The whole book of Ecclesiastes

Some scientists argue that finding new elements is not worth the money, especially when those atoms are inherently unstable and will disappear in a blink. “I personally don’t find it exciting, as a scientist, just to produce more short-lived elements,” says Witold Nazarewicz, a physicist who studies nuclear structure at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

But to element hunters, the payoff is compelling. The new elements would extend the table—now seven rows deep—to an eighth row, where some theories predict exotic traits will emerge. Elements in that row might even destroy the table’s very periodicity because chemical and physical properties might not repeat at regular intervals anymore. Pushing further into the eighth row also could answer questions that scientists have wrestled with since Dmitri Mendeleev’s day: How many elements exist? And how far does the table go?

Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/storied-russian-lab-trying-push-periodic-table-past-its-limits-and-uncover-exotic-new

Ghost Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VC6Z8

Or a watch…

Togo.

We are still waiting for at least an alternance at the top of the country with the governance of a family for more than 50 years. Since 2020 and the last elections, life has getting more and more difficult for the population and you can feel the frustration in people. Opposition parties are not credible anymore and can’t really lead the fight anymore. Just a minority is keeping the money of the country; it’s not my words but the president’s ones but he can’t do anything about it because he is also a pawn in the system and can’t do nothing again those who put him there.
Just tired. I can talk about a lot of things but I don’t have energy for that. Seems like we are waiting for something, some are talking about revolution. It can happen when the population will say enough is enough but togolese people are too much patient and don’t want to die in vain about politics. Also, the last time things got serious, it was with a lot of deaths but it brings a sort of democracy, at least some rights but now we are getting back in every right we got. We were close to changes in 2017 but the opposition parties didn’t handle it well and here we are now. The system has weakened them also. They even shut the mouth of university movements and associations that fought for changes for us students.
For the future, only God knows!

You can read the session “Reception” of the related Wikipedia page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/476641/Consciousness-theory-slammed-as-pseudoscience-sparking-uproar#entry-comment-2502462

Yeah to be disciplined about it. I need to install a routine to get it back. Thanks!

I’ve never tried audiobooks. I think that I will look into it and see how it works for me. Thanks!

I don’t like that “resurrect extinct species” thing though. Even after reading about what could be its advantages, I don’t see how great it could be for us. If that goal could be removed when making such studies, it would be fine imo.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kS2GV

Yeah

I have not seen myself closed enough until now. Just think that could be anytime and anywhere but nothing has really frightened me.

For instance, Qwant relies on ad services from Microsoft for revenue. Consequently, Qwant needs to collect and transmit the IP addresses and search terms of its users to Microsoft. Microsoft, as some of us may know, isn’t exactly a role model in privacy.

However, Qwant claims that it doesn’t transmit IP addresses and search terms as a pair. Instead, search terms and IP addresses are transmitted differently using different services to make it hard for the parties involved to tie search terms to IP addresses. In other words, they make it hard for third-party services to build a profile on you. Nonetheless, some would argue that the mere fact that Qwant collects this kind of data is a potential privacy

loophole.

Qwant shares some of the data it collects with advertising partners like Microsoft. Your search keywords, IP address data, and geographical location are shared with Microsoft and are stored for at least 18 months following Microsoft privacy policies. Although Qwant tries to anonymize the data it shares, its methods aren’t exactly

foolproof.

And then there’s the issue of being asked to turn over a user’s data by law enforcement. Like any other company, even privacy-focused search engines service would have to comply with a court-ordered request for data. Consequently, this means your data can somehow fall into the hands of a third-party.

From https://www.makeuseof.com/qwant-vs-duckduckgo-which-search-engine-most-private/

Qwant privacy policy : https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

Perhaps that you’ve already read them but i recently enjoyed Martin Eden by Jack London and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy