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OpenAI und Gates Foundation: KI für den afrikanischen Gesundheitssektor
OpenAI und die Stiftung von Bill Gates wollen 50 Millionen US-Dollar investieren, um die medizinische Versorgung in Afrika mittels KI zu verbessern.

every day is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay, aber heute ganz besonders. :)
https://calendaroftheday.com/1463-squirrel-appreciation-day.html

Extreme rainfall inundates South Africa and Mozambique https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/weather-tracer-extreme-rainfall-inundates-south-africa-mozambique-flood-warning

In the 1950s, the Air Force realized that planes were crashing because cockpits didn’t actually fit the pilots’ bodies. Wrong size = danger!! They commissioned a researcher to develop a new, more correct set of standard dimensions for the seat, yoke, etc.
That researcher, Gilbert S. Daniels, came up with 10 body measurements that matter to cockpit size. He gathered measurements of several thousand pilots. And the number of people who were at the average for all ten measurements? Zero. Not a single one.
“Average” proved to be a statistical construct, not a thing that actually exists as a person.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
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#Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection | Manchester | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/d

Divisional round ratings up big, nearly a record https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47699810/nfl-divisional-playoffs-average-392m-viewers-2nd-most-ever

Unprovoked attacks from wildlife may be rare,
but that's never an excuse to do what one unidentified man did back in October in Yellowstone National Park.
Photographer Keith Allen Kerbs captured a chilling moment when
a man approached a pack of five wolves, while onlookers looked on in horror.
The video, which went viral in November, shows the man coming within a few feet of one of the wolves before spraying them with what appears to be bear spray.
The tense …

Yellowstone Visitors Left Horrified After a Man Approaches a Pack of Wolves
The man was located after the wold encounter.

Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/major-government-research-lab-appears-to-be-squeezing-out-foreign-scientists/

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Irreführung: Elon Musk erhält aberkannte Tesla-Aktien zurück

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant
South African state electricity company Eskom is reevaluating two sites to host the country’s third nuclear power plant, having previously dismissed both for an earlier facility. The two potential sites are Thyspunt, on the Eastern Cape coast, and Bantamsklip, near Dyer Island in the Western Cape, home to a significant, but declining colony of critically […]