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I have not seen any indication that Rowling, Musk, or Adams assert that trans people are categorically a "major threat". That said, these folks do view trans people as a "major thr…

Researchers locate neurons in the brain that respond to '0' is in same region as neurons that respond to '1', '2', etc. The empty set (nothing) is apparently encoded differently.

I always figured that liberal radio, e.g. Air America, struggled and failed because that point of view had too much competition from other media, e.g. newspapers and television. Ba…

I don't see it as ironic at all. One way anthropologists studying a society can gauge what that society values is to look at the punishments applied for various transgressions. The…

I too enjoy reading Tao, but this approach to inequalities did not work for me at all. I am a retired PhD mathematician and I've taught the full gamut of undergraduate math in coll…

The research and discoveries that are most deserving of a Nobel Prize are precisely the sort that are unexpected and unpredicted in advance. All this "Monday morning quarterbacking…

"Unfortunately universities are not immune to the realities of living in a capitalistic society." There might be unpleasant realities of living in a capitalistic society but they a…

The CRTC News Release explicitly states: "Today, the CRTC is advancing its regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make me…

Adobe Photoshop has just introduced their "generative fill" tool in the new beta version. It requires an internet connection and it goes out to the web and uses AI to fill photo re…

This artist's several sentence summary of an ANN and relating it to prejudice is fascinating: "The output of an artificial neural network can be roughly defined as a conclusion obt…

Wow so all this was accomplished starting from scratch in January 2021. Given another year or two and a second Biden term we should be finished.

Does the McNamara Fallacy have any application to our response to COVID? I often hear pundits of all sorts, medical doctors, epidemiologists, politicians, CDC scientists, etc, make…

There is a nice 10 minute discussion about this paper by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on her "Science without the gobbelydgook" youtube series (which I recommend). She considers t…

The individual in the photo is 4 'months' old. Arguably 4 month old babies being nude should not be a big deal. I suspect in much of the world this is the normal attire for a 4 mon…

Because the objective of a 'headline' is to get people to continue reading, essentially it's clickbait. Which descriptive choice gets more notice and is more likely to provoke cont…

Weren't the two COVID bills passed by congress, each > $1trillion, a socialization of the losses incurred by folks? Wasn't the point of the $1400 (or whatever) checks and extended …

Shouldn't those who said the world would end with the killing of net neutrality be asked why the world has not ended, also why there has been no noticeable change? If you are readi…

Isn't is also clear, in fact more clear, that none of the doomsday scenarios of killing net neutrality were real either?