Yifan Wang 🌎

Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging

"Dietary patterns rich in plant-based foods, with moderate inclusion of healthy animal-based foods, may enhance overall healthy aging"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.' -J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit, pub. 1937

This reminds me what Lu Xun once wrote:”但我總希望這昏亂思想遺傳的禍害，不至於有梅毒那樣猛烈，竟至百無一免。即使同梅毒一樣，現在發明瞭六百零六，肉體上的病，既可醫治；我希望也有一種七百零七的藥，可以醫治思想上的病。這藥原來也已發明，就是“科學”一味。”

RCT Experiment of the traditional Chinese herbal medicine for hemorrhage found no significant effect compared with placebo.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

How Finland is teaching its young to spot fake news The curriculum covers various topics, from questioning where stories come from to the right to freedom of expression.

Finland is teaching children how to recognize fake news as part of critical thinking and civil responsibility.
In the U.S.?? We ban books.
SMH! 🤦🏻‍♀️

This map plots lighthouses and beacons around the world using OpenSeaMap data.

LIGHTHOUSES:
This map plots lighthouses and beacons using OpenSeaMap data.
Check out the zoomable version here geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

There are more than 23,000 lighthouses in the world. They vary in color, frequency and range.
Background: bigthink.com/strange-maps...

Beautiful #bluesky with Cumulus clouds today at Buffalo NY!

Cover page of Alaska’s Change Environment with a photo of the November 2023 Wrangell landslide.

Hot off the digital press: Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0 is now online! Focused on observations and impacts to Alaskans. From warming air & ocean, ice & snow to salmon & berries. Please check it out. #akwx #Alaska #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...

Survey results identify how scientific research and teaching contribute to the graduate student mental health crisis. @naturebiotech.bsky.social

"Receiving overly harsh criticism or being scolded by a research mentor, and being held to unreasonable expectations..."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Second part: 2009 - 2015 (Paris Agreement) - 2020s

Source: CICERO klima
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAe...

#climate #parisagreement #climatechange

YouTube video by CICERO klima The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds

A brief history of climate change negotiations 1992 ("Earth Summit") - 2009 (Copenhagen COP15)

Source: CICERO klima

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11k...

Striking findings from 2023 Here’s a look back at 2023 through some of our most striking research findings.

Here is a 🧵 of Pew Research Center's striking findings (2023). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Thanks! Another line about maps that I liked a lot: “A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” by Gilbert Grosvenor, a former editor of National Geographic

Haha I put this line on the cover page of my lecture for the maps course!

Thanks!

Wow, nice!

It seems now ChatGPT has a built-in code detector that tells you if it wrote the code. I guess they also check the variable names, sequence of certain lines, plus similarities across the submissions.

btw Google Colab and VScode now both have built-in AI tools that help with debugging.

Hi, I am PhD candidate and am working as an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography, SUNY-Buffalo, and I am looking to contribute to the science feed~
orcid.org/0009-0002-93...

And students are supposed to explain their essays in the video?

The domination of ocean by plastic nurdles....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpVp...

In computer science, they are already comparing AI-generated code with the code students submitted. But for me, the biggest challenge is not identifying AI essays, but to have enough evidence to convict students who cheated...

It is interesting to see that Mongolia is "aligning" with China, Korea, and Japan, instead of Russia and Central Asian countries, despite their languages and spelling systems being more similar.

Thanks for sharing! I will add it to my lecture next week!

With climate change, Mosquitoes would be able to reach more areas while carrying diseases such as the yellow fever to extra one billion people!

Source: Ryan et al. (2019) via Carbon Brief

It is interesting to see there is little regional variation over such a large country.

Nice demonstration on the raster function! I am wondering if there is a way to have the sea level rise layer displayed when the filter is set to 0m?Now at 0 m, only the basemap is displayed.

I mentioned to my class last week that the use of generative AI is basically approximating some aspects of the Newspeak…

I had a Pentax K-3 for years! The 50-135 f2.8 is my all time favorite lens.