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The Sokal Affair: A Humorous Hoax Shakes the Academia

Wikipedia

The Sokal affair was a 1996 academic hoax in which NYU physics professor Alan Sokal persuaded the cultural studies journal Social Text to publish a deliberately nonsensical paper, exposing editorial lapses in academic publishing. Titled Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, the paper claimed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct and that physical reality itself is socially constructed, flattering the editors' postmodernist ideology.

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The Sokal Affair: A Humorous Hoax Shakes the Academia
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Combatting Food-waste-related Emissions in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Local

Santa Cruz County has pursued an active approach to reducing food-waste-related greenhouse gas emissions, implementing mandatory organic waste collection programs driven in part by California's SB 1383 legislation, which took effect in January 2022 and requires all residents to separate food scraps from regular trash. Since the program's launch, the county's composting initiative has diverted tens of thousands of tons of organic material from the Buena Vista Landfill, sharply cutting methane released from decomposing food waste.

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