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We are in the middle of what some scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction and not all at-risk species can be saved. That’s causing some conservationists to say we need to start thinking about “species triage.” Meagan Cantwell interviews freelance journalist Warren Cornwall about his story on weighing the costs of saving Canada’s endangered caribou and the debate among conservationists on new approaches to conservation. And host Sarah Crespi interviews Hope Michelsen, a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, about mysterious origins of soot. The black dust has been around since fire itself, but researchers never knew how the high-energy environment of a flame can produce it—until now. Michelsen walks Sarah through the radical chemistry of soot formation—including its formation of free radicals—and discusses soot’s many roles in industry, the environment, and even interstellar space. Check out this useful graphic describing the soot inception process in the related commentary article. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download a transcript of this episode (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Darren Bertram/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

'Every morning, when I had to step out, my wife would cry.'

The retired Supreme Court judge said the AK Patnaik committee report that investigated alleged manipulation of the court should be placed before the bench.

Premier League clubs are due to meet on Monday to discuss the latest plans for “Project Restart” – a day after an expected minor easing of coronavirus lockdown.

"By making such a statement, Rahul has lowered the country's image"

Addressing the gathering, Rahul Gandhi raked up the issue of drug menace in Punjab.

The search started after a seer said he was told in his dreams that the buried gold was in Unnao.

Bitta advocated an increase in the military presence in JandK as the Valley faces threats everyday.

JS Remote Conf 2016 will be from January 14th-16th from noon-4:30PM ET! Get your early bird tickets or submit a CFP now thru December 14th!

02:46 - Panel Consensus and Experience and Career Paths

16:00 - The School Doesn’t Matter

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

19:59 - Panel Experience and Career Paths (Cont’d)

38:36 - Practically Helpful Knowledge and Disciplines; Interviewing and Hiring

46:38 - Privilege and Navigating Without Opportunity

49:54 - Why get a degree if it’s not necessary?

• Support Structure

01:02:13 - Consensus Part 2

Picks

The More Things Change (Jamison)
Allison Kaptur: Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers (Jamison)
@Aimee_Knight (Joe)
Star Wars Battlefront (Joe)
Amazing Grass (Aimee)
Daniel Brain: Sane, scalable Angular apps are tricky, but not impossible. Lessons learned from PayPal Checkout. (Aimee)
xkcd: Correlation (Dave)
Lviv, Ukraine (Dave)
CharlesMaxWood.com (Chuck)
Every Time Zone (Chuck)
The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms by Philip Morgan (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)

Episode Summary

Surma is an open web advocate for Google currently working with WebAssembly team. He was invited on the show today to talk about using web workers and how to move work away from the browser’s main thread. His primary platform is bringing multithreading out of the fringes and into the web. 

The panel talks about their past experience with web workers, and many of them found them isolated and difficult to use. Surma believes that web workers should pretty much always be sued because the main thread is an inherently bad place to run your code because it has to do so much. Surma details the differences between web workers, service workers, and worklets and explains what the compositer is. 

The panel discusses what parts should be moved off the main thread and how to move the logic over. Surma notes that the additional cost of using a worker is basically nonexistent, changes almost nothing in your workflow, and takes up only one kilobyte of memory. Therefore, the cost/benefit ratio of using web workers gets very large. They discuss debugging in a web worker and Surma details how debugging is better in web workers. 

Surma wants to see people use workers not because it will make it faster, but because it will make your app more resilient across all devices. Every piece of JavaScript you run could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. There’s so much to do on the main thread for the browser, especially when it has a weaker processor, that the more stuff you can move away, the better.

The web is tailored for the most powerful phones, but a large portion of the population does not have the most powerful phone available, and moving things over to a web worker will benefit the average phone. Surma talks about his experience using the Nokia 2, on which simple apps run very slow because they are not being frugal with the user’s resources. Moving things to another thread will help phones like this run faster.  

The panel discusses the benefit of using web workers from a business standpoint. The argument is similar to that for accessibility. Though a user may not need that accessibility all the time, they could become in need of it. Making the app run better on low end devices will also increase the target audience, which is helpful is user acquisition is your principle metric for success. 

Surma wants businesses to understand that while this is beneficial for people in countries like India, there is also a very wide spectrum of phone performance in America. He wants to help all of these people and wants companies acknowledge this spectrum and to look at the benefits of using web workers to improve performance.

Panelists

• Charles Max Wood

• Christopher Buecheler

• Aimee Knight

• AJ O’Neal

With special guest: Surma

Sponsors

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• Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Adventures in Angular

Links

• Web workers

• Service workers

• Worklets 

• Ecto model

• Babel

• Swoosh

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Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• For Love of Mother-Not

Surma:

• Follow Surma @DasSurma on Twitter and at dassur.ma

• WebAssembly Spec

AJ O’Neal:

• The GameCube Ultimate

• Pikmin for Wii and GameCube

• Super Monkey Ball

Christopher Buecheler

• CinemaSins Sincast podcast

With the arrest of Tehsin Akhtar, thought to be Indian Mujahideen (IM) commander of India operations, security agencies have netted another big fish in the fight against terror.

Despite the series of protests leading up to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil, today's kick-off match between Brazil and Croatia in Sao Paulo should bring the focus back on action on the football pitch.

Wilson, Meena S., author

No, US EPA says in proposal

The novel virus is one of the easiest virus types to deactivate, though SARS-CoV-2–specific data are lacking

The novel virus is one of the easiest virus types to deactivate, though SARS-CoV-2-specific data are lacking

The US has a fraught history at the intersection of science and China relations

Inspector general finds agency hasn't reached out to those living near 9 chemical plants

Inspector general finds agency hasn't reached out to those living near 9 chemical plants

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The territory of Afghanistan must not be used against the United States, our allies and in fact the world

Although famously reclusive and fitful in his creative output, Daniel Day-Lewis's decision to hang up his boots feels both untimely and unexpected.

Dibakar Banerjee delivers his finest work to date, and Sreehari Nair makes sure to applaud him.

Why do the biggest, most talented and successful film-makers of India suck up to the establishment so breathlessly, asks Shekhar Gupta.

'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.''That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.''Anubhav Sinha sticks his neck out to say that these are no exceptions.''Most Muslims are like them. It is the terrorists who are exceptions,' says Shekhar Gupta.

The long-awaited book is frank, funny, self-lacerating and full of gossip worthy anecdotes. What else could we ask of the Rocketman?

Grand Slam tally should decide 'GOAT' debate, says Ivan Lendl

Interview with Rita F. Redberg, MD, author of Healthy Men Should Not Take Statins

Interview with Victor R. Fuchs, PhD, author of If Accountable Care Organizations Are the Answer, Who Should Create Them?

Approximately one-third of all medical school graduates report having been abused as students. Medical student and resident abuse has long been considered unacceptable behavior but still persists in the teaching environment. In this podcast we discuss how students and residents might respond to these events. We interview Geoffrey Young, MD, from the Association of American Medical Colleges and Thomas J. Nasca, MD, from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, who discuss how they expect medical schools to respond to abusive behaviors and what resources are available to students and residents who have been abused to report those experiences without fearing retribution.

Article discussed in this episode:

Medical Student Mistreatment

Interview with Paul J. Young, PhD, author of When Should Clinicians Act on Non–Statistically Significant Results From Clinical Trials?

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