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Zeiss Axio Imager research grade upright light microscope with DIC, phase contrast, and fluorescence. It's easy to use without training if you've had at least a high school or coll…

In geosciences, still many. Some leading ones: carbon sequestration, mineral resources (mining and associated environmental and political risks), origin of moon, earthquake predict…

Maybe my first program in Pascal, my first programming course. The school had never taught programming before (yeah, I'm that old), and it was a business teacher who didn't know ho…

This is a big issue with gigwork, major underpayment for services leading to non-livable wages for workers. This is about the level, too, pennies for dollars. I just learned about …

It's a bit in response to a change in California laws. California has always more strictly enforced employment regulations, especially with regards to contractor classifications. h…

The article does specifically say "a person usually has some time," which is why I put it in quotes. There's no value to the article downgrading an urgent medical situation, and th…

This is a badly written article, journalists should have a little science background. "... the bats .... were carriers of a rabid and highly contagious virus." Yes, it is a rabid v…

An article with some pictures: https://www.ringodaigaku.com/ringo_blog/english/2018/02/02/1...

Nah, programming and computer power are still the new sequencing and microscopy.

This article is about vertebrates, though. The headline is distinctly incorrect, whatever else is happening to flying insect biomass, or even plants, the article is a survey of ver…

I thought it would be a down with Lisp article, but it was like my experience with the language, omg, how cool. From that ancient introduction to Lisp all I learned was that Lisp w…

Why would or could they? It's a digital print created by a computer algorithm. Computer algorithms can't own copyrights, so you can print your own.

It's printed on canvas, the AI did not paint it literally, it is digital art; it's not an actual painting. If you wanted, you could print your own!

Purchasers of controversial artwork often chose to remain anonymous at least initially. There's nothing unusual about this, and discussing it with friends we all assumed it would s…

What highly valued work that requires little sophistication to produce have you seen at exhibits and auctions?

At that point in time, yes 200my earlier is a very big deal. This is a fundamental question in geology, when did life on earth begin.

This is an interesting not fully resolved debate in geology/paleontology. This is a great article that discusses some of the need for the debate, and the comments on the article in…

This is a solid read for anyone in any field. There's a time when you have no confidence, then false confidence, then real confidence with knowledge of your own limits.

The underlying article for this post is interesting, too. http://www.freeholdgames.com/papers/Generation_of_mythic_bio... I'd love to have more time in the universe and the computi…

I'm very sorry for your and your family's loss. In the information age, there are so many irresponsible and incomplete bits supporting this, that or the other in as many superlativ…

What IP are they protecting? I think the problem is there was no IP. Ever.

How many of them sold fake blood tests to real patients? I think fraud is one thing, putting up a successful facade is not quite fraud.