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by jamesash 5y ago
Indeed. My friends thought I was exceptionally smart to be able to recite a list of 875 north american bird species from memory, when in fact I'd just put in a lot of work building memory palaces. The book demystified a lot.
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by jamesash 8y ago
For a different source, Freeman Dyson's biography, Disturbing the Universe, is extraordinarily worthwhile. He has crazy Feynman stories too, and Dyson is a very sober witness to the bongo-drum-playing, picking-up-hitchhikers, getting-p
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by jamesash 8y ago
Regus is valued at about 10k per desk. Wework is valued at about 160k / desk (August 2017 numbers, see Aug 25 2017 WSJ). What does Wework do that Regus doesn't, that accounts for 16x the value?
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by jamesash 8y ago
I will make you a long bet of $100 that no country bans the sale of new diesel or petrol cars by the end of 2025.
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by jamesash 9y ago
Sure, which is why environments like Europa are exciting.
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by jamesash 9y ago
A lot of the chemical reactions required to maintain life as we know it involve charged intermediates. These are not generally soluble in the gas phase as they have very low vapor pressures.
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by jamesash 9y ago
Was just wondering today how to build one, thank you.
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by jamesash 9y ago
>In addition to the other fine points: A fundamental job of a life form is to pump entropy out faster than the environment can pump it in. Yes. From a chemistry perspective, this requires a membrane, or barrier, that separates "life
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The “Oh-My-God Particle”(en.wikipedia.org)
118 points by jamesash 9y ago|71 comments
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by jamesash 9y ago
A review of a biography of the Italian opera conductor Toscanini by Harvey Sachs. The reviewer compares this volume to Caro's Power Broker in its loving attention to minute factual details. Would not have seen this had it not been post
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by jamesash 9y ago
Savannah Georgia is spending over a billion to dredge the harbor to make way for bigger Panamax container ships. Same with Charleston, about 2 billion. My point is that there are a fair number of billion dollar infrastructure projects that
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by jamesash 9y ago
Current Latin learner here. I found the Great Courses Introduction to Latin by Hans-Friedrich Mueller to be helpful. 35 audio lectures, plus 35 chapters of exercises. It's a good introduction that covers all the basics, and has set me
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by jamesash 9y ago
Not a news app but dead tree subscriptions to quality newspapers (WSJ, NYT) are seriously under-rated in my opinion. They don't interrupt you, try to get you to like or share, and it's extremely easy to skim while at the same time
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by jamesash 9y ago
Maybe this comment points to a larger misconception: that some people will fall into the trap of analyzing Blue Apron as something of a tech company?
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by jamesash 9y ago
From yesterday WSJ: "Daniel McCarthy, a professor of marketing at Emory University, analyzed Blue Apron’s numbers and estimated that roughly 60% of customers stop using the service after six months." https://www.wsj.com
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by jamesash 9y ago
Metallurgical coal - mostly found in Appalachia - is <10% of the 800 million tons of coal mined annually in the USA, and commands higher premiums: about $161/ton versus $53/ton for "thermal" coal. Not trying to corre
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by jamesash 9y ago
Quote: "The rich have, Drezner writes, empowered a new kind of thinker—the “thought leader”—at the expense of the much-fretted-over “public intellectual.” Whereas public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky or Martha Nussbaum are skeptical
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by jamesash 10y ago
I wish they used more specific language than the blanket term "scientists". Reproducibility is highly field-dependent. In organic chemistry, for example, the journal Organic Syntheses only publishes procedures that have been check
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by jamesash 10y ago
A more skeptical take. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/11/121... Tl;dr Alzheimer's is hard to drug, and the approach this company is trying has been tried before.
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by jamesash 10y ago
I run a site that teaches organic chemistry online. Started in 2010. 7 million visits last year. Most content is free, but has some "cheat sheets" and other study guides that are for sale. I have some contractors for various tasks
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by jamesash 10y ago
Post WWII, an entire generation of soldiers who had seen some of the most horrific scenes of war entered university on the GI Bill and made it through their education without trigger warnings. The students at the U of C will be fine.
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Case Study: Isolation of Deer Tarsal Gland Pheromone(masterorganicchemistry.com)
1 points by jamesash 10y ago|0 comments
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by jamesash 10y ago
Chemist here. Glassblowers are essential for certain chemists - like organic chemists - mostly for the purposes of fixing essential (and expensive) glassware like vacuum manifolds that often break during the course of daily use. It's
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by jamesash 10y ago
Around 1900, the "tin" in tin cans contained about 12% lead, which leached into fruits and vegetables. You have to wonder if there's any way of correcting for that. [Source: "The Great A&P" by Marc Levinson, pa
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by jamesash 10y ago
Thank you for explaining your point of view. Helpful.
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by jamesash 10y ago
Surprised by the downvotes. Promoting Holmes as the next Jobs gave the tech press a chance to show how it was trumpeting diversity and gender balance in its coverage of founders. To those that downvoted - would you completely disagree that
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The Microsoft Provocateur (1997)(newyorker.com)
26 points by jamesash 11y ago|8 comments
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by jamesash 12y ago
Chemist here. If there's one thing that being in a research lab does to you, it's that you feel dumb almost all of the time - and it's generally not because of your coworkers, it's because the vast majority of experiment
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by jamesash 12y ago
As far as typos go, it's a great one. "Flagrantly borrowed" is a cliche. "Fragantly borrowed" is a fresh turn of phrase. Did he sent Jason flowers for using this example?
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by jamesash 12y ago
People cheer for the marijuana-legalization underdogs now, but endgame, if it proceeds to all 50 states, looks like this: Altria and other players in the $112 billion US tobacco market buy up the little cannabis startups and start advertis

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