TLDR: Xarray is looking for new contributors of all skill levels!
Charles Darwin wrote a less well-known book The Descent of Man after writing the famous On the Origin of Species…
Today’s sciences — especially the social sciences — are in a bit of turmoil. Many…
In the beginning was the cell. This is how everyone started, as simply as this, with a dividing cell. There is a lot of magic in the beginning of life. The fact of life itself…
“First: the asshole helps…
Thanks for writing this up, Ryan! Xarray definitely deserves more developers.
Is it possible to out-source some development efforts (especially small issues) as class projects? Given that several core developers are university faculties (you, Fabien, and maybe others), this seems doable (at least not totally crazy)…
TOXIC TRIFECTA: PFOS, PFOA,PFNA
I am deeply troubled thinking of the toxic soup the fire service has been fed for 40 years. While no one said nothing to…
…so after some research, so I don’t spout unresearched opinions like you do, here is the real answer.
We ate a meat+vegetable based diet for 99% of human history. This diet had mostly animal fat (vitamins) and lots of fibrous foods (minerals). We also valued and sought out salt (helps to make more saliva — cleaning the teeth…
There are tons of useful areas of philosophical research. Questioning consciousness, ethics, philosophy of science, etc are all necessary for the future. Philosophers are well suited to answer questions about things like what we should do with artificial general intelligence, especially if they could get along with their subset, the scientists.
by Anand Kumar
If all disease begins in the gut, as Hippocrates declared more than 2,000 years ago…
Why we’re always in pursuit of our fondest days.
I have no idea how smart I am. I can say that I’m educated. I know that much. I have 243 credits on various topics, amounting to over 11,000 hours of formal education. I’ve taken numerous Coursera courses, and other MOOCs on top of all that, as I continue to try to learn.
The Maluku Islands are not well known to science. The Moluccas, the Spice Islands. Seram is the biggest and home to Indonesia’s largest known underground river. Yet the few documented explorations have focused on wet caves, where water is still percolating through and depositing rock…
My name is Magda. I am 7 years old.
A la croisée de la science, de la technique, de l’économie, le cinéma dès ses origines a soulevé des…
There are pivotal events (real and embellished) in the history of knowledge that are legendary: Newton…
Space is hostile to life, for sure. But, anywhere on Earth there is water, we find life. Even the most hostile environments on our own planet are home to some sort of living being. To quote Dr. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park, “Life finds a way.”
Now, even the second-friendliest planet in the Solar System, Mars, is far less…
I simply cannot waste time. I do not know how any of you guys do waste time. “Hanging out” watching meaningless programs, having meaningless conversations, I do not understand them. At all.
That’s a great question, and one at the very heart of understanding life throughout the Universe.
The best method we have to estimate the number of alien civilizations out there is the Drake Equation. This takes in the number of stars, the number of stars with planets, the fraction on which life may have evolved, etc., in an…
Let’s travel back in time a bit. And by a bit, I mean several millennia.
x) Five interesting quantum computing start-ups…
I am not a scientist and I respect what field researchers do. Having said that, I also keep in mind (the obviously ignored fact) that research is intended to add to existing knowledge which means existing knowledge needs to be expanded. Does that mean research deserves to be looked at repeatedly as more comes in? I think it does and that makes any…
Posted on April 10, 2019 by Robin Brooks
If humans were cancer of the earth. It was probably thought a thousand times if we were the enemy of our planet. I don’t mean this. But there is the same aspect of evolution and complexity.
It produces diversity and growing can’t stop. It’s also affected by radiation…
It’s remarkable that one of the most engaging and fascinating objects in the entire universe has always been one which can…
Thank you for this. I share your views. We need more people sharing the truth to dispell all the misinformation and junk science. Unfortunately so many people are far removed from agriculture, so it’s a tough battle.