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by pmags 1y ago
It's been about 10 years since I last dipped my toes in the D waters. At the time (v 2.067) I stumbled across some surprisingly bad warts in the standard library that prevented me from using it for my intended purposes which writing s
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by pmags 1y ago
I had no idea the information avoidance was an area of study! I'm curious to dig into this paper a bit more, because I've been wondering if the same phenomenon relates to: 1) the generally low quality of public discourse on a wide
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by pmags 1y ago
Related news: USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees -- https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... "The USDA eliminated the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Cri
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by pmags 1y ago
Quite nice preservation! The images in the original article are definitely worth checking out: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.023 Discover and Science news have some images if you can't access Current Biol
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by pmags 1y ago
I mean, why should tech be any different when we're driving other scientists and engineers out of the country?! /s
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by pmags 1y ago
Larger context: Congressional Republicans are trying to "add $150 billion to the already approved $886 billion national security budget for 2025." this $27B referenced in the title is a subset of this add on to bring defense spe
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by pmags 1y ago
For anyone baffled by the link, this is a send up of Teenage Engineering, a Swedish design house / manufacturer known for their very expensive synths and audio gear: https://teenage.engineering/
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by pmags 1y ago
I had no idea that the scale of their DOGE meddling was so large with respect to the SSA DMF files -- according to the article, as many of 4,000,000 were consigned to his file by Musk and his DOGies.
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by pmags 1y ago
Pitohui birds are endemic to Papua New Guinea, which is definitively NOT in South America! https://maps.app.goo.gl/qVvK2WYjjfgSp825A
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Fujifilm Suspends Some US Camera Orders Due to Tariffs(petapixel.com)
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by pmags 1y ago
If you're trying to understand the context of this and other EOs, see here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-executi...
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by pmags 1y ago
The policy in question is awful, but NIH grants are awarded to institutions NOT individuals, so the "discriminatory prohibited boycott" clause likely does not apply to individual investigators. Of course, the current administratio
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by pmags 1y ago
Or no real knowledge of medicine, and bans something like vaccines. That hypothetical would be scary!
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Ancient DNA poses puzzle of why Phoenicians spread culture but not their genes(nature.com)
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by pmags 1y ago
The article discussed in the commentary: Ringbauer, H., Salman-Minkov, A., Regev, D. et al. Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-089
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More than 80% of reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record(theguardian.com)
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women(science.org)
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Drum Machine Price Before Tariffs: $399, After Tariffs: $977(synthtopia.com)
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What to Read to Wrap Your Head Around the Climate Crisis(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 1y ago
Earthday related recommendations.
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by pmags 1y ago
Some synthesis and broader context here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science/trump-national-sc...
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European Neolithic farmers interbred their pigs with wild boar(pnas.org)
3 points by pmags 1y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
This is a nice commentary on a paper that examines the process of pig domestication during the early neolithic period, as human populations in Europe shifted from hunter-gatherer focused societies to farming. The paper referenced: J.A
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Invasion of the 'Journal Snatchers'(nature.com)
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by pmags 1y ago
Full title-- Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
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by pmags 1y ago
This is a joint statement from 187 university presidents / leaders in education from across the country. More analysis here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/university-le...
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by pmags 1y ago
Here's the full membership of the committee: https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/members
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by pmags 1y ago
This is especially interesting in light of the following: • Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths -- https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-de... > Natio
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A Ticking Clock on American Freedom(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 1y ago
Here's a related prior discussion of proposed cuts at NASA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653605 The proposed cuts, if enacted, will devestate scientific research at NASA (50% cut to science programs).

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