locally but is now dead who'd throw them off this canoe.

It reminds me a little of Ann Clayborne in the Mars Trilogy, of course she'd be against all sea glass and probably beaches as we know them in general.

Also Wolfram, if you want to do something else useful please make you great website https://www.wolframalpha.com/ do napkin math, currently it's next to useless but it could be really great.