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Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
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Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participat... class once a week over the course of a year significantl... math and literacy skills, with disadvantaged students sh... significant gains

This week, the prestigious Journal of Political Philosop... series of articles under the heading “Black Lives Matt... All the authors published in the series are white.

the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

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Sense Mother is at the head of a family of small connected sensors that blend into your daily life to make it serene, healthy and pleasurable.

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✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history
✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time
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Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berner... the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Co... Institute. The project aims to radically change the way ... work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as ...

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Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in Eng...

The gig economy has created an employment model that rob... rights they’ve earned over more than a century of figh... automation not to make a better world for everyone, but ... doing business on the backs of workers without providing... compensatio

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Report...

In her book, Burrington, a writer and artist, has sketch... the internet that are visible on and above the streets o... explained the business interests and politicking behind ... Her book is designed to make the internet tangible, and ... Burrington

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

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AI's solution to the 'cocktail party problem' used in court

Howard's school attendance had dropped below 50% after he started intensive weekly chemotherapy in January, following his diagnosis of a rare kind of arm cancer in December.
But since then, the 12-year-old, who attends a school in Twickenha...

A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher-risk people will develop the disease, according to research.

Young people from the wealthiest families across England are 11 times more likely to enter a university requiring high entry grades, the most academically selective, than those from the most disadvantaged.

So when anyone says too many youn...