Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022(nhess.copernicus.org)

257 points by totetsu 2 months ago | 182 comments

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments(nature.com)

76 points by jacquesm 7 months ago | 43 comments

Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point(nature.com)

67 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 13 comments

Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization(science.org)

48 points by rntn 1 year ago | 30 comments

A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet(nature.com)

8 points by vixen99 2 years ago | 4 comments

A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation(nature.com)

316 points by wawayanda 3 years ago | 253 comments

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System(blog.landeconomics.org)

55 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 12 comments

A Progress and Poverty Substack essay by a former Addis Ababa municipal manager reviewing three decades of Ethiopia's public urban land lease system and its reforms.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Thought as a Technology (2016)(cognitivemedium.com)

4 points by tobr 29 days ago | 0 comments

Michael Nielsen's 2016 essay on how computer interfaces can serve as cognitive technologies that expand the range of human thought.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.