#Scientists

Okay I am seeing a lot of gamedev twitter talking about QA.Here is my take. Not only are QA real game developers, they are skilled game developers and vital to
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Here’s what I don’t get..Why did @balajis get it right and Dr Anthony Fauci & everyone else who studies this stuff for a living get it so wrong?Why did an
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On citation number as a useless metric, a thread on my personal experience 1/7 I am 46 years old, and have been a professor for 10 years now. Like many
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My granddad died yesterday from COVID-19. He was an atmospheric physicist and committed Christian who devoted his career to climate justice, including chairing the IPCC and changing the mind of
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Is there like a course in medical school where they sit aspiring doctors down and tell them how to respond to proponents of herbal medicine? They all throw the same
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First, it was the War on Drugs. Then, it was the War on Terror. Now, we’re at war with a virus. What’s wrong with this picture? (1/10) As the US
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Science is political, but not just because of identity. That absolutely exists, but science is political at a core, institutional level too. Let’s talk about it: (1/8) Science claims itself
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A new study in France finds hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help patients with coronavirus and was associated with heart complicationshttps://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-intl-04-14-20/h_a81177302a792e1921f9f4f9c482e8f6 This study foll
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Just thinking that if the future of America depended on everyone agreeing that 2+2=4, I'm not sure we could do it. 1/ Early polls show nearly universal acceptance, but before
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The art community has been having a really hard time recently. There is one thing that, I believe, we can agree on, and that's the beauty of artistic fundamentals.I'm going
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Something wildly under-appreciated is that climate is a tightly controlled field. A handful of “climate gurus,” often funded by the oil industry itself, dictate the climate education for many future
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Now we’ve left the EU, the government is trying to do a trade deal with the US. @Dispatches can exclusively reveal dangerous levels of contamination in American meat that could
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A Conspiracy Thread: CERN and the Mandela Effect In my opinion, this is one of the most fascinating conspiracies. I’ve talked about this subject many times, but since then I
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There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It's one disaster process--carving it up into separable parts has allowed (some of) us to
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It's #WorldBiodiversityDay today! The complexity of life is amazing, but also begs one question: what did the first life form on Earth actually look like?Let's find out... #FridayMotivation Now there's
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tldr scientists usually measure the % of moisture in plants to see how combustible they are by taking new growth. this year, in the SC mountains, there was no new
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