Interesting Links for 05-08-2017

[andrewducker]

A Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Looks Like a Statue

(tags: dinosaurs archeology )

Have Smartphones Changed The Latest Generation? - The Atlantic

(tags: phones Technology society children )

The Ctenophore evolved it's brain entirely separately to all other life

(tags: evolution brain life )

It’s not that your teeth are too big: your jaw is too small

(tags: teeth evolution )

Tryptophan may help soothe inflamed gut

(tags: mice microbiome )

Nuclear is the safest major energy source

(tags: nuclearpower safety )

Math Journal Editors Quit to Start Competing Open Access Journal

(tags: academia publishing OpenAccess )

Comments

[drplokta]

On the third link, I think you should have said ctenophore, not carnivore. Auto-correct playing up?

Smartphones.

[ironyoxide]

Whenever anyone suggests that making it easier for ordinary people to communicate with each other is a bad idea, I get suspicious.

Math Journal Editors Quit to Start Competing Open Access Journal

[jack]

I'm not really following the saga of mathematicians jumping ship from paid journals, but I see snippets of if like this. It makes sense that maths is one of the subjects its easiest to escape, since a lot of things get preprints on arxiv anyway, and because there's the least overhead to research. I guess it's significant that this is a journal leaving springer (who have a fairly long history of respected academic publishing) not elsevier (who everyone hates).

[randomdreams]

I feel like the primary issue with nuclear isn't safety per se but that it's so astonishingly expensive to build one, even when over 20 years it'll repay itself, that it's hard to convince anyone that it makes economic sense to do so, and particularly hard to convince anyone to spend the extra money on ongoing safety systems/procedures/investigation.

[danieldwilliam]

The ankylosuarus, or to give it it's full Captain Scientific Name, the Boomawhacka, is one of my favourite dinosaurs.