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• What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

  What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

• People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia

  People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia

• Post #634844

  I guess that’s okay, if we really got our money’s worth. /s

• Post #546760

  Same fella that just told the EU that the US is its child and always will be. Hmmm, how many parents take the advice of their young teenaged kids?

• Post #191356

  “You don’t need a DEA warrant or a Justice Department subpoena to see the trend: Europe’s 90‑plus‑percent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, as former European Commission advisor Cristina Caffarra put it, is a single‑shock‑event security nightmare waiting to rupture the EU’s digital stability.”

• Post #139668

  “On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete.”

• Post #116039

  “The device is called eSight Go.” Catchy.

• Post #102322

  “persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are so chemically stable that they remain in soil, water and organisms for decades… Using an innovative electrochemical method, they are not only able to break down these long-lived pollutants but also to convert them into valuable raw materials for the chemical industry.”

• Post #87273

  "This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier… “The facility compresses and expands CO2 daily in its closed system, turning a turbine that generates 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, or 20 MW over 10 hours.”

• Post #63387

  “the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”

• Post #28868

  To quote ChatGPT: “Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot accurately cite sources because they do not have access to the internet and often generate fabricated references. This limitation is common across many LLMs, making them unreliable for tasks that require precise source citation.”