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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Report: Solar PV Costs Continue to Fall in 2016
According to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, solar costs continued to drop in 2016.
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Driverless, Electric Shuttles Now Operating in Lyon, France
The City of Lyon in eastern France has brought a driverless, electric shuttle service to its streets
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All Together Now! U.S. Department of Energy Sums Up Why We Should Be Optimistic About Clean Energy
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy Released “6 Charts that Will Make You Optimistic About America’s Clean Energy Future” that track cost declines and rising use of some key technologies...
Anecdotes from the Archive
A War of Information, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 30, 1916
Plugged In
Solar Software Company kWh Analytics Raises $5 million
This month, San Francisco-based solar software company kWh Analytics announced that it had raised $5 million in Series A venture capital to support the scaling of the company’s solar data platform as well as its new “PowerLock” (an A-rated insurance-backed production guarantee)...
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9 Bizarre and Surprising Insights from Data Science
The petabytes of information currently available to analysts amounts to a boundless playing field of possible truths
Anecdotes from the Archive
Measuring the Wind for Artillery, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 23, 1916
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Air Traffic Control without Towers
Virtual towers located miles away from airports would be far more cost-efficient and—in principle, at least—just as safe
Anecdotes from the Archive
Building the Big Guns, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 16, 1916
Anecdotes from the Archive
The Telephone at War, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 9, 1916
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