Ian
High performance computing researcher. Interested in Astrophysics, Neuroscience, Economics, Math, history. Atheist. Learning French and Portuguese.
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This is the most comprehensive X-ray map of the sky ever made
A new X-ray map of the entire sky, using data from the eROSITA telescope’s first full scan, looks deeper into space than any other of its kind.
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End
The astrophysicist and social media phenom Katie Mack is ready to tell you about the fate of the universe.
Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall
Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.”
One Country, One World
Meleager, Greek Anthology, 7.417 “My nurse was the Island of Tyre but the country which bore me Was Atthis which rests in Assyrian Gadara. I, Meleager, came as a shoot of the Muses from Eukrates An…
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe - YouTube
A series of informal videos talking about the biggest ideas we've come up with to describe our natural world. No prerequisites required!
A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won't act, scientists say
Scientists have devised a way to use the plasma of COVID-19 survivors for an upper arm injection that could inoculate people against the virus.
Satellite images reveal China's own Stalinism against Muslim minorities
India Today's special series offers a rare insight into the Chinese internment centres as seen in satellite images -- a testament to Beijing's brutal oppression of the country's Muslim minorities.
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics | Quanta Magazine
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics.
NASA Teases ‘Psyche,’ A Robot To Explore An Asteroid Worth More Than Our Global Economy
Space agency reveals the hardware that will fly to its target in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Replace cancel culture with cultural appropriation
What should our schools and history books teach about slaveholders and racists from times past?
The moon may have stopped the early Earth from being a frozen snowball
Astronomers have long been puzzled by the faint young sun paradox, which says the sun would not have been bright enough in the past to keep Earth warm. Now it seems the moon may have helped
Covid-19 Immunity May Rely on a Microscopic Helper: T Cells
Researchers have been looking beyond antibodies to understand how immunity to the new virus might work—and how to design a vaccine.
Bakker, Swaggart among televangelists and religious organizations that received PPP loans
More than 10,000 religious organizations received financial aid through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for a total of at least $3 billion, according to an
Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial
Eighty years ago, in July 1925, the mixture of religion, science and the public schools caught fire in Dayton, Tenn. The Scopes trial — or "Monkey Trial," as it was called — dominated headlines across the country. NPR looks back at the Scopes trial,...
What they mean when they talk about ‘white people’
The BBC’s ‘Karens’ podcast revealed the class hatred that lurks behind wokeness.
The Perils of ‘With Us or Against Us’
A healthy deliberative process needs to make room for dissent.