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...rabble to promote “junk science” and argue that scientists will have to wade through a hundred worthless papers to find only one Nobel Prize-winning gem. They also claim that rogue scientists could praise and criticize research in an unfair, un-objective way. But copious empirical evidence indicates that open online communities—including those dedicated to scientific research—have an incredible capacity to self-regulate.Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman’s recent online publication of a proof of the Poincaré conjecture—a century-old question of fundamental importance...
...Reading and Study Strategies (“the longest continuously running course at Harvard,” it boasts on its web site). The course is 14 sessions of speed-reading exercises and presentations on pseudo-topics such as “morality and reading.” Copious handouts are also given out, perhaps to compensate for the course’s $25 fee. The course isn’t as helpful as it’s cracked up to be, though it could be helpful for first-years who haven’t yet figured out that tried...
...producers of the ABC show insisted it was factual - but with some made-up stuff. The director of the Channel 4 show stressed it was fiction - but with copious archival footage of Bush to give the shooting a creepy verismo. If these declarations were made to clarify the makers' intentions, the strategy backfired. Advance reports of both efforts spurred demands for their suppression, virtually all of them from people who hadn't seen them...
Because they were so hot, the first stars would have poured out not just visible light, but also copious amounts of high-energy ultraviolet radiation. One effect of that radiation would have been to knock apart hydrogen atoms, thus destroying their ability to block light. That process is known as reionization, and those stars, forming perhaps 100 million years into the Dark Ages, or roughly at the era's midpoint, might have rendered the universe transparent on their own if they had lived long enough. But unlike the sun, which has survived 5 billion years so far and should live...
...This was Lesson 1: Grow what you can grow. Don't overburden your soil with petroleum-based fertilizers so you can yield copious bushels of corn that will be factory-processed into syrup for soft drinks...