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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
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And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
And yes, all paid subscriptions include a set of Torched’s new stickers — which also make a great gift for the actual-tree fans in your life
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Today's architecture column. In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St., the nondescript building for which Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, was sacrificed in 1972.
Loop skyscraper that replaced Louis Sullivan masterpiece heads toward landmark protection
In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St. for which Sullivan's masterpiece was sacrificed.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Today's architecture column. In an ironic twist, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks next month will weigh granting preliminary landmark status for 30 N. LaSalle St., the nondescript building for which Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, was sacrificed in 1972.
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
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Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
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Opening up the fridge tomorrow like
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Opening up the fridge tomorrow like
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On Luddites, I liked this book by @bcmerchant.bsky.social, Blood in the Machine:
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/brian...
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/brian...
Blood in the Machine
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago i...
www.hachette.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
On Luddites, I liked this book by @bcmerchant.bsky.social, Blood in the Machine:
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/brian...
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/brian...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We've got a 20% off sale all day today on stickers, buttons, and magnets! No coupon needed. 🐡🎨
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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Although it is also worth noting that there remain Wampanoag ("People of the First Light") communities on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard even today; their important and remarkable history is tied to far more than simply Thanksgiving.
mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe | People of the First Light
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is a federally recognized tribe located in Eastern Massachusetts. The Tribe have inhabited the land for over 12,000 years and welcomed the Pilgrims that arrived on the Mayf...
mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Although it is also worth noting that there remain Wampanoag ("People of the First Light") communities on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard even today; their important and remarkable history is tied to far more than simply Thanksgiving.
mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
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The NSF social sciences program has funded some of the best research I’ve seen, especially at the PhD level. There really isn’t another country in the world with the equivalent funding capacity to fill this gap, and the damage from this choice will be felt for a long time.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The NSF social sciences program has funded some of the best research I’ve seen, especially at the PhD level. There really isn’t another country in the world with the equivalent funding capacity to fill this gap, and the damage from this choice will be felt for a long time.
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It's a tiny amount of money ($25K, $12K when I was a student), but the consequences are huge. e.g., Years ago, this funding enabled me to conduct my PhD research, which ultimately informed the Supreme Court litigation that prohibited patents on human genes.
Talk about undone science.
Talk about undone science.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's a tiny amount of money ($25K, $12K when I was a student), but the consequences are huge. e.g., Years ago, this funding enabled me to conduct my PhD research, which ultimately informed the Supreme Court litigation that prohibited patents on human genes.
Talk about undone science.
Talk about undone science.
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what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
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grease floats.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
grease floats.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.
the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.
listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.
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I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.
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I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
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The Southwest American
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The Southwest American
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa | Arizona Mirror
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collided with a car driven by a person they were attempting to apprehend in a Mesa neighborhood.
azmirror.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
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please stay alive. please, keep living.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
please stay alive. please, keep living.
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Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
Do you ever think about how English gave up the word for “a plant that is not a grass, shrub,vine, or tree”?
“Forb” isn’t in common use, “herb” has been overtaken by culinary contexts, “wildflower” is uselessly loaded, and for whatever reason, “wort” was abandoned in the late 17th century
“Forb” isn’t in common use, “herb” has been overtaken by culinary contexts, “wildflower” is uselessly loaded, and for whatever reason, “wort” was abandoned in the late 17th century
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Do you ever think about how English gave up the word for “a plant that is not a grass, shrub,vine, or tree”?
“Forb” isn’t in common use, “herb” has been overtaken by culinary contexts, “wildflower” is uselessly loaded, and for whatever reason, “wort” was abandoned in the late 17th century
“Forb” isn’t in common use, “herb” has been overtaken by culinary contexts, “wildflower” is uselessly loaded, and for whatever reason, “wort” was abandoned in the late 17th century