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When the Saturday Night Live sketch “ Lisa From Temecula ” first aired in February, it spawned not just a major viral moment for the show but also a slew of digital Valentine’s Day cards that helped solidify catchphrases for the cantankerous titular character (played by Ego Nwodim). Against a bright-pink background dotted with purple hearts, the cards proclaimed “Cook My Meat!” and “You Tryna Get
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A serial artificial intelligence investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes may soon advance to the degree of divinity. In an op-ed for the Financial Times , AI mega-investor Ian Hogarth recalled a recent anecdote in which a machine learning researcher with whom he was acquainted told him that "from now onwards," we are on the brink
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AInchor Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Kuwait News — the oil-rich nation's first English-speaking paper, notably — revealed its first AI-generated news personality, dubbed "Fedha," on Twitter over the weekend, with the Kuwaiti publication's deputy editor-in-chief, Abdullah Boftain, telling the French news outlet AFP that Fedha was introduced as an exploration
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Moon Units Three brothers who used to work at SpaceX walk into a bar and order some Moon water — stop me if you've heard this one before. As reported by TechCrunch , the brothers Carlisle (Robert, Ryan, and Kirby, all of whom used to work at Elon Musk's space venture) are working to build reusable spacecraft that are propelled by plasma thrusters powered by water harvested from the Moon. Their st
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Getting Warmer According to leaked chat, email, and text messages obtained by German publication Die Zeit , Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is "all for" rising global temperatures. Oh, and he tried to use Axel Springer's flagship tabloid, Bild , to influence Germany's last election cycle. It sounds like a joke, but we're not kidding. "I am all for climate change," Döpfner, whose publishing hous
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Josh Gates teams up with Brian Ingram, the only person to find some of D.B. Cooper's money. Together, they search the site where the money was found to see if they can find more of the lost treasure. #discoveryplus #expeditionunknown Stream Full Episodes of Expedition Unknown https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/expedition-unknown About Expedition Unknown: Josh Gates investigates the truth behind t
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“This is the true story of 25 video game characters picked to live in a town and have their lives taped…to find out what happens when computers stop being polite…and start getting real .” Researchers at Google and Stanford recently created a new reality show of sorts—with AI agents instead of people. Using OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT and some custom code, they generated 25 AI characters with b
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Teal catches crawfish in a nearby stream while Jermaine works on their campsite. #discoveryplus #nakedandafraid Stream Full Episodes of Naked and Afraid: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/naked-and-afraid About Naked and Afraid: One man and one woman, who meet for the first time in the nude, are paired and tasked with surviving in some of the world's most extreme environments for 21 days with no
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Researchers have found that time-restricted fasting could cause fertility problems. Time-restricted fasting is an eating pattern where people limit their food consumption to certain hours of the day. It's a popular health and fitness trend and people are doing it to lose weight and improve their health. But the new study shows that time-restricted fasting affects reproduction differently in male a
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He was one of Wales’s greatest rugby stars – and the game’s first professional player to come out as gay. But it’s the truth about HIV that Gareth Thomas is set on tackling now Gareth Thomas isn’t sure where to start. Or, rather, if he should even try to. Mum, Yvonne, warned against it before he left Bridgend yesterday. The publicist now hovering in earshot seems unconvinced. Yet here the two of
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W ord of death sometimes comes by the most bureaucratic means. Notice that Pannir Selvam Pranthaman would be killed by the Singaporean government arrived at his sister’s home via DHL. The red-and-yellow envelope, delivered to Sangkari Pranthaman’s apartment in Kuala Lumpur on May 17, 2019, contained two letters: One stated that the president of Singapore had rejected Pannir’s clemency plea; the o
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In a crisis, the best measure of how well a community reacts isn’t the number of lives lost. It’s the number of people who survive. When two homemade bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line a decade ago this month, three people died on the scene. But the number of spectators and runners who were treated at local hospitals for injuries, some of them quite severe, was much larger: 278 . I
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Atlantic senior associate editor Fai
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If you don’t do this thing you can’t do the next thing and I know you want to do the next thing. How do I know? I’ll tell you when I’m older. Look at the flowers. Can you say wisteria . You don’t want to say wisteria . You’d rather die is the look on your face. How can I fix it if you won’t let me look at it? Look at something else while I touch it. Plant your eyes on that place mat of the world
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Of all the advice ive ever heard this was the worst advice by far or the least effective. Supposedly the tried and true, time tested age old advice, a gold standard for character development, and it doesn't seem to work. Note I had an unusual childhood where I was intentionally made to atrophy in this area, before it even got started infact. So I may have a warped opinion on the matter. I also pr
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Opgave 370: En fisker har fanget et antal fisk. De tre tungeste vejer tilsammen 35 procent af fangstens samlede vægt. Dem sælger han. Herefter udgør de tre letteste fisk tilsammen 5/13 af resten – igen efter vægt naturligvis.Hvor mange fisk fangede fiskeren?– – –Vi bringer løsningen i næste nummer, og indtil da kan I diskutere jeres forslag til løsninger i kommentarsporet herunder.Løsning på opgav
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The diagnostic terms for autism were overhauled 10 years ago. Experts, campaigners and autistic people reflect on these changes Chris Bonnello, 37, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2011. But these days he just says he’s autistic. “A lot of us did not want to let go originally, it was something that fitted us very nicely,” recalls the teacher turned autism advocate who runs a website called
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So I've been trying to upgrade my home network in preparation for AI. Why does it feel like home network speeds hasn't kept up with moore's law at all? i paid $30 for an 8 port 1 gigabit switch 20 years ago. A beginnner 8 port 10 gigabit switch costs about $350 dollars today. Does this mean that if I buy a 10 gigabit switch I am set for the singularity in 2045 at 10 gigabit? submitted by /u/vegit
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Gero's Study Finds that Humans can stop but not really reverse aging. A lesson in thermodynamics at play. "Tough news and the inconvenient truth gero study reveals that despite more than a decade of research by our team using complex dynamic system physics, generative AI, big data analysis, and an array of achievements, you name it, we have concluded that reversing human aging is not possible, at
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TLDR: Will AGI become effectively 100% infallible? If yes, will it stay that way? Why, or why not? Social media, the new phenomenon of "fake news", and the internet at large in many ways… it's all a problem. Right? We've seen the power of social media to seemingly have a large role in producing some unexpected political events (trump, brexit, and many other elections/votes the likes of cambridg
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Dickey Chivell and Andy Casagrande use a movie trick from Jaws in order to capture a massive looking great white shark breach! #discoveryplus #sharkweek Stream Full Episodes of Shark Week https://www.discoveryplus.com/dp/shark-week About Shark Week: From Dawn of the Monster Mako to The Haunting of Shark Tower, you can stream all Shark Week shows right now. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.yout
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The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction of China's Great Wall. In a new study, researchers find that the Xiongnu were a multiethnic empire, with high genetic diversity found across the empire and even within individual extended elite families. A
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When it comes to height, our fate is sealed along with our growth plates — cartilage near the ends of bones that hardens as a child develops. New research shows that cells in these plates determine the length and shape of our bones and can hint at our stature. The study identified potential 'height genes' and found that genetic changes affecting cartilage cell maturation may strongly influence ad
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An international team of astronomers announced the first exoplanet discovered through a combined approach of direct imaging and precision measurements of a star's motion on the sky. This new method promises to improve the efficiency of exoplanet searches, paving the way for the discovery of an Earth twin.
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Human activity is contributing to pollution that is affecting our health. According to WHO estimates, atmospheric air pollution is estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year. Scientists and the public alike are well aware of how human activity and pollution is affecting our heath, but new research has identified how bumblebees may be caught in the crossfire.
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The reason why male bees collect scents in pockets on their hind legs remained a mystery for a long time. As an attractant? As a wedding gift? To show off to other males? Researchers have now figured it out.
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The flow of matter, from macroscopic water currents to the microscopic flow of electric charge, underpins much of the infrastructure of modern times. In the search for breakthroughs in energy efficiency, data storage capacity, and processing speed, scientists search for ways in which to control the flow of quantum aspects of matter such as the 'spin' of an electron — its magnetic moment — or its
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The flow of matter, from macroscopic water currents to the microscopic flow of electric charge, underpins much of the infrastructure of modern times. In the search for breakthroughs in energy efficiency, data storage capacity, and processing speed, scientists search for ways in which to control the flow of quantum aspects of matter such as the 'spin' of an electron — its magnetic moment — or its
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Im thinking its not one part but multiple parts, and we experience it as if were one thing mentally, in terms of how it feels experientially? [just a guess] So I also presume that the brain is nearly always using many sections at once? Very rarely is it only using one section? That being said what sections are most involved? Also how is "mind" defined? [It seems very broad and ambiguous] Is it ju
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Submission Statement: This post discusses a groundbreaking solution to revolutionize the driving experience and road safety by combining the 9-vertice sensor system, blockchain technology, and self-driving cars. The 9-vertice sensor system monitors driver hand positions, grip strength, and steering input, providing valuable insights into driving behavior and performance. Blockchain technology ena
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Marriage is an institution created because a pair can rear children better and easier than an individual. In the future when artificial super intelligence can rear children perhaps better than the parents then the institution of marriage becomes obsolete. What do you think? One counter argument is: nothing can replace the love a Mom has. submitted by /u/Terminator857 [link] [comments]
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Apr 9, 2023 thru Sat, Apr 15, 2023. Story of the Week Banks Say They’re Acting on Climate, But Continue to Finance Fossil Fuel Expansion Two new reports say banks are not shifting away from fossil fuels fast enough. While lending declined last year, it was likely because oil companies
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An advocate of plant intelligence, the Italian author discusses the complex ways in which plants communicate, whether they are conscious, and what his findings mean for vegans Born in Calabria in 1965, Stefano Mancuso is a pioneer in the plant neurobiology movement, which seeks to understand “how plants perceive their circumstances and respond to environmental input in an integrated fashion”. Mic
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Infections of ancestors lying dormant in DNA can be activated to help immune system attack tumours Remnants of ancient viruses passed down over thousands or even millions of years in human DNA could help fight cancer, a study has found. Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute were studying lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, to understand why some patients respond
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37882-2 Distinguishing the prochiral faces of a double bond can be challenging for hydrogenation catalysts. Here, authors show a relay strategy for constructing compounds with a chiral gem-diaryl carbon center via selective arene exchange between 1,1-diarylethylenes or benzophenones with (naphthalene)Cr(CO)3 and subseq
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37830-0 Tools for the spatiotemporal control of protein abundance are valuable in studying diverse complex biological processes. Here, authors engineered a protein tag which is stabilized upon light induction but which quickly degrades the protein of interest in the dark, demonstrating control of protein stability in y
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Fred and Brandon wager a case of whiskey over who will get the most gold! #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery Abou
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Suggestions in the US that eating the dessert can be beneficial have been greeted by a ripple of scepticism from British experts Delicious, sweet and full of saturated fat, the concept of ice-cream as a health food is as ridiculous as it is compelling. But in what will be welcome news for many as Britain basks in warmer weather this week, an American public health historian has revealed how numer
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Destabilizing Diffusion AI image generators are already taking work away from China-based videogame artists and illustrators, Rest of World reports . Illustrator Amber Yu told the publication she used to make anywhere between $430 and $1,000 for the time-intensive labor of drawing videogame posters. But now, after some firms made moves to replace human artists with faster and cheaper AI generator
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Horrifying Phone Call A mom says criminals used AI to clone the voice of her 15-year-old daughter to fake a kidnapping and tr y to get a ransom — a shocking incident that underlines just how far the technology has come and how easily it can be abused. It all began when the mother, Jennifer DeStefano, got a call from a mysterious number. "I pick up the phone and I hear my daughter’s voice, and it
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Sequestering Carbon A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a radical and potentially affordable solution that they say could solve the climate crisis in one fell swoop — or at least, that's their hope. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the researchers suggest we could grow crops that natur
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The Taxman Cometh It looks like Elon Musk needs to put his — or the taxpayer's — money where his mouth is when it comes to "government-funded" enterprises. The Twitter owner's controversial decision to slap a "government-funded media" label on NPR 's account led to the independent public broadcaster's exit from the social network. Many saw the move as hypocritical, Gizmodo reports , since several
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Mama didn't raise no quitter. As reported by Vice , ChaosGPT — that autonomous, open-source AI agent tasked to "destroy humanity ," among other grandiose goals — is still working hard to bring about the end of our species, albeit with its efforts focused on a new plan of attack. To recap, ChaosGPT's first go at ending our species didn't quite work out. It couldn't find any nukes, the bot's natura
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37877-z Stress-induced instability of perovskite layers is a critical hurdle for commercialization of perovskite solar cells. Here, the authors introduce a long-alkyl-chain anionic surfactant additive to chemically ameliorate crystallization kinetics and demonstrate devices with long operational stability.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence Anil Ananthaswamy | Quanta “By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than before. …This is the starting point for a radically different approach to computation known as hyperdimensional computing. The key is that each piece of information
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Plus: Google Maps enhances coverage within US national parks, SwiftKey with Bing Chat lands on iPhones, and we track the rise of the AI voice clones.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37835-9 T follicular helper cells (Tfh) enhance antibody responses and can circulate or be resident in lymph nodes. Here the authors show that during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, circulating Tfh cells correlate with antibody titres and plasmablast levels but in more severe COVID-19 cases, cTfh generation is delayed.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37852-8 Here the authors present a global scale classification of river channel belt extents as a resource for improved ecosystem accounting and river behavior analysis. Moreover, the methods show advances in pattern recognition to define new global landform products.
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Ice cream is delicious. But it’s also a direct line to daydreams and memories—of leisure, of afternoons in the sun, of the excitement you felt as a 5-year-old meeting the ice-cream truck as it rolled
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In the summer of 2017, an anonymous tipster informed me of a small network of online propagandists orchestrating troll campaigns and creating memes to support Donald Trump. They gathered on Discord, a text-, voice-, and video-chat platform popular with gamers. I signed up and lurked on their server, observing various green-frog and American-flag avatars hurling insults, posting rudimentary Photos
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On April 6, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers for disrupting the chamber to protest gun violence. It was an exercise of raw political muscle, a move by Republicans to punish two young Black men for refusing to abide by rules of decorum, and to send a message. On Monday, the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to appoint Justin Jones to fill his newly
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As France is wracked by furious protests over President Emmanuel Macron’s plan for pension cuts , a bipartisan group of legislators on Capitol Hill is discussing how to make Social Security available to a smaller group of workers . People are living longer, the argument goes, and benefit programs are running out of money. Shifting the retirement age higher is a reasonable, desirable, and necessar
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Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it's known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know much less about the feeding habits of those found throughout the North Atlantic. Thanks to a new technique, it is now possible to quantify the proportion of different prey that killer whales in the Nort
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37932-9 Engineering 2D heterostructures with unique physiochemical properties and molecular sieving channels is one approach for designing membranes selective gas molecule transport. Here authors arrange graphene and boron nitride nanosheets in an alternating pattern, resulting in narrow porous nanochannels and excelle
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W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Former Yale prof faked data, says Federal watchdog Journal hasn’t retracted ‘Super Size Me’ paper six months after authors’ request Author denies Chinese censorship prompted COVID-19 retraction ‘Misleading’ and ‘false’ portrayal of racism-related experiences leads to retraction Our
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I have seen SO many posts on this “its our last year being the most intelligent species on this planet” “Ai will kill us” And more such doomer fantasies. I will present JUST 2 arguments of why this will not happen. I want to request that we keep discussions based around reality not fantasy (i.e no arguments such as: well in 5 more years blah blah blah) unless there is actual studies that are bein
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Debate bubbles over how to navigate setting limits as UK study shows fifth of three- and four-year-olds have a device One in five UK children aged three and four have mobile phone, study finds How old is old enough to have your own mobile phone? For once, your children may be right that everyone else is getting them younger than you think. New research from Ofcom has found that a fifth of three-
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Nature Communications, Published online: 15 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37928-5 Hirschsprung disease is caused by defects in enteric neural crest cell. Here, using induced pluripotent stem cell-based models of Hirschsprung and single-cell transcriptomic analysis the authors define various factors associated with Hirschsprung pathogenesis.
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We all know technology advancement is usually significantly more developed than the general public sees, typically decades ahead. For instance the stealth technology for aircraft was first in development in 1974… that's almost 50 years ago and roughly 15 years before we saw the B2 regularly. So my question is if we're seeing such a boom in AI for general use, is it safe to assume that there are
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Since months ago I've been obsessed with the concept of an AI for global peacekeeping (like how Ultron in the MCU was supposed to work) so I've been really curious about this use of an AI and how would it work in real life in case we ever reach that level of development in AI. It's really interesting for me. I know this has a bunch of layers since peacekeeping is tied with human ethics and morali
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Att jobbstress inte är bra för oss är väl känt. Nu visar ny svensk forskning att de negativa effekterna sitter kvar längre än man tidigare känt till. En stressig arbetsmiljö forsätter att påverka oss långt senare i livet. – När kraven blir för höga och tiden inte räcker till kan stressen få negativa konsekvenser, säger Ceciilia Stenfors, forskare i arbets- och miljömedicin.
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Hi! I’m considering pursuing a bachelor of arts in cognitive science and i was wondering what sorts of “cog sci” or healthcare jobs are available for people with such a degree. I gave it a quick Google but couldn’t find anything very specific! Most sites said “data analyst” or “app developer” which I don’t think quite fit the bill as i personally am more interested in the neuroscience/psychology
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. This week, I talked to wildlife experts about my most pressing springtime animal questions. But first, here are three stories from The Atlantic : The narcissists who endanger America An acute attack of
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Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon an interesting article about the effects of cold exposure on vascular aging. According to the article, exposure to cold temperatures may actually have a positive impact on our cardiovascular health. The article cites a study which found that cold exposure can reduce calcium buildup in arteries, a key indicator of vascular aging. Additionally, the study found
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Vetenskap och Folkbildnings lokalavdelning hade årsmöte 26 mars 2023. Mötet hölls på i Sensus lokaler i Göteborg samt online via Zoom och 19 medlemmar deltog. Till styrelsen valdes följande medlemmar: … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .
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Star of the Show As the European Space Agency was setting up to launch a massive Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, an adorable little creature could be seen enjoying some rays of sunshine not far from the rocket — before all hell broke loose, that is. The rocket launched earlier today , carrying the ESA's JUICE spacecraft, which is destined for Jupiter's moons, into o
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