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Re:An Unsolicited Guide to Being a Researcher [pdf] on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:36PM (#47492608)
Except maybe the "aim for 2 papers a year"

I wish !

The author actually has an article on that specific compound. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/myth-ethidium-brom...

Not saying chronic exposure can never have adverse effects

Re:AI Photo Geolocation on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:48PM (#40239170)
thotDBSmash ??

Does this imply that the people behind the website specifically saved "juicy" user-uploaded images?

Wow this looks amazing.

I have never seen fonts used like this.

Any other examples?

Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:14PM (#38807465)
How has firefox discriminated against you as a white male?
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:08PM (#38807364)
Awesome blog post, thanks for sharing!
Snow in the Northern Hemisphere is likely to be cleaner by the end of this century — an effect that will partially offset the effects of global warming1.

Global warming has reduced snowfall and accelerated snowmelt in mountainous regions, threatening the supply of fresh water for two billion people worldwide. Snow melts even faster if it is covered with sooty particles of black carbon, which are produced by the burning of wood and fossil fuels.

Dalei Hao at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and his colleagues used simulations to assess how much soot will land on snow in the next several decades. They project a reduction in black-carbon pollution in snow-covered regions across the Northern Hemisphere between 2015 and the end of the twenty-first century.

Even if global carbon emissions continue to rise for the next half-century, the amount of solar radiation the snow absorbs because of soot and dust pollution will be 62.3% less by 2100 than when the snow was dirtier. The whitening of the snowpack is expected to slow its loss and increase the availability of fresh water, the scientists say.

I don't really understand the connection between increased adult YA readership and the culture war stuff that the article tries to make. Seems to me the author just dislikes YA. Pretty sure the "think of the children," hand wringing would occur regardless
Re: on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:26PM (#36840004)
Not this white supremacy rag again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly

Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:39AM (#36560917)
Please don't believe any old propaganda you here about Germany. You can browse "anti-immigrarion" Websites as much as you want
On Android Microsoft Outlook refused to open links in Chrome or Firefox and made me install Edge from the Playstore.

I couldn't even copy the links to paste them manually, as my organization disabled this. This is not OK.

Re:Tidyverse 2.0.0 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:40AM (#35503758)
Re:Wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:48AM (#33119240)
"turning people into jerky"

This is some better call Saul lawyering

Re:The ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:22AM (#32648313)
Recommend me your favorite liveabaord sailing channels please
Re:Commenting on Hacker News on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:50PM (#32184040)
Any slightly political thread on hackernews is a cesspool on reddit or twitter level. Topics about january 6, the abortion ban, anything adjacent to the "cultur war"...

I suspect the only difference is that technical topics like shiny-rust-program or webframework3000 are less controversial

Funny that you say that.

I found the comments on that hacker news thread predictably awful, like all even slightly political discussion on hnews.

People trying to one up each other with edgy comments on why the ruling is actually a good thing and how smart they are.

A display of privilege and of a real lack of empathy

Re:What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:00PM (#31869238)
Please dont spread misinformation.

The HIV paper has been withdrawn and was total bunk.

See comments on the paper:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1?...

A variety of apps can do that. Pocket casts and Podcast addict come to mind
Re:Useful Python decorators for data scientists on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:10AM (#31477515)
https://github.com/scverse/scanpy

This is incredibly popular in single cell analysis

Re:Climate Disaster Is the New Normal. Can We Save Ourselves? on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:14AM (#28468449)
Cherry picking failed predictions from popular magazines does in no way counter decades of peer reviewed climate science
It certainly has a more bigoted feel.
Re:Statement on New York Times Article on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:37AM (#26132274)
Sounds fair to me. He agrees with a bunch of points and calls Murray's ideas sophisticated. Isn't that aligning oneself?
Re:Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:52AM (#25747627)
Not a stupid question

You don't have to mess around with proteins.

Producing a new protein and especially purifying it is a ton of work. mRNA is comparatively simple to produce

Where did you get the part about it being cheaper from? Most people can't afford private insurance
Re:Doubts over a ‘possible sign of life’ on Venus on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:19PM (#24982947)
can you explain for someone not super math savy?
Re:Medications that change who we are on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:18AM (#22019505)
https://www.livescience.com/55754-does-sugar-make-kids-hyper...

There seem to be a bunch of studies indicating that it is not the sugar that affects the behavior

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