Like a shrinking number of North Americans, I grew up in a small farming community. Almost half of my…
Вернор Виндж, вероятно, самый последовательный сторонник концепции “оптимистичного постапокалипсиса” в фантастике, несмотря на то, что катастрофы в его произведениях зачастую случаются поистине космического масштаба, людские ошибки — космической же глупости, да и сам термин…
This is a question that has no real answer.
Throughout my career as a science communicator, I’ve heard from countless people that they are not “science people” and could never understand the work that I do.
Even more diverse than modern cannabis varieties are the stories behind them. In…
Among all technological advances that the world will continue to witness, few outstrip, in terms of benefits for humanity, the breakthroughs in the areas of Life Sciences: biotechnology, epidemiology, and medicine, just to name a few. Industries linked to these fields, such as medical equipment and…
By Michael Stebbins. Stebbins is the Director of External Engagement for the Council for Biotechnology Information. Raised on an apple and grape farm just outside Buffalo, NY, he has been in Washington, D.C. for more than 20 years…
Alright mother fuckers 2017 was a dope year and we are moving in strong into 2018. Lots of good shit happened — it’s time to execute and impact even more people in the new year.
USA Today published an article on legalized marijuana and driving. It neatly emphasized the wrong conclusion from the actual study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The study found those with THC in their system were…
Scientists are deploying robotic submarines to understand whether climate change has sped up the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet by ocean currents from below, and how this will affect sea levels.
Why is it is so hard, even in ‘scientific’ writing, to maintain a consistent argument?
This has always been an important question, but more so in a time of fake news, alternative facts and anti-scientific rhetoric. Those who care about the truth may not be…
There Is Always An Alternative To Creationism
Let’s face it, the standard Big Bang hypothesis is a creationist hypothesis. First there was no space, time, matter. All the energy of the future cosmos was in a singularity that had no size whatsoever. Were there angels dancing on the singularity? Then the gods said ‘this is…
Little things that lead to lots of speed
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”
– Albert Einstein
While the effort is commendable, arXiv should really add a commenting feature itself — and unfortunately it does not appear to be open source, preventing people from contributing that feature directly. Otherwise, comments are dispersed over several locations —e.g. comments through Librarian are only visible to Librarian users, and comments through…
Звезды и Трамп: что и как говорили о достижениях науки в 2017 годуУходящий год был богат на научные открытия, но политические решения, принятые в 2017 году в ведущей научной державе США, могут создать проблемы для успехов ученых в будущем…
Some conservation practitioners might question how a regional conservation plan covering a 15-state area could apply to their local communities. Rick Huffines is not one of them.
My Recent Study Supports A Fresh Look at Genders
In the wake of one of the largest-ever cyber attacks — the fast-spreading Wanna Cry ransomware…
The amount of regulation needed in drug approval is a very fine line. Not enough regulation and adverse effect reporting increases, signifying consumers who were negatively affected by the drug. Too much regulation…
You might find this brief exchange between myself (a pragmatarian) and a conservative illuminating. It touches on market forces and science.
It is now November, and the spread of a blight across the country has begun: the moustaches have…
