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The authors estimated that between 2000 and 2005, the loss of vultures caused around 100,000 additional human deaths annually, resulting in more than $69bn (£53bn) per year in mortality damages or the economic costs associated with premature deaths. These deaths were due to the spread of disease and bacteria that vultures would have otherwise removed…

Would you like to strengthen your upper body and core muscles, while improving your flexibility and breathing? Here’s how to do it, in the time it takes to boil a kettle — Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/04/the-dead-hang-delight-how-this-quick-surprisingly-simple-exercise-can-change-your-life

Aside from the corrupting influence of power and money, there is a deep technical issue, too: large language models (the core technique of generative AI) invented by Google and made famous by Altman’s company, are unlikely ever to be safe. They are recalcitrant, and opaque by nature – so-called “black boxes” that we can never…

Writing in the report, the experts said: “The potential for prevention is high and, overall, nearly half of dementias could theoretically be prevented by eliminating these 14 risk factors. These findings provide hope.” Livingston said there was also new evidence that showed reducing the risks of dementia not only increased years of healthy life but…

Une seule personne peut avoir mille façons d’interpréter un objet, il suffit de se déplacer légèrement. On ne peut rien contrôler là-dessus. Je n’ai pas de problème avec les gens qui ne voient pas les choses comme moi. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/07/30/philippe-katerine-ce-qu-il-y-a-de-plus-beau-dans-la-foi-chretienne-c-est-le-pardon_6261473_3246.html

“Life is filled with mysteries, just filled,” he continues. “Human beings, we’re like detectives. We like to think about these things, or I sure do, and we want answers. The secret is: the answers are there, and they also lie within. It’s all there for us. If we want to get it, we can get…

We’re good at spotting the obvious conflicts of interest: of course mortgage providers always think it’s a great time to buy a house; of course the sharp-suited guys from SpeedyMoola.co.uk think their payday loans are good value. But it’s more difficult to see that everyone offering advice has a deeper vested interest: they need you to…

The supposed AI apocalypse is different from the mushroom-cloud horror of nuclear war, and unlike the ravages of the wildfires, droughts, and inundations that are becoming commonplace, because it arises from things that we have, since the beginning of civilization, always considered positive and central to what makes us human: reason, intelligence, logic, and the…

La découverte de production d’oxygène par un processus autre que la photosynthèse nous incite à repenser la manière dont est apparue la vie sur Terre », liée à l’apparition de l’oxygène, commente le Nicholas Owens, directeur de la SAMS. La vision « conventionnelle » étant que l’oxygène « a été fabriqué pour la première fois il y a environ…

The great discoveries of humanity have always taught us that we are not masters in our own house: Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the cosmos, Darwin spoiled our species’ idea of divine creation, Freud showed that we neither know nor control our desires. The humiliation by AI is subtler but just as…