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What is Schrodinger's Cat?

scienceme.com
10 min read · May 3rd · Schrodinger's Cat is a hypothetical thought experiment created in 1935 by a man who loved physics and hated cats.
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WIRED

The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

WIRED
~19 min read · 2021-05-13 · All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old research.
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They plucked the size of the particle that transmits tuberculosis out of context, making 5 microns stand in for a general definition of airborne spread. Wells’ 100-micron threshold got left behind.
The New Yorker

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2019 · A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
Reader View · Shared by 622, including Michael Seemann, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️‍🌈, Ward Plunet, mdy, Marsha Collier, Ajit Pai, Beto Esquivel, Richard Deitsch, Tiago Forte, Dominik Grolimund, Aral Balkan, Mike Davidson, Nils Hitze, 𝖪𝖾𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝖶𝗂𝗅𝗌𝗈𝗇 🆚 🦠, Mathew Ingram, LoriBeth, Florian Hanke 🍎, Korben, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Jeff Atwood
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Quanta Magazine

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

Quanta Magazine
7 min read · 2021-07-30 · Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer.
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Undark Magazine

It Took 35 years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why?

Undark Magazine
8 min read · May 25th · The parasite’s complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
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The people who are affected by malaria, "they're not Europeans, they're not Australians, they are poor African children," said Ashley Birkett, director of the malaria vaccine initiative at PATH, a non-profit global health organization. "Unfortunately, I think we have to accept that that is part of the reason for the lack of urgency in the community."
The Atlantic

Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain

The Atlantic
7 min read · 2021-06-09 · “Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”
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“Just because we can decode that information doesn’t mean the brain is doing that,”
nature

How philosophy is making me a better scientist

nature
4 min read · 2021-04-27 · Rasha Shraim’s education helped her to think more deeply about ethics, logic and other big questions.
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Philosophy has expanded my critical and creative thinking. Philosophical arguments often lead to imaginative edge cases and a dive into hypotheticals, which I frequently find creatively stimulating.
The Verge

A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video

The Verge
5 min read · 2021-09-24 · One TikTok created a mystery for some scientific surveys.
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A member of the Stanford Behavioral Laboratory posted on a Prolific forum, “We have noticed a huge leap in the number of participants on the platform in the US Pool, from 40k to 80k. Which is great, however, now a lot of our studies have a gender skew where maybe 85% of participants are women. Plus the age has been averaging around 21.”
The Pudding

We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.

The Pudding
5 min read · Apr 28th · Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
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Quanta Magazine

Computer Scientists Prove Certain Problems Are Truly Hard

Quanta Magazine
7 min read · May 11th · Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.
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Grid

What we can learn from people who take the Flat Earth theory seriously

Grid
5 min read · Apr 4th · “Flat Earth enables people to cast out all previous information that they didn't want to believe and rebuild the world from scratch."
Reader View · Shared by 478, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him)
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“Flat Earth enables people to cast out all previous information that they didn’t want to believe, and rebuild the world from scratch,” she told Grid. “Because what it suggests is a literal worldwide conspiracy and that nothing you’ve been told is true — that the world is vastly different from how it’s been presented. For some people, that’s a very alluring prospect.”
Freakonomics

Is the Placebo Effect for Real?

Freakonomics
20+ min read · Feb 5th · In Latin, the word “placebo” means “I shall please.” In the medical world, placebos mean something … well, a little different. Bapu Jena walks us through the thorny world of placebo research and the…
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KAPTCHUK: And we keep getting this consistent finding. This is still preliminary research, but this is an interesting possibility.

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