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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 15h

🧪 #pfas #water #eco-friendly #chemicals

news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 7d

Very sorry to hear of Jane Goodall’s passing. Her scientific contributions and her work as a conservationist are extraordinary.
#goodall #chimpanzee #conservation #primatology

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Gift article

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 8d

Worth noting that Excel was originally developed for the Mac.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 9d

Very nice. I created a version that allows you to set the number of doors. With a large number of doors, it may be a bit easier to see that switching is better. onlinestatbook.com/2/probabilit...

Monty Hall Problem

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 15d

#stroke
#AI
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AI tool speeds up stroke care across England, tripling recovery rates | The Optimist Daily

New NHS AI tool cuts stroke treatment time by 60 minutes and boosts recovery rates—now available at all stroke centres across England.

www.optimistdaily.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 16d

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#fertilizer
#agriculture
#environment
#chemicals
#CRISPR
“In low-nitrogen tests, the edited plants stayed greener, captured more sunlight, and produced bigger harvests. Roots from those plants also released more apigenin, which lined up with the extra biofilm growth around them.”

Researchers unlock hidden plant ability that could eliminate harmful chemicals from farming: 'Savings of more than a billion dollars'

A new nitrogen-fixing genetic tweak could help wheat fertilize itself, potentially saving farmers over a billion dollars every year.

www.thecooldown.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 19d

That is quite an honor. 🏆

David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 19d

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From Wikipedia:
The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡ noʊˈbɛl/) is a satirical prize awarded annually. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble".

#comedy
#Nobel

The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025) FULL SHOW

YouTube video by Improbable Research

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 19d

As the Yakov Smirnoff joke goes, the problem is not freedom of speech, the problem is freedom after speech.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 21d

Ne supra crepidam ("not beyond the shoe") is a Latin expression used to tell others not to pass judgment beyond their expertise.

Ne supra crepidam - Wikipedia

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 25d

Interesting point

David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · 26d

Great promise here. We’ll see how it plays out.
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#genetic #enginering
#co2
#wood
#material
#environment

Scientists create 'super wood' from gene-edited trees and claim it will change everything

Genetically engineered wood from poplar trees offers eco-friendly strength without chemical processing, revolutionizing construction.

www.earth.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Sep 7

Would you but a used car from a man who developed what is arguably the worst and most naive statistical model in history. The model predicted Covid would be essentially gone in May 2020.

The Trump administration’s “cubic model” of coronavirus deaths, explained

An extremely foolish way to forecast the pandemic.

www.vox.com

David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good question. I suspect it will take quite a while but I don’t know.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Sep 5

#lithium
#chemistry
#water
#environment
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Sun-powered device extracts lithium without wrecking the environment

An experimental new method for extracting lithium from brine and even seawater promises to be more sustainable than existing methods

www.newscientist.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reminds me of the old Steven Wright joke: “ I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.”

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 25

Glad your story has a happy ending.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 25

#history
#neurogenesis
#mars
#plastic
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Science Thought Nerves Couldn’t Heal. It Thought Mars Had Canals. It Thought Plastic Was Eco-Friendly. Then It Thought Again

In honor of SciAm’s 180th birthday, we’re spotlighting the biggest “wait, what?” moments in science history.

www.scientificamerican.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excellent thorough explication of the faulty experimental designs, faulty statistical analyses, faulty logic, and serious biases used to argue vaccinations cause autism. Great material for anyone teaching research methods or statistics.
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#vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)

Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.

www.nytimes.com

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 19

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if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 7

Low levels of lithium may play a role in memory decline.
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#memory
#Alzheimer
#lithium

“We found that when we administered lithium orotate to aging mice [that had] started losing their memory, the lithium orotate actually reverted their memory to the young adult, six-month level,”

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Research on reversing Alzheimer’s reveals lithium as potential key

Years of investigation by scientists at Harvard has revealed that lithium is deeply involved in Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that could lead to new treatments.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 7

Possibly Japan, UK, Germany, and The Netherlands.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’ve had some research projects like that.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Aug 2

I had that book too. I was doing psychology reaction time experiments and needed a software clock that was fast (loop until a response is made and record the number of loops). I think there was a H and an L register. Writing a game is much more complex, congratulations.

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David Lane @dml125.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great potential for energy storage. Important for #solar and #wind energy.
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Scientists Are Turning the Earth Beneath Our Feet Into a Giant Battery

A new technology known as Geochemical Energy Storage (GES) could provide months-long storage for renewable energy, increasing grid reliability.

www.popularmechanics.com

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