Good. Washington Post is paywalled.

Which is precisely why this article is interesting.

In humans, gender roles are so pervasive that it is completely impossible to separate out the effect of chromosomes from the effects of different gender roles. Looking at 1000 different mammal and bird species takes away that confounding factor. It's particularly fascinating because by looking at both mammals and birds, they look at cases where the male has the unpaired sex chromosome and compare it with cases there the female has the unpaired sex chromosome.

The hypothesis is that life could exist in the ocean beneath the Enceladus ice shell, about 30 degrees F, not on the icy surface. That's about 275K, not 157K.

I stand corrected.

I'd like to see a good line of evidence eliminating the possibility that better diagnosis technology --finding cancers that previously wouldn't have been discovered-- isn't the cause.

But he's nevertheless correct.

Phones have been extensively researched, and there's no evidence that they cause cancer.

(on the other hand, the lack of exercise caused by sitting in a chair and being glued to your phone and your many other devices may be a factor.)

OOH! I think you have it! The Solomon solution: just divide it in two and give each museum half!

You are aware that it's the shuttle in Washington DC that they're planning to move, not the one in New York, right?

And they want to move it from the Smithsonian collection, a museum that's free and open to the public, to a private pay-to-visit museum.

(*to be technically accurate, in Arlington Virginia, right next door to DC)

Not a bad proposal.

A lot of the far-from-actual-truth flood of misinformation comes from identified human beings, but it might at least stop some of the flood of AI-generated disinformation.

It sure would be nice if that worked. But the internet era has proven that it's not true. It turns out that disinformation can be generated and propagated far faster than true information can address it, and since disinformation can be crafted to appeal to the listener's prejudices and preconceptions, while truth simply is what it is regardless of what you want it to be, disinformation has the edge.

Also: https://psychology-spot.com/br...

Yes,

The medical community wasn't sure at first, but data came in pretty quickly once it started being investigated. This is typical of science: you start out knowing nothing, you learn more and start knowing "maybe but we're not sure", and you keep on increasing your level of certainty. But too many people were dazzled by the early "maybe" and turned their ears off to avoid hearing the "but turns out not."

Hydroxychloroquine actually is a miracle drug. It's just not a miracle drug that cured COVID-19.

If their primary source of income was sucking money from credulous fools by touting quack cures that are actually dangerous, I am not going to cry about their "primary source of income" getting cut off.

I do worry about free speech, however.

I wish I had an answer to the question of how to stop the flow of misinformation without damaging free speech. But I don't.

Dish antennas can be used for both transmitting and receiving. The reciprocity theorem says they work equally well in either direction.

Nobody uses dye-sensitized solar cells. They were an interesting idea for a technology, but the improvements in silicon cell performance along with reductions in cost just made their mediocre performance obsolete.

Also, nobody uses plastic coatings for solar cells. Plastics simply deteriorate too fast. Everybody uses glass.

"...Workers still at the company claim they are increasingly concerned that they are being set up to replace themselves. According to internal documents viewed by WIRED, GlobalLogic seems to be using these human raters to train the Google AI system that could automatically rate the responses, with the aim of replacing them with AI."

So, the idea is that eventually the AI decides whether its responses to a prompt is accurate or not. Net result is that the AI responses go off into Lalaland without checking against anything real. Eventually, when the AI's training gets to the point where it is trained primarily from other AI generated text, the AI text will have no tether to the real world at all.

Might be interesting to see what comes out once it's no longer constrained by logic or reality...

Per Wikipedia, the estimated quantity of tritium in a warhead is 4 grams, with decay of this producing about 0.20 grams of 3He per warhead per year ([ref]. The US has 5277 nuclear warheads, Russia a similar number, with 12,331 warheads total in the world. ([ref]. Multiplying, that's 2.4 kilograms of 3He per year. Density of Helium 3 is 0.134 grams per liter at standard temperature and pressure, so I get 18.4 liters per year produced from decay of tritium in all of the nuclear warheads in the world, about 40% of it in the U.S.

Wouldn't hurt to check my math, but unless I slipped a decimal, thousands of liters per year is an overestimate.