Europe
2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.
2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English
(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)
AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
2024-07-19 @ 8.18.36 ∈ In English
The redpoll finch saga: How two bird species just became one
[The] hoary redpoll finch, a small, plump bird commonly found in the Arctic, will be reclassified as the same species as the common redpoll finch, a smaller bird found in similar habitats. This announcement came as a direct result of a CU Boulder-led study which found that, despite their different looks, very few genetic differences exist between the two types of birds.
2024-06-24 @ 17.09.37 ∈ Suomeksi
2024-06-12 @ 11.52.43 ∈ Suomeksi
Mastercard luopuu maksukorttien numeroiden syöttämisestä verkossa
[Tokeneiden käyttöönotto merkitsee sitä, että] perinteistä maksukortin 16 numeroa pitkää numerosarjaa ei enää naputella mihinkään, vaan sen sijaan Mastercard luo jokaista kauppaa tai digitaalista lompakkoa varten oman, uniikin tunnisteen. […] Yhtiö aikoo ottaa ratkaisun käyttöön Euroopassa vuoteen 2030 mennessä.
2024-06-10 @ 18.13.35 ∈ In English
Excessive vegetation in Arabia triggered massive butterfly migrations in 2019 across Europe and Africa: Study
Pollen analysis showed that butterflies collected in Scandinavia had visited flowers of typically Mediterranean or Eastern European plants, while those collected in the Iberian Peninsula showed pollen from Northern Europe.
