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Where Do the Children Play? On the need for a world without us

Full of interesting insights : unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...

Interesting way to look at equations: gods.art/articles/equ...

Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease Does living within proximity to a golf course affect the risk of Parkinson disease (PD)? This case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within 1 to 3 miles of a golf course, and that this risk ...

One more thing that might be bad for your health : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

One more reason to address inequality: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Stations and transfers A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.

If you ever wondered how the metro stations interchanges look like you can now see it in 3D : stations.albertguillaumes.cat

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Probably the best is to use with moderation: publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska | CNN A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the g...

One more job with (probably) too long conference calls: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u... .

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

Who would have thought that walkable cities allow people to walk more ? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Anyhow, still good we have some numbers, now if only people will accept walking more is healthier ...

Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that

Interesting, let's see if they get to the next level and hack the traffic light to trigger it :p.
www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...

If you ever thought an address is something simple: www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falseh...

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Wonder how many problems would be solved faster if only people would talk more to each other: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...

Sometimes parliaments take good decisions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Artist's view of an Ariane 6 flying into space over Earth. This image depicts the Ariane 6 with two boosters, known as Ariane 62.

Ariane 6 soared to the skies once again! 🚀

This time, with a triple boost from Vinci!

After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.

Europe PMC Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.

So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc

Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration! ​On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forwa...

Nice that progress is made on some topics:
www.cea.fr/english/Page...

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

Life expectancy in the US
—by educational attainment, by county
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—the growing inequalities
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George Orwell's 1940 Review of Mein Kampf

#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...

Instagram has now banned the #Democrat

But Republican is still there.

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

Interesting article on trust in scientists : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PlasticList Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

Very interesting study over plastics in food, especially the parts that explain how limits are set and discuss the existing studies. So much work still to do: www.plasticlist.org/report

Would be interesting to also know the age distribution of people that do read the whole post. Even if there is a global problem (no clue) I would expect to see a gradual shift - as older people change their habits at lower rate.

Use your brain more to navigate and it might give you more protection to Alzheimer’s disease
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

OpenHistoricalMap OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.

Interesting maps: www.openhistoricalmap.org (and a prettier interface, seems to use the data there as well, although has some inconsistencies: www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Metropoli... . Wish I had something like this in high-school!

People seem (still) lot more troubled than 6 years ago. While the trend is good, lets remember there are still almost double the people with serious (probably mental health) issues than in 2019... (www.faa.gov/unruly)

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Phoebe Plummer, 23, recieves two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident

Don't think that disruptive activism is the best solution, but 2 years in jail for damaging the frame of a painting, considering there are so many other instances of people and businesses destroying things is outrageous. Are people so afraid of being reminded there might be a problem ?...

Interesting article, with lots of valid points. Still, I am not sure cloud is the ideal tool for all its current users, so we might see more "cloud repatriations" in time. And improved tools to manage infrastructure will enable competition.

Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud - Bert Hubert's writings This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. The very short version: All of computing is moving to the cloud at a rapid clip, including (government) parts you might want...

Europe has no position in "cloud" at all, but (government) initiatives abound to change this. In the post below I argue how hard this will be & why Europe might be better served by a narrower ambition:
berthub.eu/articles/pos...

​​​Monthly global surface air temperature anomalies (°C) relative to 1991–2020 from January 1940 to December 2023, plotted as time series for each year. 2023 is shown with a thick red line while other years are shown with thin lines and shaded according to the decade, from blue (1940s) to brick red (2020s).

2023 has replaced 2016 as the warmest calendar year on record.

The global-average temperature for 2023 was 14.98°C, 0.17°C higher than recorded for 2016.

Climate change affects us all. So we must maintain our ambitious #EUGreenDeal climate goals.

climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...