hkl @hkl@qoto.org

Top-down and emotional attention in blind and sighted individuals https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470218241311202 "Our study highlights the superiority of auditory processing capabilities in blind individuals."

🔴 **The 8 worst technology failures of 2024**

By Antonio Regalado

_“They say you learn more from failure than success. If so, this is the story for you: MIT Technology Review’s annual roll call of the biggest flops, flimflams, and fiascos in all domains of technology.”_

🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/

#Fails #Tech #Technology

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The moon's surface is covered with fractures, folds, and ridges; signs of a tectonically active world.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI

Another resource to share: free and high-quality art for life sciences https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/

Good quality drawings and schematics are very important to convey your science to others, although sometimes we scientists don't have time to make these, or cannot pay for tools like biorender. I really appreciate this initiative from NIH

An unhealthy outlier...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure?time=earliest..latest

Mysterious Cause of Massive Elephant Die-Off in 2020 Finally Revealed
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-cause-of-massive-elephant-die-off-in-2020-finally-revealed?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Environment @environment-ScienceAlert

Scientists Urge Ban on 'Mirror Life' Before It Endangers Global Health
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-urge-ban-on-mirror-life-before-it-endangers-global-health?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-ScienceAlert

Fine, detailed newsletter post by @davetroy about the evolving state of social media. His analysis of Bluesky is especially interesting.

https://america2.news/without-sky-social-media-and-the-end-of-reality/

He ain't heavy, he's my brother 😅 A Twite and a Snow Bunting getting along just fine. In Finnish: vuorihemppo & pulmunen. 🇫🇮🪶❄️ #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #birdwatching #naturephotography #nature

A stunning time-lapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya as it orbits the Moon.

Credit: JAXA/NHK

World's oldest-known wild bird lays an egg in Hawaii at age 74
https://apnews.com/article/oldest-bird-lays-egg-wisdom-hawaii-5e7867ba9c8a51373d4d570f73fa7c2d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

🔴 **‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media**

Harry Taylor

_Oxford University Press said the term “gained new prominence in 2024 as a term used to capture concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media”._

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/02/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024

#BrainRot #English #Language #Word #WordOfTheYear #SocialMedia

This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.

Western bluebird

Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March.

Video credit: Robert Schwarz
Source: https://vimeo.com/208466944

A different edit of the same encounter

still struggling but maybe you get the idea

#bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #BirdInFlight #BIFPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors

Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results #neuroscience #cogsci #neuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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