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Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence ( theconversation.com )

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A trans-oceanic flight of over 4,200 km by painted lady butterflies - Nature Communications ( www.nature.com )

Additional article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/science/butterflies-ocean-migration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U0.moxh.43MfSjCSno_6&smid=url-share

Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says | Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll ( www.nature.com )

Additional article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/27/egyptian-scribes-work-related-injuries-study

It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July?

[Meta] Now that [email protected] moved to [email protected], should we maybe consider closing this community? Having this community open could confuse newcomers

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Singlehood is on the rise around the world. New evidence suggests many single people are choosing to remain single and living happy lives. ( theconversation.com )

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopy.12929...

[email protected], for parents of Lemmy!

!parenting

Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain ( www.thelancet.com )

Walking three times a week to ease back pain almost halves the risk of its recurrence, according to the first study of its kind....

[Meta] Any reason to have this community compared to [email protected]?

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[email protected], for beautiful data!

!dataisbeautiful...

[email protected], the most active movies community on Lemmy

!movies...

Already 61 servers updated to Lemmy 0.19.5! ( fedidb.org )

Stats: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/versions

Mothers’ care is central factor in animal, human longevity. In species where offspring survival depends on the longer-term presence of the mother, the species tends to evolve longer lives and a slower ( news.cornell.edu )

The relationship between mother and child may offer clues to the mystery of why humans live longer lives than expected for their size – and shed new light on what it means to be human....

Scientists have discovered that a type of white blood cell exists as a single large population of cells that move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue | Discovery of ‘new rul ( www.cam.ac.uk )

From the article: This overturns the traditional thinking that regulatory T cells exist as multiple specialist populations that are restricted to specific parts of the body. The finding has implications for the treatment of many different diseases – because almost all diseases and injuries trigger the body’s immune system....

[Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over?

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Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? ( kbin.social )

Link to a list of mbin instances: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

Link to their post: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/5ZiPe34m...

[EU] What is the opinion on Clark's dress shoes?

Have to get dress shoes, found some that seem decent, what is the consensus on them?...

It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play?

PSA: You can paste the link to a Lemmy post in the search bar of your instance, and you'll be able to access the post from your instance

For instance, this one (link to a post to !memes): https://reddthat.com/post/20260613...

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