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Caloric Restriction for a Longer Life. 17 Disinformation Techniques
A list of 17 disinformation techniques allegedly employed by Russia in its fight against “The West”.
Free Online Course on Rationality, AI Antibiotics, Science in Tabloids, Robots
The peer-reviewed journal Cell published a paper about the use of machine learning to identify new antibiotics. The approach used was to train a deep learning model using the ZINC15 database which contains millions of compounds. The algorithm found 23 potential antibiotics, eight of which were structurally different from any known antibiotics. One of them named halicin which worked when tested on mice.
Weekly News Update – 17th February
We’re starting a new section on this blog to include interesting news we’ve stumbled upon over the last week. It will all be related to science or critical thinking and we’ll try to keep cat and puppy videos to a minimum.
Boris Johnson and the Angry Guardian Readers
On the premise that, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, if we’re anyway about to open a can worms, we’ll go for the biggest one on the shelf. What we wanted to do is some primary research around reader comments on online newspapers so we went for an article by John Crace entitled “Boris Johnson doesn’t let detail stand in way of latest vanity projects”, published on 11th February 2020 in the online edition of The Guardian.