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Could a Surrogate Mother Deliver a Neanderthal Baby? [2013] https://www.livescience.com/26447-neanderthal-clone-church.h...

There are many of them around the world, maybe even near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model#Scale_model...

I live in Zagreb, Croatia, and we have "Nine Views": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Views

There is an entire Numberphile video dedicated to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jfHM-mMC4

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel_soap: "The aim of the stainless steel soap is to then bind to the sulfur molecules, thus removing them and the associated smell from the hands. However, scientific evidence of the efficacy of these soaps appears lacking."

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdiSanGogSQ

To play, download WinVICE or similar C64 emulator: https://www.dosgamers.com/commodore-64/c64-emulator-winvice

> When I'm guessing how long something will last, I guess it's about halfway through its life

That is called Lindy effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

It looks like the article was deleted ("Oops! That page can’t be found"). Here is the Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5HMZ_Z...

If interested in technical implementation, here is the patent for S2's Network Vector Rendering (NVR): https://patents.google.com/patent/US10452868B1/en

Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta is based on that technology: https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-beta/

Replication data (CSV files and R code): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...

Fascinating! For curious, here are more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield#Career

The Demon core story is quite fascinating, I compiled several Wikipedia articles to construct the full narrative: https://svedic.org/history/demon-core

Here we go again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi... "The majority of provocation trials to date have found that such claimants are unable to distinguish between exposure and non-exposure to electromagnetic fields. A systematic review of medical research in 2011 found no convincing scientific evidence for symptoms being caused by electromagnetic fields. Since then, several double-blind experiments have shown that people who report electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to detect the presence of electromagnetic fields and are as likely to report ill health following a sham exposure as they are following exposure to genuine electromagnetic fields, suggesting the cause in these cases to be the nocebo effect." Wikipedia article has links to scientific studies.

> Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

It doesn't. Intro section on Wikipedia [0] already lists five studies that concluded it doesn't work: "Clinical research does not show reiki to be effective as a treatment for any medical condition, including cancer,[4][5] diabetic neuropathy,[6] or anxiety and depression,[7] therefore it should not replace conventional medical treatment. There is no proof of the effectiveness of reiki therapy compared to placebo. Studies reporting positive effects have had methodological flaws.[2]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reiki&oldid=94822...

[2] Lee, MS; Pittler, MH; Ernst, E (2008). "Effects of reiki in clinical practice: A systematic review of randomised clinical trials". International Journal of Clinical Practice (Systematic Review). 62 (6): 947–54. doi:10.1111/j.1742-1241.2008.01729.x. PMID 18410352. "Most trials suffered from methodological flaws such as small sample size, inadequate study design and poor reporting....In conclusion, the evidence is insufficient to suggest that reiki is an effective treatment for any condition. Therefore the value of reiki remains unproven."

[4] Russell J; Rovere A, eds. (2009). "Reiki". American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies (2nd ed.). American Cancer Society. pp. 243–45. ISBN 9780944235713.

[5] "Reiki | Complementary and alternative therapy | Cancer Research UK". about-cancer.cancerresearchuk.org. Retrieved 2020-02-12.

[6] Bril, V; England, J; Franklin, GM; Backonja, M; et al. (2011). "Evidence-based guideline: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy: Report of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation" (PDF). Neurology. 76 (20): 1758–65. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182166ebe. PMC 3100130. PMID 21482920.

[7] Joyce, Janine; Herbison, G Peter (2007-10-17), "Reiki treatment for psychological symptoms", in The Cochrane Collaboration (ed.), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. CD006833, doi:10.1002/14651858.cd006833

Yes, most tests are bad, but there is a quick advice that improves them immensely: never ask questions that are not at least Level 3 in Bloom's taxonomy of knowledge: https://blog.testdome.com/blooms-taxonomy/

I cofounded a technical screening startup, and despite our efforts to educate our customers that enter their questions on our platform, 95% of their custom questions are bad questions. They tend to ask trivia questions, that can quickly be googled, instead of asking work-sample questions (which we at TestDome.com prefer). I think they learned that from years of paper tests in school, it is very hard to unlearn.

Just to give you an idea, for testing web programmers we suggest questions where you need to find bugs in HTML code (https://www.testdome.com/questions/html-css/inspector/17629), while our customers would ask questions like "What does CSS stand for?"

Chart from the next page is very telling: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14892/spec2006-a13.png

Summarized by this paragraph in the article:

> Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.

If you want to see photos of that condition, search Google images for "methemoglobinemia": https://tinyurl.com/y6ct4ye3

Followup paper "Do Global Stocks Outperform US Treasury Bills?": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415739

Chart and discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/7kacaz/la...

Variable-buoyancy propulsion in sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_glider

I did a bit of Googling on this.

Washington post article supports the original post narrative: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/po...

Original research by Christian blogger claims delay in lightning rod adoption was not because of clergy: http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/lightning-rods-and-the-church...

If you have a research supporting or contradicting original post, please comment below.

Money doesn't grow on trees. The "bonus" you get is actually paid by higher prices on the stuff people buy. Card fees are transferred to merchants, and merchants transfer it to customers via higher prices. I wrote about it some time ago: https://svedic.org/economy/indirect-razors-and-blades-busine...

But, you are right, if you careful you can game the model. In your case, if you are paying 90% of your travel expenses with bonuses you are probably getting back more than $400 a year, which is an average credit card cost per US household.

This is just the main line, full family tree has two million members: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-02/16/content_646052...

Version of article that can be viewed from EU: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/elon-musk-unveils-boring-com...

LA Times version says: "Not available in your region"

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo

Brian May's company: https://www.londonstereo.com/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lp9-cN_Oog