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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city’s residents
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore
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Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
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Earliest signs of life
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Venoms vs. poisons
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Where theory meets chalk, dust flies - A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians
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Quantum Darwinism, an idea to explain objective reality, passes first tests
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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Scott Aaronson's Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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Communicating science online increases interest, engagement and access to funds
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The intuitive Monty Hall problem
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests
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Why Americans don’t fully trust many who hold positions of power and responsibility
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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Babies born by Caesarean section have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
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The problem with sugar-daddy science
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Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
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Index shows least-, most-accepting countries for migrants
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
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Conspiracy theorists have chilled real fluoride research, researchers say
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Democracy devouring itself: The paper predicting the end of democracy
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Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
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A famous argument against free will has been debunked
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How the brain filters sound
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Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
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42 can be written as the sum of three cubes, which was the last remaining unsolved case under 100
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The perfect TED talk that never happened
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted?
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The why of the world
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Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, dies at 69
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Making new elements doesn’t pay. Just ask this Berkeley scientist
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Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in math-related fields
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To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories: The missing climate change narrative
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Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
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The size and shape of raindrops
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The elements
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This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite. Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron...
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite." PDF link
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Deinonychus, the raptor that made us rethink dinosaurs
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The 'Sea Nomad' children who see like dolphins
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A molecular near miss
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A chance encounter in an Ethiopian goat pen has yielded a one-of-a-kind fossil: the nearly complete skull of a human ancestor that died some 3.8 million years ago
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year
News article: How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year The study: The economic benefits of improving social inclusion
4 votes