Friday, April 19, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Too Many Authors
Jordan Smoller: "Letter to Science 1958 arguing that this trend of having 3 or more authors on a paper is ridiculous"
Letter to Science 1958 arguing that this trend of having 3 or more authors on a paper is ridiculous pic.twitter.com/d4rLSlMm7G
— Jordan Smoller (@jorsmo) April 13, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
26-Year Old Identifies 12 New Dinosaurs
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Clever Gold Smuggling Tactic
"$10 Million In Gold Disguised As Machine Parts Seized From Cargo Plane"
On March 27, [Hong Kong] customs officials x-rayed two air compressors and discovered that they contained gold that had been "concealed in the integral parts" of the compressors. Those gold parts had also been painted silver to match the other components in an attempt to throw customs off the trail.
Acting Senior Superintendent Jason Lau Yuk-lung told the South China Morning Post that this was the first time customs officials had ever discovered gold disguised in this way. Authorities reportedly believe the smuggler went to the lengths he did in an effort to avoid Japan’s 10-percent import tariff. "Smugglers could have evaded about HK$8.4 million ($1 million) in taxes if the precious metal was successfully smuggled into the country," Lau told the SCMP.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Academic Editor Resigning
Starlink For Space
Friday, April 12, 2024
Electronic Traction Control
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Updated Scrabble
"Mattel launches new, less 'intimidating' version of Scrabble"
"The game speaks to a trend in younger people who want to avoid competitive games, instead favouring teamwork and collaboration working towards a fun goal together," Brett Smitheram, the current UK number one Scrabble player and 2016 World Scrabble Champion, said in the statement.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
A Long Awaited (Eclipse) Party
RIP Peter Higgs
"Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94"
Prof Fabiola Gianotti, the director general at Cern and former leader of the Atlas experiment, which helped discover the Higgs particle in 2012, said: "Besides his outstanding contributions to particle physics, Peter was a very special person, a man of rare modesty, a great teacher and someone who explained physics in a very simple and profound way.
"An important piece of Cern’s history and accomplishments is linked to him. I am very saddened, and I will miss him sorely."