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2026-04-02 @ 11.03.28 ∈ In English
Researchers present first fossilized 'emperor' butterfly
Butterfly fossils are rare, and finds that preserve fine anatomical details and wing patterns are an absolute exception. An international research team[…] has now described an exceptionally well-preserved [Apaturinae] fossil, approximately 34 to 28 million years old.
2026-04-02 @ 10.56.50 ∈ In English
Study suggests people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least 15 years
When we plotted the daily spoken word counts against the year each study was collected, we found a consistent linear decline. Every year, the estimate of daily spoken words dropped by 338. That is how you get from around 16,000 in 2005 to around 12,700 by 2019.
2026-03-11 @ 5.52.00 ∈ In English
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Heat does not reduce prosociality, study suggests
At temperatures above 30°C, participants reported significantly more frustration, tiredness, and unhappiness, but neither heat nor the stress of losing had any systematic effects on egalitarianism, resource maximization, selfishness, spite, or competitiveness.
2026-01-12 @ 19.00.08 ∈ In English
Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
People rightly question the impact of solar or wind farms on landscapes, but rarely consider the land use of existing biofuel crops, which do very little to decarbonize our energy supplies.
2025-10-06 @ 13.21.43 ∈ In English
Does the news reflect what we die from?
The reason we’re doing this analysis is to make you or other readers more aware of this selection bias. The frequency of news coverage doesn’t reflect what’s happening across millions or billions of people, but it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking it does.
2025-08-25 @ 16.24.22 ∈ In English
Global inequality is huge — but so is the opportunity for people in high-income countries to support poor people
When we think of global inequality, it's easy to picture “the rich” as someone else — those with garages full of sports cars or taking private trips to space. But the richest tenth of the world includes us and likely many others who don’t intuitively think of themselves as “the rich”.
