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2 hours agoCurrent Event sasky
Shyness linked to reduced behavioral mimicry during conversation via heightened self-focused attention
New research provides evidence that shyness is associated with reduced behavioral mimicry through increased self-focused attention during new social interactions. The findings have been published in the Journal of Research in Personality. “Behavioral mimicry – the automatic copying of another’s actions – is thought to be adaptive as it signals social interest, increases interpersonal liking...
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2 days agoCurrent Event sasky
Reading Ourselves to Death
Join me in a thought experiment. Imagine you are imprisoned in a room by a despotic regime and allowed contact with the outside world only through a primitive computer. Called a text-only terminal, the computer lets you send and receive as many written messages as you like. It lets you read as many articles as you like.
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2 days agoCurrent Event sasky
NASA experiment suggests need to dig deep for evidence of life on Mars
According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under the Martian surface to find signs of ancient life because ionizing radiation from space degrades small molecules such as amino acids relatively quickly.
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5 days agoAnalysis sasky
Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization
TO A PHOTON, the sun is like a crowded nightclub. It’s 27 million degrees inside and packed with excited bodies—helium atoms fusing, nuclei colliding, positrons sneaking off with neutrinos. When the photon heads for the exit, the journey there will take, on average, 100,000 years. (There’s no quick way to jostle past 10 septillion dancers, even if you do move at the speed of light.)
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10 days agoCurrent Event sasky
Colombia elects first leftist president and first Afro Colombian female vice president
Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, won the presidency Sunday, and Francia Marquez will be the first Afro Colombian vice president.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
Google Agrees to Pay Out $118 Million To Former Employees In Gender Discrimination And Pay Equity Suit
Bloomberg.com reports that the case is Ellis v. Google LLC, Google having to pay out $118 million settlement to over 15,000 female employees for gender discrimination.
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2 weeks agoExpression sasky
The cult of Bluey: how a kids’ cartoon became a bible for modern parenting
Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman adore it, critics rave about it and a podcast dissects every episode: why does a series about a six-year-old dog and her family inspire so much devotion among grown-ups?
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2 weeks agoAnalysis sasky
Eating two portions of fish a week linked to skin cancer, study suggests
US research identifies ‘association that requires further investigation’ – but some scientists aren’t convinced
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
Over 400 Groups Call on UN Food Agency to 'End Partnership With Pesticide Industry'
"Use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations," say over 400 groups in a letter led by Pesticide Action North America.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
Diabetes drug helps patients lose never-before-seen amounts of weight, study shows
A drug approved to treat Type 2 diabetes is extremely effective at reducing obesity, according to a new study. The drug, called tirzepatide, works on two naturally occurring hormones that help control blood sugar and are involved in sending fullness signals from the gut to the brain.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event sasky
New York is now a step away from banning Bitcoin mining for two years
The state of New York had recently passed a bill to introduce a ban on proof of work mining. It prohibited any new Bitcoin mining operations in the state. Passed by the State assembly in April 2022, the proposal was to ban mining operations of Bitcoin for the next two years. The bill is now headed to the governor’s office where the governor shall give his assent and turn the bill into effective law.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
Report blasts "manipulative" video game loot boxes
Consumer groups in 18 European countries have backed a report calling gaming loot boxes "exploitative." The contents of the virtual boxes are only revealed through either game play or by making a payment. While some contain useful tools or desirable extras which improve the experience, others are worthless.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
SpaceX president says in companywide email that she doesn't believe sexual misconduct allegations against Elon Musk
The company's president and COO defended Elon Musk in an employee email obtained by CNBC following Insider's report on the sexual misconduct claim.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples' data exposed in breach
Names, addresses, and driver's license data were exposed in the breach, though it doesn't appear to include the data of migrants.
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1 month agoLevel Up sasky
Level 33
sasky is now level 33 with 3,145,770 XP.
View Unlocks- Following The maximum amount of users you can follow has been raised by 50 to a total of 500.
- Image Submission The maximum amount of images you can submit to a unique social gallery has been raised by 1 to a total of 10.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
Google’s crackdown on third-party Android call recorders may finally be complete
Google is changing its Play Store policy to clamp down on a workaround that call recording apps were using, potentially closing the final loophole that allowed these apps to exist (via NLL-Apps on Reddit). On May 11th, a rule clarifying that “the Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording” will go into effect, making it so that apps won’t be able to record audio from a call.
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1 month agoCurrent Event sasky
$3 billion in bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST stablecoin from collapse
Luna Foundation Guard said it spent almost all of the bitcoin in its reserve last week in a futile attempt to save UST.
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1 month agoExpression sasky
Trolling Is Taking a Toll on Science Journalism
Science journalists say they face threats of online harassment — and that newsrooms are doing little to protect them.