Science News reports on a controversy over Homo naledi, a human-like ape from 160,000 years before the first Homo sapiens, who might have been burying its dead and decorating their gravesites… Read the rest “A human-like ape might have decorated the graves of its dead 330,000 years ago.”
This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.”Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. The least significant
Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in our universe:
… Read the rest “Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.”It is hunting
Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web content, which is then gathered up and used to … Read the rest “AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).”
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a chemical that brings with it a noticeable increase in risk of cancer… Read the rest “Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.”
30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany.
It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the weather.
The artist, Karl Oskar Blase, has a bit more in the way of … Read the rest “Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.”
PhysOrg has a study that defies the conventional idea of “man the hunter, woman the gatherer” with evidence that, in more than three-quarters of contemporary hunter-gatherer… Read the rest “Women hunted, back in the hunter-gatherer days.”
The Verge has one of the more interesting pieces (to me) about AI that I’ve seen lately, reporting less on “what do these content-making machines mean to us content-makers,… Read the rest “AI is eating the web. Not as in coding, but as in its economy.”
I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new – a just-opened… Read the rest “Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905”
SONG: “Content Feeds”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT,” as used in the post “How do you feel … Read the rest “SONG: Content Feeds”
Science Alert reports on research that finds that boosting levels of the amino acid taurine – present in meat, fish, and dairy, and one that our bodies can be trained to produce on their… Read the rest “Taurine, not telomeres, could be the key to a longer lifespan.”
BBC reports on a simple pharmaceutical study at the University of Chicago – about the mechanism by which MDMA increased “the pleasantness of social touch” – … Read the rest “MDMA against white supremacy.”
This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments in the… Read the rest “Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared”
Scientific Frontline looks at a new way to create rechargeable lithium-ion batteries – the power behind electric cars, iPhones, and most of the rest of the 21st century – without… Read the rest “Making a pain-free battery: “Nickel doesn’t have child-labor issues.””
Reuters reports on a hot, hot summer that is pulling more electricity from the Texas state grid than ever before:
… Read the rest “Texas expects record-setting power usage this week.”AccuWeather forecast high temperatures in Houston, the biggest city in
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