Just Plain WEIRD #2
Norwegian startup Oyster has new ideas for the simple cooler. Oyster. View gallery – 10 images – By C.C. Weiss 2023 Apr 07 – Vacuum-insulated coolers have been emerging on the market over the past few years, among them the precision-temperature Qool Box and …
How did commemorating the Resurrection get tangled up with rabbits and eggs? H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images – Author Molly Jackson, Religion and Ethics Editor Interviewed Brent Landau, Lecturer in Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin Henry Bial, Professor of Theater …
One distinction between a snail and a slug: The snail has a shell. maxphotography/Moment via Getty Images – By John F. Tooker, Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State and by Daniel Bliss, Master’s Student in Entomology, Penn State and by Jared …
Former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury will test his legal and political power. Brandon Bell/Getty Images – By Shannon Bow O’Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin Published: 2023 Mar 30 – A Manhattan grand …
GRB 221009A may have been produced by the collpase of a black hole. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. View gallery – 5 images – By David Szondy 2023 Apr 04 – NASA has confirmed that on 2022 Oct 09, our solar system was struck …
Jimmy Wales is weighing up whether to begin having Large LAnguage Model AIs like GPT write Wikipedia. Wikipedia – By Loz Blain 2023 Apr 03 – Despite its frequent and serious inaccuracies, GPT has got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinking seriously about how AI …
The Koala Boards skateboard and its backpack are presently on Kickstarter. Koala Boards – By Ben Coxworth 2023 Mar 31 – Skateboarding can be a fun way of getting around town, but most boards have to be either carried by hand or strapped onto …
Special mics were used to pick up the ultrasonic sounds various plants make when stressed. Tel Aviv University – By Michael Franco 2023 Mar 31 – If a plant is stressed but no one hears it, does it still make a sound? While …
Horses are an active part of life for the Lakota and many other Plains nations today. Jacquelyn Córdova/Northern Vision Productions – By William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder and by Yvette Running Horse Collin, Postdoctoral Researcher …
Our current methods of training and aligning intelligent AIs do not scale well into the future. Generated by Midjourney View gallery – 5 images – By Loz Blain 2023 Mar 31 – Forget the collapse of employment, forget the spam and misinformation, forget human …
