Category «Education»

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work?

Per Thirty Six: “How a giant nuclear reactor in the sky and some silicon makes electricity, and why that’s the easy part. How The Heck?, a series of interactive explanations of everyday technology designed primarily for curious, non-technical readers.  Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Education, Energy, Environmental Law

Fabricated citations: an audit across 2-5 million biomedical papers

Topaz M, Roguin N, Gupta P et al. Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers. Volume 407, Issue 10541 p1779-1781May 09, 2026 “Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-existent studies, readers, …

Subjects: AI, Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal

Seth Chandler: “Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal, and even if you’re buried taking, grading or just having recurrent nightmares about exams, this post deserves ten minutes. At least three things matter for the academy: a law-student plugin with a summa cum laude portfolio of skills; a free CourtListener connector that does traditional legal …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Indicator Guide to Using Skills in Chrome for OSINT

Craig Silverman, Indicator: “Last month, Google announced Skills in Chrome, an easy way to create and save reusable prompts that can run in your browser. Skills load in the Gemini tab in Chrome, and you can summon them with just a couple of clicks. This makes them faster than a third-party tool (though potentially less …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

Take heart – the internet still exists. And you are on it now – as you read beSpacific and LLRX, so go out and discover all the other places, music, writing…enjoy. Terry Godier: “…The reason these systems survived is also the reason they are surviving the AI flood, and the reason they will probably outlive …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management

Newspaper Finder

“Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchive, OldNews, Chronicling America … the list of historical newspaper websites goes on and on and on. Thanks to them, genealogists have access to a once-unimaginable number of digitized newspapers—in fact, so many publications in so many places that it can be hard to know where to look. Newspaper Finder, “A Database for …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Pomiferous

“Welcome to the world’s most extensive apples (pommes) database. Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate. They’re organized by name, pollination group, harvest period, and other characteristics.” [BoingBoing]

Subjects: Education, Food and Nutrition, Search Engines

AI in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes

Press Gazette: “Round-up of the main cases where AI use in journalism has gone wrong. AI is being widely used in journalism and can lead to reputation-killing scandals and mistakes if not monitored closely. Here Press Gazette rounds up some of the main examples of where AI has gone wrong. Most recently, The New York …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research