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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 16 posts.
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Fertility Rate
Explore changing patterns in fertility worldwide, from birth rates to parental ages, twinning rates, reproductive technologies, and more.
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Around 90% of all river-borne plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers
The world has become increasingly alarmed at the amount of plastic in its oceans. But where does all this plastic waste come from?
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Working Hours
How much time do people across the world spend working? How have working hours changed over time, and what do these changes matter for people’s lives? Explore data and research on working hours.
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Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
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How much of the world’s land would we need in order to feed the global population with the average diet of a given country?
There are large differences in the land of different diets, mostly depending on how much meat people eat.
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Cancer
Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
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Each Country's Share of CO2 Emissions
Which 20 countries emit the most carbon dioxide? You may be surprised.
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Income Inequality (2016)
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?
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Climate change
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response.
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Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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Smoking around the world
Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s largest health problems today.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
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Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)
Something central, very central, is missing in historical accounts of scientific and technological discovery. The discourse and controversies focus on the role of luck as opposed to teleological programs (from telos, "aim"), that is, ones that rely on pre-set direction from formal science. This is a faux-debate: luck…
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MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop
MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop!
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