My roommate recently showed me this map of univariate distributions and I think it’s awesome. Here is a snapshot: It visualizes the relationship between different…
Society, Politics and History
Coronavirus – Useful Information
A lot has happened in terms of research on the coronavirus. Here is a quick overview on what might be useful or interesting information: Nutritional…
He Who Must Not Be Named
Update: there is now a petition Scott Alexander, the author of the Slate Star Codex blog, has deleted his entire blog in reaction to the…
Retraction Watch – Tracking Retractions as a Window Into the Scientific Process
I recently learned about a cool website called Retraction Watch. They do exactly what the name suggests: They track papers that get retracted to highlight…
Can Donating Blood Help Reverse Aging?
I have previously written about the programmed death of organisms and about efforts to reverse aging. Now a new study is out and it is…
Ways to Stop Police Violence
Police violence is wide-spread problem – not only in the US but in other places as well. While I’ve read some pieces about body cameras,…
Should You Take Collegra?
I stumbled across this interesting article called Most Academic Advertising Is Immoral Bullshit. It makes the interesting point that most of what university advertises has…
Coronavirus Vaccines
This article gives a very interesting overview of different types of candidates for a coronavirus vaccine: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/15/coronavirus-vaccine-prospects
Maybe Mass Testing is not a Good Idea
For the last weeks I was very convinced that mass testing would be one of the best ways to make reopening societies safer. This piece…
On Negative Probabilities
In 1987 Richard Feynman wrote an article arguing in favor for negative probabilities. The question should not be: “do they exist?” but rather: “are they…