In both the U.S. and Britain, many healthcare workers are refusing to take the vaccine. Reasons vary greatly. If it were available to you tomorrow, would you take it?
h/t LindaL
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…about 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton introduced the idea that all matter exists at points called particles. One hundred fifty years after that, James Clerk Maxwell introduced the electromagnetic wave – the underlying and often invisible form of magnetism, electricity and light. The particle served as the building block for mechanics and the wave for electromagnetism – and the public settled on the particle and the wave as the two building blocks of matter. Together, the particles and waves became the building blocks of all kinds of matter.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Follow the politics: I will say that the most difficult paper that my team (the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab) and I have ever tried to publish was a paper on the topic of political motivations that underlie academic values of academics.
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BREAKING: Danish mask study that JAMA, NEJM & Lancet REFUSED to publish was just published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
In the largest randomized controlled trial to date w/ 6,024 subjects, medical masks were NOT effective protection against infection.https://t.co/HyFiQX2qPG
— James Todaro, MD (@JamesTodaroMD) November 18, 2020
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Absolutely massive error in a new Nature paper
Says it shows hurricanes decaying slower over land post-landfall (more damaging)
But they forgot to remove storms that landfall & then go back over the ocean
L=orig data
R= minus ocean stormsHT @RyanMauehttps://t.co/lEpeOppYED https://t.co/YztrxnwCko pic.twitter.com/kX0o8Dl5Vd
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) November 11, 2020
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Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa Push Back Our Timeline…Again
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.
h/t Chris
Math Is Hard
It was my understanding that there would be no gene.
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As Voyager 2 moves farther and farther from the Sun, the density of space is increasing.
It’s not the first time this density increase has been detected. Voyager 1, which entered interstellar space in 2012, detected a similar density gradient at a separate location.
Voyager 2’s new data show that not only was Voyager 1’s detection legit, but that the increase in density may be a large-scale feature of the very local interstellar medium (VLIM).
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It sounds absurd that an obscure US company with a hastily constructed website could have driven international health policy and brought major clinical trials to a halt within the span of a few weeks. Yet that’s what happened earlier this year, when Illinois-based Surgisphere Corporation began a publishing spree that would trigger one of the largest scientific scandals of the COVID-19 pandemic to date.
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Revisiting the surface stations;
A new study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing presents clear-sky surface UHI (SUHI) intensities for 497 urbanized areas in the United States by combining remotely-sensed data products with multiple US census-defined urban areas.
The SUHI intensity is the difference in surface temperature between the built-up and non-built up pixels of an urbanized area.
The study reported that the daytime summer SUHI was 1.91 °C higher and the daytime winter SUHI was 0.87 °C higher.
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Everything old is new again: Paleontologists find evidence of new mass extinction 233 million years ago
Khmer Noir
The virus of critical race theory is spreading to all of the national laboratories.
In new documents from Argonne National Lab—which handles national security and supercomputing for the federal government—a whistleblower describes a relentless campaign of racial harassment.
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— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) August 20, 2020
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Shockingly young galaxy surprises scientists with its impressive bulge
h/t Instapundit, with a punchline too funny to steal.
Published This Month In The Journal Of The Blindingly Obvious
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Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
When the stone tools were first unearthed, researchers suspected there was something familiar about them. Scientists took note of the flute-like grooves texturing the sides of the stone points.
The tools examined for the study were found in Manayzah in Yemen and Ad-Dahariz in Oman, researchers said.
“We recognized this technique as … probably the most famous of the prehistoric techniques used in the American continent,” lead researcher Remy Crassard, head of archaeology at the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences, told UPI. “It took us little time to recognize it, but it took us more time to understand why fluting was present in Arabia.”
By “understand”, they mean “take a wild ass guess”.
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That gentle sucking sound: …last year, a team of astronomers showed that there’s a safe zone around each supermassive black hole in which thousands of planets could be orbiting.
h/t PaulHarveyPage2
Sure, Name Them “Orcs”
Because it’s 2020: The team of scientists found four strange objects that they describe as “circular edge-brightened discs” which don’t correspond to any known object in the records. The team has named them ORCs, short for “odd radio circles,” and they’re eager to learn more about them.
h/t PaulHarveyPage2