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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Frequent small stakes assessments may help marginalized students bridge an achievement gap in physiology education, according to research that will be presented this week at the American Physiological Society (APS) Institute on Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin. …

Identifying the signals of a failing data science projectPhoto by Brett Jordan on UnsplashAttack every problem with tenacity, but don’t be ignorant to apparent failure.Data science is wrought with left turns and dead ends. It’s a byproduct of the curiosity we have to follow in order to answer questions about poorly understood problems. I find it’s in the nature of most data scientists to get excited when they encounter a problem they don’t know the answer to. Often finding that answer leads to something extraordinary or…

Gurugram Traffic Police has announced that people who will not give way to emergency vehicles will have to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000. The fine will be imposed under section 194E of the Motor vehicles Act, 1988. This information was shared by Gurugram traffic Police on Twitter. The tweet also said that all the vehicles are supposed to pull left when an emergency vehicle comes. Not giving way to an emergency vehicle is an offence in India and the violators can be booked for the same. However, some people still do not…

Marsh wetland at Argonne National Laboratory. Credit: Jeffrey Catalano Like you and me, microbes need some metals in their diet to stay healthy. The metals help the microbes fully "digest" food. After a good meal, the microbes that gain energy by chemically reducing nitrate release a harmless byproduct: nitrogen, the gas that makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere.…

Peacock has silently become a pretty popular streaming service, not only because it has The Office, but also because it has a free plan. On top of that, Comcast has been offering the Premium (not the Premium Plus) plan for free to Xfinity subscribers. But that appears to be going away, at some point.NBCU CEO Jeff Shell, was speaking at the Credit Suisse Communications Conference, and he attempted to put some favorable context on Peacock’s paid subscriber number. Stating that “it’s also important to remember that 13…

said today it had launched its latest Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) product, PayPal Pay Monthly, issued by WebBank.Pay Monthly will enable US consumers to spread payments over longer periods of time, up to two years. What's more, its customers will have access to a new offering through PayPal that will give them "greater flexibility and even more choices to pay for the items they want and need," according to the company's announcement.With 537 million credit card accounts and debt totaling $841 billion in the US as of…

Yung Miami is sick of people telling her how to be in a relationship. The City Girls rapper clapped back at relationship critics on Monday, taking to Instagram Live to tell her haters to “shut the fuck up” and to leave her and her new beau Diddy alone.“Y’all always gonna come and say don’t do this and don’t do that,” Miami said. “Don’t tell me what the fuck to do because I’m living my best motherfucking life. I don’t need no relationship advice from nobody cause y’all bitches ain’t married neither, y’all bitches ain’t…

Apple announced on Friday that it’s once again updated its rules about how Dutch dating apps can use third-party payment systems, after the company had “productive conversations with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).” The updated rules give developers more flexibility about which payment systems they use, change the language users see when they go to pay, and remove other restrictions that the previous rules put in place. While the rules aren’t wide-reaching (again, they only apply to Dutch…

| At Lake Comic Comic Art Festival, I got to hear Frank Cho, Klaus Janson and Alan Davis talk about Neal Adams, and especially the treatment he gave to Frank Miller, ripping apart his portfolio, but that Frank kept coming back for more. On Facebook, Image Comics CFO, co-founder of Image Comics and creator of Savage Dragon, Erik Larsen gave his experience of conducting portfolio reviews. Portfolio review screencap Portfolio review is the most thankless task a person can engage in at a comic book convention.If you manage…

My 5-year-old daughter is now old enough to read a lot of books and magazines aimed at children, and it’s given me a whole new perspective on the discourse wars over how we talk about climate change, conservation, and the future of the planet. As I’ve written about before, climate change is going to be bad, and it will hold back humanity from thriving as much as we should this century. It will likely cause mass migration and displacement and extinctions of many species. What it won’t do, however, is make the Earth…