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“Cotton’s statements did not get any immediate coverage, but several days later David Choi at Business Insider wrote them up with the headline “Republican senator suggests ‘worse than Chernobyl’ coronavirus could've come from Ch

A cyborg is generally defined as a human-machine interface contrivance.  Several cyborgs have been registered to date, and a cyborg foundation, dedicated to recognizing and securi

Until COVID-19, the first year of medical school included an anatomy course where the textbook was secondary to the real teacher, the cadaver you and your colleagues were about to dissect.

“In the year 2000, the International Energy Agency (IEA) made a prediction that would come back to haunt it: by 2020, the world would have installed a grand total of 18 gigawatts of photovoltaic solar capacity.

“You’re going to learn how to heat water about ten degrees.”

As always, the data from this comes from Our World in Data, and it reflects the current data as of May 1st. 

It is hard to argue that sharing data to make your work more transparent and accessible to review is bad. Especially in science, where “show your work” has been in various forms a mantra for hundreds of years.

“Elections are a measure of ordinal preferences. As long as you care enough to vote, it doesn’t matter how much you care about the election outcome, as everyone’s voice is the same.

Let’s start with tritium and its source  

One of my favorite food memes is the distinction between fast and slow foods. But it seems the fast-slow argument between craft and utility may well apply to furniture as well.