9+ hour, 4+ min ago  (560+ words) Nowadays it has become exceedingly hard to distinguish legitimate academic endeavours from scam in my mailbox. Not even AI filters can sort stuff out properly: my inbox often contains invitations to fake conferences, or to publish with non-existing journals, while…...

12+ hour, 47+ min ago  (821+ words) Every now and then, for one reason or another, an academic will have to update one's own CV. This is a chore in general - once you get tenure, why should you care to keep a detailed record of your past activities?...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (355+ words) Though numerical models and popular films like An Inconvenient Truth projected Arctic ice collapse due to global warming and then climate change, the reverse was true in the real world. Ice expanded. That changed in 2015 and a new model estimates…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1453+ words) [For the first part of this two-part post, see here]read more [For the first part of this two-part post, see here]Alas, we are all offenders When we get stuck in a highway queue, with the clock ticking and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (163+ words) A new tool drawing on billions of uses of more than 20, 000 words and diverse real-world texts claims to have found that human language is systematically biased, but not against things. It is instead biased toward safety and that has impacted…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (567+ words) I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo. I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo Enrico was an architect by profession,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (300+ words) Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the COVID-19 pandemic happened; they believed the MMR vaccine…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (300+ words) Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the COVID-19 pandemic happened; they believed the MMR vaccine…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (869+ words) Nobody likes to wait in line. Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths, on a plane waiting to disembark along with the other passengers, or in a queue at the ticket office, you may…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (309+ words) Science 2. 0 There are concerns about projected warming on the Earth's surface and in the lower atmosphere even while the planet's upper atmosphere has cooled. It's not a paradox, it's a pattern and a recent paper described the mechanics of how…...