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Why Antarctic Sea Ice Stopped Growing In 2015 News Account Thu, 05/21/2026 - 05:55 Categories Oceanography

Why Antarctic Sea Ice Stopped Growing In 2015 News Account Thu, 05/21/2026 - 05:55 Categories Oceanography

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You may have read that Asian cultures respect the elderly more than Europe but Asian senior citizens may not agree. However, it may not be that young people have gotten less respectful, it could be that young people are wealthier than in the past. And that makes them lonelier.

Over the last 40 years, the wealth of countries like the United States and Japan have increased substantially. Poor people now have a life that the poor even two generations ago could not imagine would be possible. Yet a new cross-temporal meta-analysis says that despite the changes in wealth which make socializing more possible, young people report more loneliness.

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Wealth Correlated To Loneliness News Account Tue, 05/19/2026 - 06:01 Categories Psychology

Wealth Correlated To Loneliness News Account Tue, 05/19/2026 - 06:01 Categories Psychology

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[For the first part of this two-part post, see here]

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Surviving Queues: 2 - On The Road Tommaso Dorigo Mon, 05/18/2026 - 04:07 Categories Physics

Surviving Queues: 2 - On The Road Tommaso Dorigo Mon, 05/18/2026 - 04:07 Categories Physics

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A new tool drawing on billions of uses of more than 20,000 words and diverse real-world texts claims to have found that human language is systematically biased, but not against things. It is instead biased toward safety and that has impacted everything from psychology claims to how Large Language Models (LLMs, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence and AI).

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Ousiometrics Analysis Says All Human Language Is Biased News Account Tue, 05/12/2026 - 09:51 Categories Psychology

Ousiometrics Analysis Says All Human Language Is Biased News Account Tue, 05/12/2026 - 09:51 Categories Psychology

I was reached this evening by the news of the passing of a dear friend, Enrico Stomeo. Enrico was an architect by profession, but for me he was rather defined by his activity as an amateur astronomer - in fact, if I had to define what a serious amateur astronomer is, I would more or less consciously be describing him. 


[Above, a recent picture of Enrico]

The Associazione Astrofili Veneziani

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Enrico Stomeo - A Lifelong Passion For Meteor Studies Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 05/12/2026 - 00:20 Categories Space

Enrico Stomeo - A Lifelong Passion For Meteor Studies Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 05/12/2026 - 00:20 Categories Space

Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the COVID-19 pandemic happened; they believed the MMR vaccine caused autism in children. They love raw milk because they believed pasteurization eliminates magical nutrition that scientists can't detect.

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There are concerns about projected warming on the Earth’s surface and in the lower atmosphere even while the planet’s upper atmosphere has cooled.

It's not a paradox, it's a pattern and a recent paper described the mechanics of how it works. The short answer is that carbon dioxide (CO2) reacts differently to wavelengths of light. Closer to earth, CO2 traps it but it makes the stratosphere better at radiating, which cools it—but because it becomes colder, the Earth system ends up losing less heat to space overall, strengthening warming below.

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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic Hank Mon, 05/11/2026 - 06:57 Categories Microbiology

Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic Hank Mon, 05/11/2026 - 06:57 Categories Microbiology

Nobody likes to wait in line. Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths, on a plane waiting to disembark along with the other passengers, or in a queue at the ticket office, you may experience a range of feelings ranging from perplexity (“What am I doing here?”) to impatience (“Why is this not moving forward?”), to annoyance (“What is that idiot in the front chatting about with the operator?”). 

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Wavelengths Of Light Are Why CO2 Cools The Upper Atmosphere But Warms Earth News Account Mon, 05/11/2026 - 04:43 Categories Atmospheric