This is an awesome discovery:
A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons.
My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning
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No solo rabia. Está diseñado para influir masivamente en la sociedad.
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We don’t need any more Sherlock adaptations when the perfect one exists (Elementary)
- Que lindo te ves sin lentes.
- No uso lentes.
- Yo si.
I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
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¡Felicidades!
Congratulations, #Chile for becoming the first country in the Americas, and the second globally, to eliminate #leprosy disease.
A true milestone for public health! And a testament to what leadership, science, and solidarity can accomplish.
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4b3Hpga
En el día Mundial de la Vida Silvestre te dejo este Chucao de la Suerte para que duermas bonito 😍
(Scelorchilus rubecula) 🐦
📸 de Diego Navarro
Debe estar denso el calor...
Una marca de arena para gatos que se llame SanderCats
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
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The Talk
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
There are real risks to presenting a "hypothetical" story as "true" to an audience already doubtful of journalists and experts. bsky.app/profile/jasp...
Good point. I had reposted the story, but now I undid it.
Wajajaaa. Por mi lado, hay un par de cosas que no como de preferencia, pero a veces igual las como, así que voy por un 0.
As someone who comes from a country that this kind of 'private currency' (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichas_...) were used until the 1920s, this is a HORRIBLE idea. The impacts of private currency were so horrible that we study about them in middle and high school. If not, read sub sole and sub terra
A Staggeringly Beautiful Acoustic Fingerstyle Cover of the Classic Toto Song ‘Rosanna’ laughingsquid.com/kent-nishimu...
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
Tiene olor a gladiolo
Y un sour?
Le hice limpieza profunda a un refrigerador viejo, tan profunda que desatornillé el ice maker. De entre el espacio entre la pared interna y ese aparato cayó este papel. Imagino una operaria de Mademsa pensando en dejar para la posteridad, modestamente, su rol en la fábrica. Saludos, doña Beatriz.
Tremendo lo de España, de las mejores noticias del último tiempo... se avisora un Nobel.
Que demuestra la importancia del financiamiento a la investigación científica:
Equipo del CNIO elimina tumores de páncreas en ratones por completo, y sin que aparezcan resistencias: www.cnio.es/noticias/el-...
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But as the great Cantinflas said "We're worse off, but we're better off. Because before we were doing well, but it was a lie."
Recomendable entrevista.
Afortunados fuimos de haber tenido un Al Sur del Mundo, un Frutos del País.
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“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
