hubie writes:Walnuts the new brain food for stressed university studentsStressed university students might want to add walnuts to their daily diet in the weeks leading up to their next exam:
canopic jug writes:The Times Higher Education has an essay by Professor Andy Farnell where he rethinks digital technologies which disenfranchise, dehumanize, excludes, and even bully both students and teachers. These unfortunate technologies with their problems and misfeatures have been plaguing institutions of higher education for quite some time now. Not too long ago, universities took the lead in creating and advancing performant technologies. The triumvirate of LDAP, Kerberos, and AFS is just one which comes to mind, though there are also the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and many more. Now these institutions have mostly lost their way and have become followers and "consumers" of products that not only don't meet their needs but actively work against institutional goals. He starts by asking which digital technologies could, or rather ought to, be removed from higher educational environments.
A contributor writes:We've always known that Australia is full of nasty critters and such, but now the Beeb reports that a batch of spinach (that stuff kids don't like) from Costco in Australia causes hallucinations and delirium, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63995469
fliptop writes:Servers around the world could soon face a massive data storage crunch, thanks to the "mind-blowing amount" of information people store digitally every day:
fliptop writes:Ukraine's army issued an instruction video on Monday with a step-by-step guide for Russian soldiers on how to surrender to one of its drones:
hubie writes:Leprosy is one of the world's oldest and most persistent diseases but the bacteria that cause it may also have the surprising ability to grow and regenerate a vital organ:
fliptop writes:LG Energy Solution said on Monday that it will spend 4 trillion won, or approximately $3.07 billion, up until 2026 to expand its electric vehicle (EV) battery production in South Korea:
upstart writes:The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.