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Magpies' brain power may be boosted by living in larger groups(abc.net.au)
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Forgot something - most wetlab laboratory lab-books are physical copies with handwritten content, mostly so you can quickly glue in photos and take notes in spaces where PCs are not allowed, this could also hamper uptake of any PC-based lab
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Make a digitally verified lab book It would be kind of a wiki but each update/edit is externally verified. In science, each lab has several lab books where everybody documents everything they did. In the rare event of a patent discussi
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I guess one thing that pushed this change you describe is more political pressure, as in people putting pressure on YT for putting ads next to hate-speech [1] If YouTube monetizes only a few big channels it becomes much easier to track poli
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I managed 80 last year and 100 before that, I agree, if you get a Kindle you can carry it everywhere and read during waiting times. I do most of my reading in a one hour commute and about 30-60 minutes again at night in bed.
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Dude, You Broke the Future [video](media.ccc.de)
8 points by a_bonobo 9y ago|0 comments
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Could it be that Germany's army is so unpopular as a job because of its good social security system? It seems the US has so many soldiers not because of patriotism, but because of job security and good health coverage, which is alread
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Many European cities are a bit lucky in that regard, they are much older than US or Australian cities. The European cities are built on top of plans that were made for pedestrians and horse carriages, with city walls and small streets. Muen
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Or this, just showed up on my Twitter stream: >A Chinese man has been jailed for a year for stamping on a portrait of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, after being found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. http://www.bbc.com/news&
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
The NIH has a metastudy here: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ehp515/ >As reviewed here, four studies reported low rates of adverse health effects from acute neonic exposure. Even the most severe outcomes, including two f
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Even Justin Bieber is banned because 'he has engaged in a series of bad behaviours, both in his social life and during a previous performance in China, which caused discontent among the public', and he isn't even politically
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Addendum to 'be pro-active': You'll quickly realise that your supervisor doesn't know what's going on in the entire field, nobody does. Be pro-active in seeking out new developments and new papers that touch on your
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This is very US-centric, your mileage may vary in other countries. For example: >For instance, I started my first successful Ph.D. project at the beginning of my fourth year and didn't get the paper published until the middle of my
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Francois Cholet (author of Keras)'s Deep Learning with Python will be complete and fully published on the 20th of December: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python The chapters released so far are
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
I second this - the tidyverse packages make R feel like it's supposed to feel like, tables make sense, string manipulation makes sense, it's all grown out of one consistent approach, kind of the opposite of base R. Just a shame th
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
If you want to know more about the ANZAC push, there's a good book about this glorification of Anzacs as a political means: 'What's wrong with ANZAC?' by Reynolds/Lake There's a review here: https://
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But that one comes from the researchers themselves: >The weakening of a strong communal ideology surrounding food production and storage increased the potential for dominant families to emerge, either through consistently greater success
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Affordable housing is high density housing, while the majority of Australian cities are suburbs with low density, mostly detached single houses, often with a garden. For any given 'feature' in a suburb (shopping centre etc.) the h
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
>On an anecdotal level I've also heard more than a few people say they it was hinted by banks that they could put a bigger number in the 'income' box and borrow more money. There is at least one survey showing that liar lo
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it's interesting with Yudkowsky - I've never met a person who's lukewarm about his writing, you either love it or hate it. Personally I hate it - it's condescending, weirdly tone-deaf, scientistic (is that the adjective
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Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl has many stories like this, highly recommended reading if you want to know more about the incident
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Great list! I'd probably add Theodor Mommsen, one of the earliest literature Nobel Prize laureates, for A History Of Rome in 5 books
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Would anybody know who he means by the great historians? Is it classic ones like Herodotus or Thucydides or is it someone more modern?
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Says below: >Read them anywhere. These books are available in PDF and ePUB formats, meaning you can read them anywhere at any time. The Four Lenses of Innovation and Startup Weekend are also available in MOBI format In my experience, con
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It's amazing how attached some Japanese people were to the old aibos. A report on a guy who specialised on repairing old aibos: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qxk3g/there-is-o... Shinto prie
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This has several reasons, I think. - Modern Germans don't really see themselves as descendants of those Germans, in the German language both are named differently. Modern Germans are 'Deutsche' - ancient Germans are 'Ger
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Edogawa Rampo , a famous Japanese writer of mystery and crime stories, named himself after Edgar Allen Poe (pronounce Edogawa Rampo a few times and you'll hear it) He wrote quite a few essays on Poe and Poe's reviews, here's
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This has, as usual, several reasons :) One reason is the absence of sex chromosomes in plants. If humans get a duplicated sex chromosomes things go completely haywire. Another reason is that due to so many WGDs, plants have ample gene copie
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I've tried this too during a lull in my undergrad studies - it's how I discovered my love for Kobo Abe. Didn't get much further than AB though...
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Or the English test questions the current Australian government wants to introduce for potential citizens: https://theconversation.com/could-you-pass-the-proposed-engl...

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