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Already suggested you put together a thread on these things. Hit it. (Don't you already have a mile-long list + who where when + means motive opportun...
February 12, 2025 at 04:35
Is all the yelling here due to thinking that DEI efforts are against choosing on merit? That wasn't my impression, rather the opposite, it's intended ...
February 12, 2025 at 02:16
South Asia and West Africa seem at most risk at the moment Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events — Tom Matthews, Colin Raymond, Josh Foste...
February 10, 2025 at 06:11
A gentle intro (incl conservation) + a bit of history How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics — Shalma Wegsman · Quanta Magazine · Feb 7, 2025
February 09, 2025 at 18:06
Came across this (4 pages), some of which ring true today: “The Danger of American Fascism,” Henry Wallace (1944) Your mileage may vary. Some other sn...
February 09, 2025 at 07:20
Hilbert was ambitious New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth — Joseph Howlett · Quanta Magazine · Feb 3, 2025
February 09, 2025 at 05:45
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day — Charlie Giattino · Our World in Data · Feb 7, 2025 https://u...
February 09, 2025 at 05:22
:D How Bill Cassidy, a lifelong vaccination advocate, wound up voting for RFK Jr. as health secretary — Anne Flaherty, Will McDuffie, Cheyenne Haslett...
February 05, 2025 at 06:27
Rapid tech progress have allowed newer EVs to achieve comparable lifespans with other vehicles in the UK, even under more intensive use: The closing l...
February 04, 2025 at 04:35
P01135809 has managed (further) alienate a number of Americans, Canada, Greenland, Panama, Mexico, ... Way to go. I guess we'll see what comes of it.
February 03, 2025 at 00:34
January 31, 2025 at 18:24
Using AI for weather projection seems like an obvious exercise; that's what these folks are researching: On the Extrapolation of Generative Adversaria...
January 29, 2025 at 14:53
Swifter hydroclimate changes anticipated: Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth — Daniel L Swain, Andreas F Prein, John T Abatzoglou, et al · Nat...
January 29, 2025 at 05:26
@"Agree-to-Disagree", would you like renewable/sustainable/green energy efforts to succeed?
January 29, 2025 at 05:25
Is that the powerful windmill-industrial complex? No. Neither are all astronauts, yet the Earth still ain't flat.
January 25, 2025 at 19:32
Hmm , answering the question with a question instead? If you weren't called denier, what you call them? In absence of anything better, I'll go by the ...
January 25, 2025 at 02:42
, why do you consistently call others alarmists and scaremongers? Did "concerned" (heck, or "caring") go out of fashion? And unenlightened...? ? Aug 1...
January 24, 2025 at 05:09
, you know there's such a thing as redheads, yes? They have reddish hair. I don't know of any particular discrimination against them on that account, ...
January 24, 2025 at 03:25
:D "You know what I'm saying, right? You know what I'm saying." Don't know who the interviewer is, but they probably actually know. And Spain isn't "l...
January 23, 2025 at 18:37
:D That's hilarious /uploads/files/li/tjoh8fyij665pwl9.png
January 23, 2025 at 18:20
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January 23, 2025 at 06:49
, that's too bad. :/ By the way, we don't see this happening in otherwise comparable countries: Did Alex Smith Die at Age 26 Because He Couldn't Affor...
January 22, 2025 at 07:18
Should parents shield 3-5 year-olds? Early Exposure to Violent Media Linked to Teen Antisocial Behavior — Neuroscience News · Jan 20, 2025 Prospective...
January 22, 2025 at 03:51
, the US having turned into pre-industrial anarchy would be "objectively an unmitigated trainwreck" (yours is tweet-style exaggeration). But, sure, th...
January 21, 2025 at 23:18
:up: ? tweet; such magnificent exaggeration that "objectively" seems like a joke :) ... because screw the environment!
January 21, 2025 at 17:14
I admittedly can't be bothered to read those 174 pages myself: READ: Jack Smith's final report on Trump's Jan. 6 case — Avery Lotz · Axios · Jan 14, 2...
January 21, 2025 at 02:50
13 billionaires ... Billionaires and loyalists will provide Trump with muscle during his second term — Daniel Drache, Marc D Froese · York University ...
January 18, 2025 at 19:16
More saltwater... Climate-Induced Saltwater Intrusion in 2100: Recharge-Driven Severity, Sea Level-Driven Prevalence (study) — Adams, Reager, Buzzanga...
January 18, 2025 at 18:39
Challenging the Friedmann equation for modelling expansion? Not dark energy, but non-uniform expansion? Supernovae evidence for foundational change to...
January 17, 2025 at 04:51
Journalist Samuel Rachlin (at newspaper Berlingske) writes of "The Buffet of the Cannibals". The topic, or one topic at least, is whether or not the C...
January 17, 2025 at 03:49
A bit more fatigue after infection it seems: Incidence and Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Report from the Observational RECO...
January 15, 2025 at 07:17
Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months — Carl Gibson · AlterNet · Jan 8, 2024 The original Ryback article is payw...
January 15, 2025 at 05:12
:D This one is discouraging though, but perhaps not surprising
January 13, 2025 at 18:11
Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise (archive) — Frederik Joelving · Retraction Watch via Science/AAAS...
January 13, 2025 at 06:00
I guess this stuff wasn't mentioned explicitly in the thread, so I'll toss something in. Political philosophers envisioned the masses transcending cou...
January 13, 2025 at 05:00
Hmm... Is there an answer that does not admit questions (even in principle)? Other than "Unknown" perhaps? :chin: :zip: iep wikipedia fact-index
January 12, 2025 at 20:07
Moore using sign language before a deaf audience could emphasize the point. I'm not sure it's needed though. Denial of an extra-self world seems like ...
January 10, 2025 at 15:06
For a brief moment, this is what a photographer saw: /uploads/resized/files/jr/bip4miiqgy5pzolr.jpg But the recording is not the recorded.
January 09, 2025 at 04:06
Weird Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud — Angulo, Thompson, Nixon, Jiao, Wiseman, Steinberg · S...
January 04, 2025 at 19:57
Admittedly surprised me, which I find cool: Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence — Christie Wilcox · Science/AAAS · Dec 30, 2024 · 46s
January 02, 2025 at 08:46
, would "abstraction realist" work? Hm Also comes through odd (to me anyway).
December 29, 2024 at 01:28
In typical philosophical parlance, I find "objective idealism" pretty close to a contradiction in terms. • Subjective ? existentially mind-dependent ·...
December 29, 2024 at 01:20
:D Typically, offices have rules concerning sexual harassment, not so much about having sex there, let alone promoting it. (Can always grab some child...
December 28, 2024 at 17:02
A short chat... Ned Block - Can Neuroscience Fully Explain Consciousness? — Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Peter Getzels · Closer To Truth · Oct 1, 2024 · 4m:5...
December 28, 2024 at 01:56
From sci-fi to reality: brain-computer interfaces and the future of bioelectronics — Kevin Hughes · CAS · May 17, 2024 I'm reminded a bit of cyberpunk...
December 27, 2024 at 02:43
Might be a good reason to donate: Elon Musk urges supporters not to donate to Wikipedia after it spent $50M on DEI: ‘Wokepedia’ — Ariel Zilber · New Y...
December 27, 2024 at 00:34
Not a Merry Christmas for some :/ Azerbaijani airliner crashes in Kazakhstan, killing 38 with 29 survivors, officials say — Katie Marie Davies, Dasha ...
December 26, 2024 at 20:50
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December 26, 2024 at 05:35
, another demonstration of their unity with Ukraine, their brothers and sisters.
December 25, 2024 at 17:07
, I'm reminded of a sitcom with a studio audience. :D ... seems to belong in this thread.
December 24, 2024 at 13:37