honeybee in #politics • 5 months agoBanning Chinese students is NOT the solution; open borders with incentive to stay IS.Senator Tom Cotton hashoneybee in #coronavirus • 5 months agoResearch published in Nature shows alternate route of SARS-CoV-2 infection NOT present in SARS-CoV-1.Research In Nature confirms the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 can infect immune cells. This means that this version of…honeybee in #health • 7 months agoOlder Men's Sperm are worse -- Freeze your sperm whilst young!If you are genetically male and think that you might want to have children at any point in the future, it’s worth…honeybee in #research • 7 months agoA.I yields new Antibiotics -- Pharmaceutical companies shy away.The growing problem of antibiotic resistance is a great threat to our global civilization and way of life. It's ahoneybee in #life • 8 months agoEducate yourself, learn how to tell!Some old friends of mine visited the "Ark" theme park in Kentucky and mentioned how "scientific" it was. Well this…honeybee in #uber • 10 months agoThe media are "Uber" good at crying wolf.NBCNews published this headline the other day: ["Uber Reveals Extent of Sexual Assault Problem: Thousands Abuse Reports A Year"](honeybee in #cryptography • 11 months agoThe Age of Crypto-Anarchy beckons.Quantum computers will be able to breachoneybee in #science • last yearGenerating electricity from cold dark night — The Anti-Solar Panel.Solar power is a has a lot of feel-good aspects to it. It's solid state with no moving parts, works well for severalhoneybee in #science • last yearSaturn is the new moon king!We hear a lot about exoplanet discoveries these days. Just 20 years ago we had barely anyhoneybee in #science • last yearSplicing extra chromosomes into our DNA is now (possibly) a reality!The CRISPR technique for splicing genes into organisms has been applied for a few years now, oftehoneybee in #technology • last yearNoise-cancelling headphones improve quality of life?Noise-cancelling headphones have improved a lot and become affordable for a wide range of people in the last few…honeybee in #space • last yearWhat do we need to shift people into space?Was kind of noodling thoughts about how you'd populate space habitats. At the very least, populate them in a way that…honeybee in #science • last yearAge of Emulated Minds.The prospect of being able to upload minds has long been considered within trans-humanist science fiction. We could escape our ailing bohoneybee in #labor • last yearSelf-checkouts depriving job opportunities?The linked article has a good critique of the ridiculous, but oft-made, argument that self-checkout lanes are unjust because they turn
