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🇪🇸 **Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries**
"_Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid_"
🖥️ **Can AI Chatbots Worsen Psychosis and Cause Delusions?**
"_Chatbots may lead to psychosis through confirmation bias, sycophancy, and "bullshit" receptivity._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Technology #Tech #Psychology @psychology
Depends on how and what one spends their time at university doing.
How much are tuition fees in the UK and is university worth it? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegp0dnq9o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=...
I am surprised that the two could be separated.
Pupils give up smartphones in behaviour experiment https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36xxrrrjjko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ...
🏠 **Even billionaires are having trouble finding homes to rent now, thanks to a ‘mansion deficit’**
"_Demand for rentals has gotten a lot hotter among the very rich. More millionaires are renting these days. Between 2019 and 2023, the latest year for which there is publicly available data, the number of households that make $1 million or more in income who also rent skyrocketed by 204%, according to an analysis by RentCafe._"
📚 **Literary Studies at Manchester University Press**
🖥️ **No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That**
"_Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place._"
**A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago**
"_Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field._"
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🖥️ 📖 **Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations**
#MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Four Manuscripts That Tell the Story of America’s Founding Spirit**
🔗 https://intelligentcollector.com/four-manuscripts-that-tell-the-story-of-americas-founding-spirit/.
**Literary Texts From The Sippar Library V: A Hymn In Praise Of Babylon And The Babylonians**
"_The article presents a previously unknown hymn in praise of Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon and the Babylonians. It contains unparalleled descriptions of the healing powers of Marduk, the splendor of Babylon, the spring borne by the Euphrates to the city’s fields and the generosity of the Babylonians themselves._"
Fadhil, A.A. and Jiménez, E. (2025) ‘LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE SIPPAR LIBRARY V: A HYMN IN PRAISE OF BABYLON AND THE BABYLONIANS’, Iraq, pp. 1–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.23.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Cuneiform #Babylon #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
📚 **See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In June**
Evening all.
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Unprecedented will be the new normal. Welcome to our climate changed future.
🖥️ **Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern**
"_In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair._"
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/disturbing-signs-of-ai-threatening-people-spark-concern.
🇹🇻 🇦🇺 **1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying**
_While the visa itself doesn’t mention climate change, the treaty that created it is framed in the context of the “existential threat posed by climate change”._
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Tuvalu #Australia #Pacific #Visa #Migration
**Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery**
"_This paper demonstrates that Leonardo’s explicit textual reference to ‘an equilateral triangle’ between the figure’s legs provides his construction method and reveals the anatomical foundation for his proportional choices._"
Sweeney, R. M. (2025) ‘Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery’, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, pp. 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2507568.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Art #LeonardoDaVinci #VitruvianMan
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"_The last time the dollar weakened so much at the start of the year was 1973, when the United States made a seismic shift and ended the linking of the dollar to the price of gold._"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.ELSc.0pKcaLrNCAwE&smid=url-share
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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