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Shockley and the transistor... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

Pretty hilarious discussion of the Lockbit gang as a failing "organization"

Concur, 5meo typtamines are extremely potent and quite dangerous. Witnessed overdoses and while they weren't lethal, they certainly had the risk. Just because the compound doesn't …

It's a red flag. Looks cool on the surface, but if it's what it appears, it should be subjected to a more rigorous review.

NIH funded articles are mandated to be public access, these are often available without journal typesetting: https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research...

Agree with questioning this. They are both brilliant, but that doesn't justify arrogance. IMHO, it detracts from his brilliance and clouds the clarity of his thoughts.

You're on the money with this one. Accurate table translations was an important enabling technology - same with slip-rings for full rotation

Yes, but this was only shown later -- The reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam was published in 1984 by research staff at Ford Motor Company. The Felkamp, Davis, and Kress algori…

Later, that was developed in 1984; CT's use collimated fan beams

Oldendorf and Damadian (MRI) are great examples of Nobel blunders -- my money is on Takahashi for his significant contributions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC325840…

Historians are all storytellers. Critical review is important. I really like this paper which starts by paraphrasing Jane Austen, "i think it quite odd history should be so dull, f…

Story telling is how our society has transferred information since we started to communicate-- understanding the map is not the territory, nor should it be. A beautiful narrative c…

I agree with your comments 100%, I too read and enjoyed the book and found it very complementary to The Idea Factory

Morphogenesis is an interesting area of study, this is a beautiful example

https://bloom.bg/3q5IJXE

Agree, I believe it's because of the comments... also, tried resubmitting the correct link and it broke too, had to use a shortener: https://bloom.bg/3q5IJXE

I agree, diversifying energy sources seems to be the best policy. We've been sending radioactive materials into space for a long time (pu-batteries), albeit quite small amounts. --…