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Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence
Insects put their minds together in ways that sometimes eludes people.

Terry Pratchett was right 😉

I just published a short article about Claudia Goldin - this year's Nobel Prize winner in economics. https://theconversation.com/claudia-goldins-nobel-prize-win-is-a-victory-for-women-in-economics-and-the-field-as-a-whole-215330
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize win is a victory for women in economics − and the field as a whole

Goldin is showing the world that economics is about more than just finance.

The Conversation
The #climate/water paradox: As global temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere and so more precipitation occurs. But vast areas of the planet are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because as temperatures rise, more water is lost from soils. And the precipitation that does fall is falling in more intense events in fewer regions, leading to more extreme #floods. As a result, we're getting both more dangerous #droughts and floods simultaneously.
Stop burning carbon now.

Denmark and other countries have had long political discussions about what to do with Putin's sabotage ships.

After Putin's ship Eagle S was suspected of cable sabotage, Finland just boarded the ship from a helicopter and took over the bridge.

This is the way. 🇫🇮

One of the tenets from the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody established by PM Bob Hawke was the principle of child detention as a last resort. David Crisafulli will remove that in Queensland when parliament sits next week. #qldpol https://nit.com.au/03-12-2024/15182/peak-indigenous-legal-body-says-new-laws-in-queensland-will-bring-devastating-harms-to-first-nations-communities

About 20 terminally ill people in UK die in unrelieved pain each day, research finds | Assisted dying | The Guardian

Let's have Assisted Dying (and be decent people) but then let's be clear about where we're failing on palliative care.

"fewer than 5% of terminally ill people in England who needed hospice care in 2023 received it"

#AssistedDying #PalliativeCare #NHS #England

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/25/about-20-terminally-ill-people-in-uk-die-in-unrelieved-pain-each-day-research-finds

About 20 terminally ill people in UK die in unrelieved pain each day, research finds

Office of Health Economics says it used ‘most conservative of estimates’ and ‘true number is likely to be much larger’

The Guardian
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy I se in The Spinoff https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/30-10-2024/the-impact-of-long-covid-will-be-huge-so-why-is-new-zealand-doing-nothing-about-it
that Aotearoa has a long covid problem but a lack of diagnosis tools. Is there anywhere this is being done well?
The impact of long Covid will be huge. So why is New Zealand doing nothing about it?

'You think it won’t be you, then after your next inevitable Covid-19 reinfection, it is, and you’re left to wonder why nobody stepped up.'

The Spinoff

"Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem."

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem

#BlackMastodon #WomenInStem #BlackandStem #GoodNews

High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.

Live Science

“The right of the Palestinian people to their own independent state is a legitimate ambition which no amount of US weaponry can destroy.”
~Editorial, The Irish News

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