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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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Pulsar timing arrays are essentially gravitational wave detectors as big as the Milky Way
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Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition
Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other
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It could mark the birth of a new kind of astronomy
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A Visual (Information) Paradox
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Merging Black Holes: A Matter of Some Gravity
Two black holes merging can cast off a few percent of their total mass as gravitational waves in just minutes, sending the final object off on a high-speed journey through the universe...
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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Fears Theorists, Lacking Data, May Succumb to "Wishful Thinking"
Blogger “Bee” Hossenfelder is not afraid to sting her fellow physicists.
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Where Everything Is in the Solar System, Right Now
NASA knows, and it maintains active archives of these data. Here are maps for the positions of known natural objects in the inner, outer and distant solar system in January 2016
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The Fermi Paradox Is Not Fermi's, and It Is Not a Paradox
Despite what you'll often read, the Nobel prizewinning nuclear physicist never suggested that aliens don't exist
The Urban Scientist
Flatline demonstrates why culturally relevant science education like #HipHopEd is imperative
B.o.B has been spitting mad knowledge to free his followers from the cultish brainwashing grip of science. The earth is Flat. FLAT!! And he has proof!
I have questions (and side eye)...
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