Hacker News
- Apple Rhapsody Report (1997) https://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/raposody.html 20 comments
- Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by undersupply of seedlings https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/plans-plant-billions-trees-threatened-massive-undersupply-seedlings 92 comments
- “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html 88 comments
- Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/team-builds-first-living-robots-can-reproduce 13 comments
- Team Builds the First Living Robots https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/team-builds-first-living-robots 42 comments
- “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (1999) http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html 91 comments
- Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard, 1842-1972 [pdf] http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/1976/robinson1976a.pdf 37 comments
- Americans More Willing to Pay for Climate Action After Extreme Weather https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/americans-more-willing-pay-climate-action-after-extreme-weather 41 comments climate
- A study involving over 11,500 children suggests that forests can offer natural protection against malaria transmission, especially for the most vulnerable children, while deforestation exacerbates the risk of the disease https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/deforestation-exacerbates-risk-malaria-most-vulnerable-children 12 comments science
- Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings: US efforts to fight climate change with tree planting at risk from lack of stock and species diversity, new research shows https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/plans-plant-billions-trees-threatened-massive-undersupply-seedlings 415 comments science
- Why conventional (neoclassical) economists argue for ecologically damaging policies https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/energy%20myths.pdf 21 comments environment
- Study finds that coffee beans are bigger and more plentiful when birds and bees team up to protect and pollinate coffee plants. Without pest control and pollination by the birds and the bees, coffee farmers would see a 25 per cent drop in crop yields — a loss of roughly $1,066 per hectare. https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/secret-better-coffee-birds-and-bees 43 comments science
- Team Builds First Living Robots That Can Reproduce. Made from frog cells, these computer-designed organisms gather single cells inside a Pac-Man-shaped “mouth”—& release Xenobot “babies” that look and move like themselves. Then the offspring go & do the same—over and over. https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/team-builds-first-living-robots-can-reproduce 12 comments science
- Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice: Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years and is highly vulnerable to a warming climate https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-scientists-stunned-discover-plants-beneath-mile-deep-greenland-ice 9 comments science
- Pandemic drove many people into nature for the first time in years. As COVID-19 health protocols were introduced, nearly 70% of park users increased their visits to local nature. An overwhelming number of respondents -- 81% -- reported an increased importance for these areas, and access to them https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/news/new-nature-lover-its-covid-19-side-effect 468 comments science
- Banning Food Waste: Lessons for Rural America. As municipalities across the country consider banning food waste as a strategy to combat climate change, a new University of Vermont study offers policy lessons for rural communities. https://www.uvm.edu/cals/news/banning-food-waste-lessons-rural-america 3 comments science
- A team of scientists has built the first living robots (cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled into entirely new life-forms). These tiny 'xenobots' promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up. https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/team-builds-first-living-robots 13 comments science
- AI can detect depression in a child's speech: Researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect hidden depression in young children (with 80% accuracy), a condition that can lead to increased risk of substance abuse and suicide later in life if left untreated. https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-study-ai-can-detect-depression-childs-speech 645 comments science
- A new study shows that if a person leaves a social media platform like Twitter, or never joined, the online posts and words of their friends still provide about 95% of the "potential predictive accuracy" of a person's future activities, even without any of that person's data. https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/study-facebook-and-twitter-your-privacy-risk-even-if-you-dont-have-account 32 comments science
- A new study from the University of Vermont reveals that a simple disclosure can improve consumer attitudes toward GMO food. Consumer attitudes toward GMO food improved by 19% after mandatory labeling in Vermont, compared to the rest of the US. https://www.uvm.edu/cals/news/mandatory-labels-reduce-gmo-food-fears 11 comments science
- A new study shows that eighth-grade science teachers without an education in science are less likely to practice inquiry-oriented science instruction, which engages students in hands-on science projects, evidence for why U.S. middle-grades students may lag behind global peers in scientific literacy. https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/study-explores-what-makes-strong-science-teachers 1147 comments science
- Global warming could reduce coffee growing areas in Latin America — the world’s largest coffee-producing region — by as much as 88% by 2050. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=24948&category=ucommall 19 comments science
- Many white-tailed deer have malaria http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=22251&category=ucommfeature 5 comments science
- PLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Nicholas Heintz, Brian Cunniff, and Kim Nelson, and we recently published a PLOS ONE study showing that selective targeting of two related antioxidant enzymes causes mesothelioma cancer cells to choke on their own oxidative exhaust – Ask Us Anything! http://www.uvm.edu/medicine/vtcancercenter/ 140 comments science
- PLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Peter Dodds, Bill Gottesman, and Andy Reagan. We published a paper in PLOS ONE that constructed a model that can help establish an institution’s gift-giving profiles and help organizations set fundraising goals – Ask Us Anything! http://www.uvm.edu 55 comments science
- Twitch Plays Robotics. http://www.uvm.edu/~janetsbe/agreement.html 48 comments artificial
- A major international study finds that surprisingly few bee species are responsible for pollinating the world’s crops. The study suggests that only two percent of wild bee species pollinate 80 percent of bee-pollinated crops worldwide. The study is one of the largest on bee pollination to date. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=21029&category=ucommtop 6 comments science
- WW2 Photo of Massacre in Lüneburg, Germany: Can you help ID what's happened in this photo? http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/children/lueneburg/lueneburg.html 15 comments history
- Survival of the fittest spider group - Nature paper provides first-ever field evidence of controversial ‘group selection’: The individual spiders are only the size of a pencil eraser, but they form organized groups that can catch prey ranging from fruit flies to small vertebrates http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=19294 3 comments science
- Whales as Ecosystem Engineers: Biologists tallied several decades of research on whales from around the world; it shows that whales, in fact, make a huge difference — they have a powerful and positive influence on the function of oceans, global carbon storage, and the health of commercial fisheries http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=18797&category=ucommfeature 31 comments science
- Online robot design game on the web (x-post from r/robotics) http://www.uvm.edu/~mwagy/robots/dotbot/ 22 comments gamedev
- Help us crowdsource robot design http://www.uvm.edu/~mwagy/robots/dotbot/ 45 comments robotics
- Saul Kripke, "A Puzzle about Belief" http://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/kripke(1979).pdf 14 comments philosophy
- Help us learn about crowdsourcing robotics (interactive; x-posted in /r/robotics) http://www.uvm.edu/~mwagy/robots/jointbot/ 5 comments artificial
- Help us learn about crowdsourcing robotics! [interactive] http://www.uvm.edu/~mwagy/robots/jointbot/ 9 comments robotics
- A new study shows that Harry Potter fans tend to be "politically tolerant; less authoritarian; less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture; more politically active; and are more likely to have a negative view of the Bush administration." http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=16276 12 comments politics
- Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers: New observations by an international team, including University of Vermont astrophysicist Joanna Rankin, make these bizarre stars even more puzzling. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=15196 23 comments science
- Strange behavior of fixed position div in chrome http://www.uvm.edu/~areid/homesite/ 6 comments web_design
- The First Candidate on the Today's Wisconsin Gubernatorial Democratic Primary Ballot is the Fake Democrat http://www.uvm.edu/~vlrs/PoliticalProcess/ballotordereffects.pdf 74 comments politics
- Bayes Theorem in your field. http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/StatHomePage.html 37 comments askscience
Linking pages
- What Happens to Spelling Bee Champions When They Grow Old? https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/what-happens-to-spelling-bee-champions-when-they-grow-old 134 comments
- Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/scientists-build-tiny-biological-robots-from-human-cells/ 0 comments