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AddChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Everyone loves to remember how blogs were so much better than social media, but the truth is a bit more complicated.
Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.
I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
What can a rare disorder tell us about human behavior?
I admit it. I took the bait. Charity Majors made an appearance on Gergely Orosz’s show called “Stop being skeptical about AI for development”. I listened to the podcast—I don’t listen to many tech podcasts—and I don’t think she ever said to stop being skeptical. Not directly anyways. Great title, though. Good for engagement. “Stop being skeptical” is a phrase guaranteed to rustle any skeptic’s jimmies. A whole lotta provocation, not a lotta substance. 10/10. No notes.
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too
A Little Tooth - Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
AI makes finding software exploits casually easy. Security through nobody-bothering has been holding up far more of this industry than we'd like to admit.
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
New research - it’s one of the largest studies of emotional intelligence to date