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In this interview Robert Harington ask Melinda to talk about her recent article in Isis, entitled Scientific Autonomy, Public Accountability, and the Rise of “Peer Review” in the Cold War United States, and provide some more personal views on peer review…

NYT en Español's founding editorial director called the decision "extremely short-sighted," and many others who'd worked on the product or read and followed it expressed their disappointment.

After reigning in the auto industry as the powertrain of choice for a century, the internal combustion engine is finally dying. Now even Daimler says that it is stopping development of new internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars. The German…

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People drink gin and coffee where gentlemen once relieved themselves.

Amazon gave an update on its global sustainability efforts, a day before roughly 1,000 of its workers are expected to walk out to spotlight climate change.

Very quick tl;dr: uBO will no longer work with Safari, use Firefox or a new "content blocker" app (see below for good replacements). In the past few months, and especially in the past wee...

Smashing of monster asteroid half a billion years ago thought to have caused mini ice age

Uranium and its pure compounds are just not readily available to the amateur scientist, element collector, or student in 2008. So what is one to do? Make these materials oneself, of course. (At lef…

A French high court has ruled that Steam users have a right to resell games bought on Valve's storefront.

The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.

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