"Figuring out when humans began to count systematically, with purpose, is not easy. Our first real clues are a handful of curious, carved bones dating from the final few millennia of the three-​million-​year expanse of the Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic era. Those bones are humanity’s first pocket calculators: For the prehistoric humans who carved them, they were mathematical notebooks and counting aids rolled into one"
Lapham’s Quarterly
The Early History of Counting | Keith Houston
How ancient peoples learned to keep a tally.
"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
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"Mais quelle est l’empreinte carbone des modes de transport actifs et collectifs ainsi que de la micromobilitΓ© Γ©lectrique ? Quels principes permettent de guider la transition vers le transport urbain le plus sobre en carbone possible ?"
Le Devoir
Quelle empreinte carbone pour le bus, le vΓ©lo… et la marche?
Entrevue avec Anne de Bortoli, spΓ©cialiste des analyses de cycle de vie des moyens de transport.
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"South America is living one of the (most) extreme events the world has ever seen (...) Unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter. Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books."
The Conversation
One of 2023’s most extreme heatwaves is happening in the middle of winter
Parts of Argentina and the Chilean Andes experienced some of their highest temperatures on record.
"In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black"
Business Insider
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black
Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.