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First Attempts to Reverse Aging in Humans

Most people think of aging as something inevitable. But not all agree and the research into aging and how to reverse it has become more…

12. July 202012. July 2020
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The Effect of Sci-Hub on Science

In 2016 Alexandra Elbakyan was listed as one of the top 10 people who mattered in science by Nature. And indeed, her impact on science…

4. July 20204. July 2020
Categories Science, Statistics

A Map of Univariate Distributions

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…

30. June 202030. June 2020
Categories Science

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…

16. June 202016. June 2020
Categories Health, Science

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…

12. June 202012. July 2020
Categories Science

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…

30. May 202028. May 2020
Categories Science

On Reversing Aging

David Sinclair on a new paper about age reversal (Twitter Link) Sinclair reviews an exciting new paper. From the Twitter thread: 18 rats were divided…

21. May 202021. May 2020
Categories Health, Science

Wednesday, 22.04.2020 – Why Cryonics Isn’t Crazy

Link of the day: Why Cryonics Makes Sense How do you define death? There are quite a number of ways to answer that. Centuries ago,…

22. April 202018. April 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Science

Wednesday, 04.03.2020 – People Born Blind Seem To Be Protected From Schizophrenia

Link of the day: People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia These findings suggest that something about congenital blindness may protect a person from…

4. March 202026. February 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Science

Sunday, 01.03.2020 – Betting On the Reproducibility of Scientific Studies

Link of the day: Replication Markets Replicatiomarkets is a scientific project that aims to assess how reproducible scientific studies are – and how we might…

1. March 202026. February 2020

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