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The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.
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You don't have to be a rocket scientist to write about rockets, but I wish sci-fi writers and futurists understood conservation of energy. They'd realize that a lot of proposed tech is fundamentally unable to fix climate for simple reasons.
Take electric cars: to move a one-ton object from point A to point B at a given speed, it takes this much energy, period. It doesn't matter how and where you produce it. And guess what: solar panels are horribly inefficient. Power distribution networks are horribly inefficient. And do you know what happens with all the energy that doesn't end up moving your car?
It becomes waste heat, that's what. Even more heat. Just what the planet needs right now. You're welcome.
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Groundwater extracted for irrigation and other human activities displaced 2,150 gigatons of water between 1993 and 2010.
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About scientific article publishing and peer review in the internet era.
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Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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Once again, the problem isn't relative risk, but how we were lied to, and hunted down for trying to speak the truth.
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(Via the
No Tech Magazine.)
Even true things shouted from loudspeakers start to sound like lies.
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A new book tells the story of the painstaking process to preserve the 1,200-year-old Faddan More Psalter
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A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon.
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Byte Endianness in computers has been a constant source of conflict for decades. But is there really a clear advantage to one over the other? Let’s explore together!
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Read: he deliberately misrepresented Native American teachings to make individualism seem like a good thing rather than the destructive force it is.
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Or as I like to think of it, apparently the only people suffering from it were the titular researchers.
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Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
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The female TA got five times as many negative reviews as the male TA — but they were the same person.
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Scientists are finding that galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models. The reason why could change everything we think we know about the universe.
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Content warning: ableist language
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A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change.
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Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.
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Microscopes made of paper may help the diagnosis of tropical diseases
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La science est quelque chose de bien trop sérieux et précieux pour être laissée aux seuls scientifiques professionnels. Amateurs, de 7 à 77 ans, tout le monde peut et doit y prendre part, facilités en cela par Internet et sa philosophie d’ouverture.
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It all depends on the timing of the full moon relative to March 21st
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