2021-09-23

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Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat
Extreme Volcanism Did Not Cause The Late Cretaceous Massive Extinction - Astrobiology

These astronomic configurations ─the known Milankovitch cycles, which repeat every 405,000, 100,000, 41,000 and 21,000 years─, regulate the amount of solar radiation they receive, modulate the global temperature of our planet and condition the type of sediment that reaches the oceans. "Thanks to these periodicities identified in the Zumaia sediments, we have been able to determine the most precise dating of the climatic eepisodes that took place around the time when the last dinosaurs lived", says PhD student Vicente Gilabert,

Why these Facebook research scandals are different - The Verge
Facebook Whistleblower Might Go Public
You pay for Facebook with your privacy. Here’s how it keeps raising the price
Leaks Renew Concern over Facebook's Fact-Checking Sway
Russian disinformation campaigns change tack to get around western defences Archive linkk

Last week the company (Facebook) told Reuters that it has begun using the same approaches it uses to shut down networks of fake accounts to deal with networks of real-user accounts engaging in “co-ordinated social harm”. In July Facebook used these methods to remove real accounts associated with the Vietnamese army’s online information warfare unit.
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