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Paywalled ... pass.

If this were true, there would already be nuclear powered aircraft which would be a much more "achievable" goal given the size and weight of even the smallest nuclear power plants.…

Open source, no. Proprietary? MindBridge.

I have long maintained that scientific consensus is always political and only rarely based on fact. The noisiest and most politically astute scientists rise in stature and influenc…

working already b/c 'buildt' is a new word

personal: surfacebook I since 2014 work: m1 pro w/32GB

Oracle stuff didn't help. It's initial appeal was that it ran everywhere. Now all languages do. So people who just want to code something quickly w/o worries for security, etc. use…

Years of fomenting fear of 'climate change' and painting it as a dire crisis has opened up the general public to the predations of snake oil peddlers. With the public demanding imm…

FORTRAN .... proof? it's still here :-D

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Does it eat _just_ viruses? If so, _which_ viruses? Just wondering if it could be safely introduced in to a body and if some virii are more edible than others.

Read Smil's book "How the World Really Works" The commitment to fossil fuels is a) far greater than you can imagine and b) will not change anywhere in the near future. Bottom line:…

This is a very cute way of getting people's emails. Link to a link to a 'register for free access'. Kind of where I stopped (w/o registering) but clever ... and also last time I do…

mastodon: transfer control from a publicly answerable company to private citizens how does this make sense? it might work at a small scale but how does it scale up? how is is legal…

In a nutshell, they induced the symptoms of hypothermia (shivering, etc.) in a monkey "model" (biologist code for a real living monkey). One of the 'stunning' findings from the dat…

When you know exactly how things will be affected, then feel free to make changes. When you don't know exactly how things will be affected, then you shouldn't make changes. This ac…

The irony is that the math is straightforward and something a 3rd year engineering or physics student will have seen over and over again BUT biology students would find it challeng…

Chilling. The best of reasons are likely present in the research proposal but it takes little imagination to see where this can (and likely will) go. It's only paranoia until it ha…

Fascinating read esp. in light of another article here (somewhere) about the surreal legal manipulations to bring down Sabatini (cancer researcher). It is all about the exercise or…

Valid points in the article but they boil down to: 1) WFH unexpectedly made for awkward at-home office arrangements (eg kitchen table) and meeting formats (eg. zoom) BUT over time …

I don't pay for SO but I do contribute both questions and answers. Asking a question is often as important as answering one. I actually think SO is how the internet should be: take…

Typical biology. Consider: a) why would any creature with a nervous system _not_ feel pain? b) does it not disturb that someone would conduct experiments to see if a creature feels…

More accurate: of all the animals tested for this, honeybees and humans seem to be ...

javascript/nodejs. I had been using Matlab ~15 yrs until I left the institution that was paying for it. I looked around and js/node was the clear winner. NodeJS was being continual…

Why. Would. They. Not? Biology is not science. Ask yourself: what causes 'emotions' in humans? Chemical/molecular balances and imbalances. Same happens in any creature you care to …