This week we’ve got stories on the release of the Tesla Model 3 into the wild, a story about a Type 1 Diabetes vaccine that’s not really what it seems, and more evidence that football isn’t good for your brain. It’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, July 30, 2017!
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This is what a real maverick looks like. Photo credit C-SPAN There’s a quotation that is (probably erroneously) attributed to Ginger Rogers about how she did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high […]
Today we’ve got stories on a whole lot of changes taking place at SpaceX, the beginning of a decade-long saga to build a better neutrino detector, and a UK ban on using public funds for homeopathic quackery. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, July 23, 2017!
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Pop quiz! Which of the following are real, actual statements about the new Doctor Who that real, actual people wrote on the internet under their own names, and which are fake ones created by my […]
This week’s news is three stories about three women, because why not?
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So I was going to write about a new Arkansas abortion bill that could, among other consequences, mean that a sexual assault survivor would have to get permission from her rapist in order to get an abortion. But that topic made me so angry I literally could not word. Which hasn’t happened since the GamerGate fiasco a few years ago, so… well done Arkansas, I guess. Instead you’ll get a shorter, slightly less angry bit about the House dress code. And I’ll try to tackle that other thing next week.
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This week we’ve got stories on releasing genetically-modified moths into the wild, the LHC finding a new, “charming” particle, and the latest spinoff from Alphabet’s X labs, a home geothermal company calling itself Dandelion. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, July 9, 2017!
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Seeing as I’m such a Disney fangirl, it may surprise you to know that I’ve never been to any of the Disney parks. My parents claimed (probably correctly) that as a child I would have had no patience with the lines. As an adult, I’m broke. And probably would still have no patience with lines. So I have no skin in the game when I hear about a park attraction being taken out or updated, except to think “well, there’s a ride I won’t get to see in the hypothetical future where I get to go to Disney World.” Other people take it more personally. Especially, it seems, when the changes involve reducing the sexism on what is supposed to be a family-friendly ride.
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SpaceX is launching more and more often, Canada’s Supreme Court is bossing around Google, and another attempt at “clean” coal has bitten the dust because—you guessed it—economics! It’s the news roundup for July 2, 2017!
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