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Set road charges in real time to ease traffic(nature.com)
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> But they don't get to be Dr. So-and-so, so there's that. I have told that I didn't spend 6 years getting a PhD to be called Doctor---if the title was what I cared about, med school would've been faster and easier th
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I agree that the level found in the wine is inconsequential, but it's worth pointing out that studies of radiation workers have found that the linear no threshold model does a pretty reasonable job of explaining non-leukemia cancer ris
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For the most part, the way to read papers in biology is to go through the figures. When I was quickly trying to figure out if a project I was about to start up just got scooped (it did, and good for them for saving me the effort), I did it
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I assume you're getting downvoted because the Red Queen hypothesis actually applies to a scenario where neither wolves nor rabbits change their numbers significantly. Perhaps a better description would be along the lines of: Wolves ge
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Only if the job really could be done by anybody. Pilots use checklists for basically everything, but I don't think there's a widespread belief that the pilot could now be replaced by J. Random Passenger. The point of a checklist
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I can't find one, and weirdly the NIPS 2017 site doesn't seem to know about this paper either... https://nips.cc/Conferences/2017
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I agree the article is misleadingly written, but presumably the Allies in WWII knew they had no plans to use mustard gas in the immediate future, whereas the enemy could not be relied upon to abstain.
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> Electric vehicles were supposed to be the car of the future because we were running out of oil — until we weren’t. The thing is, we’ve always been running out of oil — the rate at which oil is being produced is near zero. Our rate of e
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The OECD reports numbers that include public expenditures. I'm not sure where I'd even look to find the precise methodology, but at some point you have to trust that the experts know what they're doing and are reasonably impa
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If you don’t get cancer, where would you rather live? Life expectancy is significantly higher in Europe for lower average cost of medical care. There’s not necessarily a conflict between checkups and chemo, and surely some of the difference
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You can actually use multipole magnets to capture neutral anti-hydrogen. Not that they're trapping a lot of neutral anti-hydrogen, but some. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen#Low-energy_antihy...
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It is the Jeopardy winner. As a hint, in most online publications you can click on the authors name and it will take you to a bio and/or a list of other articles by that author in that publication.
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The Saudi money is different in that the university administration today is seeking it out, as opposed to money from historical donors, which the current administration already has. Which is not to say that historical blood money, whether
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What's the advantage of using a ProcessPoolExecutor over just using multiprocessing? Is it that there's a single interface that you can use for both threads and processes?
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My understanding of knot theory is pretty limited, but very few proteins are topologically different from a straight line—while there are lots of wiggles back and forth, if you pulled really hard on the ends, you would in most cases have no
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Have you ever seen a stage magician? It’s one thing to know that it’s not real, but when you’re presented with something that seems impossible, it’s easy to buy in. Maybe you don’t 100% believe it, but if you’re already stressed and demoral
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I don’t think so. It is in the headline on Nautilus, and while I think there’s room for yet another article where a scientist carps about how the lay press misuses scientific terms, this whole article is about why “Dark Matter” as a term is
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The headline writer here has evidently decided to take an article about one of physicists’ pet peeves and include a biologist pet peeve—saying something is “in our DNA” to mean it’s an apparently inherent part of our cultural legacy, withou
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How about the coups in Guatemala or Iran? In one sense, those are different because we viewed both of those countries as lesser powers and within our sphere of influence, but I would argue that the underlying philosophy of democracy is that
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In one particular sense, it is true that there are genetic elements of race and that some genetic diseases are more prevalent among those of one race than another. But once you start drilling down into what we mean by "race", it&#
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I have a friend who sometimes works at Pole, and they apparently do need people to winter over and manage the IT infrastructure. I don't know whether they have citizenship requirements (it's a US-led station), but it's appare
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If you have a sourdough starter, then you don’t need to pay for yeast (though in my experience, I always end up pouring off excess starter, ie wasting flour).
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There are different kinds of GMO—in addition to RoundupReady (glyphosate resistant) crops, there are Bt crops (mainly corn, as far as I know) that react in an insect’s alkaline gut to form incecticidal protein fragments. The bacterial sourc
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Yeah, -j just about does it, though with Snakemake you can also specify other resources (memory, I/o, etc) for each task, and it will keep all of them under quota. So if you tell snakemake that task A takes six cores, but B-K take only
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I haven’t yet read the scientific article that it’s based on, but the OP points out that there’s about a 50 year lag between the move to cities and a decrease in cousin marriage, so there was probably some cultural component.
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I think they’re asking when we can expect to see it used clinically. By analogy, vaccines are created in a lab, but they are used outside of one. Clinical CRISPR use would almost certainly require some lab work, but not really much basic sc
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I'm in no way an expert in social media advertising, but the claims that I've heard are that the ad buys were hyper-targeted to swing districts. Incidentally, it's been suggested that this implies that the Russians were in s
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Not only that, the strains they choose not to include will likely spread more effectively than the ones that they do. So even if the vaccine magically protected 100% of people against the most prevalent N strains, the (N+1)th strain will be
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I'm tempted to look at the "scam of flying pets" and think that instead the solution is to liberalize policies on allowing pets, with the potential for penalties for violators of the social order. The analogy that springs to

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