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TV stations strike over changes in labor relations

Kathimerini 

The unions representing journalists and other employees working in public and private television channels, as well as the state-run news agency held a strike on Tuesday to protest changes to work relations sin the media.

Error-Prone Quantum Bits Could Correct Themselves, NIST Physicists Show

Scienceblog.com 

One of the chief obstacles facing quantum computer designers — correcting the errors that creep into a processor’s calculations — could be overcome with a new approach by physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland and the California Institute of Technology, who may have found a way to […]



How Americans Came to Distrust Science

The Browser 

By Andrew Jewett at bostonreview.net

Science & Nature

How Americans Came to Distrust Science

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

December 8, 2020 ... Читать дальше...

The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

The Browser 

By Tim Maughan at onezero.medium.com

No One’s Driving

Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of them

Tim Maughan

Nov 30·10 min read

Photo illustration, sources: Jesper Klausen/Science Photo Library/Sukanya Sitthikongsak/yoh4nn/Getty Images

Welcome to No One’s Driving — a column by novelist and tech writer Tim Maughan about how to understand a world governed by systems and technologies that are spiraling out of control. Читать дальше...

What We Know of Sappho

The Browser 

By Judith Schalansky at theparisreview.org

Fragment of parchment preserving parts of several poems by Sappho. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Nebuchadnezzar II is plundering Jerusalem, Solon ruling Athens, Phoenician seafarers circumnavigating the African continent for the first time, and Anaximander postulating that an indefinite primal matter is the origin of all things and that the soul is air-like in nature, Sappho writes:

He seems to me equal to the gods that... Читать дальше...

Bathroom Reading | Literary Review of Canada

The Browser 

Published at reviewcanada.ca

Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
 — Matthew 15:17

The wiser course would undoubtedly have been to admit its existence and to dignify it as much as its nature will allow.
 — Sigmund Freud, preface to John G. Bourke’s Scatalogic Rites of All Nations

We are taught from an early age that going to the lavatory is a private affair. For the actual purpose of the room, there are many names... Читать дальше...

We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time

The Browser 

By David Wallace-Wells at nymag.com

In August 1957, Dr. Joseph Ballinger gave a nurse at a New York hospital the first H2N2-vaccine shot to be administered in the city. Photo: AP Photo/AP2009

You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. Читать дальше...

Senate Democrats to vote on leadership rules amid power struggle

TheHill.com 

Senate Democrats will vote Wednesday on whether to change their rules on leadership posts and plum committee positions.Senators have been holding behind-the-scenes negotiations, with tensions spilling over into public view, in the wake of...

Senate Democratic power struggle set to come to a head

TheHill.com 

Senate Democrats are eyeing votes as soon as Wednesday on changing their rules on leadership posts and plum committee positions.Senators have been holding behind-the-scenes negotiations, with tensions spilling over...

Stop traveling, Southwest seats, Ski resorts + more travel news

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

In this week's TravelSkills on SFGATE newsletter...

Normally at this time of year, I would be writing about strategies to deal with the impending holiday crowds or how the two weeks after Thanksgiving or New Years are the cheapest times of year to travel, the so-called "dead weeks" when demand, and therefore prices, hit annual lows. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, with record rates of infections and hospitalizations in California and across the country, the "dead weeks" take on a whole new meaning. Читать дальше...

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CD Projekt Red plans to address Cyberpunk 2077's epilepsy triggers

Engadget 

After the embargo lifted on Cyberpunk 2077 reviews on Monday, reports emerged that the game includes strobing effects or rapid blinking lights that could trigger epileptic episodes. Developer CD Projekt Red has responded to those concerns with its pl...


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