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This is what happened when psychologists tried to replicate 100 previously published findings
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The headline result from the new Reproducibility Project report is that whereas 97 per cent of the original results showed a statistically significant effect, this was reproduced in only 36 per cent of the replication attempts. Some replications found the opposite effect to the one they were trying to recreate.
Reminders Of God Don’t Actually Encourage Us To Take Risks, Replication Study Finds
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Massive Push For Coal & Nuclear Power Proves China’s Wind Power Investment All For Show
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Inscrutable as ever, the Chinese pay plenty of lip service to unreliable wind and solar, but it’s coal and nuclear that are really powering the Middle Kingdom.
China’s investment in new coal and nuclear power plants absolutely dwarfs spending on intermittent wind and solar. Indeed, as Dr John Constable details below, the pace of investment in coal and nuclear power and China is positively staggering. And its growing thirst for oil appears to be thoroughly insatiable.
China’s Geostrategic Priorities Become Clear: Oil not Wind…
The Global Warming Policy Forum
John Constable
8 August 2020
China’s offshore wind installations for 2019 and its plans for the end of the decade are catching headlines. Less well reported, in the United Kingdom at least, is the vastly more significant evidence that China is acting firmly to reduce western influence in the Persian Gulf and thus secure Middle Eastern oil supplies on a scale…
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California struggles with the illegal dope despite shops being on Google maps for all to see and raid
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Sleepy @JoeBiden use to be pretty sharp
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The share market speaks #COVID19
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The dead will be many from #COVID19’s 40% cut in new medical staff
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Unintended consequences #COVID19
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#JacindaGap #COVID19 #OTD
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Interesting OIA reply on Boochani
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Decoding the Gender Matrix | with Helen Joyce
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Modeling the huddling behavior of Emperor penguins: everybody gets equal warmth
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Every winter (spring in the Northern Hemisphere), after having produced a chick, female Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) head off to sea for two months to fatten up, while the males stay behind, foodless for over 100 days, to tend the chicks. (The males get their turn to eat later, but often walk about 100 km to get to the water.) With air temperatures as low as -40° C (same in Fahrenheit), and the winds blowing as hard as 140 kph (90 mph), it gets deadly cold. And that’s when the penguins huddle together for warmth.
Here’s a short PBS video of penguin huddles. Note the constant shifting of the birds.
And the huddle really keeps them warm. A 2012 paper in PLOS ONE (screenshot below, pdf here, reference at bottom) reported that the temperature inside the huddle can reach 20°C-37.5°C (68°F-100°F). Individuals outside the huddle, exposed to…
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