Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis.

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A simple syntax for complex argumentation

Earliest evidence that masks work for Covid-19.

Celeste is also solid because it is infuriatingly hard, even just within its first level. This might be just because I am bad at platformers, but dying 40 times in a row because of one just out of reach ledge had me almost launching my controller at my wall.

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This is a demo and test app for rrule.js, a JavaScript library for working with recurrence rules for calendar dates.

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Director Alfonso Cuarón revisits Children of Men, his overlooked 2006 masterpiece, which might be the most relevant film of our dark new century.

FinSpy is a commercial spyware suite produced by the Munich-based company FinFisher Gmbh. Since 2011 researchers have documented numerous cases of targeting of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) – including activists, journalists, and dissidents with the use of FinSpy in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. Because of this, Amnesty International’s Security Lab tracks FinSpy usage and development as part of our continuous monitoring of digital threats to Human Rights Defenders.
Amnesty International published a report in March 2019 describing phishing attacks targeting Egyptian human rights defenders and media and civil society organizations staff carried out by an attacker group known as “NilePhish”. While continuing research into this group’s activity, we discovered it has distributed samples of FinSpy for Microsoft Windows through a fake Adobe …

Arbitrary Arrests, Discrimination, Entrapment, Privacy Violations

The story of the PDF, the file format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information tools. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

There is a hidden cost to having a hypothesis. It arises from the relationship between night science and day science, the two very distinct modes of activity in which scientific ideas are generated and tested, respectively [1, 2]. With a hypothesis in hand, the impressive strengths of day science are unleashed, guiding us in designing tests, estimating parameters, and throwing out the hypothesis if it fails the tests. But when we analyze the results of an experiment, our mental focus on a specific hypothesis can prevent us from exploring other aspects of the data, effectively blinding us to new ideas. A hypothesis then becomes a liability for any night science explorations. The corresponding limitations on our creativity, self-imposed in hypothesis-driven research, are of particular concern in the context …

I really like explaining complicated topics while trying to avoid unnecessary jargon, and I realized that I’ve thought a lot about how to do it well. So here are a bunch of things I try to do when I use simple language to avoid coming off as condescending.

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This course is aimed at trainee neurologists and geriatricians who are interested in gaining a broad introduction to movement disorders, and focuses on the clinical features and management of the whole spectrum of movement disorders.

CAIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The director of a prominent Egyptian rights group was held in solitary confinement and inhumane conditions for three days after his arrest last week, his lawyers and the group’s founder said on Monday.

Gasser Abdel Razek is one of three staff from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) arrested last week in a case that has drawn public criticism from the United Nations and Western diplomats.

The interior ministry, which is responsible for prisons, could not be immediately reached for comment.

The arrests, on charges including joining a terrorist group and publishing false news, came after senior diplomats visited EIPR for a briefing on human rights on Nov. 3.