In English – Sivu 28

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.

2024-09-12 @ 14.01.42 ∈ In English

Command Line Magic (@climagic@mastodon.social)

We’re coming up on Day 20,000 of Unix epoch time, which will be midnight GMT on Friday October 4th. Every 5000 days represents about 13 years, so these don’t happen often. date -d @$(( 86400 * 20000 ))

2024-09-12 @ 12.54.17 ∈ In English

(From 2021)

Bill Bailey - The Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz

Comedian Bill Bailey reimagines the Doctor Who theme as Jacques Brel-esque Belgian jazz. Taken from his DVD 'Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra'.

2024-09-11 @ 10.26.35 ∈ In English

Assassin Bug Interrupts a Moth Date - Observation of the Week, 9/10/24 · iNaturalist

Our Observation of the Week is this remarkable scene captured in India by @santosh-vithura: an Assassin Bug (potentially Euagoras plagiatus) feeding on a mating Footman Moth (Nepita conferta)!

2024-09-09 @ 18.33.42 ∈ In English

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.

2024-09-05 @ 11.57.22 ∈ In English

Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data

There are many ways to improve the world, but their cost-effectiveness varies immensely. You can achieve a lot more if you rely on the best data on where to donate.

2024-08-27 @ 14.35.15 ∈ In English

Volunteers record bee biodiversity and discover new species in Pennsylvania

The researchers recruited 26 participants, mostly Master Gardeners, from across Pennsylvania to sample bees after receiving extensive training from Penn State experts. [The] trained participants documented over twice as much biodiversity and novel baseline natural history data as [2233] iNaturalist users.

2024-08-26 @ 9.34.43 ∈ In English

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

The Iberian Lynx has made a remarkable recovery, moving from “Endangered” to “Vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List. […] From only 94 individuals in 2002, the population has grown to over 1,000 due to concerted efforts in habitat restoration, prey availability improvement, and breeding programs.

2024-08-23 @ 11.15.44 ∈ In English

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows

Infrared radiation from a source roughly the temperature of human skin doubled the insects' overall host-seeking behavior when combined with CO2 and human odor. […] It's only in the context of other cues, such as elevated CO2 and human odor that IR makes a [difference;] infrared alone has no impact.