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How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change: Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Performance of China

Performance of China’s new medical licensing examination for rural general practice: To evaluate the performance of China’s new medical licensing examination (MLE) for rural general practice, which determines the number of qualified doctors who can provide primary care for China’s rural residents,...
Source: biomedcentral.com

China Chopper still active 9 years later

China Chopper still active 9 years later: A blog from the world class Intelligence Group, Talos, Cisco's Intelligence Group
Source: talosintelligence.com

CISA: Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange bugs | ZDNet

CISA: Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange bugs | ZDNet
Source: zdnet.com

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus - ExtremeTech: An international team from MIT, Cardiff University, and other institutions has identified a compound called phosphine in Venus' murky atmosphere that is strongly associated with life.
Source: extremetech.com

Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy

Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy: Plus: "Cultural competence" through diverse sourcing; limitations in how journalists represent public opinion; and lessons from studying 7,000 news push notifications.
Source: niemanlab.org

Augmented reality could be the geology classroom

Augmented reality could be the geology classroom’s killer app "Geology is a very spatial science and can require a lot of 3-D visualization. Simple physical models (not to mention rocks) have long been used to aid teaching about things like faults or crystalline mineral structure. But these things...
Source: arstechnica.com

This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken: To test the sensors in the largest digital camera ever

This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken: To test the sensors in the largest digital camera ever built, scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused in on a Romanesco cauliflower, producing one of the biggest digital photographs ever taken
Source: newscientist.com

9 errors of judgement about the pandemic

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral: As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
Source: theatlantic.com

Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback: We've applied reinforcement learning from human feedback to train language models

Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback: We've applied reinforcement learning from human feedback to train language models that are better at summarization. Our models generate summaries that are better than summaries from 10x larger models trained only with supervised learning. Even though we train...
Source: openai.com

Publishers are getting a (brief) reprieve from Apple’s coming ad-pocalypse: Apple now won't kneecap the ad tech industry

Publishers are getting a (brief) reprieve from Apple’s coming ad-pocalypse: Apple now won't kneecap the ad tech industry — for all the good and bad that implies — until early 2021. Publishers should use the extra time to get their data houses in order.
Source: niemanlab.org

Evidence slowly building for long-term heart problems post-COVID-19: While there are anecdotes aplenty, there's also some

Evidence slowly building for long-term heart problems post-COVID-19: While there are anecdotes aplenty, there's also some solid science behind the worries.
Source: arstechnica.com

Oppose the educational technology algorithims and technosolutions?

Essay by Audrey Watters on schools and the technology industry ... basically f**k the algorithm. "Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy: I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough...
Source: hackeducation.com

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged "According to the team’s analysis,

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged "According to the team’s analysis, when the virus tweaks the RAS, it causes the body’s mechanisms for regulating bradykinin to go haywire. Bradykinin receptors are resensitized, and the body also stops effectively...
Source: medium.com

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds: So far, the majority of studies investigating brain functions and intelligence have been carried out either on humans or animals that are known to be most similar to humans, such as monkeys, apes, and other mammals. Nonetheless, some...
Source: phys.org

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides: Many carnivores are ambush predators. Being

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides: Many carnivores are ambush predators. Being seen by their prey can lead to them abandoning the hunt.
Source: theconversation.com

How novice and expert anaesthetists understand expertise in anaesthesia: a qualitative study: The development of expertise

How novice and expert anaesthetists understand expertise in anaesthesia: a qualitative study: The development of expertise in anaesthesia requires personal contact between a mentor and a learner. Because mentors often are experienced clinicians, they may find it difficult to understand the challenges...
Source: biomedcentral.com

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic training: Although gamification increases user engagement, its effectiveness in point-of-care ultrasonographic training has yet to be fully established. This study was conducted...
Source: biomedcentral.com

APOD: 2020 August 11 - Churning Clouds on Jupiter

"Pictured by Juno, churning clouds on Jupiter show not only mesmerizing complexity but some high-level, light-colored pop-up clouds. Understanding atmospheric dynamics on Jupiter gives valuable perspective to similar atmospheric and lightning phenomena that occur on our home Earth."
Source: nasa.gov

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle disinformation – Newsguard, which will allow users to check the accuracy of the content they are reading, and Video Authenticator, which can detect deepfakes and other synthetic...
Source: microsoft.com