A review, from Elizabeth Lopatto.
Category Archives: General Science
Peer Review
It almost always provides a false sense of validity of a scientific paper.
Mouse Embryos
According to the pictures sent back from a high-resolution camera, the 600 embryos, which were put under the camera, developed from the 2-cell stage, an early-on embryonic cleavage stage, to blastocyst, the stage where noticeable cell differentiation occurs, around 72 hours after SJ-10’s launch. The timing was largely in line with embryonic development on Earth, according to CAS.
But we still have no idea what happens in partial gravity. And they didn’t bring them to term.
Your Cat’s Head
What is going on in it? An interesting article on their perception, but there’s a lot we still don’t know.
Climate Prediction
What a concept. Read the concluding sentence.
Outer Space
The manifesto of the committee to abolish it.
To be honest, I had never previously realized how terrible outer space is.
Confident Idiots
A long but very interesting piece on the overconfidence of the incompetent, by David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger fame). For some reason, I think it has some relevance to the Trump phenomenon, and politics in general.
For the record, I have never had a problem claiming my ignorance on a topic.
The Flower Stalkers
A year ago, we went down to Anza-Borrego State Park for the weekend for Patricia’s birthday. Deborah Netburn went down to check out how the El Nino (so far) flameout went for the flowers.
The “Dangerous” Paleo Diet
Here’s your daily dose of stupid. Based on nine mice.
Future researchers will find bizarre the notion we thought lab mice were good analogs for humans in diet studies. https://t.co/xrT0dOoH02
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 19, 2016
Gravitational Waves
This is a huge day for Kip Thorne (and others). Nadia Drake has a comprehensive story up already.
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Here’s another write up by Matthew Francis at The Atlantic.
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Here‘s the paper itself.
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And one from Miri Kramer.
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And from Loren Grush.