This elite college is building a COVID ‘bubble’—where students are tested 3 times per week, and can’t leave campus – Fortune
https://fortune.com/2020/09/05/covid-bubble-testing-safety-amherst-college-coronavirus/amp/
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September 6, 2020Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive | The New Yorker
September 6, 2020https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/taking-virtual-reality-for-a-test-drive
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In order to get a feel for the future, Jak Wilmot, the
twenty-two-year-old co-founder of a V.R. content studio called Disrupt, lived inside a headset for a week in February—and, of course, live-streamed every second. Cocooned in his five-hundred-square-foot apartment in Atlanta, the windows blacked out so that his circadian clock would not be affected by natural light, he slept, ate, exercised, socialized, and worked in virtual reality. He did not take his headset off even to shower, keeping the electronics dry under a homemade rig that looked like a plastic-wrapped stool perched on top of his head. What he missed most, he told me, was “not seeing day or night cycles,” adding that “to counteract this I ended up loading in simulations that would match the real-world time—a sunrise field in the morning, nighttime sky at night.” At the end of hour one hundred and sixty-eight, you can watch Wilmot ceremoniously lift his headset off his head, squint, and break into a smile. The smile gives way to laughter as he goes outside and looks up at the sky. “Oh, my gosh, the graphics,” he says. “They’re so good.”
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When did people arrive in the Americas? New evidence stokes debate
September 6, 2020QT from Nature podcast:{{”
I mean first of all, I think we do have a big problem with deliberate outright fraud, but that’s a kind of separate thing from what happens much more commonly. I think there’s a much more common, and in some ways much more kind of insidious because it’s so widespread, problem of bias towards finding exciting, statistically significant results in the literature. So, if you look at the scientific literature, a huge proportion of the findings that are published there are positive results, right, way more than we would expect. In one study, it’s something like over 90% or maybe even more that.
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22 July 2020
Fraud, bias, negligence and hype in the lab — a rogues’ gallery
September 6, 2020Fraud, bias, negligence and hype in the lab — a rogues’ gallery
NYC Is Full of Ottoman Empire Echoes
September 6, 2020NYC Is Full of Ottoman Empire Echoes
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-is-full-of-ottoman-empire-echoes
The Met and MoMA in New York reopen to the public after months-long shutdowns – The Washington Post
September 3, 2020The Met and MoMA in New York reopen to the public after months-long shutdowns – The Washington Post
