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bean sprout, hoisin. Followed my heart on amounts. If you use thin-sliced beef, the hot broth will cook it to medium rare when you pour it over. If you make your own broth, it might seem crazy how much salt you have to add to bring out the flavor you're looking for, but it's worth it!

I make bone broth in the crockpot. Made & froze beef broth & used it for pho today. For 2 ppl, thawed 4.5c broth + 1.5c h20 in pot w/ coriander pods, ginger, whole cloves, star anise, cinnamon stick. Simmered 2h, + rice vinegar, fish sauce. Then rice noodle, thin-sliced beef, jalapeño, basil, lime

Carl Sagan’s famous quote about the photo, and an excerpt from his manuscript:

🐡🧪 #HistSTM #STS

MS from Library of congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590.042/?sp=18&st=image&r=-0.712,-0.046,2.425,1.412,0

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

This. And that’s the documentary based on my book, The Poison Squad. I deeply love the rusty skull-and-crossbones in the plate illustration. It’s perfect.

Vannevar Bush is rolling in his grave over what is being done to publicly-funded science in the US right now.

A reminder: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/Endl...

"The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children."

A beautiful poem about terrible truths. It does give me hope in a perverse way, on this darkest of days.

Federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality. What this means for you. The FCC's net neutrality rules prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging more to deliver it.

A federal appeals court has struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules that prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking content or charging more to deliver it

unlucky issue number thirteen, I guess

thank you!

Does anyone know what happened to Kissing Dynamite mag/if its archives still exist online? The website appears to be dead. My favorite poem of mine (and several favorite poems generally) was published there.

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization."

This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:

me: no it’s not the same time it was yesterday we changed the clocks last nite

my cat: are you even listening to yourself rn

Cats know words, they just don't care: the science

S4 Ep 2 - Simon Schaffer on 'Leviathan and the Air-Pump: 40 years later' (Part 1) - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science This episode is the first of two in which the celebrated Professor of History of Science, Simon Schaffer, discusses the famous HPS publication, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experi...

It's here! In this episode we talk with the amazing Simon Schaffer about the classic HPS Book 'Leviathan and the Air-Pump'

The interview was so good, we have had to break it into 2 parts. Part one out today, part two next week
Listen to a master communicator at work.

#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪

"Sleeping on It" Helps With Rational Decision Making - Neuroscience News A new study reveals that while snap judgments heavily influence decisions made immediately, "sleeping on it" helps people make more rational choices.

“Sleeping on It” Helps With Rational Decision Making - neurosciencenews.com/sleep-decisi...

Once again, when it comes to problem solving, "sleep on it" is neurologically sound advice. For many reasons. This new study adds another one.
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A third of former NFL players surveyed believe they have CTE, researchers find The degenerative brain disease can only be diagnosed after death. But hundreds of retired players reported symptoms linked to CTE, like depression, mood swings and suicidal thoughts.

The degenerative brain disease can only be diagnosed after death. But hundreds of retired players reported symptoms linked to CTE, like depression, mood swings and suicidal thoughts.

Another publisher rules out allowing authors to opt out of having their work used to train AI created by companies they will not name. *Kafka's coffin lid creaks*

www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...

Are you a philosopher, historian or 'STS' scholar that is interested in exploring jobs in 'policy'?

Here's my guide for on ways to explore working in federal government. I frame it for HPS types, but advice is general to all

Please share/comment! www.philscipolicy.com/exploring-sc...

Pleased to share the launch of the Harvard-MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior NeuroLaw Library. Adolescent and young adult brains are different from adult brains, and science-informed justice is the only way forward. I hope you’ll check out our tools!

clbbneurolawlibrary.com

"Policy might ideally 'follow science' but whose science?"

Policy making as a struggle between narratives, important new paper (free to read, I found).

#Complexity

Recent paper by Tamar Wilner et al re: the mismatch b/w the speed of online information and the time-intensive nature of information literacy interventions. One take-away is we need better designs of online tools and platforms to support information literacies (at speed). dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Scholastic's "bigot button" Scholastic, the popular publisher of children's books, is a big business. It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compe...

"Scholastic said it was necessary to segregate these titles because 'there is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools'.... What laws...? Scholastic declined to answer the question."

Serotonin levels are depleted in long Covid patients, study says, pointing to a potential cause for ... Serotonin levels are depleted in long Covid patients, a new study says, pointing to a potential cause for “brain fog.”

Long Covid study points to potential cause for 'brain fog'

www.statnews.com/2023/10/16/l...

Are there certain parts of the writing process that you can't really imagine AI replicating? Or can you just talk a little bit about the kind of labor that goes into writing the work that you do? I'm a writer because I want to write. I don't want a machine to do it for me. I'm a writer because the process of writing is creative in what I do with language, but also in how I understand the subject. I often feel that I don't think hard enough about things until I have to write about them. Often my understanding changes in the process of writing. That's exciting for me. That's my own development, which, ideally, is somehow also something I can share with the readers. I'm engaging in thinking, and what is the point of handing the job of thinking itself over, of understanding something more deeply, seeing the pattern that underlies? Why would I want to give up that profound experience?

This from Rebecca Solnit is my biggest fear about AI. Writing teaches me about myself, and I can't imagine handing that over to a machine whose only incentive is monetizing every aspect of my life. But many people will make that bargain, sacrificing their own self-awareness in the process.

Interesting conversation if you care about things like information source, platform, quality, and accessibility (which IMO we all should). Larger issues of how research and writing, especially for the public, are funded loom in the background, but that doesn't mean we can avoid hard questions.

Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87 Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.

Evelyn Fox Keller, a theoretical physicist, a mathematical biologist and, beginning in the late 1970s, a feminist theorist who explored the way gender pervades and distorts scientific inquiry, has died. She was 87.

Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, influential philosopher and historian of science, dies at 87 MIT Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, a groundbreaking philosopher and historian of science who helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, ha...

“There is no magic lens that will enable us to look at, to see nature unclouded … uncolored by any values, hopes, fears, anxieties, desires, goals that we bring to it." -Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023)

news.mit.edu/2023/profess...

#histsci #histSTM #STS #RIP

EU Faults Musk’s X in Fight Against Russia’s ‘War of Ideas’ Elon Musk’s X was cited as the biggest outlet for peddlers of disinformation as the European Union urged Silicon Valley platforms to step up their vigilance to combat Russia’s “war of ideas.”

Elon Musk’s X was cited as the biggest outlet for peddlers of disinformation as the European Union urged Silicon Valley platforms to step up their vigilance to combat Russia’s “war of ideas”