...#institutionalized #learning leeches coin by hiding quick practical skills behind lengthy groups of impractical and unnecessary #required #studies

...no need to know the history of lamps or circuitry to learn to wire a home

...no need to know the lines of french architecture to build a house

...nor is it important to the process in any way!

but sure adds obstacle courses lectures hours and books to pay for that somehow improve niether salaries grounds building or quality of #education

There's no spice in #brevity - about the #insufficiency of #shortened #media

I would like to take a "brief" look at a #media #phenomenon. It's about the fact that “brevity is the spice of life”. During my #studies in #SocialMedia, I noticed a special form of #reductionism (in the literal sense, however), which is already close to #emptying of meaning or #dilution of #content. Just like this text ;-)

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/05/26/kuerze-keine-wuerze/

To go home or not?

"I am a final-year PhD student in Finland with a supportive PhD supervisor and a well-resourced laboratory. I’m thinking of applying for an academic job here, but I’m often homesick: I miss my family in southeast Asia and my mother’s cooking."

#Finland #studies

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01147-3

Creatine for Brain Health: Boost Memory, Energy and Clarity https://www.diningandcooking.com/2011940/creatine-for-brain-health-boost-memory-energy-and-clarity/ #500999Words #article #BrainHealth #creatine #fitness #longevity #nutrition #science #studies #supplements

The WebAIM Million: The 2025 Report on the Accessibility of the Top 1,000,000 Home Pages, by @webaim:

https://webaim.org/projects/million/

#research #studies show that we only use #ten #percent of our #brain #capacity. #imagine of we bumped it up to say, 25 percent.

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#Business #Findings
Website downtime and slowtime costs · Speed issues can hurt your business more than outages https://ilo.im/162ve5

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#Studies #Cost #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #WebDesign #WebPerf #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Design Systems Report 2025, by @zeroheight:

https://zeroheight.com/how-we-document/design-system-report-2025-brought-to-you-by-zeroheight/

The first set of my #studies is ready, two more to go. I've done a lot of those too. The first set came with 26 pages + the actual #competence #test material, which is sorted in folders.

The competence test is on June 5th. All the #material must be ready by May 14th. In between, I'll meet with the #Assessor (a #data #security #lawyer) and he will hopefully tell me if the material is ready." Wish me luck!
#suomimastodon #studying #finland

Balls

 
#ScientificAmerican: In the Quantum Realm, Time’s Arrow Might Fly in Two Directions.

❛❛ the researchers’ work suggests that two time’s arrows, rather than one, are a spontaneous feature of an open #quantum system.

The new work adds to some interesting questions about what #physicists deem relevant in their #studies of #time. ❜❜

https://www.ScientificAmerican.com/article/does-time-work-differently-in-the-quantum-realm/ 2025 Feb 27
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

I finally decided to do material studies with some cool stones ! Can you recognize them ?

"It’s Not Easy Being Green – The Challenge of Having Poisonous Arsenic Containing Books in a National Library Collection"

Artikel (#openacces) van de collega's van #Collectiebehoud #Collectioncare van @kbnationalebibliotheek over #arsenicum als kleurstof op #boekbanden e.d. In #Studies in #Conservation:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2025.2460405

New study providing some #evidence that 'obvious' #solutions might not always be the answer.

(I.e., according to this #study, there is no evidence that restrictive #school #policies are associated with overall #phone and social media use or better #mental #wellbeing in #adolescents).

See full #Lancet study here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext

Have you seen this collection of #covid #studies re #metformin??

This is great. It was linked in Ryan McCormick’s substack.

https://c19early.org/mf