Nature (journal)
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Baudelaire Contra Photography… and Memes?
With a nod in the direction of Modern Disappointment for the inspiration from a comment on the Idea Channel post I put up a few days ago. …During this lamentable period, a new industry arose which contributed not a little… Continue reading
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading
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Dinosaurs developed bird brains before they could fly – Telegraph
Analysis of the skulls of feathered but flightless dinosaurs shows they developed bigger brains that may have paved the way for them to take to the air. Scientists have found that the reptiles’ brains were much more like that of… Continue reading
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Research impact: We need negative metrics too
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook, Kelli Barr and I had a letter published this week at Nature. Exciting for a humble daoist anarchocynic like myself. The correspondence also contains a link to a slightly revised version of our original submission.… Continue reading
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