Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why ( www.livescience.com )
Honey is one of the most faked foods in the world, and the US government isn't doing much to fix it ( www.businessinsider.com )
Third place. Behind milk and olive oil.
Why Do These Words Get Mispronounced So Much? | Otherwords ( youtu.be )
What is the House of the Rising Sun? ( youtu.be )
Why the 2024 Solar Eclipse is Such a Big Deal ( youtu.be )
Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits ( electrek.co )
Australia wants to force cats to stay inside or give them a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals they are a threat to the country's biodiversity ( www.insider.com )
AlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery? ( www.nature.com )
Imo the best utilization of AI yet. I'll try to find and link the ezra klein podcast episode on the topoc as well.
Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say that's not good news ( www.unilad.com )
Learned Helplessness ( www.psychologytoday.com )
Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so. For example, a smoker may repeatedly try and fail to quit. He may grow frustrated and come to believe that nothing he does will help, and...
Neanderthals' usage of complex adhesives reveals higher cognitive abilities, scientists discover ( lemmy.world )
Caver trapped forever | The Nutty Putty Tragedy ( youtu.be )
Every time I read or see smth about this it gets me in a panic.
Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots ( www.nytimes.com )
More open-sourcing of LLMs.
3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities ( www.livescience.com )
After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild ( www.nytimes.com )
There's more golf courses than mcdonalds in america. WHAT
The Evil Company Buying Subway (And The Rest Of Your Favorite Chains) ( youtu.be )
Animal sounds in most nature documentaties are made by humans. ( theconversation.com )
Now I sort of knew this in the back of my mind and yet this information shocked me and changed my perception of how processed the work is.
As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry. ( www.wired.com )
Oddly for an article this got quite famous, a slightly long read but a job very well researched article.
Elastic knots behave in a really bizarre way ( youtu.be )
Why you keep buying books you don’t read ( youtu.be )
When did humans start wearing clothes? ( lemmy.world )
Is It a Crush or Have You Fallen Into Limerence? ( www.nytimes.com )
A lot of fiction I write is about limerance so it's always nice to see others perspective on it.