"In general, “lumpers” tend to combine taxa into larger systematic groups while “splitters” break systematic groups apart into more taxa. Recently, however, it seems like the terms could refer to rival gangs, and one runs the risk of being judged depending on their answer to the question above."
Meredith Bennett
"The first trial of the century, in the modern sense, began on July 10th, 1925. Formally, the case is known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. You may know this trial by a different name: the "Scopes Monkey Trial," as it was likely referred to in your high school US history textbooks. The defendant was high school teacher John Scopes for teaching human evolution in violation of Tennessee law."
Alex Cope
"We know that these things shouldn’t happen in the brain because we can compare them to the brains of people who did not have these diseases. But we also know that seeing what brains look like before and after neurodegenerative disease hasn’t actually helped us cure them so far – many drugs that specifically remove protein buildup (plaques) in the brain have failed to make it out of the clinic."
Brendan Gallagher
"A set of fundamental concepts in statistics and machine learning can be traced back to a deceptively simple 2x2 table: the confusion matrix. Despite its simplicity, the confusion matrix is a powerful tool that appears in two key domains of statistics: binary classification and hypothesis testing. In both cases, it serves a similar function: it measures how often and in what direction we are incorrect."
Sam Blechman
"The Earth’s crust is constantly being reconfigured and actually has a quasi-periodic supercontinent cycle. One cycle is said to take 300-500 million years, and the next one is expected to occur within the next 250 million years. Many have made predictions of the configuration, suggesting that it will likely exist at the equator and the most common prediction being called Pangaea Ultima."
Mary Cundiff
"In the not too distant future, close to 100% of the energy used by humanity will be carried by electricity, generated from renewable sources (mostly solar and wind with significant contributions from hydro and geothermal power). Combustion will have the same old time-y steampunk vibe as trains and horses, relegated to niche uses for hobbyists. Burning valuable molecules will be understood as comically expensive, inefficient and dangerous."
Patrick Bryant
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