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Snowship ready for launch #SpaceX

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Commentary: Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics It’s not enough to try to be nonracist. The physics community needs to act. It can start by hiring, including, and listening to Black scientists. Charles D. Brown II physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.…


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Ultimately, we need to invest very heavily in a crash effort to get point of care diagnostics and technologies like antivirals and an antibody prophylaxis that can make coronavirus a less fearsome foe. We failed to fully plan in January for March; we must plan in March for May.


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You won't ever know if what you did personally helped. That's the nature of public health. When the best way to save lives is to prevent a disease rather than treat it, success often looks like an overreaction.


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I would like to cancel the rest of the year please.


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For aeons, poverty has been cast as a behavioral defect -- the poor are poor because they make bad decisions. Research is now proving the exact opposite: Being poor worsens decision-making, by crowding one's mental bandwith -- thecorrespondent.com/283/why-poor-p… Consider this data ... 1/x


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Kill Sticky makes browsing the web a lot better, especially if you're using a small screen. It's like a graphic painkiller. alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-he…


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Donald Trump soon to announce that he's also a Never Trumper whose word cannot be trusted or held against him.


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Today is climate strike day. Millions of people across the world, according to the organisers, will be marching to save the planet. But having dug into what they're actually marching for, I'm profoundly uneasy. So uneasy, in fact, that it's time for a THREAD.


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"Little, Big" by John Crowley is pretty damn good. I also wouldn't know how to begin explaining why.


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I'd like to tell a short story about America. It begins with me listing a necktie on Ebay. It was this tie. I used to wear it on the 4th of July, but I've been downsizing so I decided to sell it.

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a poem about silicon valley, assembled from quora questions about silicon valley. splinternews.com/a-poem-about-s…

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Yesterday, a bipartisan group of leaders in the U.S. Senate introduced the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, which establishes an ambitious plan to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactor technologies. I can’t overstate how important this is.

Today I’m proud to introduce bipartisan legislation to boost nuclear energy innovation and ensure advanced reactors can provide clean, safe, affordable, and reliable power to meet national and global energy needs.



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