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The opening sentence makes it sound like scientists have discovered "semiconductors" for the first time - yet they were never mentioned in the article. I feel like I would have gained a better understanding of samarium hexaboride&
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If only they were able to capture the process in a stunning time-lapse video :)
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Greenpeace on what GMOs are: >"Genetic engineering enables scientists to create plants, animals and micro-organisms by manipulating genes in a way that does not occur naturally." The article: > "Virtually all crops and
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My Dad rickrolled me with this gem earlier today. It's the rhetorical equivalent of clickbait. First they assume a surprising proposition "We are warming our planet with greenhouse gases, and this changes everything" - from t
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Cato Institute admits “We are warming our planet with greenhouse gases”(freetochoose.tv)
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"Every revolution, he argued, is indeed an impressive visual spectacle. Although we usually assume that visual representations of a revolution happen later, after the events have already taken place, Kurekhin argued that revolutions ar
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Here's one of the articles (JSTOR) referenced on the en Wikipedia page: A Parasite from Outer Space:: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom Alexei Yurchak Slavic Review Vol. 70, No. 2 (SUMMER 2011), pp. 307-333 http:&#x
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Form follows function! No wait... I think I have it backwards
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I wish copyright was more limited with regard to scientific works. But how to define them? In a conservative sense, perhaps works that are 1) a technical or research article 2) produced with public funding Could receive more limited (shorte
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> "CardStack aims to create and maintain authoring tools that persist data in data stores that the user controls, rendering engines that enable scrumptious user interactions on the client while generating structured markup on the se
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Because there are many OS services and user-installed programs that do send and receive data to the wider internet, even though they may not be web servers per-se. Also what @daly said.
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16th time this has been posted to HN https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cargo%20cult%20science
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This is the quintessential way to activate the Mammalian diving reflex at brunch, cocktail parties, the office, or the classroom. Unless you are inclined to panic, you and your more medically-minded friends will be fascinated by the signifi
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Also of interest may be the Mammalian Diving Reflex ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex ) - Exposing your face to cold water and holding your breath can induce bradycardia (slowing of pulse), dropping
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by 100ideas 10y ago
Using codemirror - I would have thought prosemirror would have been a better fit. Wonder why.
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So much for philosopher-kings...
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"Molecular Biology For Computer Scientists" is a decent place to start (pdf): http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mona/IntroMaterials/hunter-bio-...
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A paper in which cello was used was posted to HN two days ago. The comment thread is worth reading if you find this one interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417689
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Eukaryotic cells solve the "crosstalk problem" by building the control regions that regulate gene expression out of modular, hierarchically-organized binding sites for multiple transcription factors (TFs). In prokaryotic systems t
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The authors want to create Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to facilitate engineering genetic systems at scale. Is verilog a reasonably modern foundation from which to draw inspiration, or are there "better" EDA tools nowa
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I DID mean why verilog as opposed to system verilog, VHDL, “etc.,” or whatever the verilog of 2020 is.
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75% success rate for systems with this complexity (>10 elements) is probably just as good if not better than what would be expected by designing “by hand,” and the latter approach does not scale past the current order of magnitude (to 10
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why verilog?
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Sci-hub: https://sci-hub.io/download/c7c5/nielsen2016.pdf
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Do content libraries that provide DOIs, such as MIT's DSPACE, at least promise that the content is immutable? http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/44962/BBFRFC20... It would be cool if the
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by 100ideas 11y ago
Imagine being able to execute arbitrary code just by dragging particular windows and files around to special areas in a desktop operating system - no typing.
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Are they keeping Bot&Dolly?
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There are some 3d-printable / 2d-laser-cutable examples of auxetic materials on thingiverse[1]. The creator describes two interesting mechanical properties his parts exhibit: > synclastic bending and auxetic behavior. Synclastic mat
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Haha, all-caps is so UBER.
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Screen Printing Electroluminescent Lights on Garments(ambrolabs.com)
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