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Burlap and Barrel I believe has a good reputation with their spice sourcing. https://www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/turmeric

Your story reminds me of this segment from Mr. Wizard that I saw as a child. This kid eats an apple while doing a hand stand, and I remember being amazed by it. https://youtu.be/bC…

A large issue is that PIs have no training on how to manage people nor is there much protection for grad students (and practically none for postdocs). It is surprisingly common to …

By "robots" they mean algae cells coated with a drug.

Double-blind is not all that feasible unless preprints, conference posters, and talks were also all done anonymously.

Anyone interesting in learning more about Gorbachev's life, I recommend watching Werner Herzog's Meeting Gorbachev.

Funny to see this pop up, it's from 2008. I worked with Martin for quite a few years and we spoke about this article at one point. If I recall, the intended audience of this articl…

I agree, there are a variety of plotting library options in Julia but they aren't nearly as developed/robust as matlab (e.g. quiver plots). There are a number of plotting functions…

It is striking to me that this article doesn't discuss the negative impact such a technology will have on actors and translators. In fact, the author makes the surprising claim tha…

Should add 2020 to the title. This is the relevant paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853 I am curious to hear what HN thinks of calling these things robots. These are frog…

Sorry, I should have been more clear in my post. I meant to say that, if I no longer want to support Apple (or Google) because of their behavior, are there any reasonable smartphon…

My question after reading this article is, what can I do as a current iPhone user? Is there a reasonable alternative phone out there that can run the same apps but that isn't effec…

More specifically, this paper is focused on the social sciences. That's not to say that this isn't present in the basic sciences either. But one other thing to note here is that th…

It is $10 because the money from individual kits is being used to subsidize the foldscopes for classroom kits. See "Why the difference in price between Deluxe Individual Kits and C…

For those interested in understanding more detailed discussions there is an article by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-pe…

I think the main complaints about VAR in football have been the amount of time these decisions take and the inconsistency of the rulings. Instead of the constant play we used to ha…

I know that this site mentions MIT's Introduction to Computational Thinking course, but the hyperlink doesn't send me there. For those interested in seeing Pluto in action I highly…

In the event people are interested in a higher budget microscope, the openFrame is a very nice modular system [1]. [1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/photonics/research/biophotonics/i.…

This is correct [1]. > Why the difference in price between Deluxe Individual Kits and Classroom Kits? >Our mission is to bring bring affordable scientific tools to everyone (not ju…

This is a cool company that started out of QB3. One of the co-founders was a postdoc at UCSF working in regenerative medicine before starting wildtype. I think these wetlab incubat…

I think it is a shame that the 50+1 rule (which states that at least 50% of the team's voting rights must be held by club members) is only instituted in the German League. I don't …

The current publication system is very odd. Mostly government money is being used to fund research, then professors are asked to review a manuscript (who may just hand it off to a …

Let's not forget that all the grain those cattle are eating were grown in nitrogen fixed soil produced via fossil fuels. Nor that roughly 40% of the world's crops are used to feed …

This is still subject to Landauer's principle, at best it will cost kT ln2 energy per bit erased.