Neat teaching example of not accepting numbers at face value. Always ask where data is from and what it really shows. A lovely understated line: “Many, if not most of the centenarians in the ‘Blue Zone’ have turned out to be alive in the government records but were deceased in reality.”
This shit is WILD. Turns out the phenomenon of "Blue Zones," where people have exceptionally long lifespans, are not real and it's just people committing pension fraud.
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the
"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it." www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu...
Now I got myself into a rabbit hole: Nikon 35AF / L35AF, Konica Hexar, Minolta 7000. I will not get a Nikon F4. I will not get a Nikon F3AF.
What would be a good film camera that is both small and has AF?
No one person should have the power Musk has. A 1950s-style marginal tax rate on the richest would do the world a massive service simply by reducing their ability to do this kind of harm.
Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe. The newer Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.
Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.
Anything from Mr. Bungle‘s California then?
„Hit me Baby one more time“ from Britney Spears or „The Wilde Flowers“ from Opeth?
Scenes from a dying empire: Chicago's current budget allocates $2,000,000,000 to the police while high-school sophomores teach their own chemistry classes.
This is just egregious: blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/11/w...
At Clemente Community Academy, students are missing critical instruction time because of absent teachers. It's one of a number of CPS schools struggling because of a teacher shortage.
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
