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EOS – Cuts to funding and staff needed to maintain trusted datasets of reference Earth system observations could limit their availability and quality, undermining hazard predictions and risk assessments. From farming and engineering to emergency management and insurance, many industries critical to daily life rely on Earth system and related socioeconomic datasets. NOAA has linked …
Data is Beautiful – JoonSimJoon: “When researchers write “recent studies show…” – how recent is recent, really? I scraped 749,853 references from 19,108 papers across 200 academic fields using OpenAlex data to find out. TL;DR: Average “recent” = about 5 years Virology/Pandemic research: 2 years (half their citations are from the last 2 years!) Philosophy/History: …
The Atlantic – And that could change everything for the tech industry. Alex Reisner: “On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the books they’ve been trained …
The Pragmatic Engineer: “No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry, Gergely Orosz, Jan 06, 2026. “This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete …
The Verge – no paywall: “Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as “really …
“Explore the birthplaces of [some of the] ideas that shaped civilization.” Categories are: Science, Technology, Art & Culture, Philosophy, Politics & Exploration, Communication. Includes an “I am Curious” feature – one example response is the Germ Theory of Disease.
The Comics Journal – What Baker & Taylor’s demise means for comics: “…I got on the phone with Britten Follett to talk about B&T, the library distribution market, and what these changes mean for the industry. A fifth-generation family member, Britten Follett is CEO at Follett Content, which is the largest provider of children’s and …
Gizmodo – “Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say…Your average dog can easily be trained to associate human words with requested actions like “sit” or “stay.” But, according to Dror, only some dogs seem to be naturally adept at understanding and internalizing the connection …
“Why was Diffen launched? We believe that making the right choices should be easier than it is today. We believe that this is possible with information that is unbiased, free, concise and easy to understand. Diffen aims to provide a one-stop shop for such information. How does Diffen help make choices? You may be faced …
Cage, Julia and Gallo, Nathan and Hengel, Moritz and Henry, Emeric and Huang, Yuchen, Fact-Checking and Misinformation: Evidence from the Market Leader. [61 pages] (December 05, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5868423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5868423 What are the dynamic effects of fact-checking on the behavior of those who circulate misinformation and on the spread of false news? …
“Since the 20th century, scientific ornithology has been closely linked to the conservation of birds. The study of feathers is a factor that is often overlooked. In museums, the majority of their bird skin collections are archived, stored away in drawers under lock and key and only ever seen by a very selective audience and …
The Pew Research Centre’s yearly wrap-up: “As we do every year, we’ve gathered data around some of the most pivotal news stories of 2025, including President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the changing U.S. immigration landscape and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence worldwide. Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of …
