A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft)

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Leslie Lamport Last modified on 25 October 2024 The book A Science of Concurrent Programs will be published by Cambridge University Press.  A final draft of the pdf version of the book is now available.  Also available is supporting material … Read more

The weak science behind psychedelics

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Listen–1.0x+ 0:0011:01 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. No psychiatric treatment has attracted quite as much cash and hype as psychedelics have in the past decade. Articles about the drugs’ surprising results—including large improvements on … Read more

Will open science change chemistry?

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Twenty years ago the debate surrounding open science focused on access to journals. By 2020 around 25% of all chemistry papers published were open access, and now most of the major publishers of chemistry journals offer some version of open … Read more

Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun

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By Gwen C. Katz Why is early speculative fiction so grim? From potions that turn people into psychopathic murderers to alien invasions only defeated by coincidental quirks of biology, turn-of-the-20th-century sci-fi carries a distinct tone that the arc of history … Read more