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TIL: When we pull clothes from the dryer, there’s a reason we can’t tell if they are cold or wet. Humans don’t have humidity receptors to detect wetness.
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TIL: When we pull clothes from the dryer, there’s a reason we...
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"Big sugar."
I should have suspected something like this was at play.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609929026889711617.html
I should have suspected something like this was at play.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609929026889711617.html
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@calleymeans: Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first...…
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☀️ Happy perihelion day! 🌎 Today Earth is as close as it gets to the Sun 🤗 In the animation below, you can find the perihelion & aphelion points for 2023, the equinoxes and solstices, Earth's orbital path, and the corresponding circle of radius = 1 au 💫
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Latest from Tree of Woe...
Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
All seven walls have been breached, or worse — many of the gates were opened by naïve fools, would-be tyrants, and disloyal magistrates, or left unmanned by a decadent and distracted citizenry.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america?utm_source=post-email-noscript&publication_id=99806&post_id=19561273&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:
A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.
All seven walls have been breached, or worse — many of the gates were opened by naïve fools, would-be tyrants, and disloyal magistrates, or left unmanned by a decadent and distracted citizenry.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america?utm_source=post-email-noscript&publication_id=99806&post_id=19561273&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Contemplations on the Tree of Woe
The Seven Walls of Fortress America, Part I
How The Outer Walls Fell...
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The number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades — but the ‘disruptiveness’ of those papers has dropped, according to an analysis of how radically papers depart from the previous literature1.
Data from millions of manunoscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.
“The data suggest something is changing,” says Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a co-author of the analysis, which was published on 4 January in Nature. “You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5
My take on the reasons?
1) A culture of conformity enforced by centralized control of funding and a peer-review process that spikes work with the potential to upset the status quo.
2) An emphasis on social diversity and consensus instead of intellectual diversity and an openness to work that threatens mainstream ideas.
Data from millions of manunoscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend.
“The data suggest something is changing,” says Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a co-author of the analysis, which was published on 4 January in Nature. “You don’t have quite the same intensity of breakthrough discoveries you once had.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5
My take on the reasons?
1) A culture of conformity enforced by centralized control of funding and a peer-review process that spikes work with the potential to upset the status quo.
2) An emphasis on social diversity and consensus instead of intellectual diversity and an openness to work that threatens mainstream ideas.
Nature
‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why
Nature - The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.
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Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.
The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.
Discovered by Russian peasants in 1344, the Wikipedia entry goes, the mine engaged more than 40,000 slaves and freedmen, providing a remarkable source of wealth for the Russian principality of Tver in the 14th and 15th centuries as well as subsequent regimes. The geological composition of the soil, the structure of the mine, and even the refining process were fleshed out in detail in the entry.
Yifan thought he’d found interesting material for a novel. Little did he know he’d stumbled upon an entire fictitious world constructed by a user known as Zhemao. It was one of 206 articles she has written on Chinese Wikipedia since 2019, weaving facts into fiction in an elaborate scheme that went uncaught for years and tested the limits of crowdsourced platforms’ ability to verify information and fend off bad actors.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.
Discovered by Russian peasants in 1344, the Wikipedia entry goes, the mine engaged more than 40,000 slaves and freedmen, providing a remarkable source of wealth for the Russian principality of Tver in the 14th and 15th centuries as well as subsequent regimes. The geological composition of the soil, the structure of the mine, and even the refining process were fleshed out in detail in the entry.
Yifan thought he’d found interesting material for a novel. Little did he know he’d stumbled upon an entire fictitious world constructed by a user known as Zhemao. It was one of 206 articles she has written on Chinese Wikipedia since 2019, weaving facts into fiction in an elaborate scheme that went uncaught for years and tested the limits of crowdsourced platforms’ ability to verify information and fend off bad actors.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
VICE
A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian.
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From Scotland:
"In short, your children CAN consent to irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries rendering them permanently infertile and incapable of orgasm, and should be actively encouraged to do so, but they CANNOT consent to talking about their mental health in any way which might result in them changing their minds about that path, because to do so would render any person they talked to a criminal."
https://wingsoverscotland.com/raise-all-of-the-flags/
"In short, your children CAN consent to irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries rendering them permanently infertile and incapable of orgasm, and should be actively encouraged to do so, but they CANNOT consent to talking about their mental health in any way which might result in them changing their minds about that path, because to do so would render any person they talked to a criminal."
https://wingsoverscotland.com/raise-all-of-the-flags/
Wings Over Scotland
Raise all of the flags
As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw at…
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Substack
#15: Breeding Our Way Out
The unnaturally preserved blog of Dr. John C Bennett
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If the historic American people and culture will be preserved anywhere it will be right here.
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"The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday issued a proposal to ban the use of noncompete clauses, a move that would allow workers to take jobs with rival companies or start competing businesses without the threat of being sued by their employers."
https://archive.is/nLiSq
https://archive.is/nLiSq
archive.is
FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers - WSJ
archived 5 Jan 2023 15:07:09 UTC
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Forwarded from John Carter
Yep. Here's Dutton's take:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gEP4IDNYJqoy/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gEP4IDNYJqoy/
BitChute
Why Has "Disruptive" Science Declined Since the 1950s, But Less Dramatically In the 2000s?
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