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Using chemistry to unlock the difference between cold- and hot-brew coffee(phys.org)
25 points by andrewl 7y ago|10 comments
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The National Response Framework(gsa.gov)
3 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 7y ago
From the article: The idea of small reactors is as old as nuclear power itself. In July 1951, five months before a reactor in Idaho became the first in the world to produce usable electricity through fission, America began building USS Naut
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by andrewl 7y ago
The closest I can think of is William Golding's novel The Inheritors : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inheritors_(Golding_novel)
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by andrewl 7y ago
I wondered that myself. They'd need a succession plan. But high concentrations of certain metals are toxic to many other plants. So maybe the nickel harvesting plants are a first step to preparing the soil for another crop. Only this s
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Down on the farm that harvests metal from plants(nytimes.com)
131 points by andrewl 7y ago|27 comments
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by andrewl 7y ago
The name in the footer is correct. Doug was a few years ahead of me in school, and our families are still friends from way back.
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The Jerks of Academe(chronicle.com)
2 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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Mad Dogs and Medical Bills – The High Price of Taming Rabies(thebaffler.com)
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by andrewl 7y ago
Or perhaps it has not succeeded yet .
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by andrewl 7y ago
She says: "And please spare me the complaints that I supposedly do not have anything better to suggest, because that is a false accusation. I have said many times that looking at the history of physics teaches us that resolving incons
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by andrewl 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but in Paul's recent essays the footnotes are no longer linked to in the body of essay. In this one from 2016 you'll see [1] or [2] and so on in the body, and the links jump you down to the relevant note at the
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Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”(theguardian.com)
190 points by andrewl 7y ago|131 comments
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Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019)(washingtonpost.com)
158 points by andrewl 7y ago|86 comments
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by andrewl 7y ago
This reminds me of IPSA (Independent Postal System of America) which I have vague memories of. I think they lasted until some time into the 1970s.
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by andrewl 7y ago
Merry Christmas to all! I hope 2020 is a good year for everyone everywhere. And Happy Hanukkah, too.
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French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers(washingtonpost.com)
149 points by andrewl 7y ago|115 comments
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Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers (2014)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 7y ago
In the chapter The Land of Shadow in The Return of the King the narrator says: "Neither he nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm, beyond the fumes of the Mountain by the dark sad wat
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by andrewl 7y ago
From the introduction: Polymaths excel in multiple fields. But what makes a polymath – and can their cross-discipline expertise help tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges?
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Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented(bbc.com)
70 points by andrewl 7y ago|20 comments
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Secretive Energy Startup Backed by Bill Gates Achieves Solar Breakthrough(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 7y ago
Also, The New York Times Magazine published "Lethal Chemistry at Harvard" in their November 29, 1998 issue, detailing the suicide of chemistry grad student Jason Altom: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/2
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by andrewl 7y ago
Nature published "A PhD State of Mind" in 2018, with this blurb: Recent surveys have linked academia and PhD studies to a risk of experiencing mental health issues. Despite the lack of extensive data, the negative impact of the
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The Humanoid Stain – Art Lessons from Our Cave-Dwelling Ancestors(thebaffler.com)
1 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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London Medieval Murder Map(vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: The Nobel Couple Fighting Poverty(bbc.com)
1 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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Uncovering How Microbes in the Soil Influence Our Health and Our Food(washingtonpost.com)
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The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley(newrepublic.com)
2 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments
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The New Wave of Female Builders(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by andrewl 7y ago|0 comments

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