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Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo: It's the Ig Nobels 2019(theregister.co.uk)
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These are books for which there is high demand within 8 weeks of publication, so culture is not a factor.
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Note that pricing of ebooks for libraries is higher than for consumers - https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/the-fu... >Among the Big Five publishers (HBG, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers,
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The area around Chernobyl is another example. If you get rid of people, the ecosystem recovers pretty rapidly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us
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If you look at the State of Amazonas, Brazil on Google maps satellite view, it appears to be largely untouched. Rondonia and Matto Grosso are the states most affected by deforestation. Other large parts of the Amazon rain forest in other st
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At sub-12 nm it is probably harder to get to 5.3 GHz with acceptable power dissipation. https://www.globalfoundries.com/technology-solutions/cmos/fd...
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It is a really nice science fair project. However, the concentrations that he used seem really high compared to what would be in the environment or even in wastewater. So conjectures about scaling this up for practical use seem to be the us
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IBM z15 (8561) Technical Guide - https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248851.pdf IBM Newsroom - https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-09-12-IBM-Unveils-z15-With-Ind...
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For processing large amounts of structured data using decimal arithmetic to do exact monetary calculations.
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The unification of North and South Yemen in 1990 was a mistake and there has been trouble ever since.
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For this mission a full set of drone capabilities is not needed. It is really a primitive cruise missile that can maintain altitude above terrain and find its way to the designated target. It doesn't need to send data home or be remote
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Russia's world-first floating nuclear plant arrives in port(france24.com)
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Working long hours continuously on something you don't like with people you despise will burn you out. Working on multi-year projects is especially bad. On the other hand, working long hours for a few months on something you like with
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"Effect of different cooking methods on vegetable oxalate content" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15826055 Boiling vegetables removes a lot of oxalate. Recommended for people with a predisposition towa
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Plants are also bred so that they can be picked before they are fully ripe and survive a multi-day trip to the grocery shelves of a supermarket. This may be less important for vegetables that go from field to cannery or freezers, so canned
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"Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater" - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081RLFEY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect Science fiction from 1971. The main effect hypothesized was the disintegration of electrical insulation, which
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When crops are removed from the land, more complex fertilizers must be used to replace the minerals. A good example is sulfur. The sulfur removed had been replenished by acid rain. Once scrubbers were applied to remove sulfur from coal plan
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The production of food by farmers, ranchers and fishermen is only a small part of the food system. There are all the agribusinesses that provide inputs to the farmers, such as farm machinery, fuel, pesticides, herbicides, etc. After the foo
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Wageningen has a large number of relevant courses available on edX.com. A while ago, I audited the three courses "Nutrition and Health: Food Risks", "Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients", and "Nutrition and Health:
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Although Einstein apparently knew about the Michelson-Morley experiment, it's unclear how much his development of relativity depended on it. He seems to have moved on to being motivated mainly by rationalist abstraction and the use of
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Orders for new Class 8 trucks are down about 80% year over year. https://ftrintel.com/news/latest-orders/index.php
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>"The authors of the study say they analyzed the costs of construction, fuel and anticipated operations for 68 gigawatts of gas plants proposed across the U.S. They compared those costs to building a combination of solar farms, wind
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The article is full of conventional thinking that extrapolates directly from current trends. Most likely the critical IT need in the Next World War will be bioinformatics to identify pathogens being used in biowarfare and to design, produce
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Interdisciplinary Toxicology - The Journal of Institute of Experimental Pharmacology of Slovak Academy of Sciences - https://content.sciendo.com/configurable/contentpage/journal... Listed in https://pre
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Thanks! >The structural weakness of democracy. >While recognizing that the rise and fall of RWP movements reflect fluctuating social and economic circumstances, I want to suggest that recent developments are manifestations of somethin
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So long as the electorate is asked to vote on policies, democracy will fail because for large nations the policy issues are too complex for the electorate to deal with. The original idea in the US was for the electorate to elect representat
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A couple million dollars is a retirement nest egg. You can stop working, stretch it carefully until you die, and leave a small sum to your heirs. To be very rich requires upwards of $100 million. Then you can access high paying investments
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If you track Cancun from 200 million years ago, it shows the Gulf of Mexico opening up as the Yucatan block rotates clockwise. The Florida platform stays pretty much stationary. This likely accounts for why there are no oil wells on the Flo
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Inhaling anything other than pure air has always seemed like a bad idea. Bob Newhart just turned 90... >INTRODUCING TOBACCO TO CIVILISATION ... https://monologues.co.uk/Bob_Newhart/Tobacco.htm You can chew it!... or

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