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Category: Discoveries

What I discovered this week #26, 2025

Posted on by Roberta Hill

AI Lies, Are You a “Nerd” Traveller, Stories of Amazing Travels,  . . . Do Not Trust AI Great example of how AI is being used in the background (for years) without us questioning its legitimacy. Here’s the exact comment I read last week from Janel Comeau, confirming the startling turn from satirical writing to real-world search results: “Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024.”  Cape Breton is to create…

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What I discovered this week #25, 2025

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Tolerance, Health Risks, Data Vigilance . . . How Are Brains Work This is a lengthy and fascinating article about how our brains are wired to divide us into ‘Us and Them’ beliefs, and what’s worse, it’s automatic. It means we often have little sympathy, empathy or tolerance for “others” who aren’t part of “Us”. Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture.  (Nautilus) While the piece does not go into great length about how to counteract this, I would like to think that…

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What I discovered this week #24, 2025

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Airline Fees, Health and Apple IOS 26 This is a new section that I hope to continue each week (unless I don’t find anything new or interesting). I will be sharing some travel-related items that I have read that might be of interest to you. Additional Costs to Fly I recently wrote about hidden fees on airlines; to be honest, they aren’t so hidden. I’ve been reading on his face how airlines are cheating because you can’t have a carry-on anymore. Really? Let’s face it, given how everybody tries to carry everything on. It makes sense that they should start charging for…

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