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More Confounders | Slate Star Codex
"So why did they get such different results from so many earlier studies? In their response to Kripke, they offer a clear answer:They adjusted for three hundred confounders.This is a totally unreasonable number of confounders to adjust for. I’ve never seen any other study do anything even close. Most other papers in this area have … Continue reading More Confounders | Slate Star Codex
Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe
"According to string theory, all particles and fundamental forces arise from the vibrational states of tiny strings. For mathematical consistency, these strings vibrate in 10-dimensional spacetime. And for consistency with our familiar everyday experience of the universe, with three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time, the additional six dimensions are 'compacted' so as to … Continue reading Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe
Reuters Investigates “The Body Trade”
"Each year, thousands of Americans donate their bodies in the belief they are contributing to science. In fact, many are also unwittingly contributing to commerce, their bodies traded as raw material in a largely unregulated national market. Body brokers are also known as non-transplant tissue banks. They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant … Continue reading Reuters Investigates “The Body Trade”
The Cookbooks of Nathan Myhrvold
"If you are not passionate, a 2640-page cookbook [Amazon cost: ~$500] is not for you... ...I ask Myhrvold for a simple example of how the knowledge of cooking he has developed might help ordinary home cooking. 'If you have a steak that is twice as thick as the one you cooked the last time,' he asks … Continue reading The Cookbooks of Nathan Myhrvold
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