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🚢 The process of building a cruise liner at one of the shipyards.
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"Huge interventions should have huge effects. If you drop $100 million on a school system, for instance, hopefully it will be clear in the end that you made students better off. If you show up a few years later and you’re like, “hey so how did my $100 million help this school system” and everybody’s like “uhh well we’re not sure it actually did anything and also we’re all really mad at you now,” you’d be really upset and embarrassed. Similarly, if peer review improved science, that should be pretty obvious, and we should be pretty upset and embarrassed if it didn’t.
"It didn’t. In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. New ideas are failing to displace older ones. Many peer-reviewed findings don’t replicate, and most of them may be straight-up false. When you ask scientists to rate 20th century discoveries in physics, medicine, and chemistry that won Nobel Prizes, they say the ones that came out before peer review are just as good or even better than the ones that came out afterward. In fact, you can’t even ask them to rate the Nobel Prize-winning discoveries from the 1990s and 2000s because there aren’t enough of them."
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
"It didn’t. In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. New ideas are failing to displace older ones. Many peer-reviewed findings don’t replicate, and most of them may be straight-up false. When you ask scientists to rate 20th century discoveries in physics, medicine, and chemistry that won Nobel Prizes, they say the ones that came out before peer review are just as good or even better than the ones that came out afterward. In fact, you can’t even ask them to rate the Nobel Prize-winning discoveries from the 1990s and 2000s because there aren’t enough of them."
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Experimental-History
The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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"Aix Marseille University in France has said that 40 U.S. scientists have “answered the call” it put out earlier this month offering safe harbor to fleeing Americans. Scientists in the U.S. under the Trump regime are facing a sudden loss of funding and stricter regulations on speech and areas of research. According to Aix Marseille University President Eric Berton, some of them will find a home in France."
https://gizmodo.com/we-are-witnessing-a-new-brain-drain-as-scientists-flee-america-for-france-2000575654#:~:text=Aix%20Marseille%20University,home%20in%20France.
https://gizmodo.com/we-are-witnessing-a-new-brain-drain-as-scientists-flee-america-for-france-2000575654#:~:text=Aix%20Marseille%20University,home%20in%20France.
Gizmodo
'We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain' as Scientists Flee America for France
A French university says it's providing safe harbor to American scientists from Yale, Stanford, NASA, and the NIH.
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"Superconductivity: the search and the scandal" - Kit Chapman, Chemistry World, 15APR2024
>In July 2023, the world became obsessed with superconductivity. Two pre-prints from a group in South Korea claimed that a copper-doped lead-apatite, dubbed LK-99 after its two proposers, Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon, was a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. The claims spread across social media, with both seasoned groups and amateur chemists trying to recreate the material. By August, a consensus was reached that LK-99 was yet another dead end, and not a superconductor at all.
>The news followed a paper in Nature that proposed another room-temperature superconductor, this time only showing its properties at intense pressures, by Ranga Dias at the University of Rochester in the US. Yet Dias’ claims have now been retracted, and his data and academic reputation have been brought into question amid allegations of research fraud and plagiarism.
https://archive.ph/uAeWg
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>In July 2023, the world became obsessed with superconductivity. Two pre-prints from a group in South Korea claimed that a copper-doped lead-apatite, dubbed LK-99 after its two proposers, Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon, was a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. The claims spread across social media, with both seasoned groups and amateur chemists trying to recreate the material. By August, a consensus was reached that LK-99 was yet another dead end, and not a superconductor at all.
>The news followed a paper in Nature that proposed another room-temperature superconductor, this time only showing its properties at intense pressures, by Ranga Dias at the University of Rochester in the US. Yet Dias’ claims have now been retracted, and his data and academic reputation have been brought into question amid allegations of research fraud and plagiarism.
https://archive.ph/uAeWg
(Science)
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Kennedy was also in conflict with the State of Israel.
Israel sought to develop nuclear weapons, but Kennedy opposed the idea.
After JFK’s assassination, President Lyndon Baines Johnson approved Israel’s pursuit of the nuclear bomb.
Another factor in all of this.
Israel sought to develop nuclear weapons, but Kennedy opposed the idea.
After JFK’s assassination, President Lyndon Baines Johnson approved Israel’s pursuit of the nuclear bomb.
Another factor in all of this.
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"The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the Trump administration is undermining the integrity and independence of academic research conducted in Canada.
"Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.
"In the questionnaire, Canadian researchers are asked to confirm that their research:
o - does not include a climate or “environmental justice” component
o - does not contain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) elements
o - does not ascribe to “gender ideology”
o - increases American influence globally"
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/03/18/3044445/0/en/Trump-administration-threatening-Canadian-researchers.html#:~:text=2025%20(GLOBE%20NEWSWIRE)%20%2D%2D-,The,-Canadian%20Association%20of
"Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.
"In the questionnaire, Canadian researchers are asked to confirm that their research:
o - does not include a climate or “environmental justice” component
o - does not contain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) elements
o - does not ascribe to “gender ideology”
o - increases American influence globally"
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/03/18/3044445/0/en/Trump-administration-threatening-Canadian-researchers.html#:~:text=2025%20(GLOBE%20NEWSWIRE)%20%2D%2D-,The,-Canadian%20Association%20of
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Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the Trump administration is...
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WORD OF WARNING: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a crackdown on leaks within the intelligence community.
https://trib.al/KeIhSJS
https://trib.al/KeIhSJS
Fox News
Tulsi Gabbard lists 'recent examples of unauthorized leaks' from intelligence community, announces crackdown
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard lists several 'recent examples of unauthorized leaks within the' intelligence community while announcing crackdown.
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Eric Laithwaite's magical experiments regarding spinning wheels and gyroscopes.
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Lockheed Martin has developed a mock-up of the Russian Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system based on a Peterbilt 320 truck, designed to test the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod.
This mock-up, unofficially named "Peter Pantsir," allows for evaluating the effectiveness of guidance and attack systems by simulating real threats.
The use of such mock-ups helps configure autonomous detection algorithms, assess electronic warfare capabilities, and train pilots in controlled conditions without direct contact with operational enemy systems.
Additionally, the mock-up can be used to train OPFOR (Opposing Forces) units that simulate enemy forces during U.S. Army exercises.
This enables the creation of realistic combat scenarios using modified equipment and tactics that reflect potential threats.
This mock-up, unofficially named "Peter Pantsir," allows for evaluating the effectiveness of guidance and attack systems by simulating real threats.
The use of such mock-ups helps configure autonomous detection algorithms, assess electronic warfare capabilities, and train pilots in controlled conditions without direct contact with operational enemy systems.
Additionally, the mock-up can be used to train OPFOR (Opposing Forces) units that simulate enemy forces during U.S. Army exercises.
This enables the creation of realistic combat scenarios using modified equipment and tactics that reflect potential threats.
Forwarded from Today I Learned
today i learned that Incas, the last carolina parakeet who died in 1918, died in the same cage in the Cincinnati zoo as Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died 4 years prior
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WASHINGTON — The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options to increase the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
In his joint address to Congress last week, Trump said that "to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.” Since then, administration officials have not said what "reclaiming" means.
U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to the less likely option of U.S. troops’ seizing the Panama Canal by force, the officials said. Whether military force is used, the officials added, depends on how much Panamanian security forces agree to partner with the United States.
The Trump administration’s goal is to increase the U.S. military presence in Panama to diminish China’s influence there, particularly access to the canal, the officials said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-white-house-asked-us-military-develop-options-panama-canal-offic-rcna195994
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Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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