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29.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

S8E3: Bridging ecology and human behaviour systems with Vivek Nityananda Desi Academia Podcast · Episode

In episode 3, the usual gang and the friend of the pod Dr. Harish Prakash are joined by Dr. Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social
We discuss Dr. Nityananda’s research aimed at understanding animal behaviour and the evolutionary persistence of overconfidence
open.spotify.com/episode/7IJU...

25.02.2025 05:52 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I mean, I get that colleges create a lot of value, but imagine any other business making you beg for the chance to give them $50,000.

28.12.2024 19:47 — 👍 3327    🔁 174    💬 132    📌 21

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

19.12.2024 23:57 — 👍 10632    🔁 3172    💬 523    📌 333

Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide A designed chemoenzymatic cascade reaction enables cell-free synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide.

Science and basic research is the only hope for humanity. In a new study authors develop a novel carbon capture technology, that converts CO2 into starch. Really exciting work!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

24.11.2024 02:45 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Watching F1 these days just in the hope that Williams will make the podium. It will happen 🫡

24.11.2024 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Books!

Cute kids book section

Books with a sign that says 'Buy Local'

Cozy bookstore

This is my bookstore, Phoenix Books in Montreal. Show her some love. 🖤

21.11.2024 23:10 — 👍 5346    🔁 314    💬 107    📌 22

You can catch me rambling about computing, race, and labor here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVA... (This conversation with Dr. Lee Artz follows from my article "The cyber-homunculus: On race and labor in plans for computation" in Configurations 30, no. 4, JHU Press, dx.doi.org/10.1353/con....)

21.11.2024 21:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste Has a Bacteria Problem, FDA Finds US inspectors found Tom’s of Maine toothpaste was made with water containing multiple strains of dangerous bacteria and sold to consumers anyway, according to a warning letter posted Tuesday.

US inspectors found Tom’s of Maine toothpaste was made with water containing multiple strains of dangerous bacteria and sold to consumers anyway, according to a warning letter

21.11.2024 15:24 — 👍 112    🔁 55    💬 14    📌 12

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu Warrant also issued for former defence minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu

https://www.ft.com/content/0b62f17a-97db-4817-90f8-f98adead79f0

21.11.2024 12:03 — 👍 833    🔁 255    💬 35    📌 79

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more…

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

19.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 361    🔁 155    💬 35    📌 63

Almost Two-Thirds of New Delhi Homes Unconcerned About Some of World’s Worst Air Hi, it’s Satviki in Mumbai. Pollution season is back in India, and people are so tired of our bad air that apathy is setting in. Let me explain...

Pollution season is back in India, and people are so tired of bad air that apathy is setting in. Read about one of the world’s most toxic air quality in our Prognosis newsletter

19.11.2024 05:00 — 👍 166    🔁 37    💬 15    📌 6

Israel kills at least 72 in north Gaza, orders more evacuations from Beirut Medics are unable to reach the wreckage of a residential tower in Beit Lahiya due to the presence of Israeli troops.

At least 43,846 Palestinians have been killed and 103,740 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, says the enclave’s Health Ministry.

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17.11.2024 11:47 — 👍 922    🔁 499    💬 38    📌 39