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Well worth a read
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Evolution is elegantly simple, but still continues to attract a disproportionate number of misconceptions. An evolutionary biologist clears up ten common myths 🧪
10 Misconceptions About Evolution
An evolutionary biologist clears up common myths
nautil.us
January 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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If you use a ridiculous amount of water?

You should be paying more and more and more per gallon the further you go.

Whether you're an AI center or the golf course where AI nerds meet with VC weirdos.
This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony.

www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...
AI technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water
Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...
www.kcci.com
October 5, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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#Measles vaccine has been so successfully parents today have no memory of what it was like when the virus caused severe illness. Some fear it more than the disease.
Emmi Herman is here to remind them with a story of a sister forever changed by measles encephalitis. www.statnews.com/2024/05/07/m...
Measles is coming back. My sister Marcie isn't
I wonder what my sister Marcie's life — and mine — would have been like if the measles vaccine had been available in 1960 and she never contracted the virus.
www.statnews.com
May 8, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”

bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...
Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.
bookriot.com
April 4, 2024 at 12:12 PM