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An interdisciplinary team discovered a previously unknown Etruscan temple (45 meters by 35 meters) in the ancient city of Vulci, which lies in the Italian region of Latium. It is dated towards the end of the 6th or beginning of the 5th century BC. phys.org/news/2022-11-previous

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“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital.

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@josh
Just clicked your link. Had heard of Brands.Town but never been.
What a hard time I had keeping my morning cereal inside my mouth and not up in my nose :ablobjoy: thank you for that!

Is there any way to get their toots on my local or federated feeds? Everyone needs a laugh!

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Please take a moment to drink in the :sparkles_pink: absolute spectacle :sparkles_indigo: that is the Brands.town instance: brands.town/explore

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This piece from @ct_bergstrom et al arguing for science education adapted to the #misinformation age makes sense. Still, as I'm sure others have pointed out, other disciplines already teach these skills. The trouble is that as a society we continue to devalue the #humanities and #socialSciences in our rush to celebrate #STEM. I'm a #historian, so I know predictions are dubious. Still, to me it seems like this sort of siloed approach only helps misinformation thrive. scientificamerican.com/article

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My hot take: the next thing Mastodon should do is not just hold to the 64k limit (or raise it) but start evolving the desktop and mobile UIs to encourage longer posts. Twitter and Facebook's pivoting of our brains towards required brevity is a major part of how we all wound up in this hellscape out of Black Mirror. It's time to nudge people back towards normal attention spans.

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To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

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Good discussion with a colleague on how we write about #biology to lay audiences, and how we may need to do more to generalise knowledge of molecular biology. E.g. a better general understanding of RNA, what it is, and how it works might’ve done wonders against vaccine hesitancy. We have some fantastic physics communicators in the mainstream, in TV and in popular science publications, maybe we should try to get more cell and molecular biologists there too? #SciComm #MolBio #CellBio

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From tomorrow I will have to update my conversational facts database to include a whole new BILLION people living on earth.

The world's population has tripled since the 1960s.
It is expected to reach 10 billion within the life expectancy of gen Z and millennials.

We are obviously doing something right.
But this is an unprecedented world event.

How will this change the way we live globally? And in particular geographies?

Are we ready for the challenges it will pose?

theguardian.com/global-develop

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This being #human thing is hard. #DigitalMedia has, in many ways, made it even harder. So many other voices, experiences, triumphs, challenges, fears, and frustrations collide with our own.

But it also opens the world up, allowing us to build #community across boundaries that might otherwise keep us apart.

I’m thankful for everyone here who has long been figuring out ways of making #SocialMedia safe and kind. 💜 Thank you for #welcoming newcomers into this space.

#WorldKindnessDay

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Even Fauci can be peer pressured into unmasking. This is why mask mandates are so important in places that historically aren't used to masking. Behavioral change takes time, and mask mandates help create an environment supportive of masking. #BringBackMasks

wired.com/story/anthony-faucis

#MaskUp #COVID #COVID19 #publichealth

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In a recent study, researchers created #brain organoids and infected them with #COVID19.

They found that “an excessive number of synapses were eliminated – more than you would expect to see in a normal brain.”

psypost.org/2022/11/long-covid

#Research #science #health #mentalhealth #medicine #covid #longcovid #psychology #psychiatry #neuroscience #neurology

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There's something oddly comforting about the idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," namely, the corollary: "If you can afford to pay for a product, you won't be the product." But it's bullshit. Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay - they make you the product because you can't stop them.

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Inside: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/lux

#Pluralistic

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Last #fediverse comment and then I go to bed. There’s nothing watching you. You can like a picture of a cat and nothing will steer 100 more cat pictures into your feed. Nothing fills your screen with cat food and cat beds and ads for cat services. You can visit the timeline of someone #NSFW and nobody knows and nobody cares. It doesn’t feed anybody’s AI model about you and who you are and what you’re like. You’re not for sale here. The timeline: it’s chronological. There’s no steering it or reordering it or buying the top slot. It’s just like the weather. It just happens. Lean into it.

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I read this and haven't stopped laughing.
Its funny because you played with the words there.
Also, because it may or may not be the most synthetic definition of my soul's intrinsic way of functioning.

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