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08Apr/23

A professor is going to live in an underwater hotel for 100 days – here’s what it might do to his body

April 8, 2023ScienceBradley Elliott, Chemistry, Creative Commons, Critical emergency medicine, Diving medicine, Hyperbaric medicine, Immune system, Joe Dituri, Natural sciences, Oxygen, Physical sciences, Pressure, Sun tanning, Sunlight, United States, Vitamin Dadmin

Bradley Elliott, University of Westminster

As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples’ lists. But one US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri, a former US navy diver and expert in biomedical engineering has been living in a 55 square meter space 30 feet below the surface of the Florida Keys since March 1, and plans to stay for 100 days. If he manages this, he will break a record for most time spent in a habitat beneath the surface of the ocean.

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06Apr/23

Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might

April 6, 2023ScienceArticles, Creative Commons, Darwin, Einstein, Isaac Newton, Matter, Natural sciences, Outline of physics, Philosophy of physics, Philosophy of space and time, Physical cosmology, Physical sciences, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Sara Imari Walker, SHUTTERSTOCK, Time in physics, Universeadmin

Sara Imari Walker, Arizona State University

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very young and when it comes to using it to explain life, physicists struggle.

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04Apr/23

Kanye West and Wyndham Lewis: how ‘cancellation’ affected two artists, a century apart

April 4, 2023Human InterestAdolf Hitler, Antisemitism, Antisemitism in Germany, Chancellors of Germany, Creative Commons, Criticism of religion, David, Germany, his Hitler, Kanye West, Nathan Waddell, Nazi Germany, Racial antisemitism, Racism, Religion, Wyndham Lewisadmin

Nathan Waddell, University of Birmingham

It may seem like the modernist painter and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) and Kanye West (the rapper and onetime presidential hopeful now known as Ye) have little in common. But their stories are connected: both are known for making controversial statements about the Nazis.

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04Apr/23

The Pope Francis puffer coat was fake – here’s a history of real papal fashion

April 4, 2023FashionBenedict, Blue, Camauro, Cardinal, Carlo Saraceni, Carol Richardson, Cassock, Catholic Church, Ceremonial of Benedict XVI, Christian clothing, Clothing, Creative Commons, Guido Greganti, John Paul, John Paul II, Papal regalia and insignia, Papal shoes, Papal vestments, Pope, Pope Francis, Pope Gregory, Pope Nicholas, Renata, Rome, SHUTTERSTOCKadmin

Carol Richardson, The University of Edinburgh

Before news of his hospitalisation for a respiratory infection this week, a fake image of Pope Francis wearing a Balenciaga-style white puffer jacket was posted to Reddit and Twitter. The image – created through AI programme Midjourney – had many viewers fooled into believing that the head of the Catholic church had dramatically updated his style.

As an art historian and an ecclesiastical historian, the image has fascinated me, not least in thinking about the rich history of papal fashion.

First of all, it caught my eye because it looks like shot silk (fabric made of silk woven from two or more colours producing an iridescent appearance). Intentionally or not, it’s a nice nod to the fascia, a sash worn by clerics over their cassocks.

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03Apr/23

AI will soon become impossible for humans to comprehend – the story of neural networks tells us why

April 3, 2023InnovationAcademic disciplines, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Artificial neural networks, Beatrice Fazi, bell laboratories, Bing, Carver Mead, Cognitive science, Computational neuroscience, Creative Commons, Cybernetics, David Beer, David Rumelhart, Deep learning, Edward Rosenfeld, Emerging technologies, Harry Collins, IBM, Jack D. Cowan, James Anderson, Jay McClelland, Katherine Hayles, Larry Hardesty, Leon N. Cooper, London, Machine learning, Mead, Microsoft, Neural network, Richard Waters, SHUTTERSTOCK, Stephen Grossberg, Taina Bucher, Teuvo Kohonen, Walter J. Freeman, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch, Wilfred Taylor, Yann LeCunadmin

David Beer, University of York

In 1956, during a year-long trip to London and in his early 20s, the mathematician and theoretical biologist Jack D. Cowan visited Wilfred Taylor and his strange new “learning machine”. On his arrival he was baffled by the “huge bank of apparatus” that confronted him. Cowan could only stand by and watch “the machine doing its thing”. The thing it appeared to be doing was performing an “associative memory scheme” – it seemed to be able to learn how to find connections and retrieve data.

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28Mar/23

ChatGPT struggles with Wordle puzzles, which says a lot about how it works

March 28, 2023InternetAcademic disciplines, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Chatbot, Creative Commons, Fields of mathematics, Formal language, Instant messaging, Michael G. Madden, Natural language parsing, Palindrome, SHUTTERSTOCK, the New York Timesadmin

Michael G. Madden, University of Galway

The AI chatbot known as ChatGPT, developed by the company OpenAI, has caught the public’s attention and imagination. Some applications of the technology are truly impressive, such as its ability to summarise complex topics or to engage in long conversations.

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27Mar/23

How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong

March 27, 2023SocialAmanda Spielman, Articles, Benjamin Zephaniah, Creative Commons, Critical theory, Derron Wallace, Discrimination, Human behavior, Humans, Ian Cushing, Institutional racism, Joy, London, Michael Gove, Post-structuralism, Racism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social inequality, Social privilege, Sociolinguistics, United Kingdom, Word gapadmin

Ian Cushing, Edge Hill University

Whiteness is an invention of the modern, colonial age. It refers to the racialisation of white people and the disproportionate privilege – social, linguistic, economic, political – that comes with this. Crucially, as an invention, whiteness is not innate – it is taught.

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24Mar/23

Women only gained access to the London Stock Exchange in 1973 – why did it take so long?

March 24, 2023FinanceAberdeen, Amy Elizabeth Bell, Australian Securities Exchange, Bradford, Budapest Stock Exchange, Creative Commons, Economy of London, Edith Midgley, Finance, Financial markets, Glasgow, Huddersfield, James Taylor, Julia Hoggett, London, London Stock Exchange, Manchester, Money, Muriel Bailey, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stock, Stock exchange, Stock market, THE BANK OF ENGLAND, Thomas Mortimer, United Kingdom, United States, Victoria Woodhulladmin

James Taylor, Lancaster University

On March 26 1973, the London Stock Exchange admitted its first female members. This followed years of resistance, with London trailing behind other smaller exchanges around the UK.

That women had been excluded for so long was not only due to institutional misogyny. Research has shown how finance was imagined in sexist terms for centuries. And despite the extraordinary accomplishments of prominent female figures over the past 50 years, these biased beliefs persist to this day.

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23Mar/23

Management lessons from Ted Lasso: the importance of clear goals and positive feedback

March 23, 2023BusinessChidiebere Ogbonnaya, Chris Brown, Computer languages, Creative Commons, Jamie Tart, Lasso, Motivation, Programming languages, Regression analysis, Sam Obisanya, Social groups, Team, Ted Lasso, Well-beingadmin

Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, University of Kent

Apple TV’s wildly successful comedy, Ted Lasso, has returned for a third series. The show’s well-meaning, if bumbling, American coach of fictional English football team AFC Richmond is known for his motivational speeches. Take this example from the first series:

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22Mar/23

Casey review: key steps the Met police must take to address its institutional racism and sexism

March 22, 2023CrimeAnti-corporate activism, Articles, Baroness Casey, Civil rights and liberties, Creative Commons, David Carrick, Dissent, Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, John Fox, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, London, Louise Casey, Mark Rowley, Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Police, Prevention, Sarah Everard, Stephen Lawrence, United Kingdom, Wales, Wayne Couzens, Whistleblower, William MacPherson, Workplace bullyingadmin

John Fox, University of Portsmouth

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

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