Dr Anna Notaro

reiterating what i said earlier today at #nabj25: support student journalism and student media in anyway you can. they stay on folks’ necks.

Image on Shroud of Turin May Not Be Human—New Study — Konsyse A detailed computational analysis proposes that the Shroud of Turin may not have covered a body.

Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian 3D specialist, created two parametric models to create contact simulation patterns. His findings suggest that the mysterious Shroud of Turin had an artistic rather than a forensic origin.

“//…//proposals risk framing violence against women and girls as an issue of ethnicity instead of misogyny.”

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Thank goodness we’ve got our finest minds working on important questions like how can we make cops dumber?

The impact of AI on the environment is extraordinary. Just one ChatGPT search about something as simple as the weather consumes vast energy, 10 times more than a Google search. Or, as Des Traynor of Intercom put it it’s like using a “massive diesel generator to power a calculator”.

ditto

Excellent!

Farage said Andrew Tate is an ‘important voice’ for men in a podcast interview.

Tate is awaiting trial for rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.

What does that say about Farage?

🦴Half of women aged over 50 will break bones due to osteoporosis, and a fifth of men

🍽️ Diet is important to the health of our bones.

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MIT Spinout Strand Therapeutics Raises $153 Million To Make Cancerous Tumors Light Up For years, Jake Becraft has been working at the bleeding edge of cancer research. Now, with solid early clinical results and a boatload of cash he’s hoping to bring his first innovative therapeutic to...

Strand Therapeutics is working at the bleeding-edge of cancer research with programmable mRNA. In early-stage clinical trials its first therapeutic shrank tumors in patients who were out of options. “It shocked even us,” CEO Jake Becraft said. @forbes.com

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To whom it may concern:

The International Criminal Court on March 17, 2023, issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes. The warrant empowers Courts of all 123 member states of ICC to arrest Putin if he sets foot in their territory.

Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Radioactive waste released into the sea at Coulport, a storage and loading facility for nuclear warheads on Loch Long, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain water pipes there, Sepa finds

What we know about Friday’s shooting at the US’s top public health institute | CNN Gunfire riddled CDC headquarters in Atlanta. A police officer is dead. And the shooter may have blamed a possible illness on vaccines.

Employees at the top US public health agency were winding down their Friday when bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over cubicle walls.

Across the street from the CDC campus, a gunman – possibly motivated by a hatred of vaccines – had opened fire on the agency’s buildings.

Aug. 9, 2014 | White Police Officer Shoots and Kills Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury refused to indict the officer, who was never held accountable.

This Donald Trump mural in Glasgow has become a viral sensation

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights?

Nearly a decade on from the Brexit referendum and almost five from when Brexit was supposedly ‘done’, voters who are genuinely happy with the Brexit we have are few and far between, and no political party is seriously suggesting that it’s a success

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the boys who would pull on girls' pigtails at recess because they enjoyed making them cry are now running the country

New film company with ties to Palantir pitches pro-America movies as Hollywood culture war heats up A group tied to tech firm Palantir is aiming to inject patriotism back into Hollywood amid criticism that the film industry has become too liberal. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports.

Ironically one of the first examples in the clip is movies about defeating Nazis, which if they were made now would be scorned as liberal propaganda.

International student levy could cost English universities £600m a year The proposed 6% surcharge has prompted warnings from vice-chancellors over its impact on budgets and global competitiveness

A proposed 6% levy on international fees could take over £600 million a year from English universities, undermining their global standing and impacting London’s economy.

To keep our city a world-class centre for education, we should be attracting talent, not putting up barriers.

HOUSTON: “The owner of Trump Burger arrested by ICE and now faces deportation.”

(H/T @patriottakes.bsky.social )

Cartoon by Edmund Duffy, Baltimore Sun

As the Klan ranks pass a reviewing stand they give a stiff-armed salute that a reporter describes as "adapted from the Fascisti of Italy." The 3-hour parade ends outside a theater for a program of speeches, but only two are delivered before heavy rain disperses everyone. 7/8

Aug. 8, 1925: The Ku Klux Klan marches in Washington. As many as 60,000 members of the secret order, wearing their white robes and hoods but obeying local laws that forbid masked gatherings, proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue against the backdrop of the Capitol dome. 1/8

interesting how some tech bros claim college is overrated and people should drop out but “Ph.D level” is a marker of expertise

‘Trump and Jeffrey were extremely close’ says Epstein’s brother In Washington the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to dominate the news agenda - no matter how many times the President denounces it as a 'hoax'.

"This has never been investigated as a potential homicide."

Mark Epstein tells @cathynewman.bsky.social he is "really concerned" about the death of his convicted sex offender brother Jeffrey in a US jail, which was ruled to be by suicide.

Read and watch here:

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Answers in Genesis Can... • Follow Jul 26 • ••• X Grok 4 exposed a flaw in evolution, and it's going viral... Our video yesterday where Calvin Smith convinces Grok 4, Elon Musk's Al, that God is real has gained nearly 100,000 views in only one day—and it's still gaining many, many views. Go watch it now. The conversation will blow your mind.

Guys. According to this Facebook post, Grok has been convinced that God is real! Big, if true.

Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.

#Bluesky has become preferred platform for researchers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #researchmatters #academia #highered

There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.