Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 399 posts.
Matt Parker, employing the enviably pithy prose typical of a content creator forged on the unforgiving fires of social media, asked the simple question back in 2018: > How thick is a three-sided coin? Translated into mathematician-ese, this means > What aspect ratio of a flipped coin leads to the chance of landing on…
I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...
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Haleakalā and Maunakea, Hawai ʻ i – For the very first time, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before it collapsed into a Type II supernova.
Procter & Gamble has driven research on TMAO and heart disease since 2015
Penn State scientists have created flexible thermoelectric devices that can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces, converting wasted heat into electricity more efficiently than previously possible.
If you think that people who deliberately engage in dubious scientific practices like plagiarism, falsification of results, or attendance at fake conferences represent the worst of scientific misconduct—then you have clearly never heard of Elena Ceausescu.
In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding.
A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.
A blog by and for database architects.
Princeton researchers studied the Common Eastern Bumblebee to learn how social isolation impacts behavior and brain development.
Blame Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the world’s worst plastic polluters, according to a new study
Casual introduction to the uncertainty principle from quantum mechanics and how it leads to neutron stars and superfluids
Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now researchers from the University of Gothenburg and elsewhere are warning that forests on nutrient-poor land won’t be an additional carbon sink in the long term. As forests age, their uptake…
Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world, from decision theory to the philosophy of science. But does it make sense to quantify our beliefs about such ineffable things as scientific theories or the future? And what separates
Posted on Thursday 14 Jul 2022. 1,157 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.
Chocolate Industry and As You Sow release three-year, collaborative study BERKELEY, CA –A new report released today by As You Sow and the National Confectioners Association is the result of a three-year effort by a multi-disciplinary panel of four experts...
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