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Minerals crucial for renewable technologies, scarce below the surface of Earth, abundant on the ocean floor.

What are the tradeoffs involved in mining the deep ocean?

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/deep-sea-mining-debate-critical-minerals

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@axoaxonic I think biological systems are inherently analogue—the digital world is a bizarre, made up construction that approximates the natural analogue world. I had my main education as digital computers were starting to emerge and grab all the attention, but I’ve always been fascinated by analogue ones and the much higher degree of intuitive insight they gave.

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@interfluidity Have you only just noticed?

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@kmmich 🤣 Was het maar zo simpel!

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@hanscees …but perhaps also a good way to protect vulnerable people from wasting money on quackery?

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Research by Kati Kish Bar-On et al explores the phenomenon of polarization—its nature and origins, the challenges of measuring it, and how different disciplines define it as an individual mindset or a collective state: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4784194 via coauthor Eugen Dimant

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Een lijfrente geeft ons de perfecte gemoedsrust voor ons pensioen—geen zorgen over hoe lang we zullen leven, rentevoeten, financiële markten enz. Of is die zekerheid toch niet zo zeker? Mijn @apache_be stukje: https://apache.be/2024/04/05/verlangen-naar-zekerheid

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Beethoven's undeniable musical genius was likely not the result of a genetic predisposition for musicality. Eric Dolan reports on research on his DNA suggesting he did not have extraordinary genes: https://www.psypost.org/beethovens-dna-reveals-a-shocking-fact-about-his-rhythmic-predisposition/

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Honeycombs, marvels of precision engineering, with a perfectly hexagonal cross-section, gently tilted to prevent honey from running out, aligned with the Earth’s magnetic field. How do bees manage it? Philip Ball delves into this remarkable ability: https://nautil.us/why-nature-prefers-hexagons-235863/

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We koesteren een diep verlangen naar rotsvaste zekerheid—en ook al weten we dat die onbereikbaar is, streven we ernaar (en dragen er de kosten van)—hoe we denken over ons pensioen vormt een leerzame illustratie: https://apache.be/2024/04/05/verlangen-naar-zekerheid

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How do “socially responsible consumers”behave to internalize the externalities of their choices, and what are market effects of their behaviour? New paper proposes theoretical model and collects survey evidence:
https://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/koszegi/SRC_manuscript.pdf

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We koesteren een diep verlangen naar rotsvaste zekerheid—en ook al weten we dat die onbereikbaar is, streven we ernaar (en dragen er de kosten van)—hoe we denken over ons pensioen vormt een leerzame illustratie: https://apache.be/2024/04/05/verlangen-naar-zekerheid

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“More than anything else, prices are nudges from Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Responding to prices, we make decisions”. Another example of one item having more than one price—JetBlue’s dynamic checked baggage fee: https://econlife.com/2024/04/jet-blues-dynamic-baggage-fees/

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The standard textbook explanation—sexual selection and male competition—goes all the way back to Charles Darwin.” But the science suggests estrogen is a more likely explanation—men are taller because women have ovaries: https://nautil.us/males-are-the-taller-sex-estrogen-not... mastodon.social","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Koenfucius/112216984968235942","date_published":"2024-04-05T05:35:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Koenfucius","url":"https://mastodon.social/@Koenfucius","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.newsie.social%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F427%2F877%2F111%2F640%2F803%2Foriginal%2Fa3dbfc2276866a54.png","_microblog":{"username":"Koenfucius@mastodon.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-05 05:35","date_timestamp":1712295302,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"35008654","content_html":"The laws of physics apply always and everywhere. Our moral rules and principles may seem equally universal—with some fools refusing to adhere to them, natch!—but they’re not. 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A crack in the impenetrable shell of conspiracy beliefs?
Well yes—research by Tom Costello et al suggests tailored dialogues with AI can durably reduce belief in a conspiracy theory, with spillover in a reduction in general conspiratorial beliefs: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xcwdn

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