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- Bronze Disease https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/4867.html 10 comments
- Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-22/subsurface 119 comments
- Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-01-21/vagme 6 comments
- Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of 'Political Correctness' (1994) [pdf] https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/papers/Loury_Political_Correctness.pdf 90 comments
- NASA’s InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars: The Mars lander’s seismometer picked up vibrations and sounds from four impacts in the past two years https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-09-19/meteoroid-impacts 5 comments space
- People who disagree with scientists often overestimate their own scientific knowledge, study finds https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-08-09/overestimation 81 comments climate
- Researchers discover brain pathway that helps to explain light’s effect on mood https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-07-06/light-mood 63 comments science
- Differences between the Moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact - New research shows how the impact that created the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between the two sides of the Moon https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-04-08/moonfaces 2 comments space
- Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers. Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-02-07/skyrmions 7 comments science
- Magnets and superconductors don’t normally get along, but a new study shows that ‘magic-angle’ graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could be useful in quantum computing. https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-01-06/magnet 4 comments science
- Next-gen battery electrolyte made from wood offers record conductivity. Scientists have used cellulose derived from wood as the basis for a solid battery electrolyte, which is paper-thin and can bend and flex to absorb stress as the battery is cycled, while also offering record high conductivity. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-10-21/ionconductor 31 comments science
- Researchers find the first clear evidence for a cometary body (or bodies) exploding at a low altitude. Twisted and folded silicate glasses concentrated in certain areas across the Atacama Desert indicate nearly simultaneous intense airbursts close to Earth’s surface near the end of the Pleistocene. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-11-02/comet 25 comments science
- Brown Physics Student Manfred Steiner Earns Ph.D. at Age 89 | Physics https://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/news/2021/11/brown-physics-student-manfred-steiner-earns-phd-age-89 6 comments science
- Brown Physics Student Manfred Steiner Earns Ph.D. at Age 89 https://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/news/2021/11/brown-physics-student-manfred-steiner-earns-phd-age-89 67 comments upliftingnews
- Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful | Interesting study about possible adverse side effects of mindfulness meditation https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-18/adverse-effects 27 comments science
- Terrifying Consequences and Terrific Costs of the so-called 'War On Terror': Eight Trillion Dollars Sadistically Squandered and Nearly One Million Victims of Institutionalized Violence https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar 3 comments economics
- Terrifying Consequences and Terrific Costs of the so-called 'War On Terror': Eight Trillion Dollars Sadistically Squandered and Nearly One Million Victims of Institutionalized Violence https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar 2 comments worldnews
- Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar 42 comments goldandblack
- [deleted by user] https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-12/handwriting 20 comments science
- Researchers take step toward next-generation brain-computer interface system https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-08-12/neurograins 9 comments science
- Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful. Of the 96 participants, 58% reported at least one meditation-related adverse effect, which ranged from perpetual hypersensitivity to nightmares to traumatic re-experiencing. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-18/adverse-effects 27 comments science
- Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty - A new study on political polarization showed how an aversion to uncertainty is often associated with black-and-white political views, for both liberals and conservatives. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-05-13/polarization 1044 comments science
- Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-22/subsurface 9 comments space
- New research suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-04-22/subsurface 3 comments science
- By analyzing locations for more than 133 million tweets by 375,000 Twitter users in the 50 largest U.S. cities, researchers found that in most urban areas, people of different races don’t just live in different neighborhoods — they also eat, shop, socialize and travel in different neighborhoods. https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-02-11/segregation 68 comments science
- By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, a new copper catalyst could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide. The idea is to capture CO2 produced by industrial facilities or directly from air, and convert it into other useful carbon compounds. https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-08-12/c2-plus 6 comments science
- Research reveals possibly active tectonic system on the Moon - Strange spots scattered across the Moon’s nearside where bedrock is conspicuously exposed are evidence of seismic activity set in motion 4.3 billion years ago that could be ongoing today, the researchers say. https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-04-30/tectonics 5 comments science
- The Reliability Challenge and the Epistemology of Logic https://www.brown.edu/academics/philosophy/sites/brown.edu.academics.philosophy/files/uploads/reliabilitychallenge.pdf 3 comments philosophy
- Climate change legislation, media coverage drives ad spending by oil companies, study finds https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-12-17/advertising 5 comments science
- Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-12-12/speech 10 comments science
- Analyzing the physics of Jackson Pollock’s painting technique, it shows a keen understanding of a classic phenomenon in fluid dynamics, whether he knew it or not. He seems to intentionally avoid coiling instability, the tendency of a viscous fluid to form curls and coils when poured on a surface. https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-10-30/pollock 30 comments science
- Researchers aim to restore limb and bladder function in spinal cord injury patients using an implantable "intelligent spinal interface" https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-10-03/isi 7 comments science
- New approach could make HVAC heat exchangers five times better https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-08-01/heatexchange 46 comments science
- In a step toward molecular storage systems to hold vast amounts of data in tiny spaces, researchers store image files in solutions of common biological small molecules, and read the information back out again, which can have even greater information density than DNA, in a new proof-of-concept study. https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-07-03/molecules 135 comments science
- Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near the landing site for NASA’s next Mars rover, a new study finds. https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-05-22/volcanoes 5 comments science
- 'Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote' -- Jason Brennan http://www.brown.edu/research/ppw/files/polluting%20the%20polls.pdf 13 comments philosophy
- Carte Politique Détaillée de l'Europe en 1300 AD [intense political map of europe 1300 ad] https://www.brown.edu/departments/italian_studies/dweb/images/maps/decworld/1300-europe.jpg 76 comments europe
- Animated Atlas of Africa http://www.brown.edu/research/aaah/map.htm 9 comments history
- Obesity in a Fattist Society http://www.brown.edu/student_services/health_services/health_education/nutrition/ec_obesity.htm 4 comments reddit.com
- Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video http://www.brown.edu/administration/news_bureau/2006-07/06-174.html 4 comments science