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ars_belli ([personal profile] ars_belli) wrote in [community profile] science2016-10-21 12:52 pm
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This week in cosmology

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here...
Every week (most) astrophysics papers (amongst other fields) go up as pre-prints in a site called arXiv, which enables the community to see who is doing what and which topics are hot now, etc. etc. There's no better way to check that one's understood a paper than to explain it to a non-specialist audience. So I thought I would take a small collection (not more than half-a-dozen) of the hundred-plus papers which appear in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology and Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics and summarize them in a paragraph for a non-astrophysics audience. Is this the sort of thing in which [community profile] science would be interested?

Edit: Apologies for the earlier HTML fail...
kaberett: Trans symbol with Swiss Army knife tools at other positions around the central circle. (Default)

[personal profile] kaberett 2016-10-21 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I would very happily read. :-)
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[personal profile] yvi 2016-10-21 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds great!
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[personal profile] alias_sqbr 2016-10-21 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! That sounds great!
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[personal profile] linaelyn 2016-10-21 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a GREAT idea! Can this catch on as a thing for the community? Because I'd love to read summaries for a nonspecialist from all sorts of science fields.
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[personal profile] birguslatro 2016-10-21 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a wonderful idea!
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2016-10-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds amazing!
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[personal profile] nanila 2016-10-24 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes please.
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[personal profile] rambl3 2016-12-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
That would be a great idea!