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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Betteridge's Law of Headlines" states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'. if publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they'd have presented it as an assertion. By posing as a question, they avoid accountability en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

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Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

6) McCandliss noted that this strong left hemisphere engagement during early word recognition is a hallmark of skilled readers, and is characteristically lacking in children and adults who are struggling with reading. news.stanford.edu/stories/2015...

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Stanford brain wave study shows how different teaching methods affect reading development

Stanford Professor Bruce McCandliss found that beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

5) Words learned through the letter-sound instruction elicited neural activity biased toward the left side of the brain, which encompasses visual and language regions. In contrast, words learned via whole-word association showed activity biased toward right hemisphere processing.

Words learned through the letter-sound instruction elicited neural activity biased toward the left side of the brain, which encompasses visual and language regions. In contrast, words learned via whole-word association showed activity biased toward right hemisphere processing.

McCandliss noted that this strong left hemisphere engagement during early word recognition is a hallmark of skilled readers, and is characteristically lacking in children and adults who are struggling with reading.

In addition, the study’s participants were subsequently able to read new words they had never seen before, as long as they followed the same letter-sound patterns they were taught to focus on. Within a split second, the process of deciphering a new word triggered the left hemisphere processes.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

4) "The visual complexity of the Chinese character, its monosyllabic mapping, and its (limited) ideographic characteristics, require language-specific features to be part of any universal theory of reading disability". www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

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Frontiers | Editorial: Neural bases of reading acquisition and reading disability

vocabulary size, working memory, and some other factors may be as important as phonological knowledge in Chinese children's literacy acquisition. The vis...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

3) The "auditory cortex" is crucial. To read, you must map 'letters' to 'sounds' to 'words' To pair letters with speech sounds, we first need to be aware of the sounds of the language. This phonological awareness is a well-established precursor to children’s reading development.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

2) Skilled readers have a larger "anterior temporal lobe". This region helps link visual, sensory & motor information to "build meaning from words" E.g. "leg": brain associates the visual, sensory & motor information conveying how legs look, feel & move. scitechdaily.com/how-reading-...

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How Reading Reshapes Your Brain and Boosts Cognitive Power

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writing is 5,000 years old, too recent for evolution to build a “reading module.”🧵 (1/6) The brain repurposes older circuits evolved for vision, object recognition & spoken language, into a new network that decodes written symbols (neuronal recycling). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurona...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The madhalla is a traditional hat from Yemen, worn by women. The hats have a wide circular brim & peaked top. The straw hats are peaked to keep the wearer cool in hot temperatures. Being almost 2ft tall, the design promotes air circulation within the hat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhalla

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

BFF 🥹💙 a baby girl and her puppy play for the first time.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/05/2026

The Eisner-nominated anthology with the AI story (Michael Todasco) gets pulled just as the Commonwealth Prize nominee with the possibly-AI story (Jamir Nazir) is announced

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19/05/2026

so it appears that the Commonwealth Short Story Prizewinner for 2026 may have been AI generated. You can read it here.

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The Serpent in the Grove

‘The ring of stone lay there where cocoa gave to bush, its mouth boarded with ply and chance.’ Fiction by Jamir Nazir.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.

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mimi 🐑 pixel artist @yumemimir.art · 09/04/2026

for the longest time i genuinely did not consider audiobooks as a legitimate form of consuming books. but then i remembered that before formal writing systems all stories were shared orally. if anything, audiobooks are the more ancient human form in some ways.

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 09/04/2026

I am back from our annual Patagonia photography tour and adventure and I wanted to share with you the Patagonian breeze that my group enjoyed on a beautiful morning! Some winds were more than 120 km/h! Torres del Paine, Chile. #bluesky #photography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography

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Peggy Boooooo!!!!! Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So Kindle is removing tech support from its device, pretty much requiring people to buy new ones, and introducing ads. This is why we sell our ReBound press books on Kobo. Also for ideological reasons: Amazon has been terribly destructive too booksellers and publishers, and I refuse to support it.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.

A tweet featuring an astronaut inside a spacecraft, looking tired or resigned. Overlaid text jokes about being farther from Earth than any human before while still having to hear a particular voice.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In Norway, the oldest ship burials known until now were located on the island of Karmøy, in the southwest of the country, and dated to the late 8th century. Herlaugshaugen is therefore between 50 and 100 years older than those.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Unless ageing population, Obsession with population growth tends to be tied to economic systems that only function if the population keeps expanding. They depend on a constant influx of new workers & consumers. Without more people entering at the bottom, the whole structure becomes harder to sustain

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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net · 09/04/2026

Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you! I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction #books Give it a look. Bookmark it! tiny.cc/spaceoperali...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A great episode of The Outer Limits was the time traveling genius tries to stop the killing of his neglected wife, but then he realizes that he’s the one who did it so he goes back in time to shoot himself while past-he is on the way to a date with the wife, and past him is like omg this is so…

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Haha they stowed some coffee in a locker to surprise the astronauts. Here's my favorite coffee-in-space moment, Samantha Cristoforetti doing her Janeway impression on ISS

Cristoforetti is in the Cupola, with a blue and white Earth overhead, wearing a Voyager-uniform-like jacket, sipping espresso.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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CosmicDS @cosmicds.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our dynamic universe deserves a dynamic visualization! 🔭 This Artemis II interactive lets your students track Integrity’s path to the Moon and back. Choose your adventure: see the path from the Earth’s perspective or the Moon’s.

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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

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Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

So, hedgehogs. It’s not just me, the ancient Egyptians were also in awe of these spiny mammals. A very, very old Eygptian hedgehog seal. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art_object_c...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

5) They also discovered inscriptions in Greek, including one below the Sanskrit inscription, something Rodney Ast, the researcher from Heidelberg University who discovered the Buddha figure, says is "unique in Egypt" indicating it may have been made in Egypt. english.elpais.com/culture/2023...

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Buddha in the land of the pharaohs: 2,000-year-old statue of Siddhartha Gautama discovered in Egypt

The figure was excavated in a temple to the goddess Isis at an ancient Red Sea port. It suggests that the two worlds were closer than previously thought

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

4) The excavations at Berenike also yielded other artifacts related to ancient India: an inscription in Sanskrit dated to the Roman Emperor, Philip the Arab (244 to 249 CE), as well as Satavahana coins dated to the 2nd century CE. www.heritagedaily.com/2023/04/stat...

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Statue depicting Buddha found in Ancient Egyptian city

An archaeological mission excavating in Berenice Troglodytica has uncovered a statue depicting Buddha that dates from the 2nd century AD. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

3)The Helgö Buddha is a small Buddha figure of the 6th century Gupta Empire period, found during excavations of a trading post that was active between approximately the 3rd century & the 8th century, that is, between the Migration Period & the Viking Age, in Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helg%C3...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

2) The Berenike Buddha was discovered in Berenike, in January 2018 & January 2022. The statue, dated to c. 100 CE, is the earliest statue of the Buddha to ever be found west of Afghanistan. The other being the Helgö Buddha of Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenik...

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st–2nd century CE. It contains the remains of more than 580 individual animals including cats, dogs, and monkeys. It is among the oldest known animal cemeteries in the world. 🧵(1/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenic...

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Berenice pet cemetery - Wikipedia

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

4) While only around 3% of the cemetery’s cat & dog graves contained accessory goods, 40% of monkeys were interred with items like snacks, collars, and iridescent shells. In some cases, the macaques even lay next to kittens and piglets, possibly the monkeys’ own pets gifted by the owners.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

3) Two rhesus macaque skulls had signs of malnutrition, possibly due to diet lacking proper amounts of vegetables & fruit Given Berenike’s comparative remoteness at the time (the port is 480 miles southeast of Cairo) it’s likely that the monkeys’ owners simply lacked reliable access to proper food

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

2) “The Berenike burials of monkeys of this species are the first unequivocal indication of organized importation of non-human primates from beyond the ocean.” Previous documented similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they genetically traced back to the Barbary macaques of Africa

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

2,000-year-old animal cemetery in the Egyptian port city of Berenike that includes the remains of multiple macaque monkeys. In at least 36 cases, the bones belong to Indian rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). 🧵(1/4) www.popsci.com/science/roma...

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Roman generals gifted kittens and piglets to their pet monkeys

The macaques were status symbols all the way from India.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Ancient Greek philosophers Hippocrates and Plato described a (nonexistent) condition in which the womb “wandered” around inside a woman, causing emotional disturbances. Wandering womb later evolved into the even more popular diagnosis “hysteria” named after the Greek term for womb, hystera."

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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪 #BatSky🧵

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a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In case you're not DEEP into science nerd lore, this is the SI wheel. A visual representation of the seven units that form the basis of our international system of units (known as the SI). MSL are the keepers of the SI here in #NZ (and I used to work at the UK equivalent lab!) 🧪⚛️

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SI Units

The International System of Units, known as the SI, is the globally-agreed basis for expressing measurements at all levels of precision, and in all areas of science, technology, and human endeavour.

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I work two days a week with the Measurement Standards Laboratory. Yesterday, we had a very fun Christmas lunch which included a quiz, a haiku competition, and a stealing secret Santa. The gift I brought was stolen the maximum number of times, so I'll take that as a compliment 😄 This was it:

A flat disc made with seven shades of wool, depicting the seven base units of the International System of Units (the SI). It is hanging on a Christmas tree

The actual SI wheel. The units are kg (in red), metre (orange), second (yellow), ampere (green), Kelvin (blue), mol (puce), candela (dark purple)

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LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

UNREMARKABLE POSTCARD SERIES, No. 104. Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.

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GodKing Gilgamesh @gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

In 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger, had the tracks torn up & ordered that locomotive be replaced with horses. Within decades, imperial China would collapse. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

In 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger – of disruptions to feng shui, imperial graves and rural order – and had the tracks torn up.

Two decades later, when a Chinese-built coal line threatened to steam too close to sacred grounds, Cixi’s solution was not innovation but regression. She ordered that the locomotive be replaced with horses.

By clinging to tradition in the face of technological transformation, the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) delayed modernisation until it was too late. Within decades, imperial China would collapse under the weight of its own resistance to change.

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Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The overton window shifted so far we now say Halo had simple graphics.

Youtube thumbnail of Halo 1 Master Chief with the text "The Beauty Of Less".

Video title 'Are Low Poly Games Better?'

Youtube transcript with the text:

If you grew up before the HD era, there's probably a game from your childhood that lingered in your imagination for years despite having simple graphics. For me, one of those games is Halo Combat Evolved.

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