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The American revolutionaries who popularized science in the early United States

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Benjamin Franklin and other citizen scientists are core parts of the American experiment. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment in 1752 was a pivotal scientific event, which demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Democracy and the Declaration of Independence

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The Words That Made America

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. At the Second Continental Congress of the American colonies, meeting in Philadelphia, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed a motion on June 7, 1776, that proclaimed, "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."



AutonomousAgentsforCollaborativeTaskunder InformationAsymmetry

Neural Information Processing Systems

It communicates among agents within the system to collaboratively solve tasks, under the premise of shared information. However, when agents' collaborations are leveraged to perform multi-person tasks, a new challenge arisesduetoinformation asymmetry,sinceeachagentcanonlyaccess theinformationofitshumanuser.


You should start taking "Fart Walks"

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You should start taking "Fart Walks" The name may inspire snickers, but the benefits are no joke. Take a brisk walk after meals to help your guts. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Founding father Benjamin Franklin secured the alliance with France that led to victory in the Revolutionary War, negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending said war, signed the Declaration of Independence the U.S Constitution, discovered that lightning was electrical, invented bifocal glasses, wrote the famous, and ran newspapers. He also had some thoughts on farting.


How Google's DeepMind tool is 'more quickly' forecasting hurricane behavior

The Guardian

How Google's DeepMind tool is'more quickly' forecasting hurricane behavior'Less expensive and time consuming' model helps with fast and accurate predictions, possibly saving lives and property When then Tropical Storm Melissa was churning south of Haiti, Philippe Papin, a National Hurricane Center (NHC) meteorologist, had confidence it was about to grow into a monster hurricane. As the lead forecaster on duty, he predicted that in just 24 hours the storm would become a category 4 hurricane and begin a turn towards the coast of Jamaica. No NHC forecaster had ever issued such a bold forecast for rapid strengthening. But Papin had an ace up his sleeve: artificial intelligence in the form of Google's new DeepMind hurricane model - released for the first time in June. And, as predicted, Melissa did become a storm of astonishing strength that tore through Jamaica.


James Watson: Controversial discoverer of 'the secret of life'

BBC News

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found the secret of life. It was not an idle boast. One was James Watson, an American biologist from the Cavendish laboratory; the other was his British research partner, Francis Crick. The full Promethean power of their achievement would slowly emerge over decades of research by fellow geneticists. It also opened a Pandora's Box of controversial scientific and ethical issues - including human cloning, designer babies and Frankenstein foods.



DoYouTrustAI: A Tool to Teach Students About AI Misinformation and Prompt Engineering

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, have rapidly developed and gained widespread adoption in the past five years, shifting user preference from traditional search engines. However, the generative nature of LLMs raises concerns about presenting misinformation as fact. To address this, we developed a web-based application that helps K-12 students enhance critical thinking by identifying misleading information in LLM responses about major historical figures. In this paper, we describe the implementation and design details of the DoYouTrustAI tool, which can be used to provide an interactive lesson which teaches students about the dangers of misinformation and how believable generative AI can make it seem. The DoYouTrustAI tool utilizes prompt engineering to present the user with AI generated summaries about the life of a historical figure. These summaries can be either accurate accounts of that persons life, or an intentionally misleading alteration of their history. The user is tasked with determining the validity of the statement without external resources. Our research questions for this work were:(RQ1) How can we design a tool that teaches students about the dangers of misleading information and of how misinformation can present itself in LLM responses? (RQ2) Can we present prompt engineering as a topic that is easily understandable for students? Our findings highlight the need to correct misleading information before users retain it. Our tool lets users select familiar individuals for testing to reduce random guessing and presents misinformation alongside known facts to maintain believability. It also provides pre-configured prompt instructions to show how different prompts affect AI responses. Together, these features create a controlled environment where users learn the importance of verifying AI responses and understanding prompt engineering.