Chimpanzee Traditions Are Disappearing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/we-are-destroying-chimpanzee-cultures/584146/

“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b

Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research

List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/

Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/technothriller

Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode

A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems

What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/

Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html

Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily https://factordaily.com/china-science-fiction/

Band name of the day: science weekends

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/economists-calculate-the-true-value-of-facebook-to-its-users-in-new-study/

I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Lecture notes! Intro to Quantum Information Science https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943

No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision

Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/

📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan

Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety

What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality

Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/

Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/

William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4

PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html

Hot take: science fiction movies are extremely rare. Most films that are sold as science fiction are actually action-adventure with fantasy elements that are coded as scientistic.

Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality

Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/

How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/

Dialectics of Darkness | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/dialectics-of-darkness

Meet the Endoterrestrials - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/

Past Masters of the Postmodern | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/past-masters-of-the-postmodern

Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/

Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-fiction/

Online Bettors Know If Psychology Studies Will Replicate - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientists-can-collectively-sense-which-psychology-studies-are-weak/568630/

Escaping the Default Future When Writing Science Fiction | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/

PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html

365 tomorrows : A New Flash of Science Fiction Every Day https://365tomorrows.com/

Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science

Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

“Science Fiction & Information Law” Essay Competition - IVIR https://www.ivir.nl/science-fiction-information-law-essay-competition/

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/

28c3: The Science of Insecurity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY

though, with decent enough systems science, it’s perfectly possible to block the entries and starve them↵but you probably won’t like the generation after that