Popularity kills good ideas.
The moment a thought gets traction, it gets watered down.
The rough edges get sanded off.
The disclaimers creep in.
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Why Small Networks Build Stronger Ideas
Popularity kills good ideas. The moment a thought gets traction, it gets watered down. The rough edges get sanded off. The disclaimers creep in.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
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The essential indicator of the size of hunger: excessive mortality, that is, exclusively caused by the lack of food, is the main indicator of the measurement of the phenomenon.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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"...how the women looked had been an overwhelming part of the buildup, and by their own design. In an Elle magazine joint interview with the passengers, Lauren showed off the hot space suits she’d personally commissioned, inquiring rhetorically: “Who would not get glam before the flight?” “Space is going to finally be glam,” agreed Perry. “Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut."
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What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina HydeMarina Hyde (The Guardian)
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Who knew Lawrence Krauss could become this awful and evil? There were signs all along.
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Lawrence Krauss is getting worse
He has a new book coming out, The War on Science. It does not look promising. Here’s a list of the contributors: Dorian Abbot, John Armstrong, Peter Boghossian, Maarten Boudry, Alex Byrne, Ni…Pharyngula
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Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door (Sharon Zhang/Truthout)
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Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door
The worker said he received a note with photos of him that seemed to be taken by drone after he spoke out against DOGE.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
Here's What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages (Dell Cameron/Wired)
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Here's What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages
By Dell Cameron / Wired. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
Seth Rogen's Criticism of Silicon Valley's Support for Trump Was Cut From the "Full" Stream of Breakthrough Prize (Julian Sancton/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Seth Rogen's Breakthrough Prize Jokes Were Cut from "Full" Video
While presenting an award at the event known as the Oscars of Science, 'The Studio' star pointed out the irony of tech titans' support for the Trump administration's defunding of science. The potentially embarrassing comments were edited out.Julian Sancton (The Hollywood Reporter)
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« Le Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur étant devenu irréformable, il fallait le supprimer »
Un collectif de plus de 3 000 membres de la communauté académique – universitaires, scientifiques et personnel d’accompagnement de l’enseignement et de la recherche – salue, dans une tribune au « Monde », la suppression de l’autorité administrative e…Collectif (Le Monde)
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The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursuemelissa (Harvard University President)
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I’ll be giving a lecture on “Science Under Siege” sponsored by Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute at the @unisouthampton on Wednesday, April 7th from 3-4:30PM GMT:
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Science Under Siege by Professor Michael E. Mann (University of Southampton, UK)
Join us for a lecture about the forces behind the modern anti-science movement. This lecture will examine the forces behind the modern anti-science movement, known as the six ‘P’s: plutocrats, pros, politicians, polluters, petrostates, posers, prete…Michael E. Mann
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