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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
“The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today.”
Bakic, Marijana. “5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today” TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-roman-medical-practices-use-today/ (accessed May 13, 2024).
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medicine #Health #Roman #Romans @histodon @histodons
What causes the aurora borealis?
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez7K0DCbOF4
#NorthernLights #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #Science #STEM @science
Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? β podcast
“Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box.”
#Audio #Podcast #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #STEM #Tech #Technology @science
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
2023 was the northern hemisphereβs hottest summer in 2,000 years
“Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88β°C above average.
This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html
#News #Anthropocene #Climate #ClimateChange #Research #Climatology #ClimateCrisis #Environment #ElNino #Trees #Summer #Records #Geography @climatechange @geography
#Image attribution: Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summer_thermometer.jpg
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(must-read) Everyone is worried about the excessively high level of US Govt debt (120% of GDP). Everyone, that is, except Americaβs creditors, chart @BobOnMarkets @opinion https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-13/where-s-the-bond-market-s-breaking-point-it-s-not-35-trillion?srnd=undefined
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US #labor growth is being driven by #immigration - chart @MorganStanley
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ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google
Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations.
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@bibliolater I hear you. I see some calls for corporate restraint, but the corporate world also has a lot of power over what we see.
Producer prices are still high in general across the board. Everyone down the supply chain wants to make some profit.
The PPI for both goods and services has been on the rise in the last 12 months overall. The PPI for goods went down a small amount with the last publication, but services increased.
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Gen AI and social media impact on climate change goes beyond their immediate carbon footprint:
[Not an entirely absurd proposition]
βTreat food companies like cigarette companies who are trying to get us addictedβ
“Ultra-processed foods are designed to make us overeat and are causing both the obesity and mental health crises in the UK, says scientist and author Tim Spector.”
#Video length: eleven minutes and four seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWECK-3DN40
#Science #STEM #Obesity #MentalHealth #Health #Addiction #Food @science
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Vowels and consonants by design
“Some alphabets have been developed intentionally and purposefully to be exactly what the earliest alphabets became: efficient psychotechnologies for enhanced learning, communication and community building.”
https://www.biblonia.com/p/vowels-and-consonants-by-design
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Write #Writing #Alphabet #Language #Languages @histodon @histodons
Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician
“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in βsearch for specific human abilities in cognitive functionsβ (MolnΓ‘r, p. 334).”
#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Anatomy #Neurology #Neuroanatomy #EarlyModern #C17th #17thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Thomas_Willis,_RP-P-1910-415.jpg
"A Bayesian analysis showed that participants had high expectations and performed descriptively better irrespective of the AI description when a sham-AI was present. Using cognitive modeling, we could trace this advantage back to participants gathering more information."
Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch, and Steeven Villa. 2024. "AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 299, 1β24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642633
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Science #STEM #Placebo #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @technology
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
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Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.
Though best known as a nurse (maybe a reductive and gendered way of siloing her contributions) she did pioneering work applying statistics to public health and communicating her results with innovative data visualization.
Image: National Archives (UK)
Band of Brothers: the Jesuits
“Ignatius of Loyolaβs movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.”
#Audio #Podcast #History #Philosophy #Jesuits #EarlyModern #Christianity #RomanCatholic #Education @earlymodern @philosophy
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory β in pictures
“Aurora australis has proven to be the weekendβs must-see event, offering the most βextremeβ celestial display in two decades.”
#SouthernLights #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #Image #Images #Picture #Pictures
Why Nietzsche Misunderstood Dostoevsky
#Video length: 17 minutes 50 seconds.
Could Northern Lights appear over the UK again tonight?
#Video length: 1 minute 35 seconds.
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