(From August)
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‘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.
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Video evidence: Japanese eels escape from their predator’s stomach
After being swallowed, all but four [of 32 captured eels] tried to escape [back] through the digestive tract toward the esophagus and [gills]. [Nine] successfully escaped through the gills. On average, it took the escaping eels about 56 seconds to free themselves from the predator's gills.
2024-09-05 @ 12.04.56 ∈ In English
Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find
[In] people with depression, a larger part of the brain is involved in the network that controls attention to rewards and threats than in those without depression. [The] frontostriatal salience network was expanded by 73% on average in participants with depression compared with healthy controls.