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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. …
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, …
rip.so :: the digital graveyard “Here lie the messengers, the social networks, the browsers and the websites the internet forgot *** when was the last time someone said uh-oh on your ICQ ? *** dig up a name « search the catacombs » wander by decade
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 …
Der Spiegel: Nazi Card Index Digitized: The Lies Come to an End: “Over ten million people were in Hitler’s party, many keeping it secret for life. Now the registry is online, exposing Grandpa or Grandma with a few clicks. How is this new knowledge affecting Germany? On his dining table, Andreas Bönte spreads out his …
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 …
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 …
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. Still missing your favourite? Come back on Friday to see which novels ranked among the highest on our list..
“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 …
PCMag: “Apple iPhones arrived in 2007, running an unnamed operating system. A year later, it was dubbed iPhone OS 1, which was pretty boring. By 2010, marketing got its act together and came up with “iOS,” just in time for the debut of version 4. In the previous decade and a half, iOS has undergone …
“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]
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 …
