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**Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets**
“_Here we synthesise multiple lines of evidence to show that +1.5 °C is too high and that even current climate forcing (+1.2 °C), if sustained, is likely to generate several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries, causing extensive loss and damage to coastal populations and challenging the implementation of adaptation measures._”
Stokes, C.R., Bamber, J.L., Dutton, A. et al. Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets. Commun Earth Environ 6, 351 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02299-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Data #Paleoclimatology #Geography #Glaciology @geography @climatechange
@Lazarou I think one of the attractions of Cheers was the fact that it was fictional and did not portray reality. If they had to make it real, image how many obnoxious characters they would have had to introduce?
@Lazarou It seems looking back so such a different and faraway world, the nineties I mean.
@Lazarou I remember watching Cheers in the 1990s on Fridays at 21:00 on Channel 4. The highlight of any episode would be George Wendt's entrance into the bar and the associated cry of 'Norm' from those assembled.
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20 May 1569: Edmund Spenser, future #poet & planter in #Ireland matriculates at Pembroke College #Cambridge #otd
Norm!
George Wendt, best known for playing Norm Peterson on 'Cheers', has died at 76
Someone will always act upon a legacy, whether it is good or bad.
💻 📚 **How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers**
“_Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real._”
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Fake #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon @ai @bookstodon
Evening all.
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AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn
https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-hikers-danger?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism
**Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests**
“_Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it_”
🇯🇵 **Early modern Japan (1550–1850)**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan/Early-modern-Japan-1550-1850.
🇺🇸 **El-Erian says the era of U.S. exceptionalism is on pause**
🔗 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/el-erian-says-the-era-of-u-s-exceptionalism-is-on-pause-4b3d9638
#Economics #Economy #USA #US #UnitedStates #Exceptionalism @economics
💻 **I'm a college writing professor. Here's what AI still can't do**
🔗 https://mashable.com/article/how-a-college-writing-professor-teaches-students-about-ai
🇩🇰 **The Hoby cups: Tracing connections in Iron Age Denmark**
“_What can a pair of silver cups deposited as grave goods in Denmark reveal about links with the Roman world?_”
🔗 https://the-past.com/feature/the-hoby-cups-tracing-connections-in-iron-age-denmark/.
#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #IronAge #Denmark #Romans @histodons @archaeodons
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Seems like the logical conclusion of this "generative AI" exercise.
"“My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website.
🇬🇧 "_Households will be charged £129 less for a typical annual bill from July as the energy price cap is due to fall, according to energy consultants Cornwall Insight._"
Energy bills set for series of falls as price cap due to be lowered, says forecaster https://news.sky.com/story/energy-bills-set-for-series-of-fall...
Afternoon all.
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The Spanish words 'año' ('year') and 'España' ('Spain') contain the letter ñ, which is called eñe.
It comes from a double nn. One of the n's was abbreviated as a squiggle on top of the other: ñ.
For instance, 'año' comes from Latin 'annum' with nn.
However, 'puño', 'España' and 'viña' come from 'pūgnum', 'Hispāniam' and 'vīneam', which didn't have nn.
My graphic explains how they got their ñ:
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Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good
US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1
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