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I've got a bunch of friends that are interested in starting their own enterprises but are having a hard time finding mentors. Right now the main sources of mentorship seem to be ondeck and y combinator, but these are…
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Title says it all - curious to know if all scientific research has gotten more expensive over time, or if that kind of price tag creep is only for particle physics
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History is littered with examples of science being used to cause enormous harm - eugenics, phrenology, lobotomies, MKUltra, The four pests campaign, lysenkoism, introduction of cane toads into Australia, etc, etc, etc.…
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There's more thinkpieces than you can count out there about why humans are incapable of interpreting risk, of the cognitive biases that inform our thinking, of the ways in which we underprepare for everything from…
- January wildfire in Denver may have been caused by smoldering coal mine (wildfiretoday.com)
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In 1887, Michaelson & Morley did their famous interferometer experiment, which demonstrated there was no such thing as the luminiferous aether. Which, fine. The idea that there's a stationary substance through which…
- Nervous System Consequences of Covid (science.org)
- What if the sun isn't a gaseous plasma? (youtube.com)
- George Bush Can't Paint His Way Out of Hell (nymag.com)
- Transnational Corporations are 71 of 100 Largest Economic Entities(2017) (tandfonline.com)
- Corporate Revenue Outranks Most World Governments (theconversation.com)
- Welcome to Steppelandia (razib.substack.com)
- Is Green Investment a Scam? (economist.com)
- Seeing Sound: The Cymatics of Music (youtube.com)
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For a longer exposition on the difficulties of demarcation problem outlined below: https://youtu.be/bQP-7xgo1uU In the modern world, there’s a sense that there’s only one way to evaluate your perspective on the world -…
- What Does a Photon Look Like? (youtube.com)
- What's the Future of the Internet? (youtube.com)
- Everyone's on Drugs (youtube.com)
- Timelapse assembly (2min) of Xenobots – AI and Biology (youtube.com)
- Science Haste Makes for Disgrace (youtube.com)
- The Cultification of the American Right (newrepublic.com)
- Could Hookworms Slow Down Aging? Maybe, Says Science (eurekalert.org)