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true but there's a ton of people I know who are looking for help at the... zero.five stage, and there isn't a good way for them to get in touch with people who are maybe between ze…

Commenting to add that this seems like the realm of small business development centers and regional innovation hubs but SBDCs are usually populated by olds, and innovation hubs are…

I've got a bunch of friends that are interested in starting their own enterprises but are having a hard time finding mentors. Right now the main sources of mentorship seem to be on…

Title says it all - curious to know if all scientific research has gotten more expensive over time, or if that kind of price tag creep is only for particle physics

I think sometimes ideas that are couched in scientific sounding language get picked up culturally for a while before the rest of the process catches up

Folks elsewhere have mentioned things like EPA regulation of chemicals - hard to argue that even though it could be better that there haven't been many great things that have happe…

History is littered with examples of science being used to cause enormous harm - eugenics, phrenology, lobotomies, MKUltra, The four pests campaign, lysenkoism, introduction of can…

There's more thinkpieces than you can count out there about why humans are incapable of interpreting risk, of the cognitive biases that inform our thinking, of the ways in which we…

In 1887, Michaelson & Morley did their famous interferometer experiment, which demonstrated there was no such thing as the luminiferous aether. Which, fine. The idea that there's a…

For a longer exposition on the difficulties of demarcation problem outlined below: https://youtu.be/bQP-7xgo1uU In the modern world, there’s a sense that there’s only one way to ev…

Probably not, since the track record for this kind of labeling is mostly greenwashing and virtue signalling that allows malfeasance to continue uninterrupted