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This is the comment on the Mother Jones entry: "There is consensus that Mother Jones is generally reliable. Almost all editors consider Mother Jones a biased source, so its statements (particularly on political topics) may need to be attributed. Consider whether content from this publication constitutes due weight before citing it in an article."

They acknowledge it is a biased source and they make a distinction between reliability and bias. Not familiar with the publication.


To elaborate slightly, note that "reliable" is sort of Wikipedia jargon. When it applies to a news organization, it means that statements of fact are likely to be correct... or at least, not intentionally incorrect, because errors do happen. So a source can be reliable and biased at the same time, which means that if it says a thing happened you can largely trust that it really did happen... but any interpretation of that might be slanted, and so shouldn't be trusted.

The New York Post isn't "reliable" because it's a tabloid that doesn't care overmuch about fact-checking what it publishes (and, worse, has a history of just making stuff up sometimes). So the Wikipedia position is that you can't trust a citation to the NY Post without finding something else to corroborate it -- at which point you might as well just cite the corroborating reliable source instead.

Whereas Mother Jones will absolutely mostly publish articles which say good things about progressives and bad things about conservatives, but those things will all be true. Their bias comes in the form of selectively presenting these things -- they're unlikely to bother posting a "Ted Cruz just did a good thing" article -- and in their color commentary / opinion pieces, not in the form of just making things up.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources


This seems like the actual work of the article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c13908

And the superbase is 1,5,7-triazabicyclo [4.3.0] non-6-ene

It is an anime based technology. Other amines in water-based solutions also get regenerated at about <200C. It is great to find new molecules to do this work but as I usual, these marketing articles sensationalize the actual work.


I would’ve expected the research to be coming out of Japan if it’s an anime based technology ;)


There should be something like this available for any student at University, regardless of field. Perhaps less geared towards programming tasks but basic computing productivity.


Agreed. The original paper states that they have a technique to remove oxygen from the surface of titanium. If that is the case, grinding could be viable. How hard is it to grind titanium?


…Very hard. It’s titanium. Every work process has to be done with special carbide bits, at half speed, underwater.


Tungsten carbide isn’t it?


I think the titanium on the outside in the slag is the easy part, and not included in the 1% figure, which is on the inside.


Everything is urgent: "There is thus an urgent need to develop a high-speed and efficient refining method to realize the mass production of low-cost Ti."


Deploying this on already published work is probably a bad idea. But what is wrong with working with such tools on submission and review?


The fact that ctrl+c copies on my computer and I can expect the same at my mom's computer or my friend's computer seems like a blessing not a curse.


In my experience open access still includes a big publisher sucking up tons of money. It is just money paid up front by authors. Do you have an example of open access were that is not the case?


Some disciplines have started moving to Arxiv. And all the major programming languages conferences (PLDI, POPL, ICFP, more) switched to PACMPL, which is open acess and I expect is cheaper but am not sure how to check. I don't know much about this; mostly just wanted to make the point that peer review != publishing.


Late but there are many. This is called diamond access. A possibly familiar example is the ACL.


Thank you! I don't know what is happening lately but every X embed is broken for me in Firefox Mobile with an ad blocker enabled.



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