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🇺🇸 Did inflation lead to the demise of the US penny?

#Question #Treasury #Coins #Inflation #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates

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💻 **Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds**

_In a report on the threat, the researchers conclude that it is easy to trick most AI-driven chatbots into generating harmful and illegal information, showing that the risk is “immediate, tangible and deeply concerning”._

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/21/most-ai-chatbots-easily-tricked-into-giving-dangerous-responses-study-finds.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech @ai

📚 **Help! I Think I’m a Reading Snob.**

“_At the core of my snobbishness was an insatiable desire to be perceived as ‘cool’, whatever that means._”

🔗 https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/help-i-think-im-a-reading-snob/.

#Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Literature @bookstodon @literature

🇮🇪 **Medieval manuscript the Book of Leinster goes on public display in Trinity College**

🔗 https://www.thejournal.ie/medieval-manuscript-the-book-of-leinster-goes-on-public-display-in-trinity-college-6710663-May2025/.

#Ireland #Irish #Medieval #Medievodons #Manuscript #Literature @medievodons @literature

**The four-letter word lust**

🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/05/the-four-letter-word-lust/.

#Words #Etymology #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics

🌔 🚀 **Moon landing conspiracy theories, debunked**

“_Yes, Apollo 11 did go to the Moon. No, the US flag isn't 'waving' in the wind..._”

🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked.

#Moon #Space #Astronomy #Debunk #ConspiracyTheories @astronomy

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **Why America’s Small Businesses Can’t Quit China**

#Video length: six minutes and four seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYIk5a4irQ

#Tariffs #China #USA #US #UnitedStates #Business #WSJ

**From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries**

“_The results suggest that Viking Age seafaring networks along the Norwegian coast may have been more decentralised than their medieval counterparts, and may have relied on relatively outlying nodes on small islands and headlands._”

Jarrett, G. From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries. J Archaeol Method Theory 32, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09708-6.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Vikings #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic @archaeodons

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🇳🇴 **A tsunami hit southwestern Norway 5,400 years ago**

🔗 https://www.sciencenorway.no/stone-age-archaeology-culture/a-tsunami-hit-southwestern-norway-5400-years-ago/2509190.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #StoneAge #Tsunami #Norway @archaeodons

🇪🇺 **Interactive Demography of Europe: 2025 edition out now**

“The publication, which contains dynamic visualisations and short texts, is divided into 4 sections: population structure, population change, population diversity and marital status._”

🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/wdn-20250520-1.

#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Demography

🇺🇸 **2024 NAEP Reading Scores Decline, Adding to a Decade of Declines**

“_Average reading scores declined in 2024 for students in 4th grade and 8th grade by 2 points nationally, compared to 2022._”

🔗 https://www.nagb.gov/naep/reading.html.

#Data #DataViz #Reading #Literacy #Education #Learning #USA #US #UnitedStates

**Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research**

“_Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings._”

Peters Uwe and Chin-Yee Benjamin. 2025 Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research. R. Soc. Open Sci.12: 241776. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Science #Bias @ai @science

💻 **I'm a college professor. My advice to young people who feel hooked on tech**

“_The process of writing — not the final product — is what sharpens our logical reasoning and self-expression. For students who don’t use AI in smart ways, the result is essays that are all product, no process — and no process means no real learning._”

🔗 https://mashable.com/article/a-professors-advice-to-young-people-who-feel-hooked-on-tech.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai

**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

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