researchbuzz

researchbuzz, 22 minutes ago to random

Good morning to everyone but especially Amit Kumar, who was recently reunited with his mother after 22 years.

'Amit Kumar, now 29, was seven years old when he was 'abducted' from a village in Saharanpur district of UP and abandoned on a busy railway platform in Mumbai in 2003. After spending 3-4 days on the platform, a local cop put him on a train to Delhi. ... a few days later, police found him alone, roaming around.'

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/abducted-abandoned-in-childhood-man-reunited-with-mother-after-22-years/articleshow/110510923.cms?pcode=462

researchbuzz, 18 hours ago to australia

#Australia #Indigenous #relocation #AboriginalHistory #genealogy

'We've released a searchable database of the men, women and children admitted to Carrolup Settlement between 1915 and 1922, and those who passed away and were buried at Carrolup or the nearby Katanning Cemetery up until 1949.'

https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/department/news/news-article/2024/05/26/new-database-establishes-links-to-former-aboriginal-settlement

patrickworld, 21 hours ago to random

🎶 ‘We’ll all die in a YOLO submarine/a YOLO submarine/a YOLO submarine’ 🎶 https://nypost.com/2024/05/27/us-news/ohio-billionaire-plans-to-take-20m-sub-to-titanic-site-to-prove-industrys-safer-after-oceangate-implosion/

researchbuzz, 1 day ago to random

I didn't want to fool around too much with dinner so I chopped up an old-ass onion I found in the fridge, sauteed it in a bit of oil, and spices, then threw in some frozen spinach. I let it cook for a few then put the whole thing in a bowl, added a can of chicken noodle soup, stirred it up, and now it's cooking in the toaster oven for 20 minutes.

I belong to the "it seemed like a good idea at the time" school of cooking

researchbuzz, 1 day ago to random

Good morning to everyone but especially the blue-eyed cicadas

https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/rare-blue-eyed-cicada-spotted-during-2024-19478824.php

StillIRise1963, 2 days ago to random

On some level, it’s good to know the human brain rejects Elon Musk’s implants.

researchbuzz, 2 days ago to politics

#politics #lobbying #cryptocurrency #GovernmentOversight #GiftArticle

"Cryptocurrency companies and investors have spent at least $149 million over the past four years to thwart tough regulation, elect new allies to Congress and defeat lawmakers seen as potential threats, a campaign that culminated this week with a House vote to soften federal oversight of the embattled industry."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/25/crypto-lobbying-politics-washington/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE2Njk2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE4MDc4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTY2OTYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImI3N2ZkNjUyLTI4ZmUtNDJlYy04ZWZiLWIzOTljY2MzNzJjYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI0LzA1LzI1L2NyeXB0by1sb2JieWluZy1wb2xpdGljcy13YXNoaW5ndG9uLyJ9.xQh0EYf4Sx5vWlQMpRG0l616mbpOSYW3eif0tdcbFmo

simon, 2 days ago to random

Just had a delightful voice conversation with ChatGPT (4o) where I asked it how come there was an Elizabeth line train on platform 8 (surface platform) at London Paddington and it explained that there is a set of ramps at Paddington to allow trains to get from the deep below ground lines up to the surface, and then wrote some Python code to render me a diagram https://chatgpt.com/share/1afcc398-b1cf-424a-8835-5b6a2985168b

researchbuzz, 3 days ago to Energy

#energy #RenewableEnergy #ThermalEnergy #thermophotovoltaics

'Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to University of Michigan research.

Heat batteries could store intermittent renewable energy during peak production hours, relying on a thermal version of solar cells to convert it into electricity later.'

https://news.umich.edu/renewable-grid-recovering-electricity-from-heat-storage-hits-44-efficiency/

researchbuzz, 3 days ago to random

Good morning to everyone but especially Ben Mason.

'When 18-year-old Ben Mason suddenly lost his mum to a brain aneurysm in February 2022, he struggled to find an outlet to comfortably talk about his feelings. After failing to connect with talking therapy, the university student decided to turn his grief into something positive and created a community interest company where men like him could talk freely.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7ryp98xpo

researchbuzz, 3 days ago to random

It's always an unsettling feeling when I want to punch a complete stranger in the nose.

'The South Korean police on Wednesday arrested a man in his 30s suspected of hiring the two teens to paint the graffiti on the walls. The graffiti consisted of promotional messages for an illegal video downloading website that the man runs.'

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240524050429

DemocracyMattersALot, 4 days ago to random

#GOPStalkerOfTheDay #NoRepublicansEverAgain #MartyNothstein #Pennsylvania

Olympic gold medalist, former Lehigh County commissioner Marty Nothstein charged with stalking and criminal mischief https://www.mcall.com/2024/05/24/olympic-gold-medalist-former-lehigh-county-commissioner-marty-nothstein-charged-with-stalking-and-criminal-mischief/

researchbuzz, 4 days ago to random

#NativeAmericans #AmericanHistory #IndigenousHistory #GovernmentCorruption

“Bribed With Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era” examines how officials coerced tribal nations to accept termination by threatening to withhold money owed them by the federal government.'

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/92631943

researchbuzz, 4 days ago to history

#Indigenous #history #AmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #BoardingSchools

'The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is proud to announce the launch of the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA), the first-ever digital archives database on Indian Boarding Schools. NIBSDA is a groundbreaking project aimed at preserving and bringing to light the history of the U.S. Indian Boarding School era.'

https://boardingschoolhealing.org/nibsda-launch/

researchbuzz, 4 days ago to random

And now Google's going to suck up THIS article and we're going to get MORE glue pizza recommendations and around and around we go https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-glue-pizza-i-tried-it-2024-5

researchbuzz, 4 days ago to Batteries

#GreenEnergy #batteries #lithium #cobalt #nickel #iron #sustainability

'What if a common element rather than scarce, expensive ones was a key component in electric car batteries?

A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries.'

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/iron-could-be-key-less-expensive-greener-lithium-ion-batteries-research-finds

researchbuzz, 4 days ago to random

All I can think when I see an Onion article now is "I wonder when Google's AI will index this"

https://www.theonion.com/mechanical-armed-grimes-flees-elon-musk-compound-with-f-1851488909

nyquildotorg, 4 days ago to random

I like to think I was pissed off about search engines pivoting to answer engines pretty early in the game, likening the resultant slurry of not-real info to the "grey goo" that doomers predicted would be covering earth as a result of nanobots indiscriminately consuming materials to turn them into other things.

So here we are now with screenshots of all-knowing answer engines confidently spitting out fake shit that they learned by reading fake shit that other answer engines confidently spat out. Cue me thinking how easy it would be to just make fake screenshots of even more unhinged shit, which made me wonder how many of the viral ones have been fake, which once again gets us to fake news about the fake news about the fake news.

StillIRise1963, 4 days ago to random

Good morning anti-fascists. 😎

researchbuzz, 5 days ago to random

Honestly, this makes me want to cry. Yes, I'm a goober. re:

https://mastodon.social/@danielnazer/112492966707079287

researchbuzz, 5 days ago to Banking

#diversity #inclusion #banking #finance #investing #DataDashboards

'The Diverse Investing Collective has launched a data dashboard that measures how much money is in the hands of gender-diverse and racially diverse portfolio management teams.... The initial version of the dashboard focuses on gender and a second version that will provide data on race and ethnicity in addition to gender will be released later in 2024.'

https://www.equities.com/impact-investing/new-tool-tracks-gender-and-racial-diversity-in-portfolio-management/

ai6yr, 5 days ago to venturacounty

Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula. #VenturaCounty

lilithsaintcrow, 5 days ago to random

"...for me, “Man or Bear” is not hypothetical. I’m literally a woman who left mankind behind to live in nature with bears. This is my actual life." https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/