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A manifesto for reproducible science(nature.com)
1 points by tokenadult 9y ago|0 comments
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Let's Not Lose Our Minds(medium.com)
1 points by tokenadult 9y ago|0 comments
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F.B.I. Investigates Uber Software Used to Monitor Lyft Drivers(nytimes.com)
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Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate(advances.sciencemag.org)
1 points by tokenadult 9y ago|0 comments
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by tokenadult 9y ago
The part of the article that says, "Daniel Mansfield, of the university’s school of mathematics and statistics, described the tablet which may unlock some of their methods as 'a fascinating mathematical work that demonstrates undo
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Life Expectancy--Our World in Data(ourworldindata.org)
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Rewarding and Employing Teachers Based on Their Value-Added (2014)(educationnext.org)
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There’s still no good reason to believe black-white IQ differences due to genes(vox.com)
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Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916(washingtonpost.com)
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by tokenadult 9y ago
Air travel being priced so that you (not to mention I and anyone else) can enjoy it reasonably often seems to be a good thing, not a bad thing.
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by tokenadult 9y ago
What follow-up has there been on this since the 2012 publication in a rather obscure journal? Most importantly, is there a source of copper vessels in most countries that is as inexpensive as other means of reducing bacterial load in drinki
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There Was No ‘Golden Age’ of Air Travel(nytimes.com)
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by tokenadult 9y ago
"But all of these genes together account for just a small percentage of the variation in intelligence test scores, the researchers found; each variant raises or lowers I.Q. by only a small fraction of a point. 'It means there’s a
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The press release is misleading. Indeed, press releases about scientific studies are almost always misleading, which is why they are not the preferred source for stories about new scientific findings. I participate most weeks during the Uni
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To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old(nytimes.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The official prize program announcement from the sponsoring organization, the MIT Media Lab: https://www.media.mit.edu/disobedience/
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How Breaking the Rules Could Win You $250,000(nytimes.com)
1 points by tokenadult 10y ago|1 comments
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How Does the Public’s View of Science Go So Wrong?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
1 points by tokenadult 10y ago|1 comments
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The Hidden Twist to Making a Möbius Strip(quantamagazine.org)
50 points by tokenadult 10y ago|9 comments
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How parents shape the advantages of being first-born(theconversation.com)
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Flush from its Trump-bump, ProPublica is staffing up to cover the president(poynter.org)
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London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup(bloomberg.com)
276 points by tokenadult 10y ago|180 comments
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The little-noticed bombshell in Trump's immigration order(politico.com)
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The thread-opening link here is a blog post by an active researcher on the topic. The blog post links to a recent paper from the Review of Educational Research[1] by a more senior researcher with more details. I have met both of these resea
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What a Century of Research Reveals About Gifted Kids(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by tokenadult 10y ago|1 comments
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by tokenadult 10y ago
Maybe some of the onlookers don't know that you have long identified yourself as a woman here. As I recall, we (you and I) eventually figured out that we first "met" on an online community before Hacker News was founded.
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by tokenadult 10y ago
Thank you very much to all for the detailed comments. I appreciate you keeping advice simple enough for someone like me, who decades ago counted as a "power user" of PCs, but who has no particular technical training or computer-re
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by tokenadult 10y ago
Thanks especially for items 8 through 15, which some people forget. Part of what I hope happens where I live is that 13 happens in a big way, and the overall inclusive movement becomes broader and broader as different specialized local grou
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Ask HN: Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?
197 points by tokenadult 10y ago|131 comments
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by tokenadult 10y ago
The patient's age being twenty-one may have made a difference in this happy news story. My dad had a slip and fall on ice at age seventy-two that left him paralyzed from the chin down until he died six years later. He had had a similar

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