📗 Wow, so many bad things have peaked – and more peaks are coming
She left university without hope. But then she happened to see one of Hans Rosling's talks, and it changed her life. Now she wants to become 'Rosling' for sustainability and believes that we can become the first generation to live completely sustainably.
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✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased. 🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? 🚀 First crash-free test of Starship. 👀 Few see disinformation online.
🧫 They win the $10 million Longitude Prize – combating superbugs
Swedish-Japenese Sysmex Astrego has won the Longitude Prize of $10 million for its rapid test of bacterial infections. The test reduces the time to determine the correct antibiotic from three days to less than 45 minutes, and can be used directly at the first doctor's visit.
🙅♀️ Prebunking - how Taiwan resisted China's information warfare
Showing people in advance what the manipulators will claim gives people mental antibodies to resist disinformation.
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✈️ Plane hijackings have decreased. 🏭 Has China’s CO2 emissions peaked? 🚀 First crash-free test of Starship. 👀 Few see disinformation online.
🔎 We were supposed to be flooded with AI disinformation... now 800 million have voted, where is it?
We faced a "tech-driven Armageddon" and experts ranked AI disinformation as the second biggest global threat this year. Have you noticed much of it?
👀 New study: Few see disinformation online - and the debate around it lacks support from science
Exposure to false information is concentrated among narrow extremist groups. Algorithms play less of a role than individual choices in exposure to extremist content. Social media has not been shown to be the main cause of polarization.
🦠 AI discovers nearly 1 million new antibiotics - progress in the fight against antibiotic resistance
Researchers used AI to analyze genetic data from tens of thousands of bacteria and other organisms. Nearly one million potential antibiotic compounds were identified, with 79% able to kill at least one microbe. AI has drastically accelerated the process.
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🌳 India's forests have steadily increased. 🚑 New Indian traffic safety model to save lives in poor countries. 🌼 A periodic table for flowering plants has been created – includes 9,500 species.