study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked
Blogs have evolved from personal diaries to promotional tools, reflecting changes in content and audience expectations over the past two decades
Research tracking about 200 women found those who had at least two miscarriages had higher levels of chemicals in their blood
Eisenhüttenstadt offered spacious central flats rent-free for two weeks in effort to attract valuable professionals
Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the genius of Jensen Huang, Tae Kim's The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the making of a tech giant, and Steven Witt's The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
42,000 people died of Covid or Covid related complications – a death toll surpassed only by the two world wars. Yet the country has no worthy memorial to the victims
"...our analysis suggests that the corresponding resource-limited production peak will occur soon, between perhaps 2022 to 2025. If then we add tar sands and Orinoco oil, the expected resource-limited total peak occurs around 2030, although there is a major question over whether significantly increased production rates of the latter two classes of oil is possible. Finally, the resource-limited production peak of global ‘all-liquids’ is expected about 2040 or a bit after if the latter liquids are also produced at the maximal rate"
The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has searched for and ruled out the existence of dark matter particles with a wide swath of properties, researchers report August 26 at two conferences
The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries
The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:
Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity.
Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.
“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”
Actually, UPF often tastes delicious. But unfortunately, two recent large studies showed that it significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes