#Universe

why do people treat current peer review system as if it was optimized to help authors and advance science when its primary features - pre-publication review by 2-3 people, binary
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Read about Dave King proposal to sell his shares to Club 1872.Had to laugh at all the misinformation. #1 King: " I provided opportunities for Club 1872 to participate in
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So, every year around this time, I push y’all on one gift you should think about, if you have the curiosity for it, or your kids or relatives do:that first
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No. The 90% probability implies that there is a lot of scenarios where the election is not close. This election was closeIt does not imply that running a model based
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Crazy to think that Thurmond's strategy of throwing the election to the House in 1948 where Dixiecrats could play kingmaker came 10k voters in OH/CA away from working. 1/ I
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1)Have you ever thought that your every in breath charges you with power to live, and every out breath is death? That means that you are perpetually living and dying
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[RANT THREAD] I love Dil To Pagal Hai, but there's this one particular scene from it that has really irked me on recent rewatches. In this scene, Nisha is shopping
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Britain does actually have the potential to be a Japan tier creative exporter, our parochiality is a conscious choice by the generation who run the creative industries The History Boys,
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In the unlikely event that you're like 19 and considering listening to professional revisionists like Paul Krugman: the US went fully out of its mind fascist for like three straight
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Been thinking about the creative process.Friend said, "I took the pressure off nailing it the first time and realized I can just vomit stuff out and iterate!"I said: "Ah yes,
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My biggest takeaway from this year is to leave nothing unsaid. All of those what-if moments and silent whispers of the heart that never pass your lips will haunt you
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THREAD-Deciphering the Five Elements1/nWhat we know is a drop and what we don’t know is the ocean.Our Vedas are an ocean of knowledge and today I am trying to explain
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This is going to be a looooooooong thread over many days even weeks so be patient. One of the most important lectures you never heard of took place in Sweden
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“Bone cancer in children?” That's what Stephen Fry said when asked why he doesn’t believe in God. Pointing to evil in the world and asking why God can’t stop it
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One of my favorite debates in Islamic studies right now concerns the precise character of al-Ghazali's theological standings. The basic contours of the matter are simple: was he more Ash'ari
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Fair play, @NASA!For #Halloween2020 , @NASAJPL has released a set of "Galaxy of Horrors" posters—fun, stylish examples of places in space that will kill you without a second thought.Shall we
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