What was the sunniest place on Earth in 2016? I used some satellite data to figure it out and…
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As some of you know, I have written a textbook, “An Introduction to MATLAB for Behavioral Researchers” [details about the book]. Now, my goal here isn’t to advertise about my book, though I do think many would find it useful, but rather to talk about how I ended up…
By P. S. Chen. 1942
(This piece was written by my late father, a chemistry professor at a small liberal…
Surprisingly this book http://amzn.to/2i2PuFi is not top bestseller, cannot understand why. top5 books ever. David Deutsch is one of the most optimistic and broad thinking authors. he combines humans, parallel universes, unlimited progress…
If you look at what life is from around the world, It basically boils down to atoms which interacts with each…
Dinosaur purists, look away now — today’s obscure prehistoric reptile is a late-Cretaceous pterosaur, Nyctosaurus. And what has it got on…
Urge you to watch the video interview with Ian Bremmer to grasp how fragile and precarious the world has become.
stood up when she walked in. I offered to stay outside until he was done seeing her, but the doctor waved at me to sit. He motioned her to another chair adjacent to his desk. Though it was in Nigeria in the 90s, and I knew nothing about…
This was my opening question for TED Talks science curator David Biello in a recent chat about “Unnatural,” his new book on the Earth’s #Anthropocene moment of intertwined…
Astrophysics is the universe’s music. Astrophysics is the applied science of…
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The best way I can think of to describe the idea of social gravity is it’s an emergent pattern that arises on social networks between people who think like each other, even if they themselves are unaware of it.
Five hundred years ago, people in the supposedly civilized world of that time believed that men had one rib less than women. The Bible told them that God used one of man’s ribs to make a woman.
Keep in mind that clean air and clean water technology, capitalization, manufacture, operations and services are still desirable efforts especially if they creates jobs regardless of any presidential conclusion about Climate Change. The two are separate issues.
Our future situation with AI, especially AGI and ASI, is complicated because there are so many players and moving parts. On my Medium publication, A Passion to Evolve, there are numerous articles addressing these different…
Recently, a team from Yale University found a protein that plays an important role in intravascular deposition of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which provides an innovative medical approach to block…
When we look back at the creation of genders, millions of years ago, we can answer to a lot of questions of today’s society.
A female is required to sacrifice a significant amount of time and effort to achieve reproductive success. On the…
It comforts me to find worth in the insignificant, to believe in fate, to trust in an ultimate destiny, and to imagine that all transpires for a…
In the genome of human body, there is a large number of genes small open reading frame (smORF). They encode too small proteins that most of these genes have not been annotated, not to mention the function of the protein…
maybe it was just
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Gypsies’ Life Stylin part4: Tourists’ SEAs
Astrophysics is the universe’s music. Astrophysics is the applied science of everything. Everything we, humans…
Genesis
There was a beginning,
A moment when space and time began,
But before the beginning, something,
Which seems odd as it’s nothing,
Not an absolute, to be understood,
Online Security Anonymous Internet Vigilantes Are Taking Peer Review Into Their Own Hands
Since 2012, the message board PubPeer has served as a sort of 4chan for science…
