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At least we tried? #tfr

  • Looking for a specific type of horror recommendation

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  • "The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones. Watch out for deer. You never know.

  • A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise - Good article shows the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors

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  • This blog post hyperbolically has "do-or-die moment" in title, and then concludes with with the final breathless line, "we must act now, before it is too late" (which it claims is "every scientist's most familiar motto", whatever that means). Yet nowhere at all in the blog post or the paper is any suggestion of what "act" could or should be done to avoid this "die" condition.

    The "limitations" section of the article is a bit telling (and at least seemingly honest).

    • relies "on the instances of scientific fraud that have been reported" (i.e. someone else has already detected fraud and "acted" on it)
    • speculates that there's a lot more fraud, but has no way to quantify or measure, so it is just speculation
    • "temporal changes in detection effort or in the attention paid to different fields may produce spurious trends" (um, okay, so we don't even know if the data they do have is comprehensive enough)
    • "systematic fraudulent activity has always been large but that only now has been detected" (ah, an alternate hypothesis just thrown out there that could invalidate the entire conclusion, but is not explored)
    • not actually in the limitations section, but elsewhere it is also noted

    I like also how the blog post admits, 'there is still no standard definition of what a “paper mill” actually is.' In fact no definition is offered by the blog post or the article, though the term is used constantly. (As though the problems of "paper mills" hasn't been a known concern for dozens of years already.)

    The blog post concludes with "If the model public goods game offers any prognostication". But the "game" model is one that the author just made up earlier in the post, and arbitrarily setting the rules, boundaries and parameters for. So basically this is saying, "if my [extremely simplistic] made up analogy is true..."

    I sympathize with the authors' concerns, but this article seem to me to have a lot of problems, and not offer much of what was promised. Can't help but wonder if PNAS picked it up just for flame-bait... which would be ironic.

  • Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They're So Big

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  • What Are Your Thoughts On One Of Tolstoy's Greatest influences? (Followed By My Brief Commentary)

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  • I have my doubts knowing who the peasant was, or what they said, would enlighten us much. Many things happen in context and have meanings to particular people at particular moments which may not translate generally. In the passage you quote, Tolstoy also says that reading of "Chetyi-Minei and the Prologues" (thank you for the wikipedia link for that) had the same effect on him as listening to the peasant. Would reading these ancient books have the same effect on us? Maybe some of us. But not many of us, if any.

    An irony is that Tolstoy says he regards supernatural miracles "as fables to express thoughts". But almost certainly the illiterate peasant that had such an effect on him would have considered supernatural miracles to be literal historical facts. I would guess that this person likely embraced in many ways the very things Tolstoy found repulsive in the church. But there was something to what they were saying that day which struck him.

    We do not entirely have to guess. In the quoted passage, Tolstoy seems to emphasize "that death does not exclude life" being an insight he finds mirrored in many religious stories. So my guess is that there was something about what the peasant was saying, or the way they were saying it, that spoke of this simple and transcendent theme to Tolstoy's heart. The person may have been a raving lunatic. The person may have been a statue seen in a particular light. The person may have been a gifted savant, an uneducated genius. The person may have been a mystic who spoke in peculiar riddles that happened to echo Tolstoy's thoughts. The possibilities are endless. Almost anything can bring a sense of insight to those looking.

    Anyhow, thanks for sharing. It's been a long time since I thought about Tolstoy.

  • U of R professor found liable of defamation for calling a book ‘racist garbage’

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  • 'her lawyer reminded her they were fighting for “the principle of free speech.” “I’m hoping that the activists will now realize there are limits to their behavior,” she said.'

    So the "principle of free speech" they were fighting for was the principle of limits to free speech?

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    Elon Musk’s Empire Is Crashing And It’s Not Just Tesla

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  • The article specifically talks about the safety net of government/NASA contracts, and the lead in launch services.

  • Lance-leaf Coreopsis looking good

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  • Meanwhile, my coreopsis have barely emerged from the soil... Sigh.

  • Ez and Lucy judging me. 😭

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  • That is some intense judgement. What did you do?? Withhold treats? Breakfast 3 minutes late?? It's going to take a while to get over this. At least the little green thing is respectfully ignoring you.

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    Australia just did the funniest thing

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  • China deploys world's first three-satellite constellation on distant retrograde orbit

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  • What's your favorite webcomic?

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  • Poor chewing ability linked to increased risk of malnutrition in older adults

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  • Also kind of interesting to know there is a quantifiable methodology for rating chewing capabilities, which could potentially be used in other studies.

    Anyhow I suspect when we are old and don't understand what is happening to our weakening bodies some of us may have a greater appreciation for this particular study.

  • Taking Criticism | Poorly Drawn Lines

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  • I like the plant

  • help me choose a cycling computer?

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  • I grabbed the cheapest reasonable looking iGPSport bike computer/tracker from aliexpress years ago. Didn't have Garmin money. It did the job. Had excellent battery life. Stored my tracks. Connected with heart rate and cadance monitor. The device registered as a storage device over USB and could just copy the gpx files off the thing. There's also android app that syncs over Bluetooth and with chinese igpsport web site (and can link to strava). Any how it was a bit hacky, but a cool relatively cheap device. Sadly I havent used it in years. Not sure about current igpsport devices. Maybe they will still do simple USB file transfers (if you want to stay offline), maybe not. Something to check out maybe. Not a huge investment.

  • Recommendations for VoIP provider

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  • Been with VoIP.ms a long time. So long that I don't really know what alternatives are out there. It works for me. I've never required any support though, so not sure about your activation issue.

  • Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?

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  • Voyager also has a web app interface that has keyword filtering which works well for me. https://vger.app/

  • The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption

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  • Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations?

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  • My suggestion for the steam winter sale is chech out the GOG winter sale. But maybe that's just me.

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    Israel bombs Damascus as an Israeli invasion seizes land in the Golan Heights buffer zone

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  • Misleading headline wording. Makes it seem one thing lead to the other, rather than reality being the other way around.

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    "Preparing for a Fascist America", Jason Stanley (Yale University, Philosophy). 'Black American intellectuals have always used the concept of fascism' #politics

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    "What Makes a Good Judge?", Vivien Rose, Justice of the Supreme Court of UK. #law

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    "The invisible universe, from supernova to black holes" [2021], Matthew Bothwell, U of Cambridge. What it means to view infrared light, and why JWT is important. #astronomy

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    "What Does it Take to Make a Universe?", Harry Cliff (Cambridge). Our understanding and discovery of how elementary particles came to be. #physics

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    "Inventions That Changed The World: GPS", Prof. Richard Harvey (Greshem). History of the Global Positioning System and how it works. #technology #history

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    "Foreign Femininity and Masculinity in Japanese Translation", Dr. Momoko Nakamura (Kanto Gakuin University). Describes stereotypical Japanese gendered affects imposed on foreigners. #language #gender

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    "The Geology of Titan", Ralph Lorenz (John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Maryland). What we know about Saturn's (and solar system's) most earth-like moon. #astronomy #geology

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    "The Unfinished Internet", Vint Cerf (actual inventor of the internet). Internet design history leading to current issues, and maybe an interplanetary net. #compsci #engineering

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    "Covid-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges", Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD. Beatty Lecture, McGill University. #medicine

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    "A New View of the Universe from the Earth’s South Pole", Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Neutrinos... how do they work? #physics #astronomy

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    "Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)" [2014], Nell Painter, MFA, PhD. Oddly, it has to do with a skull, and idealized slave women? #history #anthropology

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    "The Psychology of Climate Change", Lorraine Whitmarsh (psychologist), Amiera Sawas (PhD, Human Geography), Renzo Guinto (MD). Three short talks sharing different perspectives. #climate #psychology

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    "Apes in Science Fiction", Jim Endersby (History of Science, U of Sussex): how humans map and reflect themselves, and view nature, in King Kong, Plant of the Apes, and more. #literature #film

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    "What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology?", Prof. Dan Davis (U of Manchester). Recent technologies that lead to new insights. #medicine #biology

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    "Magic and the Occult in Islam: Ahmad al-Buni (622H/1225CE?) and his Shams Al-Ma'arif" [2013], Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (U in Cairo). Talismans, magic squares, numerology. #religion #history

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    "Tate not State: Refining Sugar, Capitalism and Corporate PR in the British Commonwealth in the 1940s and 1950s", Prof. Erika Rappaport (U of California). #history #sociology #colonialism

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    "Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong", Dr. Giles Yeo, Geneticist. #medicine #biology

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    "Tribal and Religious Identity in Afghanistan" [2012], Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Summarizes the ethic divisions and current complicated relationships. #sociology

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    Neil Young bows out of Farm Aid benefit concert over COVID-19 concerns

    www.cbc.ca /news/entertainment/neil-young-farm-aid-concert-1.6146519
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    "What can smart materials do?", Skylar Tibbits (Self-Assembly Lab at MIT). Using and embedding simple information to create useful behaviors at low physical levels.