The Australian government’s legislation seeking to ban access to social media for people under 16 has received plenty of attention in International media, mostly leading with the government’s that 4.7 million accounts were banned or deactivated when the legislation came into effect. Rather less attention has been paid to discussion of the outcome within Australia, […]
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Researchers curious about the monument’s origins stuck their heads in the sand—for good reason
The post Tiny Evidence Upends a Controversial Stonehenge Theory appeared first on Nautilus.
Rep. Wesley Hunt was busy campaigning for a Texas Senate seat, but House Speaker Mike Johnson held the vote open.
The post Congress Votes Against Blocking Venezuela War After Stalling for Tardy GOP Rep appeared first on The Intercept.
Protein precursors can form in cosmic dust clouds
The post Space Dust Could Contain Building Blocks of Life appeared first on Nautilus.
An Intercept analysis confirmed that the White House used Google AI tools to alter the photo of Minnesota activist Nekima Levy Armstrong.
The post White House Doctored Photo With Google AI to Make It Look Like an Activist Was Sobbing During Perp Walk appeared first on The Intercept.
Trotting out rhetoric about drug trafficking was a helpful pretext to remove Maduro in Venezuela — when oil was the real goal.
The post It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs appeared first on The Intercept.
Till Fadime Sahindal, född 2 april 1975 i Turkiet, mördad av sin egen far 21 januari 2002 i Sverige I Sverige har vi länge okritiskt omhuldat en ospecificerad och odefinierad mångkulturalism. Om vi med mångkulturalism menar att det med kulturell tillhörighet och identitet också kommer specifika moraliska, etiska och politiska rättigheter och skyldigheter, talar vi […]
Decades later, extraterrestrial rubbish is quickly piling up
The post The First Person to Get Hit by Space Junk appeared first on Nautilus.
In simple (and multiple) regression analysis for cross-sectional data, researchers often estimate regressions such as “regress test score (y) on study hours (x)” and obtain a result of the form y = constant + slope coefficient × x + error term. When speaking of increases or decreases in x in these interpretations, we must remember […]
The scientific sage was always suspicious of grand promises delivered before details were understood
The post What Would Richard Feynman Make of AI Today? appeared first on Nautilus.
Teeth have revealed that victims traveled from far-off homelands
The post A Closer Look at an Elusive Ancient Plague appeared first on Nautilus.
“In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump… touched on his desire to obtain Greenland from Denmark… America’s contribution to Nato, and wind energy in China.” —BBC
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Fellow knights, I have traveled a great distance to be here in beautiful Davos, Holy Roman Empire, to attend this year’s meeting of the Knights Templar. I come bringing truly phenomenal news from La Mancha. This week marked the one-year anniversary of my knighthood, and after twelve months of roaming the plains atop my trusty steed, Rocinante, I have slain giants, restored chivalry, and transformed our scoundrel-plagued lands into the safest in the known world.
My detractors insist that all of my enemies are imaginary and that I am picking fights with bogeymen simply to satisfy my own deluded fantasies. That just shows you how threatened some people are by the incredible job I’m doing cleaning up La Mancha.
Marco Garofalo and Thomas Prayer The US administration raised US import tariffs in April, reigniting trade tensions. This sparked concerns about cheaper exports being diverted to other markets, potentially lowering global prices. Using detailed product-level data, we build a novel timely indicator to consistently track trade prices across countries. Chinese export prices have risen less … Continue reading Monitoring trade prices in the wake of trade tensions
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
The post Whose Hemisphere? appeared first on The New York Review of Books.
Campaigners fear plans to warehouse migrants in army bases will increase community tensions and embolden the far-right
Carney gave an important speech yesterday, which you can read here. That lead to a lot of people praising him for his honesty in noting that the rules-based order was accepted by developed nations because they benefited from it, even though everyone knew it was bullshit: if you weren’t in the club, the rules didn’t […]
A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes
- by Aeon Video
The muscle metaphor based on ego-depletion theory hasn’t survived scrutiny. But there’s an alternative that holds promise
- by Alberto De Luca
Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong
- by Agnieszka Pasieka
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
Edward Egan Headlines warn of a looming ‘jobpocalypse’, but the reality is more complex. Rather than simply causing a wave of job losses, the economic literature suggests generative AI could influence the labour market through several – potentially offsetting – channels: productivity gains, job displacement, new job creation, and compositional shifts. The balance between these … Continue reading Generative AI: degenerative for jobs?