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There's a silicon-valley based company that's building a combined thermal storage and TPV system: https://www.antoraenergy.com So these ideas may be get to market sooner than a typ…

This is most likely for someone at UCLA on sabbatical to have an affiliation. Some evidence it might be someone fleeing Ukraine and is being externally funded by a foundation direc…

One of these so-called affiliations was.. serving as an external grant reviewer for some proposal for the Chinese equivalent of the national science foundation (basic/ theoretical …

Not necessarily. Smallpox was around for a very long time till we vaccinated our way out of it. Same with polio.

For earthquake reasons alone this is completely insane, and clearly a blatant attempt at regulatory capture by the concrete association. Just asinine. For most of LA (apart perhaps…

I am sorry to hear this. As a recent father myself, I find the fact that comparatively few fathers here in the US do (or can) take this leave very sad. The act of caring for our ne…

The whole presentation felt a lot like visions of the internet from companies like Microsoft (and others) in the mid-90s.. top-down, centralized.

Here's the quote from the report written by the Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?" https://twitter.com/drewharwell…

Actual words written in a report a highly paid Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?" (I'm going to guess this researc…

Barium sulfate based coatings have been used for decades, maybe a century, as the 'whitest' reflecting standard for optical instruments. I hate to be that guy, but there's nothing …

The hypothesis considered at the very end of the article is intriguing. Time is generally viewed as a smooth variable. But fundamental thermodynamic limits on clocks suggest that t…