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Every now and then, for one reason or another, an academic will have to update one's own CV. This is a chore in general - once you get tenure, why should you care to keep a detailed record of your past activities? - but it also carries some benefits. In fact, by sifting through the data (hard disk folders containing talks, large databases of publications, mailbox) you can get a bird's eye view of where your time has gone, and draw inspiration for future rationalization of your agenda.

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Apply For The USERN Prize, Win Cash, And Get A Keynote Talk In Astana Tommaso Dorigo Sun, 05/24/2026 - 05:06 Categories Physics

Apply For The USERN Prize, Win Cash, And Get A Keynote Talk In Astana Tommaso Dorigo Sun, 05/24/2026 - 05:06 Categories Physics

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A Record Of Past Activities Tommaso Dorigo Sun, 05/24/2026 - 01:23 Categories Physics

A Record Of Past Activities Tommaso Dorigo Sun, 05/24/2026 - 01:23 Categories Physics

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Though numerical models and popular films like An Inconvenient Truth projected Arctic ice collapse due to global warming and then climate change, the reverse was true in the real world. Ice expanded. That changed in 2015 and a new model estimates why. The authors say the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica has gotten warmer, bringing salty water from the deep up to the surface.

Those water changes led to record-breaking lows in 2023, which could destabilize the world’s ocean current systems, and it will be due to three changes.

In 2013, they write stronger winds led to salty Circumpolar Deep Water getting closer to the surface.

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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