Blogs about Science
25 blogs about Science.
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4 gravitons
The trials and tribulations of four gravitons and a physicist.
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How Small Scales Can Matter for Large Scales For a certain type of physicist, nothing matters more than finding the ultimate laws of nature for its tiniest building-blocks, the rules that govern quantum gravity and tell us where the other laws of physics …
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Abakcus
The best curation site for only math and science.
By Ali Kaya. More infoUpdated
The Top 5 Math Board Games You Must Play At the intersection of playfulness and learning, math board games offer an extraordinary opportunity to immerse yourself in the captivating world of mathematics.
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THE ANOMALIST
World News on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Paranormal, and Other Mysteries at the Edge of Science.
By Patrick Huyghe et al. More infoUpdated
Ex-CIA And FBI Agent Admits US Government 'Tested Bigfoot Fur' - And Reveals Surprising Result MSN Don't hold your breath, true believers. The only revelation Tom McGhie shares is how enthusiastic the government is at pursuing x-files. Don't worry, the source of the 'bigfoot fur' comes to light in the first …
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Asymptotia
By Clifford V. Johnson. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
A Long Goodbye I've been very quiet here over the last couple of weeks. My mother, Delia Maria Johnson, already in hospital since 5th November or so, took a turn for the worse and began a rapid decline. …
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Azimuth
From math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science … centered around the theme of what scientists, engineers and programmers can do to help save a planet in crisis.
By John Baez. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Martianus Capella In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a book arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This is sometimes painted as a sudden triumph of rationality over the foolish yet long-standing belief …
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Backdrifting: Milo Trujillo's Cyber-Nest
An intersection of social system design, cybernetics, and hacking.
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What is NP? Why is NP? What is NP? Why is NP? Posted 12/11/2024 This post is about theoretical computer science. I’ve written it without getting too far into academic vocabulary, but this is a disclaimer that if thinking about Turing …
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
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Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In …
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Bits of DNA
Reviews and commentary on computational biology by Lior Pachter.
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The Journal of Scientific Integrity by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. …
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Condensed concepts
Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter.
By Ross H. McKenzie. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
From Leo Szilard to the Tasmanian wilderness Richard Flanagan is an esteemed Australian writer. My son recently gave our family a copy of Flanagan's recent book, Question 7. It is a personal memoir that masterfully weaves together a dizzying array of topics, …
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Data Colada
Thinking about evidence and vice versa.
By Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons. More infoUpdated
[121] Dear Political Scientists: Don't Bin, GAM Instead There is a 2019 paper, in the journal Political Analysis (htm), with over 1000 Google cites, titled "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice". The paper …
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Lab Muffin Beauty Science
The science behind beauty and cosmetic products, explained in an easy-to-understand way by a PhD scientist and science educator.
By Michelle Wong. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
Factcheck: Low-Tox Sunscreen Swaps? There’s been a few viral posts about how harmful chemical sunscreens are. The latest one is a post about “Sunscreen Swaps” from @a.glimpse.of.amelia (an Australian “low-tox” consultant) and @jordiepieface (a nutritionist from New Zealand), claiming …
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Mind Hacks – Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
By Tom Stafford, Vaughan Bell. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Chromostereopsis The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. Image: CC-BY Tom Stafford 2022 For me though, …
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New Things Under the Sun
A living literature review on social science research about innovation.
By Matt Clancy. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries The evidence is thin, but we think it probably works!
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Nintil
To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.
By José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Links (83) Laura Deming on understanding Interesting uses of AI The memes of the wealthy Elon dreams and bitter lessons Nabeel on Palantir Scott reviews Deep Utopia Meditation, considered harmful There is no placebo effect Dwarkesh interviews …
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Not Even Wrong
By Peter Woit. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
This Week’s Hype, etc. NYU today put out a press release claiming that Physicists ‘Bootstrap’ Validity of String Theory, telling us that NYU and Caltech scientists develop innovative mathematical approach to back existence of long-held framework explaining all physical …
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Quanta Magazine | Science and Math News
Illuminating mathematics, physics, biology and computer science research through public service journalism.
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The Year in Computer Science The end of 2024 seems a particularly uncertain time in history, and theoretical computer science is no exception. Amid several breakthroughs and new findings, the field also confronted its own doubts and limitations. For example, …
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The Renaissance Mathematicus
An aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now lives mostly in the 16th century.
By Thony Christie. 🇩🇪 More infoUpdated
There is a season, turn, turn, turn… As long time readers will already be aware, here at the Renaissance Mathematicus we don’t celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new on the purely arbitrary 31 December/1 January …
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Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
By Alison Abritis, Ellie Kincaid. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Weekend reads: Shoddy commentaries flood journals; key hydroxychloroquine paper retracted; a researcher confesses Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured: EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats Journal won’t retract paper that involved human organ transplants …
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.
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The Biggest Physics Stories of 2024 2024 has been quite the wild ride, but now it’s time to take a step back and appreciate how far we’ve come this year. Let’s take a look at the five most important developments in …
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Shtetl-Optimized
The Blog of Scott Aaronson.
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The Google Willow thing Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should We Feel?” and also closing …