Brain scans can predict a child's socioeconomic status better than they can predict the child’s IQ.
By Natalia Mesa
| Name | Joint Lab Bioelectronics |
| Website | https://www.tu.berlin/go21248/ |
| Address | TU Berlin, Institut für Biotechnologie JLB, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin |
Brain scans can predict a child's socioeconomic status better than they can predict the child’s IQ.
By Natalia Mesa
Pokémon Go player scans helped train a visual navigation system that can operate without GPS, according to a report on data held by Niantic Spatial 🗺️
The system may support military drone navigation, raising transparency concerns over how player-generated mapping data is reused beyond its original purpose 🚁
#TechNews #Nintendo #Pokemon #PokemonGo #Niantic #Spatial #Drone #Drones #Military #MilitaryTech #GPS #Privacy #Transparency #Surveillance #AI #Security #Tech #War

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Researchers, you want to know about this website.
It's not only private jets and outsized carbon emissions, the investments of the super rich are also causing massive climate damage.
Great piece on Climate Debt and why we need to #TaxTheSuperRich from @TheGuardian
Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, And We Now Know The Biggest Reason Why
https://www.sciencealert.com/sea-level-rise-is-accelerating-and-we-now-know-the-biggest-reason-why?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into ScienceAlert @sciencealert-ScienceAlert
Like many other organizations, the #UNFCCC secretariat is present at X/Twitter, but not on Mastodon and Bluesky (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Imho, that should change.
TIL that starting around 2,500 years ago, humans selectively bred wild mustard family plant (Brassica oleracea) into broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kohlrabi—creating dramatically different vegetables from the same plant species.
https://www.britannica.com/plant/Brassica-oleracea
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1u007kj/til_that_starting_around_2500_years_ago_humans/

Cabbage, (Brassica oleracea), vegetable and fodder plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), the various agricultural forms of which have been developed by long cultivation from the wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea). The edible portions of all cabbage forms—which include kale, broccoli, and
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116702037049926326
The rebellions continue!
The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read!
And they did this with the help of Open Library for Humanities: an organization that coordinates 35 journals like this, and develops software to make it easy for you to set up your own.
The executive director, Caroline Edwards, says:
“It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At Open Library for Humanities we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature."