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Month: June 2020

Redeeming art v. redeeming science

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Recently, someone shared the cover of a soon to be released book, entitled The Physics of Climate Change, […]

June 29, 2020 Analysis, Culture, Science

Clarity and soundness

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I feel a lot of non-science editors just switch off when they read science stuff. A friend told […]

June 27, 2020 Scicomm

Where is the coolest lab in the universe?

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performs an impressive feat every time it accelerates billions of protons to nearly […]

June 18, 2020 Scicomm

Go easy on the dexamethasone hype

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The people involved with the RECOVERY clinical trial have announced via statements to the press that they have […]

June 17, 2020 Scicomm, Science

Journalistic entropy

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Say you need to store a square image 1,000 pixels wide to a side with the smallest filesize […]

June 14, 2020 Analysis, Scicomm

The number of deaths averted

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What are epidemiological models for? You can use models to inform policy and other decision-making. But you can’t […]

June 10, 2020 Analysis, Science

The costs of correction

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I was slightly disappointed to read a report in the New York Times this morning. Entitled ‘Two Huge […]

June 6, 2020 Science

Why we need *some* borders between us

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Borders are often a bad thing because they create separation that is unconducive for what are generally considered […]

June 3, 2020 Culture, Op-eds

Ocean-safe consumption

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Just spotted this ad on the website of The Better India, a journalism website that focuses on “positive […]

June 2, 2020 Analysis, Scicomm

Eight years

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On June 1 last year, I wrote: Today, I complete seven years of trying to piece together a […]

June 1, 2020 Life notes

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