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Excel Broke My Genes

From The Verge: There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of us unique. Each gene is given a name and alphanumeric code, known as a symbol, which scientists use to coordinate research. […]

Facebook Is Not a News Source

From Popular Info: But then, without explanation, the fact-check was removed. If a Facebook user attempts to share the article today, there is no warning and no link to the fact-check. Shellenberger’s piece, on The Daily Wire and elsewhere, has now been shared over 65,000 times on Facebook.  What happened?  Internal Facebook documents obtained by […]

Check Your Assumptions

1) In 2008 a salmon (yes the fish) was put through an MRI scanner. The salmon was shown a series of photographs of humans in social situations, and asked to determine the emotion of the person in the photo (yes, really). — Per Axbom (@axbom) December 7, 2019

Dorian’s Wind Field

We can also follow Dorian’s wind field evolution on a map using the ARCHER satellite derived track. Notice how Dorian remains small in size until it stalls over the Grand Bahama island, with a long duration of hurricane force wind & increase in radius. pic.twitter.com/VnLuzHBMsU — Tomer Burg (@burgwx) September 4, 2019