News and Links Digest (publ. 2024-11-04)
Wilting flowers and resource management
Some interesting research shows that (1) plants reuse resources from wilting flowers, and (2) the resources are stored away with a view toward a long-term resource strategy.
Ancient galaxy too orderly
Yet another distant galaxy fails to fit into the standard model for the age of the universe. This one is too orderly. Early galaxies are supposed to be "small and messy looking".
The ongoing battle against election fraud
A few recent articles from JTN:
And one little local (Alaska) story:
(Humorous? Scary?) video of student accidentally admitting to being pro-life
Let's hope he is not going into either politics or engineering.
Hidden Valley reveals more wonders
Fraud and pressure in academic research
An interesting gemini post about the pressures in academic research. Hopefully this will help dispel any commonly held myths about how scientists and researchers are unbiased divines who we can trust more than anyone or anything else.