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by sampo 5y ago
In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen took a ship with a 12 men crew to North of East Siberia, purposefully sailed the ship to get stuck in sea ice, and hoped that the ice movement with ocean currents would take them to the North Pole. The ship spent 3
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by sampo 5y ago
archive.is snapshot https://archive.is/KaAy7
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Why Covid's Airborne Transmission Was Acknowledged So Late(nytimes.com)
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> Hossenfelder has some very strongly held negative views on how resources in the physics community should be allocated If you advocate that A (for example, a large telescope) should be funded instead of B (for example, a particle collid
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by sampo 5y ago
> two pieces of fish, one big onion, an egg, baked beans and a few biscuits at the end How do you eat an onion for supper? Raw, or cooked? If cooked, how do you cook it?
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by sampo 5y ago
Also fungi that "feed" on ionizing radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
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The Three Point Revolution: The Game-Winning Strategy(medium.com)
1 points by sampo 5y ago|0 comments
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> Was your 40 year figure the half-life? Half-life of methane in the atmosphere is 9.1 years (Wikipedia).
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by sampo 5y ago
There's been some debate on the ways to account short-lived greenhouse gases vs. CO2: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-news-Climate-Pol... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018
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by sampo 5y ago
> Each kilogram of fish sticks produces about 1.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which “rivals the climate impact of tofu,” she says. Beef, by comparison, produces over 100 times that amount of carbon dioxide per kilogram. These estimates
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by sampo 5y ago
> Does it take into account the additional co2 that fishing boats emit? Esp. given that they usually use far more harmful fuels than the gas used on roads. Those more harmful fuels don't produce extra CO₂, though. Marine diesel engi
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by sampo 6y ago
From around 1996-1997, when Linux desktop use became popular, some university departments had this distributed computing system installed in both classroom computers and staff's desktop computers, to run distributed computing jobs when
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by sampo 6y ago
> I could hardly disagree more with the premise that activism is anti-fellowship. If you are doing activism, in the workplace, that runs against the beliefs and opinions of (some of the) the people you work with. How could this be anythi
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by sampo 6y ago
> This isn't even GDPR compliant. Our World in Data in run by Oxford University, so outside of EU. The applicability of EU GDPR laws outside EU is a complicated topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_
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by sampo 6y ago
> It’s looking at interventions to promote condom usage, not condom usage. So is the mentioned mask RCT study. They should be quite comparable.
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by sampo 6y ago
> The only RCT ever performed for self infection of SARS-2 in the community failed to reach significance. Do condoms work against sexually transmitted diseases? 5 out of 10 RCT studies reported statistically significant effect. Do condom
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by sampo 6y ago
Here is a case, where one university's (Portland State University) IRB saw that sending satire articles to social science journals "violated ethical guidelines on human-subjects research". https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by sampo 6y ago
2008: Original article [1] 2021: Rebuttal of the 2008 article [2] 2021: same issue of Nature, next 2 pages: Rebuttal of the rebuttal by 6 (out of 8) of the authors of the 2008 article [3] [1] https://www.nature.com/articles&
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by sampo 6y ago
It's in the Matters Arising section of volume 591. These are short 1-3 page long contributions, shorter than research articles. And being so short, they don't have an abstract. Table of contents: https://www.nature.com&
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by sampo 6y ago
There are maybe three aspects to music theory: (1) Theory of how things sound like: Tones, melodies, scales, chords, based on the frequencies of individual sounds. (2) How to name things. (3) How to handle the mess of naming things in Weste
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by sampo 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation#Economists'_vi...
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> Wikipedia article seems to carefully avoid stating there is the consensus you claim. Ctrl+f consensus, and you find: "There is a consensus among economists that rent control reduces the quality and quantity of rental housing units
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by sampo 6y ago
> Is there a clear consensus that this is the case? There is a consensus in economics, that rent control is bad idea. Inasmuch as economics can be considered a science, supporting rent control is an anti-science position. https:/&#
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by sampo 6y ago
About 10 years ago, there was an Italian surgeon in Sweden who claimed to have a technique to use patient's cells to seed a synthetic base structure for a trachea. But he was found out to have conducted research fraud. https:/&#x
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by sampo 6y ago
> Was “meme” a word in use in English in 1997 already? I would assume so. Susan Blackmore's popular science book on memetics was published in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meme_Machine
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by sampo 6y ago
Global inequality going down, inequality going down in continental Europe, and Latin America. Inequality increasing in anglosphere. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes-768x5... https:&#x2F
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by sampo 6y ago
> the published evidence to support the general public wearing masks was quite weak The physical basis of a face mask is well understood, and engineers have measured filtering efficiencies in labs. What was weak, was randomised controlle
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> Few SARS-Cov-2 transmissions reported to have been via surface transmission. I haven't seen a single case of reported surface transmission. There was this case in a New Zealand quarantine hotel, where they first suspected a rubbis
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by sampo 6y ago
> all articles should have an audio option as well Isn't there a variety of text-to-speech apps available?
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Nokia: We do what we do(nokia.com)
7 points by sampo 6y ago|0 comments

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