Russia
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.
2024-09-13 @ 12.47.36 ∈ Suomeksi
Asiantuntija kertoo, miksi jättiyhtiö Unilever lähtee Venäjältä vasta nyt: ”Raja on ylittynyt”
[LUT-yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulun kansainvälisen liiketoiminnan professori Juha] Väätänen pitää todennäköisenä, että Unilever päätti vetäytyä Venäjältä nyt, koska yhtiön kokema mainehaitta Venäjällä toimimisesta on tehnyt liiketoiminnasta Venäjällä yhtiölle kannattamatonta.
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
2024-04-09 @ 18.31.32 ∈ Suomeksi
2024-04-02 @ 11.07.11 ∈ In English
2024-03-14 @ 19.10.52 ∈ In English
Researchers: Sweden has vast ‘old growth’ forests, but they are being chopped down faster than the Amazon
Most of Europe’s natural ecosystems have been lost over the centuries. However, a sizeable amount of natural old forest still exists, especially in the north. These “old-growth” forests are exceptionally valuable as they tend to host more species, store more carbon, and are more resilient to environmental change.
2024-02-27 @ 13.17.41 ∈ In English
2024-02-05 @ 20.10.31 ∈ In English
Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever
[Tropical] bed bugs have turned up in the United States, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, France, Central Europe, Spain — “even in Russia, which would have once been unthinkable,” says [Chow-Yang] Lee, of the University of California, Riverside.