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Quite an editorial roster for the September 1991 edition of Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1991/09-01/

Scientific American Volume 265, Issue 3 | Scientific American
"Communications, Computers and Networks", "Networks", "Networked Computing in the 1990s" and more

🥵 Heat exposure may increase inflammation and impair the immune system
#heat

Heat exposure may increase inflammation and impair the immune system
Short-term exposure to higher heat may increase inflammation and interfere with normal immune system functions in the body, which may in turn increase susceptibility to infections and accelerate the progression of cardiovascular disease, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention│Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions 2024, March 18- 21, in Chicago.

Scientific proof Republicans are killing women - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/gop-women/?anplus

Scientific proof Republicans are killing women
It sure looks like Republicans want women to die. Particularly if they’re teenagers and have the temerity to be sexually active. This is highlighted by what has to qualify as the most shocking scientific study of the year, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)...

🥵 Heat exposure may increase inflammation and impair the immune system
#heat

Heat exposure may increase inflammation and impair the immune system
Short-term exposure to higher heat may increase inflammation and interfere with normal immune system functions in the body, which may in turn increase susceptibility to infections and accelerate the progression of cardiovascular disease, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention│Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions 2024, March 18- 21, in Chicago.

Alcoholics Anonymous not so effective: “most scientific studies show that some alcoholics can drink in moderation and that numerous drugs & therapies could prove more successful than AA in curing alcoholism, Miller writes.”
“Out of 50 treatment methods ranked by the strength of scientific evidence, AA comes in 38th,” Miller writes, citing a study by the Uni New Mexico.

How Alcoholics Anonymous lied to the American people
On July 4, 1934, a 30-year-old New York-based writer and publicist named Marty Mann got staggeringly drunk at a party and fell from a balcony. She nearly died, fracturing her leg and breaking her j…

Flimsy Antiabortion Studies Cited in Case to Ban Mifepristone Are Retracted | Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flimsy-antiabortion-studies-cited-in-case-to-ban-mifepristone-are-retracte…

Flimsy Antiabortion Studies Cited in Case to Ban Mifepristone Are Retracted
Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest

Why Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed after Strike by Container Ship | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-engineering/

A Structural Engineer Explains Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed
A large container ship “totally removed” a critical pier from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

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Data journeys in popular science: Producing climate change and COVID-19 data visualizations at Scientific American
Vast amounts of (open) data are increasingly used to make arguments about crisis topics such as climate change and global pandemics. Data visualizations are central to bringing these viewpoints to broader publics. However, visualizations often conceal the many contexts involved in their production, ranging from decisions made in research labs about collecting and sharing data to choices made in editorial rooms about which data stories to tell. In this paper, we examine how data visualizations a…

@… horrible memories of the bullshit that pervaded Twitter before I deleted my account.
2017, anti-bullshit:
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Distorted Vaccine Science | Scientific American
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The editors of Scientific American summarize some of the many reasons car dependence has got to go: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/
I’ll say it again:
1) There is no credibl…

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent
Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

Study says climate change behind drop in Northern Hemisphere snowpack.
River basins starting in MT could have steep drop in runoff.
#VoteForClimate #ClimateCrisis

New study says climate change behind drop in Northern Hemisphere snowpack – Daily Montanan
New scientific research published earlier this month shows that human-caused climate change is putting the most densely populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere, including the American West, at risk of losing vast portions of their water supply because of decreasing snowpack.

The Compton scientific mission in Brazil in 1941: a perspective from national newspaper and documents of the time
Francisco Caruso, Ad\'ilio Marques, Felipe Silveira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16690

The Compton scientific mission in Brazil in 1941: a perspective from national newspaper and documents of the time
Starting from the perspective of reports published in Brazilian newspapers at the time, as well as letters exchanged between scientists who worked in Brazil and North American colleagues and documents from the symposium on cosmic rays, a chronological sequence of how the so-called Compton mission in Brazil took place and was perceived by the literate public will be presented.

A unified Bayesian framework for interval hypothesis testing in clinical trials
Abhisek Chakraborty, Megan H. Murray, Ilya Lipkovich, Yu Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13890

A unified Bayesian framework for interval hypothesis testing in clinical trials
The American Statistical Association (ASA) statement on statistical significance and P-values \cite{wasserstein2016asa} cautioned statisticians against making scientific decisions solely on the basis of traditional P-values. The statement delineated key issues with P-values, including a lack of transparency, an inability to quantify evidence in support of the null hypothesis, and an inability to measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result. In this article, we demonstrate that th…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18011 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Data journeys in popular science: Producing climate change and COVID-19 data visualizations at Scientific American
Vast amounts of (open) data are increasingly used to make arguments about crisis topics such as climate change and global pandemics. Data visualizations are central to bringing these viewpoints to broader publics. However, visualizations often conceal the many contexts involved in their production, ranging from decisions made in research labs about collecting and sharing data to choices made in editorial rooms about which data stories to tell. In this paper, we examine how data visualizations a…

The editors of Scientific American summarize some of the many reasons car dependence has got to go: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/
I’ll say it again:
1) There is no credibl…

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent
Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

Is A Mega Ocean Current About to Shut Down? | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-mega-ocean-current-about-to-shut-down/

Is A Mega Ocean Current About to Shut Down?
An alarming study predicts an imminent collapse of a mega ocean current, but some experts say the evidence is insufficient

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Robert Millikan, Japanese Internment, and Eugenics
Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953) was the second American to win the Nobel Prize in physics. At the peak of his influence, no scientist save Einstein was more admired by the American public. Millikan, the head of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) during its first 24 years, oversaw its rapid growth into one of the leading scientific institutions of the world. In response to demands for social justice, Caltech reached a decision to strip Millikan of honors (such as the library named a…