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8 votes
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Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month
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Paper and interactive demo: Immersive Light Field Video with a Layered Mesh Representation
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A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics
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Does anyone have resources for an introduction to semidefinite programming?
I'm interested in the subject, but don't know where to begin investigating it. I tried to look over the code for SeDuMi, but it is much more massive than I had realized. I have a background in...
I'm interested in the subject, but don't know where to begin investigating it. I tried to look over the code for SeDuMi, but it is much more massive than I had realized. I have a background in mathematics, if anyone can point me towards a textbook.
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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Karl Friston: Active inference and artificial curiosity
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CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
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Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science
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Helping or harming? The effect of trigger warnings on individuals with trauma histories.
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version):...
Publication: Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories.
Pre-print version (for people, like me, who don't have access to the published version): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334380654_Helping_or_Harming_The_Effect_of_Trigger_Warnings_on_Individuals_with_Trauma_Histories
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
12 votes -
Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
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Coronaviruses are extremely widespread in wild animals bred for food in Vietnam, with the wildlife supply chain quickly spreading those viruses to uninfected animals, preliminary research shows
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Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
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Everyone loves laminar flow but turbulent flow is the real MVP
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Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work
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Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying animal of all time. But only a handful of bones have been found. So how do scientists know what it looked like?
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
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The biology and people of Madagascar
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
8 votes -
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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Revealing motion invisible to the naked eye using Motion Amplification and Video Magnification
6 votes -
Split brain does not lead to split consciousness
6 votes -
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
6 votes -
Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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A surprising Pi and 5
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Inside corporations’ war on science
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Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on?
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People drawn to conspiracy theories share a cluster of psychological features
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$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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Cognitive ability and vulnerability to fake news
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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The tempest prognosticator
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Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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Electrons may very well be conscious
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Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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Against Set Theory (2005) [pdf]
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks
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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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Darkling Beetles: Daringly dynamic
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New Tesla "million mile" battery in development that relies on little to no cobalt, poised to reshape auto economics
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Blind people could 'see' letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity: scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface
8 votes