Hurricanes are way deadlier than you might expect.
Heatmap reports on a study looking at the “long tail” of excess deaths in the wake of major hurricanes, and found that major storms are […]
sociology
Say it to me deeply.
Science Daily reports on research into the psychological effects of the pitch of people’s voices. It’s fairly well known that people find men’s voices more […]
SETI talked for 20 minutes with a whale.
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” […]
SONG: FAQs
SONG: “FAQs” [Download] . (available as .wav here [Download] ) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to […]
Wanna watch the watchers?
The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel […]
U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.
The Intercept has found that Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, has been collecting information on abortion protests for federal law enforcement by paying close […]
China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news: […]
Americans die young – and are dying younger than ever, compared to the rest of the world.
NPR looks at a subtle, slow-motion health crisis facing America. Compared to every other industrialized nation, across every age group, Americans die younger … and […]
Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.
The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found […]
No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main […]
Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower […]
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
Good friendships make a healthier gut biome (in monkeys, at least).
Phys.org passes along research led by Dr. Katerina Johnson of Oxford and Dr. Karli Watson of UC Boulder, who found that the more social a […]
Twitter’s collapse could wipe clean the historical record – of the last 16 years’ major moments, at least.
MIT Technology Review takes a serious look at the ramifications of having public discourse in private hands, especially when it comes to a written record […]
Sleep-deprived people are more selfish and lonely.
As a habitual night-owl, it pains me to consider this Scientific American interview with UC Berkeley neuroscientist Eti Ben Simon, whose research has shown that […]