Steven Saus [he/him] @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

From 14 Jan: The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download - Everybody knows that UFO stands for “unidentified flying object.” Coined by the United... https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-cia-has-declassified-2780-pages-of-ufo-related-documents.html #sci-fi #science

From 31 Dec: The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes - I mean, the idea that you would give a psychedelic—in this case, magic mushrooms or the chem... https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-golden-guide-to-hallucinogenic-plants-discover-the-illustrated-1977-guide-created-by-the-groundbreaking-ethnobotanist-richard-evan-schultes.html #biology #science

From 19 Nov: Internalized gender-focused attitudes affect health, career prospects - Enlarge / Women in traditional Mosuo clothing. In most societies, there are very easy to quantify ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/internalized-gender-focused-attitudes-affect-health-career-prospects/ #behavioral-science #engineering #gender #human-behavior #physiology #science

From 15 Nov: The iOS COVID-19 app ecosystem has become a privacy minefield - Enlarge / Around 44 percent of COVID-19 apps on iOS ask for access to the phone’s camera. 32 p... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/the-ios-covid-app-ecosystem-has-become-a-privacy-minefield/ #policy #science

From 13 Nov: Vaccine czar calls on Trump to allow contact with Biden - Enlarge / President Donald Trump listens as Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKlines vacc... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/vaccine-czar-calls-on-trump-to-allow-contact-with-biden/ #covid-19 #immunization #policy #project-warp-speed #science #vaccines

From 23 Oct: Huge COVID study finds remdesivir doesn’t work—FDA grants approval anyway - Enlarge / A vial of Remdesivir during a press conference about the start of a study with severely... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/fda-approves-remdesivir-for-covid-19-but-global-study-finds-it-doesnt-work/ #covid-19 #fda #gilead #public-health #remdesivir #science #who

From 01 Nov: Virus Hunters makes a strong case that COVID-19 is just the wake-up call - Enlarge / Scientists around the world are working not just to stamp out the current COVID-19 pand... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/natgeos-virus-hunters-showcases-scientists-racing-to-stop-next-pandemic/ #documentary #ecology #gaming-&-culture #national-geographic-channel #pandemic #science #television #virology

From 30 Sep: Numbers, Honesty, And Surveys - So there’s this thing called “Benford’s Law“ - and I think that it might be super useful in determining when people aren’t completely honest in survey research. https://ideatrash.net/2020/09/numbers-honesty-and-surveys.html #science #sociology #benford #math #research #survey #survey-design

From 09 Sep: Russian vaccine trial data has some odd-looking data [Updated] - Enlarge / MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 4, 2020: Medical staff with newly delivered boxes containing... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/team-behind-the-russian-vaccine-publishes-some-details-of-early-trials/ #biology #covid-19 #medicine #sars-cov-2 #science #vaccines #virology

From 08 Sep: The Rise of Molds: Dive into the Microscopic Landscape of Growing Fungi -  “The Rise of Molds” plunges into the minute world of four species of fungi as ... https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/the-rise-of-molds/ #fungi #mold #nature #photography #science #timelapse #video

From 03 Sep: Evidence slowly building for long-term heart problems post-COVID-19 - Enlarge / A fluorescent image of cardiac muscle cells in culture. Coronaviruses spread prima... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/evidence-slowly-building-for-long-term-heart-problems-post-covid-19/ #biology #cardiac #covid-19 #heart #medicine #sars-cov-2 #science

From 03 Sep: Three stars, warped rings may show how planets end up moving backward - Enlarge / An image of the exosolar system (right), and an artists’ conception of what we&apo... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/three-stars-warped-rings-may-show-how-planets-end-up-moving-backwards/ #astronomy #astrophysics #exoplanets #science

From 01 Sep: “Shortsighted” and “Self-defeating”: US rejects global COVID-19 vaccine effort - Enlarge / A medical worker holds a bottle of a candidate COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford Uni... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/trump-admin-shuns-global-covid-19-vaccine-program-citing-beef-with-who/ #cepi #covid-19 #gavi #pandemic #sars-cov-2 #science #trump #trump-administration #vaccine #who

From 01 Sep: Empirical evidence that nice people don’t always finish last - Enlarge / Look at this jerk. Think your boss is a jerk? Wonder why the management of your or... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/empirical-evidence-that-nice-people-dont-always-finish-last/ #behavioral-science #disagreeable #politics #power #science #success

From 27 Aug: Overview Timelapse: A New Book Documents Vast Changes to the Earth’s Surface by Human Hands - Construction of the Beijing Daxing International Airport 2012-Present. In a follow-up to the 2016 b... https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/overview-timelapse-book/ #aerial #books #climate-change #history #landscapes #photography #science #timel

From 25 Aug: Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades - Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that ar... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/ #birds #science #wind-power #wind-turbines

From 19 Aug: Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses - Quantum mechanics, when examined closely, poses some deep questions about reality. These qu... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/quantum-reality-is-either-weirdly-different-or-it-collapses/ #bells-inequality #quantum-entanglement #quantum-mechanics #quantum-superposition #reality #science #wigners-friend

From 18 Aug: Does Our Sun Have a Long-Lost Twin? - Artist’s depiction of our Sun, along with its hypothesized solar companion.Image: M. WeissThe... https://gizmodo.com/does-our-sun-have-a-long-lost-twin-1844766242 #astronomy #astrophysics #binary-stars #oort-cloud #planet-nine #science #separated-at-birth #solar-system #sun

From 15 Aug: Fabulous fossil preserves eyes of 429-million-year-old trilobite - Enlarge / Don’t think you can pull one over on this trilobite—he’s still got one... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/429-million-year-old-trilobite-already-had-modern-like-compound-eyes/ #compound-eyes #fossils #science

From 14 Aug: Trump admin. finally kills off Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions - Enlarge / A natural gas flare from an offshore oil drilling rig in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The E... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/trump-admin-finally-kills-off-obama-era-rule-limiting-methane-emissions/ #climate-change #climate-crisis #emissions #energy #environmental-protection-agency #epa #methane #methane-emissions #policy #science