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"Assuming there are 500 reactors in use in the world, the above CDF estimates mean that, statistically, one core damage incident would be expected to occur somewhere in the world e…

"The sample of premodern populations shows an average modal adult life span of about 72 years, with a range of 68-78 years (Table 4). While modal age at death is not the same as th…

Paper: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30538-X "Facial images can be linearly reconstructed using responses of ∼200 face cells."

Only 15 plants in operation have gen-3 passive cooling features and these systems are hardly fail safe. http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...

Downvotes are often attached to inconvenient truths. The safety of nuclear power is based mainly on wishful thinking. It's the classic folly of chasing short-term cost savings and …

Professor Grimm's death is a horrible tragedy and a major blow to the community. He will be greatly missed by those who were fortunate enough to know him. Perhaps institutions that…

David Mermin wrote a classic paper that illustrates the strange statistical properties of entanglement in a way that doesn't require any physics knowledge. http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoe…

As an analogy, I would say a law against counterfeiting money shouldn't apply to things which aren't currencies (like counterfeiting a designer handbag or forging Linden dollars in…

I think for most people, bitcoin isn't particularly user-friendly yet. By comparison, selling a used phone on eBay or craigslist is pretty easy...

Interestingly, the law specifically includes "foreign currency" in the definition of monetary instrument.

The claim is that the term "funds" included in the definition of "financial transaction" [1] covers bitcoins. "Funds" typically denotes cash or an asset that is highly liquid, not …

An interesting response to the fluid experiments discussed in the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0466 Comment on Y. Couder and E. Fort: "Single-Particle Diffraction and Interfe…

"Those sent to work in town often had some input in their choice of master and some, like Frederick Douglass, were allowed to live on their own upon surrender of satisfactory wages…