A novel framework for increasing research transparency: Exploring the connection between diversit...
A split sample/dual method research protocol is demonstrated to increase transparency while reducing the probability of false discovery. We apply the protocol to examine whether diversity in ownership teams increases or decreases the likelihood of a firm repo…
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The Head of the Smithsonian Talks About America’s 250th, Why Experts Still Matter and What to Exp...
In an extensive interview, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III spoke on the current political climate, the process of returning human remains from the Institution’s collections, the awe-inspiring scope of Smithsonian science and much more
10 Most Lethal Starfighters in Star Wars
Star Wars and Star Wars Legends have given sci-fi some of the greatest space battles in the history of the genre. Whether put on the big screen, the small screen, comics, or in the pages of novels, Star Wars fans have experienced pulse-pounding battles that h…
Threats to grant peer review: a qualitative study
Background and objectives Peer review is ubiquitous in evaluating scientific research. While peer review of manuscripts submitted to journals has been widely studied, there has been relatively less attention paid to peer review of grant applications (despite …
Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth
Cultural prescriptions on play are strong. A good example of this is Margot Sunderland’s book What Every Parent Needs to Know. Sunderland, who is a child psychologist and psychotherapist, claims that parents need to “activate” the “PLAY system” and “SEEKING s…
Tackling the Toil: A Rallying Cry for Defense Leaders in the Exponential Age
Time is our most precious resource, and yet, we squander it daily. This is not just about efficiency or a better return on taxpayer dollars — it’s about our humanity. How we value and leverage time reflects how we prioritize ourselves as a society or organiza…
Louisiana Is Executing Prisoners Again. His Case Shows the Costs.
This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. On a Saturday morning in December 1993, Jimmie Christian Duncan ran to his neighbor’s house and frantically banged on the door, pleading for help. He was holding the limp body of a t…
China’s January Bestsellers: Managing Business and Education
January's China bestseller lists show business and the education that supports it drawing book consumers in a changing economy. The post China’s January Bestsellers: Managing Business and Education appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
10 Best Big Bang Theory Guest Stars Ranked
CBS Over the course of its 12-season run, The Big Bang Theory evolved from a quirky, niche sitcom about a group of geeky scientists into a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. The show’s unique blend of highbrow science references, lowbrow humor, and heartfelt c…
10 Best Dinosaurs From the Jurassic World Movies (And How Realistic They Are)
Chris Pratt in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The Jurassic Park franchise has an interesting relationship with real-life science, and the Jurassic World sequels have a completely different one. Both installments aim to present a spectacle that is plausible, …
Reframing Cultural Landmarks: A Local Approach to Architecture in the Middle East
A previous exploration of cultural landmarks in the Middle East designed by international architects highlighted recurring themes such as architecture as an extension of the landscape, climate-responsive design, and abstraction of traditional forms. These pro…
10 Classic ‘90s Movies That Changed Everything for Hollywood
The movie industry hit some major milestones over time, but when it comes to the 1990s, it’s safe to say that it was the decade that changed everything about what was expected from Hollywood movies. Whether it was the influence of new generations or the turn …
7 Time Travel Movies That Won’t Make Your Brain Hurt
The theme of time travel is probably one of the most exciting things to watch in movies. It works in any genre and can completely change a narrative. Take Avengers: Endgame, for example: it made history largely because of this kind of plot, while also marking…
VARX Granger analysis: Models for neuroscience, physiology, sociology and econometrics
Complex systems, such as in brains, markets, and societies, exhibit internal dynamics influenced by external factors. Disentangling delayed external effects from internal dynamics within these systems is often difficult. We propose using a Vector Autoregressi…
Censorship Hall of Shame: 12 Epic Failures of Facebook's Biased 'Fact Checker' System
Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement that Meta will be making major changes to its content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, included his blockbuster plan the eliminate the company's biased third-party "fact checkers." Breitbart Ne…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Susan Morrison’s Lorne, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, and Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction 1. Theory & Practice by Michelle d…
What Sunita Williams plans to do after coming back to Earth? All details
Sunita Williams is coming back to Earth after spending over nine months at the International Space Station (ISS). Fans and followers of the astronaut have been praying for her safe return. Sunita Williams, a veteran NASA astronaut, has some plans once she ret…
How to catch lies on your date with psychology techniques
In the complex world of modern dating, determining truth from fiction has become increasingly challenging. While most people engage in minor embellishments during early dating stages, understanding how to spot significant deception can protect you from emotio…
The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
History will remember this era as the moment when America’s most sacred principles collided with unprecedented institutional power – and lost. The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights didn’t happen through military force or executive decree, but throu…
Julia Margaret Cameron: A Pioneer Who Redefined Portraiture
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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #03
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 12, 2025 thru Sat, January 18, 2025. This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. We are still interested in feedback t…
2025 agenda: ‘We must not let opportunities pass,’ says UN Assembly President
The President of the UN General Assembly Philémon Yang presented a detailed vision of his 2025 priorities for the world body on Tuesday, calling it an opportunity for “a new start.” The post 2025 agenda: ‘We must not let opportunities pass,’ says UN Assembly …
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
“Social animals are smart animals,” the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explained in his 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis. Once humans developed technologies like writing and printing, Haidt wrote, they could imagine communities beyond their immediate s…
Mel Gibson Uncovers Hidden Truths About Christ’s Resurrection!
In a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan show, Mel Gibson astounded the host by delving deep into the ancient significance of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. Gibson’s discussion centered around his forthcoming movie, “The Resurrection of the Christ,” w…
Memory Pak: This Resident Evil Comic Made Me Sympathise With A Tyrant
"P-Payback Time, Thorndikkke...".Welcome to the latest instalment in our nostalgia-inducing column, Memory Pak, where we deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad.Today, to mark the 25th anniversary of Resident Evil 2's N64 la…
The symbolic meaning of Jimmy Carter’s election
Erik mentioned in his obituary of Jimmy Carter than Carter was arguably the most unlikely elected president since at least Warren Harding. Carter was an extremely obscure figure in terms of national politics — as in almost literally no one outside Georgia had…
This Climate Activist Has a Plan to Defeat Trumpism. He’s in Prison.
In October 2023, The World Transformed, the annual conference of the British Labour Party’s leftist flank, offered a grizzled socialist organizer a brief speaking slot. He’d been asked the question “Why is the left losing?”—a mystery many liberals in America …
Break Your Bad Online Habits or Wet Your Pants Trying: The Choice Is Yours with TabBOO
We’ve all been there. You open your browser to “just check one thing,” and two hours later, you’re somehow scrolling through page 12 of cat videos or doomscrolling through yet another social media app. If only there were a way to break free from this vicious …Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, by Tom Lewis (2013), tells the history of how the US Interstate Highway System (IHS) was built. This monumental project, initiated in 1956 under President Eisenhower, spanned deca…NASA astronauts return to Earth after drawn-out mission in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday with a soft splashdown off Florida's coast, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the International Spa…Jay Bhattacharya: To Be or Not to Be; Who is this Man Nominated to be Director of the NIH?
Yesterday, the academic physician (full Professor at Stanford, no less) once vilified by former NIH Director Francis Collins as a “fringe epidemiologist”, Director of NIH nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, testified before the Senate in a confirmation hearing.Havi…Could ‘pregnancy outcomes’ language excuse crimes like this ‘gruesome’ infanticide?
A South Carolina mother has been accused of doing the unthinkable: stabbing her newborn infant to death with a letter opener as he was born and in the moments that followed. Authorities say An T. Ngo, 31, fatally stabbed her newborn boy with a “long, metal le…
How Cold War Spying From Space Connected the Galaxy to Utah
Harold Mitchell watched from the cockpit of his plane as a spacecraft fell from the sky. Four thousand feet above him, the spacecraft glinted in the sun as it dangled from a parachute. Mitchell called out to the crew in the cargo hold—they had to get ready to…Dems are caught in the ’80/20 loop’ and it’s killing them…
President Trump’s speech to Congress was a massive success—many are calling it the greatest presidential speech of all time. https://twitter.com/DaRealAmberRose/status/1897135108135772459 While President Trump celebrated a major political victory with last ni…
Accessing information in moments of crisis - Interview with Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto about the ...
– Read in Portuguese An interview with a university in Italy gives details of the collaborative mapping carried out in response to the Rio Grande do Sul disaster This interview is registered on Zenodo.org and available as PDF file. How to cite this interv…
If you love Severance, you’ll probably love these 6 books, too
We waited three years for Severance’s second season, and somehow it’s already over. Hopefully the season 3 hiatus won’t be nearly as long, but I, for one, am already mourning my weekly dose of the Apple TV Plus series. I loved knowing that every week, I’d ne…Dorsal hippocampus represents locations to avoid as well as locations to approach during approach...
Worry is a key component of anxiety, and is often characterized by imagination of a negative outcome. This study found that when a rat is attacked by a robot, hippocampal place fields develop to represent the robot. When the rat shows anxiety-like behaviors, …
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion | Forethought
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid succession. We call these…
NASA, SpaceX gear up for Crew-9’s homecoming with Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore on March 18
NASA and SpaceX are aiming for an earlier return of the Crew-9 mission from the ISS on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Astronauts are expected to bring back valuable scientific data, with extensive live coverage of their return available on NASA's platforms.
‘The Diabolical,’ ‘Clinical’ Filmmaker Alistair Legrand Has Passed away
The Diabolical and Clinical filmmaker Alistair Legrand passed away on March 7 after a battle with metastatic colorectal cancer. He was 41. “Alistair bravely & mostly privately fought a long, hard, battle against stage four metastatic colorectal cancer after b…
Sunita Williams return date confirmed by Nasa: Check touchdown time, location, where & how you ca...
NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for the return of Crew-9 from the ISS with astronauts and a cosmonaut aboard the Dragon spacecraft. Scheduled for March 18, 2025, the event will feature live coverage from NASA, including crucial moments like undocking, re-entry…
Sunita Williams' memorable moments in space: From sending Diwali greetings to historic spacewalk
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is coming back home. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have marked over nine months aboard the International Space Station. Despite their prolonged stay in space, the astronauts stayed positive and warm in space, celebrated fest…
Horror-Comedy ‘Halloween’ Store Adds “Yellowstone” Actor Kai Caster
Kai Caster (“Yellowstone”) has been cast in the upcoming horror-comedy Halloween Store, Deadline reports. He joins the previously announced Simon Rex (Scary Movie 3) and Natalie Alyn Lind (“The Goldbergs”). In the film, a group of people find themselves trapp…
French-Belgian Body Horror ‘Else’ Heads to Fandor This Summer
Cineverse has picked up North American rights to French-Belgian body horror movie Else, and the festival favorite is set to arrive on streaming this summer. Else will be released on Fandor and all digital platforms on July 8, 2025. The feature debut by French…Caspase 3 and caspase 7 promote cytoprotective autophagy and the DNA damage response during non-l...
Caspase enzymes are traditionally known for their roles in late stages of apoptosis, but growing evidence supports their function in non-apoptotic cellular processes. This study shows that caspase-3 and caspase-7 promote cytoprotective autophagy in response t…
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Welcome to the New Era of Wellness Travel
Surrounded by the sounds of streams and birds, hearing the rustle of wind through the trees, smelling fragrant flowers, and being cocooned in warm water - it's a feast for the senses at Sensei Lanai, where I find myself on a sojourn to relaxation. After spen…
Introvert test + 8 top-class introvert qualities
According to studies, 25 to 40 percent of Americans are introverts. Introverts are considered shy, taciturn and unfriendly, but being an introvert is by no means a disadvantage. There are many qualities that set introverts apart – and they have numerous famou…
Social media advocacy: How to promote a cause in 2025
Find out how to efficiently spread awareness for your cause and connect with with policy-makers through smart social media advocacy. The post Social media advocacy: How to promote a cause in 2025 appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard.
Arkane's Prey built a world where I really cared about the choices I made
It's lonely in the future. Trust me, I've been there. For the last few weeks, I've been replaying Arkane Austin's Prey, an immersive sim in which you explore a space station orbiting the moon. You're trying to find out what went wrong - and why the whole plac…
A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school ...
Scientific literacy is crucial to address important and complex societal problems, both current and future. Teaching using a socioscientific issues (SSI) approach is a potential strategy to develop students’ scientific literacy, although teachers have reporte…
Can household energy efficiency dampen crude oil price volatility in the United States?
Even though the effect of oil price shocks on macroeconomics has been extensively investigated, the literature on how efficiency in household energy use affect crude oil price volatility is yet explored. This study unveils whether household energy efficiency …
New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials
A new computational chemistry approach developed by MIT researchers could facilitate high-throughput molecular screening — task where achieving chemical accuracy is essential for identifying novel molecules and materials with desirable properties.
35,000-Square-Foot Butterfly Mural on Miami Rooftop Adds Pop of Color to the City Skyline
35,000-Square-Foot Butterfly Mural on Miami Rooftop Adds Pop of Color to the City Skyline French artist Mantra, whose real name is Youri Cansell, recently took on the most ambitious project of his career—a 35,000 square foot mural, which represents his larges…
No one understands how playing cards work
Card games are having a huge moment. Marvel Snap is so big that everyone who plays it hates it. Pokemon TCG Pocket is introducing thousands of people to the card game, and raking in millions of dollars. Balatro, one of the best games I’ve ever played, hooked …
25 (+1) for 2025: The Motionographer’s Crystal Ball Motion Design Predictions – Part 3
Editor’s Note: Ah yes, it’s that magical time of year when we dust off our Motionographer®’s semi-reliable crystal ball (now with added AI-powered glitter) and peer into the Motion Design future. Sure, our previous predictions about “self-aware gradients taki…
The effect of labour hopscotch framework on maternal and neonatal outcomes in pregnant women: A r...
The Labour Hopscotch Framework (LHF) is a practical tool designed for women to use with the support of their birthing partners throughout labor and birth. It was specifically developed to help midwives support women in achieving a physiological birth. We cond…
Interstellar’s Most Mind-Bending Tesseract Scene Gets Recreated Using 4,650 LEGO Bricks
Interstellar’s Most Mind-Bending Tesseract Scene Gets Recreated Using 4,650 LEGO BricksRemember when Interstellar gave us a first look of what a black hole could look like, base SOLELY off of Nolan’s research? And then NASA...
Read and Download These UFO Movie Scripts
Given all the recent headlines, UFOs have been at the top of my mind. Between all the people testifying in front of Congress on them and all the declassified documents, I think it's time we talk about UFO movies and read some of the best scripts. From classic…Biomedical Refrigerators And Freezers Market to Hit Valuation of US$ 7.98 Billion by 2033 | India...
Accelerating healthcare infrastructure expansion, driven by pharmaceutical and biotechnology investments, fosters interest in cold storage solutions, enabling facilities to meet stringent safety requirements and maintain product viability across demanding con…
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. From Dinosaurs to Birds. 69 Million Year Old Fossil Discovery...
In February 2025, a groundbreaking study published in Nature unveiled a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old fossil skull of Vegavis iaai, discovered on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula. This ancient bird, closely related to modern ducks and geese, ex…
