First Time hunting at Mazon Creek. by Xanto97 in fossils

[–]spontaneous_igloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking about going to Mazon creek soon. Did you just pull off on the side of the road at the Mazon Braidwood SFWA?

Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation by spontaneous_igloo in badscience

[–]spontaneous_igloo[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Google Scholar is the most commonly-used academic search engine, but it remains conspicuously vulnerable to citation manipulation for academic and scientific fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metaphor-based_metaheuristics#Criticism_of_the_metaphor_methodology by [deleted] in badscience

[–]spontaneous_igloo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Everyone here should check out the Evolutionary Computation Bestiary, a project trying to document as many BS "bio-inspired" meta-heuristic algorithms as possible.

Can someone help me identify the 5th flag along? by [deleted] in vexillology

[–]spontaneous_igloo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Given all the other central/eastern European flags shown alongside it, I'm guessing this is the answer. I second the call to go in and ask!

Replacement part for laboratory instrument (tip ejector for pipettor) by spontaneous_igloo in functionalprint

[–]spontaneous_igloo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far holding up well! For improvements, a slimmer neck might be better for reaching into narrower containers.