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After 70 years, magnetic nanographene finally synthesized
Since the first reported production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work using graphene and similar carbon-based materials to revolutionize electronics, sports, and many other disciplines. Now, researchers from Japan have made a discovery that will advance the long-elusive field of nanographene magnets.
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Confusing leaky computational prediction modeling pipelines with "reality" is a catastrophic mental illness that the majority of "experts" in science, politics, economics & military suffer from.
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Retrocausality - is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one.
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra
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"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything." - G. K. Chesterton
Image from "Why does intellectuality weaken faith and sometimes foster it?" (Nature) -
The importance of stupidity in scientific research - by Martin A. Schwartz
Image from the presentation "Silly Questions, Infinity, and Other Things" "Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries"
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Monad (from Greek monas “unit”), an elementary individual substance that reflects the order of the world and from which material properties are derived.
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Spending Time in Nature Promotes Early Childhood Development (Uni of British Columbia)
Children who live in areas with easy access to greenspaces and natural vegetation showed better overall development than their peers who lived closer to fewer greenspaces.
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery - 1952 Miller-Urey experiment showed organic molecules forming from inorganic precursors.
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"The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action"
"A sign of Intelligence is an Awareness of one's own Ignorance." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." - Confucius
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Proprioception is the sense of self-movement and body position. The "sixth sense".
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Manage stress: Strengthen your support network (American Psychological Association)
Scientific research has found that interpersonal relationships can have a number of important benefits for physical and psychological health. 🤡
