honeybee in #politics • 2 years agoBanning Chinese students is NOT the solution; open borders with incentive to stay IS.Senator Tom Cotton hashoneybee in #coronavirus • 2 years 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 virus has at least one extra nehoneybee in #health • 2 years 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 freezing a sample of your sperm now. It’s a low-cost way of increasing the chancehoneybee in #research • 2 years 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 • 2 years 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 post isn't about that. In-fact, it's not even a discussion…honeybee in #uber • 2 years 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 • 3 years agoThe Age of Crypto-Anarchy beckons.Quantum computers will be able to breachoneybee in #science • 3 years agoGenerating 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 • 3 years agoSaturn is the new moon king!We hear a lot about exoplanet discoveries these days. Just 20 years ago we had barely anyhoneybee in #science • 3 years agoSplicing 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 • 3 years agoNoise-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 years. They seem like a luxury orhoneybee in #space • 3 years agoWhat 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 you'd have a pretty substantial population within, say, 50…honeybee in #science • 3 years agoAge 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 • 3 years agoSelf-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
