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The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020
I’ve decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. And this is why the list exists and what kind of articles you can find in it. Want to buy a parrot? … Continue reading
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Tagged augury, black holes, cyptomining, electromagnetic pulses, entropy, F-commerce, Facebook, Hope Mars mission, India water crisis, neutrinos, North Kosovo, nuclear explosion, reading, social network, Standard Model of particle physics, UAE
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The occasional linklist – July 19, 2020
I have been pondering creating a column on my blog where I share links to articles I read and liked. I perform this function on Twitter at the moment, but the attention some links attract are rubbish, and I reflexively … Continue reading
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Tagged diseases, fascism, international students, New York city, Nuclear power, pop physics, racial bias
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The sea of metal
Two of the most decisive moments of the Second World War that I can’t get enough of are the Battle of Stalingrad and the D-Day landings. In the Battle of Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler’s army suffered its first major defeat, signalling to … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 June 1944, Adolf Hitler, Allied invasion of Normandy, Battle of Berlin, Battle of Stalingrad, beachhead, Caen, D-Day landings, English Channel, fascism, Friedrich Paulus, Geoffrey Wawro, military history, Operation Neptune, Peter Lieb, Second World War, World War II
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Distracting from the peer-review problem
From an article entitled ‘The risks of swiftly spreading coronavirus research‘ published by Reuters: A Reuters analysis found that at least 153 studies – including epidemiological papers, genetic analyses and clinical reports – examining every aspect of the disease, now called … Continue reading
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Tagged bioRxiv, cherry-picking, COVID-19, Elisabeth Bik, peer review, preprint papers, preprints, Reuters, Smut Clyde, The Lancet
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Five reflections on science day
Science Day isn’t a very meaningful occasion in and of itself. It is the day C.V. Raman discovered the light-scattering effect named for him. Raman won a Nobel Prize for his discovery, and – by commemorating February 28 as ‘Science … Continue reading
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Research funds gridlock: who wants what
On January 30, the Union ministry of finance announced a 24-25% hike in the junior (JRF) and senior research fellowships (SRF) amounts effective from January 1, 2019. The decision had been prompted by a longstanding demand of India’s community of … Continue reading
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The history, culture and science of ‘cardiac coherence breathing’
A recent article in Scientific American on the benefits of “proper breathing” for overall health has ignited anger across social media, with many in India accusing the magazine of rebranding or even appropriating the ancient Indian breathing technique of ‘pranayama’. … Continue reading
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Which supercollider will be built?
After CERN announced the plans for its new supercollider, I was surprised no one wanted to address the elephant in the room: the supercollider’s similarity to one announced by China a few months ago. The Chinese machine is called CEPC … Continue reading
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Breaking down CMB Bharat
A consortium of Indian scientists has submitted a proposal to the national space agency for a new space science mission called CMB Bharat. Let’s break it down. What is CMB Bharat? According to Tarun Souradeep, a senior professor at the … Continue reading
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