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18/04/2026

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be discovered.

18/04/2026

It's a lot to think about.

18/04/2026

🧊 Direct disaster losses are just the tip of the iceberg

During a disaster, the losses may just appear to be the headlines in the news: the infrastructure damages and injury tolls. But in reality, the effects last much longer and spread much wider.

Disasters can cause cascading impacts, and induce 'intangible losses', both of which are difficult to quantify. Thus, their effect tends to go unnoticed - but not to the impacted communities.

📈 Legacies of mental health conditions, loss of sites of cultural significance, and disrupted education can even affect multiple generations, deepening inequality on a multi-generational timescale.

🔎 Disaster losses don't just stop at the surface. We need to look deeper to understand the full scale of loss. ➡️ https://ow.ly/poNj50WT1bX

07/04/2026

A meta-analysis, published as an open-access book in 2022 under the title The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces: Reading from Paper and Reading from Screens, looked at existing literature regarding the relative legibility of different typefaces as presented in different mediums.

07/04/2026

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals with, say, a shell or cartilage, a mouth and a**s, and the ability to swim, burrow or hunt.

Scientists call this short, sharp burst of evolutionary activity the Cambrian explosion, and it has informed the way we think about how life as we know it evolved on our planet. But the discovery of a trove of bizarre fossils in China is challenging that consensus—the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than we thought. http://spklr.io/6002Ey71m

07/04/2026

On March 31 artificial intelligence company Anthropic accidentally leaked roughly 512,000 lines of code, and within hours, developers were poring over it. Among the surprises was code inside Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, that appears to scan user prompts for signs of frustration. It flags profanity, insults and phrases such as “so frustrating” and “this sucks,” and it appears to log that the user expressed negativity. http://spklr.io/6000Ey7GE

11/03/2026

Knowing how the brain learns and stores new information is essential for studying effectively. In this helpful TED-Ed explainer of the memory encoding process, insights from cognitive psychology inform tips for the smartest study methods – and the importance of making mistakes and giving yourself non-study time in this process. https://psyche.co/videos/to-study-smarter-consider-how-the-brain-encodes-information

10/03/2026

A groundbreaking lawsuit asks whether wild rice, or manoomin, can hold legal rights under tribal law and the growing rights of nature movement.

10/01/2026

Artificial intelligence does not change anything about the fundamental nature of sustained competitive advantage when its use is pervasive. Once AI’s use is ubiquitous, it will transform economies and lift markets as a whole, but it will not uniquely benefit any single company. Businesses seeking to gain an innovation edge over rivals will need to focus their efforts on cultivating creativity among their employees.

Read the full article >> https://mitsmr.com/4iPtA6D

10/01/2026

The study's main takeaway: "Be bold. It is the thing that slows down authoritarian creep."

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