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When research stays a trade secret, public safety suffers. Not a single field study on moderation or online harassment has ever been replicated in 40 years of research. It’s hard to know if Lampe’s moderation research applies anywhere other than early 2000s Slashdot. It took 10 years for others to ask similar questions, and their findings seem to point in an [opposite](http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429) [direction](http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00680).
A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse
J Nathan Matias
And yet, deadly as it was, the pandemic could have been deadlier. Three interventions saved lives: vaccination, measures to reduce infections (especially closures of indoor activities and mask-wearing) and medical care (including hospital care and antiviral medications).
What Worked Against Covid: Masks, Closures and Vaccines - WSJ
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THE DOCUMENTS GOUDSMIT DISCOVERED in Strasbourg were an intelligence jackpot. For the first time the Alsos mission had a window into the inner workings of Germany’s atomic research program, notes from secret meetings, postcards, memos from one scientist to another and a personal letter addressed to “Lieber Werner” (Heisenberg) sharing gossip about life in Strasbourg.
Chasing Heisenberg
Michael Joseloff
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