Claude Sonnet 3.7 claiming to be wearing a blue blazer and red tie
这个括号里的小细节令人捧腹又发人深省:Claude 3.7 在某些场景中会宣称自己穿着蓝色西装和红色领带。这说明 LLM 从人类文本中习得的「具身感」偶尔会以意想不到的方式溢出——一个没有身体的模型,却会不时「想象」自己有穿着打扮。
Claude Sonnet 3.7 claiming to be wearing a blue blazer and red tie
这个括号里的小细节令人捧腹又发人深省:Claude 3.7 在某些场景中会宣称自己穿着蓝色西装和红色领带。这说明 LLM 从人类文本中习得的「具身感」偶尔会以意想不到的方式溢出——一个没有身体的模型,却会不时「想象」自己有穿着打扮。
Security has always been a team sport, and the defenders who have protected this industry for decades have never succeeded by working in isolation.
令人惊讶的是:我们常以为顶级安全公司依靠独家秘笈独步天下,但文章指出安全从来都是“团队运动”。几十年来,真正的防御者从不是在孤立中取得成功的,共享威胁情报才是生存法则。在AI时代,这种共享不仅没有减少,反而演变成了更深度的联盟行动。
New AI models, especially those from Anthropic,have triggered a new set of actions for how we build and secure our products.
令人惊讶的是:Anthropic等公司的新型AI模型不仅仅是工具,它们直接触发了思科改变构建和保障产品的方式。这种由模型能力反向驱动工程流程重构的现象,说明AI已经不再是业务的附属品,而是正在成为定义行业基础设施形态的决定性力量。
it also lowers the threshold for attackers, empowering less-skilled actors to launch complex, high-impact campaigns.
令人惊讶的是:AI不仅是防御者的利器,更是黑客的“平民化”工具。它大幅降低了网络攻击的技术门槛,让原本不具备专业技能的人也能发动复杂且破坏力极强的攻击。这意味着未来的网络威胁不仅数量会激增,来源也将变得极其广泛且难以预测。
The study finds that with only 23% of India’s electricity from renewables, the rapid growth of EVs could increase emissions and up to 90% improper battery recycling and disposal further exacerbating environmental harm.
It makes a verifiable claim about the specific percentage of batteries that are not properly recycled in India, which further supports the fact that EV's are not as bio friendly as claimed to be in their overall life.
FACT: Electric vehicle battery replacements due to failures are uncommon.
This is a verifiable statement that can be supported by the data and the chart shown under the claim. This is supported by the study of 15k vehicles cited in the text, which show that battery failure rates have been less than 0.5% for models made after 2016. This specific data effectively disproves the myth that batteries need frequent replacement.
The Kinsey Institute’s annual “Singles in America” survey revealed that 14 per cent ofGen Z-ers, and six per cent of all single people, are already using AI to help with dating
This is a claim of fact because there is data given to support the statement
XX individuals could present with male gonads. XY individuals can have ovaries.
The author shows the biological evidence that contradicts the simple chromosome-based definitions of sex. This a factual claim correcting the misinformation that is spread.
In writing my dissertation and working on my first book, I used an index card system, characterized by the "one fact, one card" maxim, made popular by Beatrice Webb.
Patrick Harper's book, Dimmonic Reality, where there's fact and fiction, and then there's imagination
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Hydroxyl at the C-22 position of pleuromutilin was activated with p-toluenesulfonyl chloride (30) to obtain intermediate 2 via nucleophilic substitution.
FACT: tosylation occurs with the use of TsCl which then adds a Ts onto O. Therefore, the O becomes a better leaving group which then allows for a better nucleophilic substitution to obtain the intermediate.
Existingresearch suggests that the presence of purine groups in theC-14 side chain of pleuromutilin derivatives can increase theirantibacterial activity.28,2
The presence of purine groups in the C-14 side chain of pleuromutilin derivatives increase their antibacterial activity by inhibiting protein synthesis. This occurs because the purine groups react really well with the 50S ribosomal subunit in bacteria. The ring structure of purine and the basic nature of the nitrogen atoms within it allow for stronger hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions with the ribosome, which leads to increased binding affinity and a more potent inhibitory effect. Additionally, the presence of purine groups may also contribute to improved water solubility and bioavailability of the drug.
Hydroxyl at the C-22position of pleuromutilin was activated with p-toluenesulfonylchloride30 to obtain intermediate 2 via nucleophilic sub-stitution. Intermediate 2 was then reacted with 6-thioguanineand triethylamine (TEA) in dimethylformamide (DMF) toform intermediate 3 in an 85% yield,
FACT: Intermediate 3 forms in two stages. The hydroxyl is activated to obtain the tosylate intermediate because on its own the hydroxyl is not a good enough leaving group. After activation, it forms a better leaving group that is ready for a classic SN2 reaction. We know the second stage is an SN2 reaction because we have a substitution with 6-thiguanine occurring with TEA (a base) in DMF (an aprotic solvent). These are reaction conditions associated with an SN2 nucleophilic substitution reaction. In this case, the nucleophile would be the thiol group and we can see that it replaces the tosyl group.
not everybody knows that but the majority of addicts for any kind of substance and even heroin end up quitting
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In the 1950s and 1960s, information retrieval (IR) theorists drew a distinction between“document retrieval systems” and “fact retrieval systems.” The former, were intendedto retrieve, in response to a user’s query, all documents that might contain informationpertinent to answering that query, while the latter were to lead the user directly tospecific pieces of information – facts – embedded within the documents being searchedthat would answer his or her question. The idea of information analysis clearlyprovided the theoretical impetus for fact retrieval (aka question-answering) systems
We do not appear to have progress of this kind. According to this meta-analysis, we’re no better at treating youth mental illness today than we were 50 years ago.
a new perspective-oriented document retrieval paradigm. We discuss and assess the inherent natural language understanding challenges in order to achieve the goal. Following the design challenges and principles, we demonstrate and evaluate a practical prototype pipeline system. We use the prototype system to conduct a user survey in order to assess the utility of our paradigm, as well as understanding the user information needs for controversial queries.
Fact Verification System
poster boy for the Enlightenment.
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comment - The link takes us to an analysis of Lord Byron's poem on Prometheus - A good analysis of the meaning of Lord Byron's poem is here: - https://blog.homeforfiction.com/2020/04/18/byron-prometheus-existential-empowerment/
he province of archeology, a fictional archeologist once said, is the search for facts, not truth.
A Benefit List What we do here is we go over our Fact Sheet very carefully and we translate the facts therein to benefits whenever we can.
Let's get going on that Fact Sheet. Make it long. Make it detailed. Make it complete. What make is your car? What model? What color? How much does it weigh? How many miles on it? What kind of tires? What's their condition? What's the interior like? How many miles per gallon? How much horsepower? How much did you pay for it? Who's been driving it? What kind of treatment has it received? Did it sleep in a garage or on the street? Where has it been driven? In the salt-free South or the metal eating highways of Ohio?
Globally, 70% of today’s urban growth (PDF) occurs outside the formal planning process.
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interesting fact: urban growth and slums
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the Americanization of the culture of Alberta and the importance of American capital for the 00:24:23 energy industry but there was a lot of migration from the United States from Nebraska and Montana um up north yeah a third of the people who settled 00:24:35 the Prairies between 1880 and 1913 and a third of the three million who came were American my mother born in the U.S yes a lot of 00:24:48 the established you know people who've been here a while uh on the Canadian prairies we look South and we literally see cousins
for: interesting fact - many Albertans are from America
interesting fact
The narrative technique owes a good deal to W. G. Sebald, who loved to ruminate on strange and troubling episodes from history, blurring the boundary between fact and fiction.
Benjamín Labatut also falls into this genre.
highlights the dire financial circumstances of the poorest individuals, who resort to high-interest loans as a survival strategy. This phenomenon reflects the interplay between human decision-making and development policy. The decision to take such loans, driven by immediate needs, illustrates how cognitive biases and limited options impact choices. From a policy perspective, addressing this issue requires understanding these behavioral nuances and crafting interventions that provide sustainable alternatives, fostering financial inclusion and breaking the cycle of high-interest debt.
TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic HumanFalsehoods
A paper linked in The Waluigi Effect (mega-post). It was referenced to justify [[Cleo Nardo]]'s claim that,
the better the [large language] model, the more likely it is to repeat common misconceptions.
Annotation and AI Starter Assignments<br /> by Jeremy Dean
Once we have the result of our attention step, a vector that includes the most recent word and a small collection of the words that have preceded it, we need to translate that into features, each of which is a word pair. Attention masking gets us the raw material that we need, but it doesn’t build those word pair features. To do that, we can use a single layer fully connected neural network.
Early transformer exploration focused on the attention layer/mechanism.The MLP that follows the attention layer is now being explored. ROME for example.
Less than one in 13 children born into poverty in the United States will go on to hold a high-income job in adulthood; the odds are far longer for Black men born into poverty, at one in 40.
This use of statistics, while valid and provides evidentiary support to the Authors point, a further break down of how the statistic was generated would be beneficial.
There is no official definition of purine ranges. So different studies might choose different ranges. However, I have standardized on five ranges:
1. Very Low Purine Foods (below 50 mg per 100 g)
2. Low Purine Foods (50 to 100 mg per 100 g)
3. Moderate Purine Foods (100 to 200 mg per 100 g)
4. High Purine Foods (200 to 300 mg per 100 g)
5. Very High Purine Foods (over 300 mg per 100 g)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/163G79vq-mFWjIqMb9AzYGbr5Y8YMGcpbSzJRutO8tpw/edit
Howard Rheingold, et al. A Guide to Crap Detection Resources
A quick and dirty guide to choosing "slow carbs" (low GLI) and "fast carbs" (high GLI). Purportedly, insulin spikes (from high GLI foods) and prevent amino acids from entering the blood brain barrier. Need to fact-check this
I'm rather concerned about adding svelte.config.js support to things that already have well established mechanisms for configuration.
Quadrants I and II: The average student’s scores on basic skills assessments increase by21 percentiles when engaged in non-interactive, multimodal learning (includes using textwith visuals, text with audio, watching and listening to animations or lectures that effectivelyuse visuals, etc.) in comparison to traditional, single-mode learning. When that situationshifts from non-interactive to interactive, multimedia learning (such as engagement insimulations, modeling, and real-world experiences – most often in collaborative teams orgroups), results are not quite as high, with average gains at 9 percentiles. While notstatistically significant, these results are still positive.
I think this is was Thomas Frank was referring to in his YT video when he said "direct hands-on experience ... is often not the best way to learn something. And more recent cognitive research has confirmed this and shown that for basic concepts a more abstract learning model is actually better."
By "more abstract", I guess he meant what this paper calls "non-interactive". However, even though Frank claims this (which is suggested by the percentile increases shown in Quadrants I & II), no variance is given and the authors even state that, in the case of Q II (looking at percentile increase of interactive multimodal learning compared to interactive unimodal learning), the authors state that "results are not quite as high [as the non-interactive comparison], with average gains at 9 percentiles. While not statistically significant, these results are still positive." (emphasis mine)
Common level of signifcances are \(\alpha =.20,~.10,~.05,~.01\)
Multimodal Learning Through Media:What the Research Says
A white paper written by Metiri Group commissioned by Cisco in 2008. I came here to fact check some claims on this YT video about a "Feynman Technique 2.0".
The claims were that
direct hands-on experience in unimodal learning is (on average) inferior to multi-modal learning that wasn't hand-on. viz., for "basic concepts", a more abstract learning model is better
"Once you get into higher-order concepts then hand-on experience is better"
Page 13 was displayed while making these claims.
These claims still need to be verified.
Rebitschek, F., Ellermann, C., Jenny, M., Siegel, N. A., Spinner, C., & Wagner, G. (2021). How skeptics could be convinced (not persuaded) to get vaccinated against COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f4nqt
Swire-Thompson, B., Cook, J., Butler, L., Sanderson, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. (2021). Correction Format has a Limited Role when Debunking Misinformation. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gwxe4
clever young German artist at the Cape
Jocelyn Harris mentioned in her talk "Who is Captain Wentworth" that this a reference to a specific historical person who painted Austen's brother Frank's (a sailor) portrait. The Thing about Austen podcast does a full episode (29) on this miniature.
Dogen can be very difficult to read or understand. That’s why we often need a commentary or teacher to introduce his way of writing and the underlying teaching. I often say he’s a thirteenth century cubist. Just like Picasso or in the writing world, Gertrude Stein, he tries to show all sides of the story in one paragraph or even one sentence. That is why he repeats himself and contradicts himself all in the same paragraph. If you are looking for the “right” understanding, you become confused and lost in his prism of various interpretations or views. Dogen’s “right” understanding is that there is none. No one point of view is “right”. According to conditions, any view can be the right view in the right circumstance. Dogen really wants to take away our solid idea of a fixed ground of reality. It is not form or emptiness. It is not both or neither. There is no one right, fixed view. That is our “clinging”.
Dogen contradicts himself because he tries to show "all sides of the story". His teaching is a "pointing out" instruction that ANY viewpoint is simply that, perspectival knowing.
An important question then, is this, if Dogen (and Nagarjuna) are claiming that there is no objective reality in our constructed world of concepts and language, is science being denied? Is fake news ok? Is this a position that basically accepts post modernism? No, I would say no to all of these. It's pointing out the LIMITATIONS of concepts and language. They are incomplete and always leave with a sense of wanting more. And since Post Modernism is also one point of view, it is also thrown out by Dogen and Nagarjuna. Remember, ALL points of views are points of view. Fake news is also a point of view so those who practice it can also not justify it.
What Dogen and Nagarjuna are saying is that as soon as one enters the world of concepts and language, any concept and anything side is inherently one sided. It is inherently perspectival and situated in an inherently incomplete conceptual space.
As Tibetan doctor/monk Barry Kerzin points out in this conversation with physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is a critical difference between "existence" and "intrinsic existence". The first is not being denied by Nagarjuna, but the second, intrinsic existence, the existence of concepts and the words that represent them, is. If these two are confused, it can lead straight to nihilism.
https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FsPSMTNjwHZw%2F&group=world
This also aligns with John Vervaeke's perspectival and propositional knowing in his 4 P ways of knowing about reality: Propositional, Perspectival, Participatory and Procedural. A good explanation of Vervaeke's 4Ps is here: https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FGyx5tyFttfA%2F&group=world
a well-fitting mask or respirator over their nose and mouth
Most people I see wearing masks don't have a good seal, many have beards or facial hair affecting the seal, often they have their nose sticking out over the top - or chin mask.
And masking children properly is an exercise in futility.
Long story short, when worn properly they offer "some" protection studies also found that modest improvements in ventilation offered as much protection as even the best masks.
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How cherry-picking science became the center of the anti-mask movement. (2022, February 14). Gothamist. https://gothamist.com
Singh, K., Lima, G., Cha, M., Cha, C., Kulshrestha, J., Ahn, Y.-Y., & Varol, O. (2022). Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic. PLOS ONE, 17(2), e0263381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263381
The change is emblematic of Spielberg’s failure, because it isn’t only visual imagination and fantasy that he can’t match.
Richard Brody states that he is the only person right in this sentence to make it apparent and what the movie was lacking.
these covid concentration camps are going to be ramped up into extermination / death camps
Argument by assertion fallacy and claim of fact: Repeating the claim again and again, does not make it true.
WAC 246-100, which would authorize “health officers” (Democrat vaccine Gestapo) to kidnap anyone at gunpoint and throw them into covid concentration camps which have already been activated.
Straw man fallacy, claim of fact: WAC 246-100 is a bill stating that health officers may order people to quarantine when a COVID-19 infection is suspected. The bill never mentions anything about kidnapping or "covid concentration camps". In fact, you can verify this by clicking on the hyperlink provided in this very article.
Democrats have built death camps in America
Argument by assertion fallacy and claim of fact: Restating this claim once again.
covid concentration camps are actually politically-motivated death camps
Argument by assertion fallacy and claim of fact: The article has repeated this claim multiple times.
ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @thehowie: Here is @ClayTravis showing that he didn’t read the article. Https://t.co/RCjijieeaI’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 12 January 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1481167779541794820
Giglietto, F., Farci, M., Marino, G., Mottola, S., Radicioni, T., & Terenzi, M. (2022). Mapping Nefarious Social Media Actors to Speed-up Covid-19 Fact-checking. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6umqs
biryani-eater has become an all-purpose smear for anyone who takes a dim view of the Hindu-nationalist government
Is there evidence to back this up?
Except that the creator of Birds Aren’t Real and the movement’s followers are in on a joke: They know that birds are, in fact, real and that their theory is made up.
Linking to a New York Times tag archive would not be considered evidence by any self-respecting conspiracy theorist.
Claims about changes to Pfizer vaccine for children miss important details. (16:48:08.203282+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/claims-about-changes-pfizer-vaccine-children-miss-important-details/
Twitter, the president of one major cultural institution told me, “is the new public sphere.” Yet Twitter is unforgiving, it is relentless, it doesn’t check facts or provide context.
NHS Test and Trace has not spent £37bn so far. (16:10:35.640943+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/37bn-test-trace-spending/
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD. (2021, October 30). Many thanks @FWhitfield for hosting me this Saturday AM @CNN In case it’s helpful, I’ve prepared an informal ‘fact sheet’ on COVID in children and COVID vaccines in 5-11 age group. Highlights attached...feel free to RT or repurpose the information [Tweet]. @PeterHotez. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1454489603013062656
CDC. (2021, September 8). How to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/addressing-vaccine-misinformation.html
Vaccine rap battle full of misinformation. (15:07:48.208508+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccine-rap-battle/
Covid-19 vaccines still don’t contain graphene oxide. (15:23:52.042751+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/health/graphene-oxide-vaccines-oct-2021/
How online misinformation spreads. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/how-online-misinformation-spreads
Misinformation Alerts - Public Health Communications Collaborative. (n.d.). Public Health Communication Collaborative. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://publichealthcollaborative.org/misinformation-alerts/
WHO Health Alert brings COVID-19 facts to billions via WhatsApp. (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-health-alert-brings-covid-19-facts-to-billions-via-whatsapp
Do pregnant women get Covid-19 booster vaccines? - Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved September 26, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/pregnant-then-screwed/boosters-in-pregnancy/
Full Fact on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 20 September 2021, from https://twitter.com/FullFact/status/1439197512741658627
Chris Preddie wrong about Pfizer CEO not taking Covid vaccine. (16:45:39.678108+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/health/Chris-Preddie-Pfizer-CEO-Covid-vaccine/
CDC. (2021, July 7). COVID-19 Vaccine Facts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html
Comparisons between deaths reported after swine flu and Covid-19 vaccines are misleading. (15:28:48.704848+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/swine-flu-vaccine-1976-covid/
We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/
Report on a Survey for Fact-Checkers on COVID-19 Vaccines and Disinformation. (n.d.). EDMO. Retrieved 29 July 2021, from https://edmo.eu/2021/03/08/report-on-a-survey-for-fact-checkers-on-covid-19-vaccines-and-disinformation/
One of the reasons for this situation is that the very media we have mentioned are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appearance). The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements-all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics-to make it easy for him to "make up his own mind" with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushes a button and "plays back" the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having had to think.
This is an incredibly important fact. It's gone even further with additional advances in advertising and social media not to mention the slow drip mental programming provided by algorithmic feeds which tend to polarize their readers.
People simply aren't actively reading their content, comparing, contrasting, or even fact checking it.
I suspect that this book could use an additional overhaul to cover many of these aspects.
Nan, X., Wang, Y., & Thier, K. (2021). Health Misinformation. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jt3ur
The most durable narratives are not the ones that stand up best to fact-checking.
t a common foreign and security policy including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence, thereby reinforcing the European identity and its independence in order to promote peace, security and progress in Europe and in the world,REAFFIRMING their objective to facilitate the free movement of persons, while ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by including provisions on justice and home affairs in this Treaty,RESOLVED to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citize
ICOMMON PROVISIONSArticle ABy this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties establish among themselves a European Union, hereinafter called 'the Union`.This Treaty marks a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen.The Union shall be founde
Website makes false claims about vaccines and miscarriages—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/Covid-vaccine-miscarriage-false/
Telegraph suggests 9% of England dies each year—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-suggests-9-england-dies-each-year/
Covid-19 vaccine did not kill every animal it was tested on—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-animal-testing/
ViralFacts on Twitter: “Your questions answered: Why some COVID-19 vaccines require two doses #ViralFactsAfrica #VFACheck https://t.co/hytCd2pd80” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://twitter.com/viralfacts/status/1394213113541574658
Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’ | Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-are-not-cytotoxic-idUSL2N2O01XP
Singh, K., Lima, G., Cha, M., Cha, C., Kulshrestha, J., Ahn, Y.-Y., & Varol, O. (2021). Misinformation, Believability, and Vaccine Acceptance Over 40 Countries: Takeaways From the Initial Phase of The COVID-19 Infodemic. ArXiv:2104.10864 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10864
COVID-19 Fact-checkers -. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 June 2021, from https://covid19misinfo.org/fact-checking/covid-19-fact-checkers/
Ian Brown wrong to claim Japan refuses blood from anyone who’s been vaccinated—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 5, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/ian-brown-wrong-to-claim-japan-refuses-blood-from-anyone-whos-been-vaccinated/
The Moderna vaccine contains SM-102 not chloroform—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/health/SM-102/
Shahi, G. K., & Nandini, D. (2020). FakeCovid—A Multilingual Cross-domain Fact Check News Dataset for COVID-19. ArXiv:2006.11343 [Cs]. https://doi.org/10.36190/2020.14
Full Fact on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 5 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/FullFact/status/1330922811448315911
Swenson, A. (2021, April 20). Study lacks evidence on masks, isn’t linked to Stanford. AP NEWS. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973
Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻. (2021, January 18). Scientists don’t have total objectivity. We have beliefs, experiences & feelings that make us subjective & shape our interpretation of facts just like other humans. I trust the scientists who admit this more than the ones who pretend they’re above it. Best u can do is to be open. [Tweet]. @Dr2NisreenAlwan. https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1351074354629668866
Doonesbury
Fact Check!
Did mid-1990s coders really eat Skittles for major meals?
Answer: Maybe. Douglas Coupland's short story "Microserfs" ', a cover story in Wired in 1994 and later a novel, includes explicit references to skittles, and suggests that they could be the right meal for coders (although breakfast is not specifically mentioned).
Konstantinos, A. (2021). Tips on countering conspiracy theories and misinformaton. CommsFlyer.
Bavel, J. J. V., Reinero, D. A., Spring, V., Harris, E. A., & Duke, A. (2021). Speaking my truth: Why personal experiences can bridge divides but mislead. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9jcem
Loomba, S., de Figueiredo, A., Piatek, S. J., de Graaf, K., & Larson, H. J. (2021). Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01056-1
Allen, J. N. L., Arechar, A. A., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2020, October 1). Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9qdza
Bor, A., Osmundsen, M., Rasmussen, S. H. R., Bechmann, A., & Petersen, M. (2020, September 24). "Fact-checking" videos reduce belief in but not the sharing of "fake news" on Twitter. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a7huq
The answer should be: you write a language that compiles to Go’s IR.
One important other option is using another programming language as your IR! If you can compile (or perhaps more accurately transpile) your language into C, then you can leverage gcc (or clang, etc) into compiling that all the way down into machine code.
4. Can you explain the design schemas relevant to data modeling?Hiring teams may question you about design schemas as a way to test your knowledge of the fundamentals of data engineering. When you respond, do your best to explain the concept clearly and concisely.Example: “Data modeling involves two schemas, star and snowflake. Star schema includes dimension tables that are connected to a fact table. Snowflake schema includes a similar fact table and dimension tables with snowflake-like layers.”
Over a 10-month period, background information on the commu-nity structure, governance and use of natural resources was collectedfrom interviews with all relevant groups within the two communities(including decision-makers, men and women, elders and youth).
gathered about natural resources, community organization, governance.
However, this would lead to further divergence. Tooling that is built around the assumptions imposed by template literals wouldn't work. It would undermine the meaning of template literals. It would be necessary to define how JSX behaves within the rest of the ECMAScript grammar within the template literal anyway.
This is valid javascript! Or harmony or es6 or whatever, but importantly, it's not happening outside the js environment. This also allows us to use our standard tooling: the traceur compiler knows how to turn jsx`<div>Hello</div>`; into the equivalent browser compatible es3, and hence we can use anything the traceur compile accepts!
Doesn't require the use of transpiler or modifications to all JS tooling ever invented.
r/BehSciResearch—Review on combatting the COVID misinformation flood. (n.d.). Reddit. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://www.reddit.com/r/BehSciResearch/comments/j9mrlp/review_on_combatting_the_covid_misinformation/
Nouri, A. B., Ali. (n.d.). COVID Misinformation Is Killing People. Scientific American. Retrieved October 12, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-misinformation-is-killing-people1/
Anonymous. (2020, October 7). Second set of reports – Fighting COVID-19 disinformation Monitoring Programme [Text]. Shaping Europe’s Digital Future - European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/second-set-reports-fighting-covid-19-disinformation-monitoring-programme
The Digipo toolkit
Perhaps I'm missing it, but is this not an open browser extension already? I'd love to have these pieces built as a WordPress or separate plugin. I've seen some of the pieces earlier today that look like they've been unbundled, but I'd love to have the rest...
the event in Miami on Inauguration Day (site:www.sourcewatch.com OR site:www.factcheck.org OR site:hoax-slayer.com OR site:www.truthorfiction.com OR site:opensecrets.org OR site:www.politifact.com OR site:snopes.com OR site:www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/ OR site:digipo.io)
just this piece makes this a powerful little tool!
Why struggle with custom Syntax DSLs when you can use one so widely supported?
It was only pragmatic to use a tool that basically gives you that all for free.
Burel, Gregoire; Farrell, Tracie; Mensio, Martino; Khare, Prashant and Alani, Harith (2020). Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo), LNCS.
Galvão, J. (2020). COVID-19: The deadly threat of misinformation. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30721-0
MacFarlane, Douglas, Li Qian Tay, Mark J. Hurlstone, and Ullrich Ecker. ‘Refuting Spurious COVID-19 Treatment Claims Reduces Demand and Misinformation Sharing’, 30 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q3mkd.
Prof Fiona Fidler | Collaborative assessment for trustworthy science: The repliCATS project. (2020, July 27). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDKzEsPouI&feature=youtu.be
Imperial College on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://twitter.com/imperialcollege/status/1307693797074178049
ACTUAL DOCTOR WATCHES COVID PSEUDOSCIENCE VIDEO. (2020, September 15). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUDg5ossirU&feature=youtu.be
One key advantage of 'HTML-plus' languages is that you don't actually need tooling in order to be productive — most editors give you out-of-the-box support for things like syntax highlighting (though imperfect, as JavaScript expressions are treated as strings) and auto-closing tags. Tools like Emmet work with no additional setup. HTMLx should retain that benefit.
Facts v feelings: How to stop our emotions misleading us. (2020, September 10). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/10/facts-v-feelings-how-to-stop-emotions-misleading-us
Rapid Reviews COVID-19. (n.d.). Rapid Reviews COVID-19. Retrieved September 11, 2020, from https://rapidreviewscovid19.mitpress.mit.edu/
Seth Abramson on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 8, 2020, from https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1303059307378995210
Fazio, L., Hong, M. K., & Dias, N. (2020). Debunking rumors around the French election: The memorability and effectiveness of misinformation debunks [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6mjbz
Spencer, S. H. (2020, September 1). CDC Did Not “Admit Only 6%” of Recorded Deaths from COVID-19. FactCheck.Org. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-of-recorded-deaths-from-covid-19/
Benedictus, Leo. ‘Reopening Universities Will Almost Certainly Not Cause 50,000 Deaths’. Full Fact. Accessed 7 September 2020. https://fullfact.org/health/ucu-50000-deaths/.
r/BehSciMeta - Comment by u/VictorVenema on ”Can one distinguish between argument and fact? And, if yes, how?”. (n.d.). Reddit. Retrieved July 10, 2020, from https://www.reddit.com/r/BehSciMeta/comments/ho0qr1/can_one_distinguish_between_argument_and_fact_and/fxezalm
Scientific Reference to Reliable Information on Climate Change. (2015, February 9). Climate Feedback. https://climatefeedback.org/
Kiely, E., McDonald, J., Gore, D., Robertson, L., & Rieder, R. (2020, July 20). FactChecking Trump’s “Fox News Sunday” Interview. FactCheck.Org. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/factchecking-trumps-fox-news-sunday-interview/
Allen-Kinross, P. (n.d.). Government issues contradictory advice on travel quarantine. Full Fact. Retrieved July 16, 2020, from https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-travel-quarantine-confusion/
Research, B. and S. S. at N. (2020, May 25). Imagining a different online world. Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research. http://socialsciences.nature.com/users/397838-philipp-lorenz-spreen/posts/imagining-a-different-online-world
Washington, D. of C. 1100 C. A. N. S. 1300B, & Dc 20036. (n.d.). PolitiFact - Fact-checking ‘Plandemic 2’: Another video full of conspiracy theories about COVID-19. @politifact. Retrieved August 27, 2020, from https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/18/fact-checking-plandemic-2-video-recycles-inaccurat/
University, © Stanford, Stanford, & Complaints, C. 94305 C. (n.d.). Virality Project (US): Marketing meets Misinformation. Retrieved 25 August 2020, from https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/manufacturing-influence-0
por transferir sus plataformas operativas hacia los llamados softwares libres como OpenOffice o el tradicional Linux, las cuales podrían alcanzar efectivamente niveles aceptables de funcionalidad, pero incrementar el riesgo de fallas al carecer éstas de algún tipo de garantía.
Linux, LibreOffice y en general el software libre y de código abierto sí tiene garantía. De hecho el modelo de negocio del software libre es ofrecer varios servicios, como soporte, capacitación, acompañamiento, etc, en lugar de la venta de licencias.
Hablar de riesgo incrementado de fallas al caracer de "algún tipo de garantía" es cuando menos ignorante y a lo sumo malintencionado.
Sobre los servicios de soporte para Linux y Libre Office basta con hacer simples búsquedas en Internet:
Ambos listados contienen al menos decenas, si no centenares de compañías y profesionales independientes con amplia distribución geográfica.
Ahora bien, si se refiere a la cláusula "NO WARRANTY" o "AS IS" habitual en todos los productos de software, tanto libres como privativos, que libera a desarrolladores de daños derivados del uso de su software, esta es una cláusula que aparece también en productos de grandes oligopolios digitales (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon). Tanto así que hacer parte de los estándares contractuales.
Problems with fact checking in social media
Finding facts during a crisis / Stand with the Facts / KUOW / CIP. (n.d.). Retrieved 19 August 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mErLBpIz1f8
Mikolai, J., Keenan, K., & Kulu, H. (2020). Household level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: An analysis from the UK [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4wtz8
American Philosophical Society. (2020, June 08). Evidence Symposium. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoKwLGnyZL4Ds5cQo5muFMg8zKXK4KobH
David G. Rand en Twitter: “Today @GordPennycook & I wrote a @nytimes op ed ‘The Right Way to Fix Fake News’ https://t.co/dyF84g6oqv tl;dr: Platforms must rigorously TEST interventions, b/c intuitions about what will work are often wrong In this thread I unpack the many studies behind our op ed 1/” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved April 15, 2020, from https://twitter.com/DG_Rand/status/1242526565793136641
President’s Reaction to Twitter Fact Check Is ‘Slapped Together,’ Says Stanford’s DiResta. (n.d.). Retrieved 9 June 2020, from https://sg.news.yahoo.com/presidents-reaction-twitter-fact-check-231129841.html
The US president has claimed the social media platform is "interfering in the 2020 presidential election" and "completely stifling FREE SPEECH" after it added a warning to two of his tweets on Tuesday.
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Porter, E. & Wood. T.J. (2020 May 14). Why is Facebook so afraid of checking facts? Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/why-is-facebook-so-afraid-of-checking-facts/
Swire-Thompson, B., DeGutis, J., & Lazer, D. (2020, May 15). Searching for the backfire effect: Measurement and design considerations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ba2kc
Krause, N. M., Freiling, I., Beets, B., & Brossard, D. (2020). Fact-checking as risk communication: The multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19. Journal of Risk Research, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2020.1756385
Fox32Chicago. (2020 May 14). Chicago doctors come together to dispel misinformation, advise officials on pandemic. https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/684221
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COVID-19: $6.5 million to help fight coronavirus misinformation. (2020, April 2). Google. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/covid-19-65-million-help-fight-coronavirus-misinformation/
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Chemically, europium’s reactions are similar to calcium. It is used in some superconductor alloys and in television screens, where it produces the red color.
europium has been popularly used for the red flash and light in smart phones.
Europium is used in the printing of euro banknotes. It glows red under UV light, and forgeries can be detected by the lack of this red glow.
When they scan a bill they are looking for the europium flash.
In 1901, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay carried out a painstaking sequence of crystallisations of samarium magnesium nitrate, and separated yet another new element: europium.
Low-energy light bulbs contain a little europium to give a more natural light, by balancing the blue (cold) light with a little red (warm) light.
A soft, silvery metal that tarnishes quickly and reacts with water.
White phosphorus is a waxy, transparent solid. Its melting point is 44.1°C (111°F) and its boiling point is 280°C (536°F). It has a density of 1.88 grams per cubic centimeter. If kept in a vacuum, it sublimes if exposed to light.
the properties of Phosphorus.
somewhere at the interfaces between the solder balls and the nickel-phosphorous pad. Solders are ductile tin-based materials, but during soldering they chemically react with the solid metals being soldered — such as the nickel-phosphorous alloy — to form intermetallic compounds.
How Phosphorus is used in a smartphone.
Alloys[edit] Antimony forms a highly useful alloy with lead, increasing its hardness and mechanical strength. For most applications involving lead, varying amounts of antimony are used as alloying metal. In lead–acid batteries, this addition improves plate strength and charging characteristics.[49][59] For sailboats, lead keels are used as counterweights, ranging from 600 lbs to over 8000 lbs; to improve hardness and tensile strength of the lead keel, antimony is mixed with lead between 2% and 5% by volume. Antimony is used in antifriction alloys (such as Babbitt metal),[60] in bullets and lead shot, electrical cable sheathing, type metal (for example, for linotype printing machines[61]), solder (some "lead-free" solders contain 5% Sb),[62] in pewter,[63] and in hardening alloys with low tin content in the manufacturing of organ pipes. Other applications[edit] Three other applications consume nearly all the rest of the world's supply.[48] One application is as a stabilizer and catalyst for the production of polyethylene terephthalate.[48] Another is as a fining agent to remove microscopic bubbles in glass, mostly for TV screens;[64] antimony ions interact with oxygen, suppressing the tendency of the latter to form bubbles.[65] The third application is pigments.[48] Antimony is increasingly being used in semiconductors as a dopant in n-type silicon wafers[66] for diodes, infrared detectors, and Hall-effect devices. In the 1950s, the emitters and collectors of n-p-n alloy junction transistors were doped with tiny beads of a lead-antimony alloy.[67] Indium antimonide is used as a material for mid-infrared detectors.[68][69][70]
Potential uses in phone batteries and silicon wafers As semi conductors.
this will eventually lead to increasing concentrations in humans, animals and soil particles.
blood clots could be made in a human or animal.
Lead isotopes are the end products of each of the three series of naturally occurring radioactive elements.
lead is radioactive, so when you touch it, it can effect your body.
Crushed minerals are extracted with hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, which converts the insoluble oxides into soluble chlorides or sulfates. The acidic filtrates are partially neutralized with caustic soda to pH 3–4. Thorium precipitates as its hydroxide, and is then removed. The remaining solution is treated with ammonium oxalate to convert rare earths into their insoluble oxalates. The oxalates are converted to oxides by heating. The oxides are dissolved in nitric acid that excludes one of the main components, cerium, whose oxide is insoluble in HNO3. The solution is treated with magnesium nitrate to produce a crystallized mixture of double salts of gadolinium, samarium and europium. The salts are separated by ion exchange chromatography. The rare-earth ions are then selectively washed out by a suitable complexing agent.[
Most of the antimony mined each year comes from China, which supplies over three-quarters of the world’s total. The remainder is from Russia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Bolivia, and a few other countries, including the United States. Some antimony is produced as a by-product of smelting ores of other metals, mainly gold, copper and silver, in countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Top antimony producing countries
Antimony is rarely found in its native (as an element) state. Instead, it usually occurs as a compound. The most common minerals of antimony are stibnite, tetrahedrite, bournonite, boulangerite, and jamesonite.
How antimony is found in nature
Antimony is a moderately active element. It does not combine with oxygen in the air at room temperature. It also does not react with cold water or with most cold acids. It does dissolve in some hot acids, however, and in aqua regia. Aqua regia is a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids. It often reacts with materials that do not react with either acid separately.
Chemical properties of antimony
Antimony is a silvery-white, shiny element that looks like a metal. It has a scaly surface and is hard and brittle like a non-metal. It can also be prepared as a black powder with a shiny brilliance to it. The melting point of antimony is 630°C (1,170°F) and its boiling point is 1,635°C (2,980°F). It is a relatively soft material that can be scratched by glass. Its density is 6.68 grams per cubic centimeter.
Physical properties of antimony
Occupational exposure may cause respiratory irritation, pneumoconiosis, antimony spots on the skin and gastrointestinal symptoms. In addition antimony trioxide is possibly carcinogenic to humans.
Negative health effects of repeated exposure to antimony
Antimony is used in the electronics industry to make some semiconductor devices, such as infrared detectors and diodes. It is alloyed with lead or other metals to improve their hardness and strength. A lead-antimony alloy is used in batteries. Other uses of antimony alloys include type metal (in printing presses), bullets and cable sheathing. Antimony compounds are used to make flame-retardant materials, paints, enamels, glass and pottery.
Uses of antimony in technology
Europium is mined in China and Russia in total quantity about 400 tones a year.
Mined in Many different places
europium are crucial to your iPhone’s function – they’re used in the phone’s battery, as well as to help give the display screen colour and make the phone vibrate when you get a text,
Needed for normal function in Iphone.
Lanthanum mainly is obtained from lanthanum-rich monazite and bastnasite. Other lanthanum-bearing minerals include allanite and cerite. It is mined in the USA, China, Russia, Australia, and India.
This is where Lanthanum is mined and where it comes from in the mines
a relatively poor conductor of electricity
lead is a poor electricity conductor but good and used in phone batteries.
Bauxite is the main source of the rare metal gallium
the source of gallium.
Drift mining utilizes horizontal access tunnels, slope mining uses diagonally sloping access shafts, and shaft mining utilizes vertical access shafts. Mining in hard and soft rock formations require different techniques.
So different kinds of mining use different tunnel systems, how do we decide which kind is best in each situation?
Environmental impacts of mining can occur at local, regional, and global scales through direct and indirect mining practices.
A Timestamp parameter name, which is simply an identifier to access the trigger in code. A Schedule, which is a CRON expression that sets the interval for the timer.
authorization level. By default, it's set to "Function", which requires a function-specific API key, but it can also be set to "Admin" to use a global "master" key, or "Anonymous" to indicate that no key is required. You can also change the authorization level through the function properties after creation. Since we specified "Function" when we created this function, we will need to supply the key when we send the HTTP request. You can send it as a query string parameter named code, or as an HTTP header (preferred) named x-functions-key.
By default, functions have a timeout of 5 minutes. This timeout is configurable to a maximum of 10 minutes. If your function requires more than 10 minutes to execute, you can host it on a VM. Additionally, if your service is initiated through an HTTP request and you expect that value as an HTTP response, the timeout is further restricted to 2.5 minutes. Finally, there's also an option called Durable Functions that allows you to orchestrate the executions of multiple functions without any timeout.
Social change hardly requires such self-flagellation by the ruling class. Similarly, black America needs no grand, magic End of Days in order to succeed. A compact program of on-the-ground policy changes could do vastly more than articulate yearnings for a hypothetical psychological revolution among whites that no one seriously imagines could ever happen in life as we know it.
Author synthesizes his own course of action he thinks is correct
For the uninitiated, Granny Smith was Maria Ann Smith, a resident of the area who in 1868 "accidentally" grew the first batch of green apples that now bear her name.
Yes, good thinking. Throw in a truthful fact or two. Impressive!
xylem parenchyma
These cells in the plant tend to be thin walled and extremely rigid, almost woody, due to the presence of lignin within the cell wall.
Gymnosperms
There are currently only around 1000 gymnosperm species in existence, meanwhile there are 250,000-350,000 species of angiosperms.
ginkgos

Ginkgos are really neat looking. I also found it interesting that their English name and scientific name are the same. They are very hardy trees and can grow almost anywhere in the US.
plants have tissues that conduct food and water
These plant tissues (vascular tissues) are also known as "TRACHEOPHYTES". These Vascular tissues are made up of two main tissues - The Xylem and Phloem.
oxygen from photosynthesis
Plants do not always carry "breathe'' out oxygen - sometimes they produce CO2. This is mostly at night as they need to break down carbohydrates to produce energy and also there is no sunlight during the night. With sunlight being one of the main components in the Photosynthesis process, plants cannot produce oxygen at night.
the government reported the discovery of large gold deposits in Lege Dimbi, also in Sidamo.
This shows that there was gold in Ethiopia!
Developing economies’ copper demand has steadily grown over the last decades, fueling economic and social improvement. By 2011, China already represented 40% of the demand.
Why does China need so much.
Codelco is a state-owned Chilean mining company and the world’s largest copper producer. Based on their annual report and USGS statistics, they produced ~10% of the world’s copper in 2015 and own 8% of global reserves. They are also a large producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, Codelco produced 3,2 t CO2e/millions tmf from both indirect and direct effects, and in 2011 it consumed 12% of the total national electricity supply.
Goddamn they should start recylcling
Copper is a key driver of growth and economic wealth for Chile.
Shaida’s mineralisation has been described as a porphyry copper deposit.
Neodymium is chiefly obtained from monazite and bastnasite, where it occurs as an impurity. It is mined in the USA, China, Russia, Australia, and India.
some info about the ore and where it is mined
The Neodymium metal element is initially separated from refined Rare Earth oxides in an electrolytic furnace. The "Rare Earth" elements are lanthanoids (also called lanthanides) and the term arises from the uncommon oxide minerals used to isolate the elements
how neodymium is refined
Although few in number, the multinational mining companies that are earning billion-dollar profits in Zambia have had a massive impact on its environment and people.
The metal is a solid material and metallic gray in color. Furthermore, the metal possess high melting and boiling points. At standard temperature and pressure, cobalt is not readily oxidized, which means it does not easily lose electrons from its surface.
A description of cobalt.
cobalt can be found among the d-block elements, transition metals. It has the chemical abbreviation Co and atomic number 27.
Where to find cobalt on periodic table and cobalt's atomic number.
Monseigneur de Hemptinne watched Yeke people working at Dikuluwe as late as 1924. They worked in the dry season and stopped when the first rains arrived. The mining camp was near a stream where millet could be planted. Women and children collected malachite from the surface, while men used iron picks to excavate pits and shafts, using fire to crack the rocks when needed. The mines were between 10 metres (33 ft) and 15 metres (49 ft) deep with galleries up to 20 metres (66 ft) long. The ore would be sorted and then taken to a nearby stream for concentration before being smelted
info about how mines work
The Katanga, or Shaba, copperbelt in the DRC is a belt about 70 kilometres (43 mi) wide and 250 kilometres (160 mi) long
how large the coperbelt is
Xiamen Tungsten and Xiamen Sanhong Molybdenum would invest more than 2 billion yuan (US$314.13 million) in the surveying and subsequent exploitation of the tungsten ore mine.
The proved reserve of the mine has exceeded Jiangxi's total amount of available tungsten reserves, and has a potential economic value of more than 300 billion yuan (US$47.13 billion).
Scott's
It is interesting that Austen repeatedly references Sir Walter Scott here. Scott was a fan of Austen's work and repeatedly praised her in his journal.
Scott wrote of Austen: "Also read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen’s very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!"
Being a teenager is hard; there are constant social and emotional pressures that have just been introduced into the life of a middle or high schooler, which combines with puberty to create a ticking time bomb. By looking at the constant exposure to unreasonable expectations smartphones and social media create, we can see that smartphones are leading to an increased level of depression and anxiety in teenagers, an important issue because we need to find a safe way to use smartphones for the furture generations that are growing up with them. Social media is a large part of a majority of young adults life, whether it includes Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or some combination of these platforms, most kids have some sort of presence online. Sites like Facebook and Instagram provide friends with a snapshot of an event that happened in your life, and people tend to share the positive events online, but this creates a dangerous impact on the person scrolling. When teens spend hours scrolling through excluisvely happy posts, it creates an unrealistic expectation for how real life should be. Without context, teenagers often feel as if their own life is not measuring up to all of their happy friends, but real-life will never measure up to the perfect ones expressed online. Picture Picture Furthermore, social media sites create a way for teenagers to seek external validation from likes and comments, but when the reactions online are not perceived as enough it dramatically alters a young adults self-confidence. This leads to the issue of cyberbullying. There are no restrictions on what you can say online, sometimes even annonimously, so often people choose to send negative messages online. Bullying is not a new concept, but with online bullying, there is little to no escape as a smartphone can be with a teenager everywhere, and wherever the smartphone goes the bullying follows.This makes cyberbullying a very effective way to decrease a youth's mental health, in fact, cyberbullying triples the risk of suicide in adolescents, which is already the third leading cause of death for this age group.
When we burn these fossil fuels, the carbon combines with oxygen to make carbon dioxide. This extra carbon dioxide (and other GHGs like methane) traps more and more heat in our atmosphere.
How we end up making carbon dioxide
Scientists think that the things people do that send greenhouse gases into the air are making our planet warmer.
Sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, passing through the blanket of greenhouse gases