๐ฐ๏ธ Scientists: โTime is an illusion!โ ๐คฏ Meanwhile, humanity: โStill late for meetings.โ ๐ Because who needs schedules when reality itself is questionable, right? ๐
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-closer-we-look-at-time-the-stranger-it-gets #TimeIllusion #MeetingStruggles #RealityCheck #HumorInScience #LifeIsFunny #HackerNews #ngated
Time might not exist โ and we're starting to understand why | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
๐ด๐ท Breaking news: Drinking alcohol may lead to forgetting where you left your wine glass! ๐ง ๐ Thanks, University of Oxford, for pointing out that drinking might have consequences โ next up, water can make you wet! ๐ฆ๐
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09-24-any-level-alcohol-consumption-increases-risk-dementia #alcoholforgetfulness #UniversityofOxford #drinkingconsequences #wineglassnews #humorinscience #HackerNews #ngated
Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia | University of Oxford
Any amount of alcohol consumption may increase risk of dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of alcohol consumption and dementia risk to date.
Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles โ๏ธ๐! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." ๐คชโจ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? ๐๐
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated
Flowers of the Sky
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium โ in chronological order โ of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.
Super-resolution microscopes showcase the inner lives of cells
Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own โ and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease
๐ A groundbreaking revelation: Roman roads existed! ๐๏ธ Let's throw some GIS at it and call it a day. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Next, maybe they'll use AI to prove water is wet. ๐
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02175-w #RomanRoads #GISInnovation #AIResearch #GroundbreakingDiscovery #HumorInScience #HackerNews #ngated
Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling: the case of the road XIX (mansions from Tude to Luco Augusti) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Reconstruction of the Roman road network must be approached from different methodologies of multidisciplinary character. Once the traditional approaches have been exhausted without achieving a historiographical consensus, the problem may appear insurmountable. However, leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides an avenue for re-evaluating existing proposals and suggesting more fitting layouts. This can be accomplished through a meticulous analysis that incorporates topographic and non-Euclidean correlations; allowing a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the subject matter than conventional methods might offer. In this context, the aim of this article is to discuss intriguing research points. But also emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary and multi-proxy studies in relation with the Roman terrestrial networks. We explore a case study in the Galician territory, where we have detected methodological shortcomings reconstructing the route of the XIX road: Item Bracaram Asturicam. One of the sections, from Tude to Luco Augusti, has aroused a greater debate, based on several basic problems: (1) the identification of the mansions, (2) the lack of consensus in the measurements of the distances, (3) the miles referred to in the classical sources, and (4) the complex orography of this territory. To propose answers and theories, that may solve the current problems of the description of this route of the XIX road, a multi- proxy approached methodology is proposed. Thus, by applying Geographic Information Systems techniques, we will be able to calculate the optimal path, and compare the results with historical data and archaeological evidence.
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