The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs
Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT
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#chemsky 🧪
Never daylight. Forever night.
Three round-bottom flasks, one beaker, and an Erlenmeyer flask contain substances that glow different colors under UV light.
“It looks like a tiny solar system. But instead of planets, it’s a snapshot of my research journey in the lab,” says Sadiya Tanga, a chemistry graduate student at Ashoka University. Read more: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...
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*side note, I knew of RUTFs mostly through John Green describing them, but Plumpy'Nut has to be the most hilarious name. Which, you know, if it helps people remember it and fund MSF, then Godspeed www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/what-...
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When I was a kid I thought George Washington Carver was a bit overhyped, but honestly the older I get the more I appreciate peanut butter. I'm sick and have no appetite but could handle peanut butter bread. Plus without PB, would we have lifesaving Plumpy'Nut? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%...
I mean I actually wasn't in one of the blessed states that had access to this, and I never pay to do my taxes www.irs.gov/e-file-do-yo...
A huge portion of jobs in the US economy are structured either Medieval Guild (massive barrier to entry/high wages, e.g. physicians) or Ponzi scheme (low barrier to entry, race to the bottom wages e.g. Uber driver). We weren't starting from a good base before AI www.jff.org/idea/the-ame...
Pedantic historically aware quibble- but the Luddites weren't mindlessly in favor of "hand labor drudgery" over "mechanical progress!", they were actually simply about "skilled craftsman Labor" over "Owners of the Means of Production Undercutting Capital".
Let's see, if I'm 350 miles to Windsor and my Prius gets 60mpg, I need to keep 6 gallons in my tank at all times to ensure I can flee the country. That... isn't actually unworkable.
Not a bad idea, also, keep your gas tanks topped up. Number one, gas prices increasing by the literal second, number two evacuations, you want to drive as far as you can w/o stopping.
Top 5 meme repurposing
there is perhaps no context in which Dunning–Kruger is more common or more deadly than driving
Yeah, I mean individual people are nuts and have always been, and Covid related damage to visual processing may be real. But when you *deprofessionalize all of the driving jobs* it turns out all the of the drivers are inexperienced. Taxi-> Uber as well as the truckers.
Somebody desperately needs to collect writings of people saying this kind of thing for the last 2000 years and make a tiktok of it
It's actually a decline of union jobs -> 94% turnover in long haul truck driver jobs. The inflation adjusted pay of truck driving has been declining since the 70s. It used to be a good job, and now they are literally all amateurs.
HOT TAKE but these aren't even see saws worth being nostalgic over. There's no murder in that spring!
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
EVEN IF Americans imagine meddling in South American governments to be in the background noise of foreign policy, we ALL KNOW THAT GETTING INVOLVED IN A LAND WAR IN ASIA IS A CLASSIC BLUNDER
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
PSA: the popular pressure and widespread support was
A) the result of a massive post 9/11 propaganda campaign
and
B) AFTER W and Karl Rove had hatched their plots
Can the modern media ecosystem can brainwash people into supporting murdering brown kids in the Middle East as quickly now?
Even at a few days old, these sea anemone planulae are already covered in stinging cells! The stingers of these young Nematostella are marked with a fluorescent green.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social
#StunningStella
That company is a delight
Theranos was a legitimate fraud and got in trouble for lying to investors about innovative tech while quietly using established tech (badly). Similar to... every AI company right now. Artificial wombs are an important step on our journey to full human parthenogenesis.
Foggy First Friday. March morning today in Chicago at sunrise as the fog rolled across the skyline.
the hot dog will be a dollar fifty until the heat death of the universe
