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\(4s\) gets filled before \(3d\): this is no myth
(in almost all important atoms and ions, but the details are difficult to calculate) Some chemists would like to make the teaching of orbitals even s…
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Harvard, Google, NSF, Springer, and others need a vigorous rat control
Electronic tools make it easier for dishonest SJW terrorists to perform Stalinist purges Nick has told us about a troubling – but no longer unprecede…
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Pythagorean theorem, \(\pi\), and whiteness
Willie Soon, Ann, and Mike N. have brought our attention to a remarkable story about an attractive Latino "expert" in math teaching , Roche…
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AAUP acknowledges: harassment hysteria ruins freedom of speech
The New York Times and others have mentioned a Thursday report by AAUP : Professors’ Group Says Efforts to Halt Sexual Harassment Have Stifled Speech…
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Extracurricular activities are indeed just "extra"
I am happy to report that I agree with Scott Aaronson – and obviously with Steve Pinker – that the universities should focus on the learning and sc…
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U.N.'s 17 sustainable goals by 2030: what the youth gets brainwashed with
Bill Nye, a former actor, is looking forward to the day when the older people will die out . The death of the older people is a necessary condition f…
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First female Fields medalist
Off-topic: If you want to learn how – as a conference speaker – you should refer to a very nice blog post in a way that is both accurate and entert…
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Lisa Randall on scientists' duties, distractions, opinion bubbles, and Trump
An hour ago, the Wired has published some thoughts by my ex-colleague and occasional TRF guest blogger Lisa Randall Lisa Randall: 'It's impor…
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Delicate psyches may plan a new attack
Based on an article in The Crimson . Who are they? Op-ed columnist in Saturday's New York Times calls them "professors with delicate psych…
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Vanderbilt: mathematics is sexist
In the 1990s, left-winger Alan Sokal wrote a bogus paper mocking his fellow leftists who were also postmodernists, feminists, or otherwise mentally c…
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Scott Aaronson and sheer lunacy of U.S. academic feminism
Larry Summers is a 90% feminist. In fact, he was giving a proof of these "credentials" right before his conflicts with that movement began.…
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