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want to take a bath & read
but
0 unread books in the house that aren't huge textbooks or borrowed

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if anyone would like to do the sort of cancelling me where I get to be wealthy and not have to talk to people, i'm willing to go for it

i don't even want to do anything horrid first, you can just give me the money and the privacy

i promise not to publish any essays about it

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Corona-Impfstoff: Fünf Irrtümer über die Covid-Impfung - Die Welt wartet auf einen Corona-Impfstoff – mit teils falschen Vorstellungen: Weder wird es nur eine Vakzine geben, noch wird sie wohl alle vor einer Infektion schützen. zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020

will there be a philosophical countercurrent to the reliance on big data? an (over-)enthusiasm for simple human understanding?

y'all
adding to your political opinion doesn't make it right
neither does one study. I don't believe there's been an honest attempt to engage with the literature.
the trend is also the fault of those who fall for it
let's shut out the stembro contingent by
- holding points self-tagged as particularly scientific to correspondingly high standards, no boosts if you aren't sure it's our collective best attempt at an honest representation.
- flood some actual, boring, unsexy, everyday science into the tag.

arXiv find: "Data science and the art of modelling"
arxiv.org/abs/2007.04095

churning lots of data isn't enough for good science

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RT @AndreasKemper
Markus Krall fordert, wer bekommt, dem soll das entzogen werden. Die hofiert ihn. Z.B. heute Abend zusammen mit . Gleichzeitig stellt sich die AfD als "Partei des kleinen Mannes" dar.

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@sdtj

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How many papers "Davis, 2008, Nature" can there be? anyway have a random fun paper that was not what I was looking for:
"The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon"
nature.com/articles/nature0705

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Mid-roll ads are going to get auto-enabled on all videos longer than 8 minutes.
#YouTube

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Springer Nature has released these publications related to structural racism and police violence as open access
springernature.com/gp/research

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A sleeping giant?

“These (#carbon) deposits rival #FossilFuels in terms of their size. It's like having a whole additional supply of #coal, #oil and natural #gas out there that we can't control,” says James White, a geochemist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

nature.com/articles/climate.20

#Cryosphere #permafrost

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RT @epsilon3141
This large seroprevalence Study finally answers many questions about severity (and potential impact of an unmitigated second wave)

afludiary.blogspot.com/2020/07

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Looking for any excuse to kick people out of the country.

International students may need to leave US if their universities transition to online-only learning

cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/in

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Only 5-20% of the world population has ever taken a flight.
Of the few percent of the world population who have ever flown, an even smaller proportion flies regularly. For example, numbers for England show that 10% of the residents take more than half of the flights abroad.

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who's still listening to Rowling? I got better things to do

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