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Did The Humanities Ruin The Humanities And Take All Academia Down With Them?
13+ hour, 48+ min ago (632+ words) At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries? Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made…...
Have A Master In Science, Want A Post-Doc Position Directly?
22+ hour, 45+ min ago (335+ words) Do you have a master in Science, and want to start a Post-Doc position directly? You can have it, in Padova (Italy), to work with me on the PHINDER project, an EIC-funded Pathfinder grantee. I am offering a two-year position…...
Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (286+ words) Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination. (1)read more Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination. (1)Bees are not dying, there are more than at any point in recorded history,…...
UC Davis Gives Government Bans Credit For Ending The Vaping Fad
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (658+ words) Science 2. 0...
Young People Have Become Jaded To Emotional Appeals On Screens - And That Is Good
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (591+ words) Running a pro-science nonprofit is a poor business model....
EWG Activists Cheer California Efforts To Ban More Science
1+ week, 1+ day ago (391+ words) California government has a new proposal that could ban thousands of chemicals, even if they are natural. California is, of course, famously anti-science. The reason lawyers who wanted to sue over weedkillers filed in San Francisco is because it is…...
Why Longevity Research Has Been Stuck For Decades
1+ week, 6+ day ago (483+ words) In the 1960s and '70s there was a great deal of optimism about science - including tackling aging. In the following decades not much progress was made. There were studies and experiments, like low calorie efforts, but those were in mice and mice…...
A Chess Study Requiring Backpropagation
2+ week, 1+ day ago (244+ words) The following position is a win for white. But how? It seems like white is able to grab a knight for free. However, that would be not a wise idea, as the c4 pawn would then be free to run down…...
Co-Design Of Scientific Experiments
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1009+ words) Science 2. 0 Next Monday, or Tuesday at the latest, you will find a new bulky paper in the ar Xiv Titled "On the Co-Design of Scientific Experiments and Industrial Systems", the work is authored by over 80 colleagues I directed them as…...
Batteries Are Stuck In The 1990s Because Solid-State Batteries Keep Short-Circuiting
2+ week, 3+ day ago (341+ words) The electric car industry is held back by reliance on conventional energy. Despite spending trillions of dollars on mandates and subsidies, solar and wind alternatives have made little difference in the share of energy filled by natural gas and oil....