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3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them: Our brains take shortcuts when processing information

3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them: Our brains take shortcuts when processing information to make decisions, leading to unconscious bias and systemic racism at work. Here’s what you need to know.
Source: weforum.org

Amaran the robotic coconut tree climber

Amaran: An Unmanned Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester - IEEE Journals & Magazine
Source: ieee.org

Twitter Sentiment Analysis Approaches: A Survey

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging and social networking platforms where massive instant messages (i.e. tweets) are posted every day. Twitter sentiment analysis tackles the problem of analyzing users’ tweets in terms of thoughts, interests and opinions in a variety of contexts and domains....
Source: online-journals.org

Comparison of E-Learning, M-Learning and Game-based Learning in Programming Education – A Gendered Analysis: Learning

Comparison of E-Learning, M-Learning and Game-based Learning in Programming Education – A Gendered Analysis: Learning to code is considered as a difficult and challenging task for a significant number of novice programmers in programming education. Novice programmers have to acquire different skills...
Source: online-journals.org

Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons

Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons: There are less harmful ways to stop a lot of crime from happening in the first place. Listen to Jennifer Doleac — Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, and Director of the Justice Tech Lab — is an expert on empirical research...
Source: 80000hours.org

Mark Lynas on why nuclear power is the most practical way to avoid catastrophic climate change: Why isn’t everyone demanding

Mark Lynas on why nuclear power is the most practical way to avoid catastrophic climate change: Why isn’t everyone demanding a massive scale-up of nuclear energy to save lives and stop climate change?
Source: 80000hours.org

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next?  - The Scholarly Kitchen: How can collective action models to support open access,

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next?  - The Scholarly Kitchen: How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.
Source: sspnet.org

Elevated CO2, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene: Abstract. Rising atmospheric

Elevated CO2, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene: Abstract. Rising atmospheric CO2 is expected to increase global temperatures, plant water-use efficiency, and carbon storage in the terrestrial biosphere. A CO2 fertilization effect on terrestrial vegetation...
Source: copernicus.org

Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall - The Scholarly

Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall - The Scholarly Kitchen: Library budgets shrank for 2 decades. They can't shrink any further because of COVID-19. In fact, they should grow despite contracting college budgets
Source: sspnet.org

Frailty Hub | British Geriatrics Society

Frailty Hub | British Geriatrics Society
Source: bgs.org.uk

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington: Introducing the man who invented the first flushable toilet, Sir John Harington.

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington: Introducing the man who invented the first flushable toilet, Sir John Harington.
Source: humanprogress.org

What makes fake news feel true when it isn

What makes fake news feel true when it isn’t? For one thing, hearing it over and over again: "The more often participants had heard a statement, the more likely they were to attribute it to Consumer Reports rather than the National Enquirer." Key features of effective fake news - should you want to...
Source: niemanlab.org

The Social Architecture of Impactful Communities: A guide for community builders creating impactful organizations.

The Social Architecture of Impactful Communities: A guide for community builders creating impactful organizations.
Source: nickdewilde.com

Will we still need the term "digital transformation"?

3 ways digital businesses can enable the Great Reset: Updating business models for a digital-first world, led by purpose, is now an imperative for almost every company. "In the coming years, it is possible that no one will speak of “digital transformation” because the term will have become irrelevant:...
Source: weforum.org

Robust T cell immunity in convalescent individuals with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19

"Our collective dataset shows that SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust, broad and highly functional memory T cell responses, suggesting that natural exposure or infection may prevent recurrent episodes of severe COVID-19."
Source: doi.org

School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks

School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks
Source: sciencemag.org

Creating a digital commons

Creating a digital commons: There are, today, almost no parts of life that are untouched by the presence of data. Virtually every action we take produces some form of digital trail – our phones track our locations, our browsers track searches, our social network apps log our friends and family –...
Source: ippr.org

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Source: currentaffairs.org

France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts.

France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts: A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device, an international experiment aimed to develop...
Source: phys.org

My next Tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network.

blog post image My next tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network. I've been training one. Would anyone notice the difference? Could I just hand over tweeting to my machine? Method: downloaded the last 3200 Tweets that I posted using allmytweets.netpruned the dates off and removed the RTs by using some...
Source: agnate.co.uk