Chinchilla’s death(espadrine.github.io)

156 points by KolmogorovComp 3 years ago | 37 comments

Putting a dumb weather station on the internet(colincogle.name)

138 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 36 comments

Data scientists need to learn about significant digits(lemire.me)

48 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 39 comments

The fire retardant in the seafood chain(insideclimatenews.org)

140 points by gumby 9 days ago | 46 comments

Inside Climate News article about ethoxyquin, a chemical once linked to fire retardant use, and its presence in the seafood supply chain.

Estimating your memory bandwidth(lemire.me)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 11 comments

Get the location of the ISS using DNS(shkspr.mobi)

311 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 84 comments

AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war(thebulletin.org)

11 points by bookofjoe 21 days ago | 3 comments

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article arguing AI could trigger nuclear war without superintelligence or malicious intent; the screenshot shows a different article on Trump-Xi strategic stability.

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down(apnews.com)

462 points by geox 1 year ago | 253 comments

AP News article reporting that websites hosting major US climate reports, including the National Climate Assessment, have been taken down.

Climate Change Tracker(climatechangetracker.org)

374 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 192 comments

Climate Change Tracker is a website with dashboards tracking global warming, CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions, plus IPCC-based indicators for policy makers.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.