r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 9h ago
AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns
theregister.com
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21
r/AAA_NeatStuff Lounge
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19h ago
Plastic isn't as inert as we'd thought: Scientists found that tiny everyday microplastics sitting in plain water spontaneously make reactive oxygen, a damaging chemical that made proteins clump and burst red blood cells in lab tests. The more water-repelling the plastic, the stronger it was.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago
TIL that after German bombers sank the SS John Harvey at Bari in 1943, releasing its secret cargo of American mustard gas and killing dozens, the US military initially covered up the chemical leak by attributing the victims' deaths to “burns due to enemy action”.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago
TIL in 2005 two African Flamingos escaped from a Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. And 13 years later one of them was spotted and identified as living in Texas.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago
TIL biomass of large predatory fish has declined worldwide by at least 90% over the past 50–100 years, according to a study published in 2005.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 4d ago
I’ve spent my career studying 911, policing, and crisis response. My new book examines why calling 911 can sometimes make an emergency worse (and how to fix it) — AMA.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 5d ago
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
Research shows that the invisible mental load of planning and organizing household life predicts women's relationship and sexual satisfaction more strongly than the division of physical chores like cooking or cleaning.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
Research shows doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago
TIL the Olympic Games used to be strictly amateur-only. Abusing this, the Soviet Union would enter athletes who were nominally working in some profession, but in reality were all paid to train on a full-time basis, leading to their dominance during the 70s and 80s.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
A fungus resistant to all 4 types of antifungal drugs has been found in a hospital patient in Kenya, only the 2nd case ever recorded worldwide after New York in 2022. The superbug, Candida (Candidozyma) auris, infected a 28-year-old's surgical wound, and scientists warn the global threat is growing.
nature.com
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
Study finds elevated levels of toxicants in teeth of children with autism. The research suggests that children are being “chronically and repeatedly exposed” to a wider range of developmental toxicants than previously identified in short-term exposure studies
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago
TIL that John Milton is credited with introducing around 630 words into the English language, more than Shakespeare, who introduced about 229. Milton’s words include “pandemonium”, “sensuous” and “complacency
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago
At least a dozen graves of Milwaukee Indian boarding school students uncovered
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago
TIL the resin identification symbol isn’t the recycling symbol and doesn’t mean the plastic is recyclable.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago
Here's how the US government spent $7 trillion last year [OC]
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 17d ago
Why does this seem like the era of genuinely evil people thriving and always getting their way?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 21d ago
TIL that like photons and electrons, there is a quantum equivalent for sound waves called a phonon.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 21d ago
TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs needed to hit a place rich in sulfur and hydrocarbons to create enough soot to cause mass extinction
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 21d ago
The Trump administration even scammed ICE agents
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago
TIL of Don Ritchie; a man who lived close to a notorious suicide spot who officially prevented 180 suicide attempts. He would approach an individual and simply ask, "Can I help you in some way?"
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