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An updated Turing Test is overdue or has someone suggested one?

A refresh related to one of your points: Statista says for the US: Birds killed by wind turbines: about 140,000 to 680,000 birds per year. Bats ~ over 1 million bats killed per yea…

I'm afraid the examples of 'his finest comedy' are so 'dry' I'm missing it completely. My loss I guess.

Certainly, lighter roasts are less intensive in taste than the darker versions. We should be aware though that frorm the health angle, dark roasts have significantly less polypheno…

I am intrigued and wonder why you stopped at the third page?

Some people say it nevertheless. Oscar Kambona, a Cabinet Minister in President Nyerere's Tanzanian Government tells how he met Mao in China. Prior to the meeting he spoke to some …

Sure - no real argument but it's maybe worth examining the assumptions underlying this which you know exist because you say 'maybe' and 'I am afraid ...'. Accounts abound as to why…

Not everyone will come to view this model from the same vantage point. Some will simply be curious about some famous software that they don't happen to use. So the tour is an excel…

They are cheap but the rockets to shoot them down cost (I've heard but don't count on it) around $480,000 per missile. That is not a minor consideration for a country like Romania.…

Negative happiness. For Hitler, being captured alive and utterly humiliated in front of the world's jury as it were, must have been a prospect too horrible to contemplate. Happines…

Moreover with 78% of UK Met Office temperature measuring sites failing to meet Class 1 or 2 standards ex FOI request), the reported temperatures are all spot on! Might add that the…

Some time ago an FOI (Freedom of Information) request to the UK Met Office got the following response: Background: Class 1–2 are regarded as excellent or very good exposures, Class…

Meanwhile: Is this true? 'Secret military documents from clandestine forums between Russia and China have revealed a possible joint strategic plan to disable Elon Musk’s Starlink s…

Nothing to stop you making assumptions if you feel you have to.

AED: automated external defibrillator.

I don't understand either but just for reference on your point: Trust in the EU is at its highest in 18 years '52% of Europeans trust the EU, the highest result since 2007. The lev…

Given an (admittedly) optimistic future forecast for remote assessment of parameters related to driver blood chemistry and physiology - will this then be an inevitable further add-…

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I'm not sure what economic migration is. Economic for whom? I'm not taking a side by asking, merely wondering.

Sure thing! Plenty of possibilities here for instance: 'Bioactive Compounds in Ficus Fruits, Their Bioactivities, and Associated Health Benefits: A Review'. (It's a pretty extensiv…

Romania: for a head MRI on demand - not more than a few days and less than 400 Euros.

You can check all this out for yourself at IMSL. Tons of holograph copies there for lots of composers. https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Probably you're right overall but that doesn't apply to anyone who chooses to want to educate their kids in a non-taxpayer funded State school. Around 100–105 independent schools w…