Nothing against wasps, but they do not make honey.
Nothing against wasps, but they do not make honey.
I’ve tried to use scribus, but the interface is pretty clunky and it doesnt react well to high-dpi screens in my experience.
I’m curious about what you think is missing from Inkscape. I use it and illustrator for design work all the time, and I’ve never run into issues with something missing from Inkscape.
Trick question – Elon Musk being anything but an arrogant asshole is impossible under the Standard Model.
tl;dr: science is in the eye of the beholder, you can only know if it’s science if the methods are transparent and you have access to data, as well as critiques from unbiased parties.
This thread seems to have formed two sides:
I would say that “closed”/unpublished science may be science, but since peer review and replication of results are the only way we can tell if something is legitimate science, the problem is that we simply can’t know until a third party (or preferably, many third parties) have reviewed it.
There are a lot of forms that review can take. The most thorough is to release it to the world and let anyone read and review it, and so it and the opinions of others with expertise in the subject are also public. Anyone can read both the publications and response, do their own criticism, and know whether it is science.
If “closed” science has been heavily reviewed and critiqued internally, by as unbiased a party as possible, then whoever has access to the work and critique can know it’s science, but the scientific community and the general public will never be able to be sure.
The points folks have made about individuals working in secret making progress actually support this; I’ll use Oppenheimer as an example.
In the 40s, no one outside the Manhattan project knew how nuclear bombs were made. Sure, they exploded, but no one outside that small group knew if the reasoning behind why they exploded was correct.
Now, through released records, we know what the supporting theory was, and how it was tested. We also know that subsequent work based on that theory (H-bomb development, etc.) and replication (countries other than the US figuring out how to make nukes, in some cases without access to US documents on how it was originally done) was successful and supported the original explanations of why it worked. So now we all know that it was science.
I mean hypothetically yes, but if you’re in the sciences tenure, promotion, and wages will be based on publication in high impact factor, for profit journals, so that’s not realistic.
Cool! Good to know.
What’s the issue with binaries in git? Just that diff’ing binary files is useless?
Me with Jupyter Notebooks
I mean yes you can use beamer to make slides, but it is a lot less flexible than ppt/LibreOffice Present.
Chemistry and biology are interchangeably blue or green, physics is yellow, comp sci is red.
Cryoprotectants also do this pretty efficiently – they prevent crystallization, which leads to “vitreous” ice, which has more or less the same structure as liquid water and so doesn’t expand much. I think they do use that when freezing people, but the problem is that even if you fill the blood vessels with pure ethylene glycol, it diffuses very slowly, and it takes hours to get into cells which are far from large blood vessels. They dont diffuse the cryoprotectant in that thoroughly, though, because that’d take so long the body would have started to decay too much.
Edit: oops, the article talks about vitrifying agents. They make it sound like they’re not effective, but as I said above, they’re very effective if you can get them in every nook and cranny of every cell, which is a losing battle.
I just mean that its pretty hard to do research with no money at all, and any funding should be reported in that section.
Oh that would be so fun but my brain can’t math that…
Doing a study like this with no funding whatsoever is…suspect at best
You also can’t mention it to the Dutch, they’ll get way too excited.
The thing about green photons having too much energy isn’t really true, though it’s commonly talked about. Blue photons are significantly higher-energy than green, and are very well-absorbed. There’s speculation that our sun (being a greenish star) just produces too many green photons, and absorbing so many so fast would be detrimental, but I haven’t seen that definitively proven yet. People are trying, though – there are all sorts of papers about making artificial supplementary antennae to absorb in the green region.
There are a couple proposed reasons to reflect green, which range from information theory arguments about decoupling different parts of the photosynthetic mechanism, to the ‘purple earth’ hypothesis mentioned in another comment, to the ‘green sun’ idea. My point is, the why of green photosynthesis is not a settled matter.
Also, the absorbance of red and blue photons isn’t because red and blue photons have useful energies, specifically. The photons excite electrons in a ‘high energy’ path and a ‘low energy’ path, yes, but the elections excited by these photons don’t directly do chemical work – these exitons are in a quantum-coupled system which is very complicated to understand (I won’t even pretend I understand it fully), and the reduction potentials further down the line are only indirectly (and not proportionally) connected to the energies of the original photons.
Basically, we have studied photosynthesis really intensively for like 50+ years, and in some ways it’s still basically magic. The more we study it, the more information we have, but more often than not that leaves us more confused, because it’s just a crazy system. And I, for one, think that’s pretty damn cool.
Will edit later with sources.
Open board is unmaintained, heliboard is the fork, and has added some great features IMO.
Laziness. That figures.
That is true, but software is a much newer field overall than academia – journals like Nature are over 100 years old, and the way prestige of journals works in academia and publishing hasn’t changed significantly since the 50s. Academic publishing has a lot more momentum to change than tech, and academics have very little power to do so on an institutional level, it kinda has to come from administrators, who don’t understand the problem or care.