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2024-10-10 @ 12.27.30 ∈ In English
Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study suggests
Researchers found that the children who were the most diligent about fact-checking […] claims were also the ones who saw more false claims […] earlier in the study. Meanwhile, those who had more reliable environments with fewer false claims earlier in the study did almost no fact-checking.
2024-10-10 @ 12.17.51 ∈ In English
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2024-10-10 @ 11.26.53 ∈ In English
Researchers find dragonfly species with darker wings have evolved to withstand heat and attract partners
Dark wing ornaments cause additional heating of 1°C to 2°C, which roughly equals the increased thermal maxima of ornamented species. Of the species studied, the arch-tipped glider (Tauriphila argo), a tropical species with very dark wing color patches near their core body, could tolerate the highest temperatures.
2024-10-10 @ 11.13.23 ∈ In English
2024-10-09 @ 11.42.23 ∈ In English
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. […] The decision to transfer the islands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s preferred top-level domains: .io.
2024-10-08 @ 11.19.00 ∈ In English
Bias found when drug manufacturers fund clinical trials
Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug’s manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows. […] "The addition of unpublished trials reduces the effect of sponsorship, and most of the sponsorship effect can be explained by publication bias," [says the author.]
2024-10-04 @ 16.01.08 ∈ In English
Live UNIX timestamp counter
The Unix timestamp is a 32-bit signed integer format that holds the number of seconds since 01.01.1970, 00:00:00 UTC. It is an internationally accepted measure of time that is used as a fixed reference for time all around the globe. […] Below you see a binary representation of the UNIX timestamp.