Today Is...National Trivia Day!
Trivia: What is the most common insurance claim? (Hint: Itโs usually related to wind/hail!) Stay protected! ๐ง ๐ #InsuranceTrivia #FactFriday #TheBenefitsGuru
#factfriday
Viel hilft nicht immer viel, zeigt unser heutiger #factfriday.๐ Zumindest, was Gene๐งฌ angeht, steht die Anzahl der Gene in keinem direkten Zusammenhang mit der Komplexitรคt der jeweiligen Lebensform. Oder hรคttet ihr gedacht, dass uns Weizen๐พ bei der Anzahl der Gene locker in die Tasche steckt?
Burgerpattys aus dem #Labor werden wirtschaftlicher. Ein Knackpunkt bleibt: Als Basis wird oft so genanntes Kรคlberserum benรถtigt, fรผr dessen Gewinnung Kรคlber sterben mรผssen. Inzwischen gibt es aber auch vรถllig tierfreies #Laborfleisch. #factfriday
Die Entschlรผsselung des menschlichen Genoms war ein Meilenstein der #Wissenschaft. Mit diesem Wissen und der #Genschere (CRISPR/Cas9) kรถnnten wir viele Erbkrankheiten, wie z. B. die Sichelzellanรคmie, heilen. Allerdings muss ihr Einsatz ethisch streng abgewogen werden. #FactFriday
#Ferrofluid hat viele Talente - auch in der #Krebstherapie: Die Nanopartikel werden direkt in den Tumor eingebracht und durch ein magnetisches Wechselfeld in Schwingung versetzt. So entsteht Wรคrme, die Tumorzellen werden geschรคdigt und gesundes Gewebe bleibt verschont. #factfriday
#FactFriday: The average person spends about one year of their life sitting on the toilet.
๐ณ Und zwar bis zu 57 % mehr, wie ein Langzeitexperiment in Panama zeigt.๐ก#Mischwรคlder mit verschiedenen #Baumarten nutzen Ressourcen wie Wasser oder Nรคhrstoffe effizienter, denn sie haben unterschiedlich lange Wurzeln. Und wenn eine Art ausfรคllt, springen andere ein. ๐ณ๐ด๐ฒ #Factfriday
#FactFriday
An unwalled version of a walled article that originally appeared in Rolling Stone (not happy that Rolling Stone has such an important health article behind their wall - I've seen other places unwall important articles - shoutout to @WIRED). I personally had a student who experienced #BrainFog after getting #covid - couldn't tell me what half of 18 is anymore - he was in Year 6
https://www.europesays.com/us/308463/
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Health #school #kids #children #WearAMask #pandemic
@ricmac
I'm pro-facts, and anti-AI because I'm also a #Mathematics #teacher and #AI is horribly bad at doing Maths (can't reason). Students (or anyone at all) should NOT be using AI to learn Maths (or do their homework)! I just posted today about how AI is bad at tutoring. I run 2 (intermittent) series here, #MathsMonday and #FactFriday
Related: Programmers are also horribly bad at Maths, as evident by almost every e #calculator in existence gives wrong answers. See https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719
fyi #FactFriday โก๏ธ The global military burdenโthe share of GDP devoted to military expenditureโincreased to 2.5 per cent in 2024. Explore the data: https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
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#FactFriday
A variation on a theme this week - #HowTo #safely #report #facts - i.e. #leak / #whistleblow - to #journalists
First up, an #article which crossed my path today, which prompted the idea https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/
And to add to that some #links for some other available methods (with thanks to @phocks for assistance with finding the links)
#Hushline blog post - https://hushline.app/library/blog/newsrooms-and-journalists/
Contact ( #Australian ) #ABC #ABCTV #Investigations - https://www.abc.net.au/news/confidential-tips/
@randulo
"There are people out there would could make a difference, and the rest of us need to finds ways to help them" - hence my sporadic #FactFriday series when something comes to mind that I can write about with expertise (or studies, or whatever). We don't need "Community Notes" here - we already have people who can do #FactChecks in their area of expertise!
@jorijn @mijndert @DevWouter "Algorithms don't favor negativity, they favor what drives (your) attention" - Yeah it's like on TV where people wanna watch reality shows full of bitchin' rather than documentaries, sadly. Makes it hard for people who are more interested in learning facts.
P.S. for those who are interested - I do a semi-regular #FactFriday series (just when something occurs to me to write about)
@davey_cakes
""But Fedi doesn't have fact checkers either?""
Speak for yourself! ๐ Welcome to #FactFriday ๐
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This week for #FactFriday I want to point out some of the more subtle ways that #misinformation and #disinformation is spread on #blogs and #SocialMedia by people I am dubbing the #Disinformati (the #Illuminati of disinformation ๐ ) as a cautionary tale of what to be aware of when on these sites. I have encountered all of this in the realm of #Mathematics #Maths #Math but the take-aways apply equally to all subjects....
The oldest musical instrument ever discovered is a 40,000-year-old bone flute found in Slovenia! ๐คฏ Imagine the melodies that echoed through the Ice Age... ๐ถ Share your thoughts on this ancient sound in the comments! #MusicHistory #AncientWorld #FactFriday
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