A decade of clean energy progress to celebrate! Two especially noteworthy data points, per new report: 4x as much solar forecast since the Paris climate pact now powers the planet; and 1 of 5 new cars sold are EVs (up from 1 in 100 in 2015). https://t.co/6mXihxs59T
“The response to the whole of Oasis’s catalog, as well as the remarkable amount of twentysomethings in the crowd, made the case that the band has grown a whole new fanbase across the Atlantic…. The Gallaghers can still break America. Or, maybe in Chicago, they already did.”
"Curiosity is rare, precious, and worth cultivating. A life stripped of it shrinks into routine—a life fed by it becomes, paradoxically, both longer and larger." https://t.co/e7DHwxMDp0
There was a sailboat race on Lake Michigan this weekend when the water and the sky were the same exact color. This created the optical illusion that the boats were sailing in the sky!
U-M researchers developed a tool called Liketropy that detects AI-generated text with a low false accusation rate. Tara Radvand, a doctoral student at Michigan Ross, said the goal was to minimize false accusations while confidently flagging AI content.
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56 years ago today, Nick Drake released “Five Leaves Left”
Five Leaves Left has regularly appeared on lists of the best albums of all time. The album was ranked number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's original 2003 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".