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It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published.

It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published. (sciencealert.com)

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Dilbert Author pokes politically driven "science"

Dilbert Author pokes politically driven "science" (blog.dilbert.com)

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An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep and humans could be next

An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep and humans could be next (theverge.com)

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Stop telling kids youre bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety like a virus.

Stop telling kids youre bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety like a virus. (washingtonpost.com)

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Bill Nye reaches Peak Degeneracy on his childrens show

Bill Nye reaches Peak Degeneracy on his childrens show (streamable.com)

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The Homeless Scientist who killed himself in his pursuit to prove selflessness does not exist

The Homeless Scientist who killed himself in his pursuit to prove selflessness does not exist (motherboard.vice.com)

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Mr Wizard, the Real Science Guy

Mr Wizard, the Real Science Guy (youtube.com)

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10 Easy Ways You Can Help Scientists Study the Earth

10 Easy Ways You Can Help Scientists Study the Earth (news.nationalgeographic.com)

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Dr. Albert Taylor Discusses his work at time in the Air Force and his career as an aerospace engineer at Skunk Works. President Reagans Star Wars program and the development of GPS.

Dr. Albert Taylor Discusses his work at time in the Air Force and his career as an aerospace engineer at Skunk Works. President Reagans Star Wars program and the development of GPS. (youtube.com)

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Lack of a regular bedtime and poorer emotional self-regulation at age 3 were independent predictors of obesity at age 11. (nature.com)

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Antarcticas Larsen C Ice Shelf Crack Will Create One Of The Biggest Icebergs Ever When It Calves

Antarcticas Larsen C Ice Shelf Crack Will Create One Of The Biggest Icebergs Ever When It Calves (ibtimes.com)

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Rapid screening machine can read and separate protein sequences

Rapid screening machine can read and separate protein sequences (phys.org)

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US Temperature Data Tampering Worse Than It Seems (realclimatescience.com)

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Umbilical cord blood could slow brain's ageing, study suggests (theguardian.com)

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Salt might actually make you hungry, not thirsty (popsci.com)

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Eastern Arctic Ocean found to be undergoing 'Atlantification'

Eastern Arctic Ocean found to be undergoing 'Atlantification' (phy.so)

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Scientists find 50 exciting new spider species, and arachnophobes will be thrilled

Scientists find 50 exciting new spider species, and arachnophobes will be thrilled (mashable.com)

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NASA study finds sun is surrounded by bubble of solar wind

NASA study finds sun is surrounded by bubble of solar wind (dailymail.co.uk)

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Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: 92 percent of children born in 1940 earned more than their parents, but only half of those born in 1984

Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: 92 percent of children born in 1940 earned more than their parents, but only half of those born in 1984 (phys.org)

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Mystery of the missing mercury at the Great Salt Lake

Mystery of the missing mercury at the Great Salt Lake (phys.org)

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A New Kind of Male Birth Control Is Coming - "Guhas technique for impairing male fertility relies on a polymer gel thats injected into the sperm-carrying tubes in the scrotum."

A New Kind of Male Birth Control Is Coming - "Guhas technique for impairing male fertility relies on a polymer gel thats injected into the sperm-carrying tubes in the scrotum." (bloomberg.com)

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Bizarre Superfluid with Negative Mass Created in a Lab (archive.is)

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Most Particles Decay But Why? [Here's why]

Most Particles Decay But Why? [Here's why] (profmattstrassler.com)

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Regarding Nye's 1 in 400 intersex pregnancies number (science)

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I thought it odd that Nye kept referring to 1 in 400 intersex pregnancies rather than live births. My main thought was that since intersex condutions result from some defect in the genetic process, then the rate of live births is likely to be less.

Searching for some real numbers is complicated by the advocacy groups, that want to count everything under the sun as intersex, polluting the results. Most of their claims seem to derive from an article co-authored (and referenced as) by Anne Fausto-Sterling. An example of this is given at the Intersex Society of North America (notice that unlike Nye, even they use statistics based on births rather than pregnancies).

A bit more searching later and I came across this response to the Fausto-Sterling result by Sax (The Montgomery Center for Research in Child and Adolescent Development). First the paper notes that Fausto-Sterling "includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex". This paper then gives a definition of intersex as being either where "chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex" or "the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female" - which as a layman (and I expect for the vast majority of Nye's audience) matches what I would consider the term intersex covers. The paper states "applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling's estimate of 1.7%." This is significantly lower than the 0.25% (for pregnancies) claim by Nye.

I am just a humble engineer who based the above on a few minutes of internet searching, so feel free to jump in with more science and facts.

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The Problem With the March for Science (archive.is)

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