New test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes | Science | AAAS ⌘ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/new-test-detects-coronavirus-just-5-minutes
Notre Univers n’aurait pas besoin de big bang pour exister - Science & Vie ⌘ https://www.science-et-vie.com/ciel-et-espace/cosmologie-notre-univers-n-aurait-pas-besoin-de-big-bang-pour-exister-58160
Grether Archive https://themanofstone.com/random/science_fiction_generator
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
Science Fiction | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickythepixel/sets/72157616819585543
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html
A superposition of possible facts causes quantum conflict | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/choose-your-own-facts-in-quantum-mechanics-you-kind-of-can/
Why debts associated with poverty can cause long-lasting problems | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/number-of-debts-not-just-amount-causes-psychological-burden/
The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/the-revolutionary-discovery-of-a-distributed-virus/584884/
Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction | Leaping Robot Blog | Patrick McCray http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/
The Other Kind of Climate Denialism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-other-kind-of-climate-denialism
The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives
Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/
Chimpanzee Traditions Are Disappearing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/we-are-destroying-chimpanzee-cultures/584146/
“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research
List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/
Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/
Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/technothriller
Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode
A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems
What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/
Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html
Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily https://factordaily.com/china-science-fiction/
Band name of the day: science weekends
Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/economists-calculate-the-true-value-of-facebook-to-its-users-in-new-study/
I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Lecture notes! Intro to Quantum Information Science https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943
No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety
What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/
Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/
Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/
The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html
Hot take: science fiction movies are extremely rare. Most films that are sold as science fiction are actually action-adventure with fantasy elements that are coded as scientistic.
Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/
Dialectics of Darkness | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/dialectics-of-darkness
Meet the Endoterrestrials - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/
Past Masters of the Postmodern | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/past-masters-of-the-postmodern
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-fiction/
Online Bettors Know If Psychology Studies Will Replicate - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientists-can-collectively-sense-which-psychology-studies-are-weak/568630/
Escaping the Default Future When Writing Science Fiction | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/
PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html
365 tomorrows : A New Flash of Science Fiction Every Day https://365tomorrows.com/
Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
“Science Fiction & Information Law” Essay Competition - IVIR https://www.ivir.nl/science-fiction-information-law-essay-competition/
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/
28c3: The Science of Insecurity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
Flying Saucerers: The Role of Science Fiction and the Occult in the Birth of the UFO Era – The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/05/flying-saucerers-the-role-of-science-fiction-and-the-occult-in-the-birth-of-the-ufo-era/
Whatâs That Smell Youâre Reading? | Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
Lost in Math: Beauty != truth | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/lost-in-math-beauty-truth/
Are ‘Learning Styles’ Real? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here’s What’s Next. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/
How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-science-fiction-feeds-the-fuel-solutions-of-the-future
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
How Psychopaths See the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-hidden-problem-at-the-heart-of-psychopathy/555335/
Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133
Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html
Cloudflare Terminates Servic… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kgv5/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-the-pirate-bay-of-science
Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/
Black Mirror and The History of Science Fiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is M… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radical-1970s-group-relevant-science-for-the-people-politics
Bad Behavioural Science: Failures, bias and fa… https://jasoncollins.org/2016/05/11/bad-behavioural-science-failures-bias-and-fairy-tales/
Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/
Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/researchers-find-oddities-in-high-profile-gender-studies/
Why written languages look alike the world over | Science | AAAS http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/why-written-languages-look-alike-world-over
New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/new-zealand-predator-free-2050-rats-gene-drive-ruh-roh/546011/?curator=MediaREDEF
Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science
Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy? | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37873/1/watching-hackers-in-2017-where-did-the-anarchy-go
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/
Here be woodcuts: science, mysticism and early modern memes | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/here-be-woodcuts-science-mysticism-and-early-modern-memes
Modern Meadow Grows Leather in a Lab Without Cows - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/modern-meadow-lab-grown-leather/540285/
How Mushrooms Became Magic - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-mushrooms-became-magic/537789/
I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Spitting out the Red Pill: Former misogynists reveal how they were radicalised online http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/02/reddit-the-red-pill-interview-how-misogyny-spreads-online
A brief history of quantum alternatives | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-quantum-alternatives/