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by dluan 7y ago
Economists, policymakers, and scientists studying how to improve science output have themselves been hamstrung for decades because economists have to measure something , and for so long it's been nothing but bibliometrics. Until we ca
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I'm terrified that this outbreak is giving us a taste of the ecofascism that we're in for with the climate crisis, because now authors like this one can just outright say the quiet part loud.
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This has been a big fear of the left - that if the GOP takes up the socialist plank for the working class before the DNC does, it would be a death knell for the resurgent American left. Throw in climate fear after this recession and there&#
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What happened to the previously top comment and chain here and why was it removed?
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How Scotland erased Guyana from its past(theguardian.com)
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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years(atlasoftheuniverse.com)
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It depends how you define low. The US has low voter turnout by total population (~55%), but very high turnout by percentage of voters registered. Many states have artificial obstacles in place to suppress registration and turnout. Other sta
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Democracy isn't just David Cameron and Obama, when you go to vote for them, you also cast votes on local precinct leaders, local referendums, and local positions like school board and sheriff. In some places, you might even know those
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Shhh we're busy reinventing Marx as a new idea for the pundit brained technocrats. We need people like Elon and Andrew Yang to tweet it to us before it can be considered cool again.
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Throw in Nadia Eghbal's Tyranny of Ideas ( https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas ) and you'll realize it's not humans beefing, but ideas. Posting is praxis, and the internet is a series of tube battlegrounds for the be
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JBS Haldane – The Inequality of Man (1932) [pdf](jbshaldane.org)
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Here in Hawaii we've obliterated temperature records. July, August, September, and November were the hottest respective months ever recorded. For 20 straight consecutive days from Aug to September we set new records for hottest tempera
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This is a fantastic use of science communication using design principles - particularly when you use the minigraphs and you can see the small multiples the impact and outcomes. I've always felt like more stuff like this would help brin
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We're already well into the anthropocene: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
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China’s Genetic Research on Ethnic Minorities Sets Off Science Backlash(nytimes.com)
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> Collison: But even if technology solved that, I guess my worry would be that the socio-institutional dynamics that have ruined cities or made them less effective or whatever, probably also generalized and applied to other domains. Remi
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Stream On(profgalloway.com)
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Ashes Ashes: The Golden Age of Piracy(ashesashes.org)
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The Heritage Foundation is an extremely right-wing biased think tank that also produces http://dailysignal.com . As a teacher, you should know that.
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I definitely noticed class differences in CTY my first time - there were kids who seemed like CTY was normal but for myself, I was blown away and felt like I was in another world. Eventually I realized these kids were also ones who traveled
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My mom was a programmer who eventually worked on telecom, and my dad was an engineer working on embedded systems, both immigrants from China who studied in America in the 70s/early-80s. My childhood memories involve lots of computer bu
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Richard Feynman told a story that when he was at Los Alamos during WW2, he was put in charge of the nascent computing group using the brand new IBM computers to run physics calculations. The army recruited a bunch of high school math whiz k
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by dluan 7y ago
The best part of drinking whiskey is smelling the glass the next day. It's like an oak candle with all of the sugars that got left behind. Anyways, not sure what the point of this study was other than a reason for scientists to have ma
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I got an A in 7th grade biology because I animated the electron transport chain in a little flash movie over a holiday break. I burned the swf onto a CD and gave it to my biology teacher who then showed it on his computer during parent teac
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Not sure if this is the place to ask, but I have questions about how closely tied New Vector will be to Matrix development. Where's the best place to reach out?
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I did this in college for a week as part of a $2 dollar a day challenge for a student microfinance club. I knew well enough that it was near impossible to do it accurately in the U.S. where costs are inflated for basic things, and I also wa
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What if we gave the community of upstarts and creatives that run the Omni the same $100m budget of the Oodi library? I've been to the Omni space where Counter Culture Labs is - and while it's cool that it is completely organic and
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dmytri kleiner gave a great talk about doing this at a little bit of higher level back at SIGINT10. https://media.ccc.de/v/sigint10_3821_en_peer_to_peer_communi...
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It’s better than the alternative which is no democratic oversight of how Wells Fargo or Goldman Sachs uses or invests teachers pension funds. It was just power we accidentally gave away without realizing we could take it back.
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Sure. In Scotland for example, municipal banks are everywhere. North Lanarkshire, West Lothian, North Ayrshire, Clydebank, and East Dunbartonshire Municipal Bank all take deposits and lend to borrowers. They do everything you'd expect

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