“Science must admire the honour and rights of all folks”
New ethics guidance addresses potential harms for human population groups who do not participate in research but may be harmed by its publication. Alt…
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Science Is Getting Harder
Like the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest versi…
Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy
The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted a screed. Most of the people …
Why science needs more research software engineers
Paul Richmond is a research software engineer in the United Kingdom.Credit: Shelley Richmond In March 2012, a group of like-minded software developers…
Top Python Info Science Initiatives (With Offer Code)
Before we get started, take a look at our list of 30+ free online datasets for inspiration. There’s a wide range of datasets in this list that can b…
Shopify’s Data Science and Engineering Foundations
At Shopify, our mission is to make commerce better for everyone. With over one million businesses in more than 175 countries, Shopify is a mini-econom…
Present HN: Safe original existence science literature with Gref
Getting Started Use pip to install gref. Then, run Python from the command line. > pip install gref > python Once Python is running, import gref…
Artist uses AI to unsuitable 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
It’s algorithmic, generative 70s sci-fi pulp, courtesy OpenAI. Artist Lewis tells us about how it was done. Meanwhile, see how many friends will pre…
Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?
“It’s possible it could work,” he said. “Worst case, you have to descend with headlamps.” They conferred with each other, and Robinson turned to Biagioli,…
How trust undermines science
“According to science” is a cursed phrase. It signals a high probability that the content you’re about to consume is based on small, sketchy studies…
Are warp drives science now?
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] Warp drives…
The dawn of post-theory science?
Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis…
Cory Doctorow: Science Fiction Is a Luddite Literature
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker From 1811-1816, a secret society styling themselves “the Luddites” smashed textile machinery in the mills of Eng…
OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light
Arrivals There’s no question: overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes. So here is OneBag.com, a non-commercial Web site that teaches — in exhaustive (exhausting?) detail — the…
The year in math and computer science
SERIES 2021 in Review By Bill Andrews December 23, 2021 Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even…
Network Science by Albert-László Barabási (free textbook)(2015)
{{ helloChapter }} Network Scienceby Albert-László Barabási Join the pack! Join 8000+ others registered users, and get chat, make groups, post updates and make friends…
Lessons from science fiction on how to fight climate change
In 2021, B.C. has faced a deadly heat wave and catastrophic floods. Kim Stanley Robinson predicted both of them in his science fiction novel The Mi…
Data Science Collides with Traditional Math in the Golden State
(Who is Danny/Shutterstock) Is traditional math still important in data science? Or can a new curriculum based on data science replace some of traditional mathematics…