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How Honey Bees Are Trained To Detect Explosives

I guess bee farmers won’t jut be collecting honey.


Honey bees are more than just pollen collectors! With a sense of smell on par with dogs, honey bees can be trained to detect any smell, like explosives. But how these bees are trained to detect explosives, what their advantage is over sniffer dogs, and how other animals have been trained to perform unbelievable tasks for the armed forces, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #long.

Music:
Gone Without A Trace 2 — Fredrik Ekstrom.
Thyone — Ben Elson.
I Can See Better From Here — Jay Varton.
Serious Development — Blackout Memories.
Santosha — Van Sandano.
Lethal Secrets — Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen.
Human Missile — Craft Case.
Cloak — Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen.

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A new approach to measuring and understanding multidirectional polarization

Germany, India, Mexico, and Spain. As multiparty democracies, these countries present a more complex picture of what brings people together—or divides them. Using social media data, a group of researchers proposes a novel approach to measuring polarization in nations with multiple political parties.

Complexity Science Hub scientist Samuel Martín-Gutiérrez and his colleagues developed a model that infers opinions from social networks, and measures the left-right political division, as well as other more nuanced sources of tension. They analyzed Twitter data from the Spanish elections of 2015 and 2019.

“It’s important to understand polarization in our society, and our findings shed new light on how are shaped,” says Martín-Gutiérrez. “Our approach can lead to useful insights when applied to real-world debates happening on social media.”

The Century of Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT & Black Swan Events

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept, it is almost here, in this video we will talk about a lot of things relating to AI and its impact on our society. Please leave a comment down below!

0:00 Introduction.
1:37 Black Swan Events.
3:35 When Machines Create.
5:06 The Mystery of Intelligence.
7:12 Outro.

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New study shows how mammals have evolved complexity over time

Major changes in the spinal columns of mammals have been shaped by their highly variable numbers of vertebrae, according to new evidence from a team of international scientists, including researchers from the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath.

The team unearthed new findings that identify how this column “complexity” in mammals has been shaped by their varying numbers of vertebrae.

The research group from the University of Lincoln, U.K., the University of Bath and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, China, conducted a that examined the vertebrae of 1,136 modern species, ranging from blue whales to shrews, to determine how column complexity evolved within major groups over time.