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All Clear Sky Charts – “Created by the late Attilla Danko and maintained by CSCCharts, it’s the astronomers forecast. It shows at a glance when, in the next 96 hours, we might expect clear and dark skies for one specific observing site. There are many, but the example above is for Winer Observatory (the most sponsored …
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect [Full text available free]. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-025-00171-5 Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected …
PHYS.org: “Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine and index-letter tabs in alternating black and red. The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse …
Nurse.org – The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs. This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms. Graduate nursing students will lose access to higher federal loan limits previously …
The Indicator: “Two platform updates this week gave me a rare feeling of hope about AI slop. On Wednesday, TikTok announced it would pilot new controls to let users filter how much AI-generated content they see on their For You feeds. The platform already allows users to dial up and down certain topics like current …
Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) – Tanya Thomas raises the argument that we are training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only the processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions. Students are …
Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled? September 2025. Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains insufficiently evaluated. Developing long-context benchmarks that capture realistic, high-stakes tasks remains a significant challenge in the field, as most …
EFF: “It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching those same streets through different lenses: Flock Safety automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that tracked every passing car. Through an …
Washington Post via MSN – “The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. In an era defined by major political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics. Dozens have stepped up their …
MakeUseOf: “Chrome is fast, capable, and one of the best browser options when convenience matters. However, it’s not the most privacy-focused browser, and relying on Chrome alone isn’t enough for online privacy. So, I started using some extensions as part of my Chrome privacy setup. Each one addresses a different privacy concern, ensuring I stay …
“Three enforcement leaders formerly at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are joining Protect Borrowers as senior fellows to launch a strategic enforcement project focusing on the weaponization of corporate power that is plunging working people into financial crisis. Eric Halperin, Cara Petersen, and Tara Mikkilineni bring decades of enforcement, litigation, and civil rights experience …
Via LLRX – Drone Resources 2025 – This article by Marcus P. Zillman includes links to a range of guides for drone pilots interested in photography, medicine, civil security, real estate, e-commerce, as well as product reviews and buying guides.
