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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1h

The red rocks of McGraths Flat open an entirely new chapter in our understanding of how exceptionally well-preserved fossil sites can form.

The unusual red rocks in McGraths Flat

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2h

An official, ECB-backed digital euro is a much better proposition than a consortium of private banks competing to promote their own, inherently unstable, digital coin.

The euro stablecoins and their threat to eurozone’s fragile economy

9 european banks, including UniCredit, ING and CaixaBank, have launched a consortium to issue ehat would be the first of euro stablecoins

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 3h

Understanding how McGraths Flat formed could provide a roadmap for finding similar iron-rich fossil sites worldwide.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/15/unusual-red-rocks-in-mcgraths/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 4h

Cryptocurrency, and stablecoins in particular, can be understood as digital casino tokens.

The euro stablecoins and their threat to eurozone’s fragile economy

9 european banks, including UniCredit, ING and CaixaBank, have launched a consortium to issue ehat would be the first of euro stablecoins

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 5h

McGraths Flat is made from a very fine-grained, iron-rich rock called ferricrete. It’s essentially a cement made from iron.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/15/unusual-red-rocks-in-mcgraths/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 6h

It was announced that 9 european banks, including UniCredit, ING and CaixaBank, have launched a consortium to issue a euro stablecoin – a cryptocurrency with a value pegged to the euro.

The euro stablecoins and their threat to eurozone’s fragile economy

9 european banks, including UniCredit, ING and CaixaBank, have launched a consortium to issue ehat would be the first of euro stablecoins

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 7h

Unusual red rocks in McGraths Flat are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/15/unusual-red-rocks-in-mcgraths/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 16h

Stalagmites are natural laboratories where physics, chemistry, and geology meet—and now, with mathematics, their forms can be read like a code written over millennia by dripping water.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/14/first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 18h

The team succeeded in analytically solving a 60-year-old mathematical model of stalagmite growth, which predicts how an “ideal” stalagmite grows when conditions in the cave remain steady.

First complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes

But what determines the shape of a stalagmite? A new study provides the first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 20h

What determines the shape of a stalagmite? A new study provides the first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/14/first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

Stalagmites are natural laboratories where physics, chemistry, and geology meet—and now, with mathematics, their forms can be read like a code written over millennia by dripping water.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/14/first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes/

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

The depleted 33S samples contrast sharply with sulphur isotope ratios found on Earth.

Exotic sulphur hidden in moon's mantle - Mapping Ignorance

Researchers report anomalous sulphur in rock samples taken from the moon's Taurus Littrow region during Apollo 17

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

The team succeeded in analytically solving a 60-year-old mathematical model of stalagmite growth, which predicts how an “ideal” stalagmite grows when conditions in the cave remain steady.

First complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes

But what determines the shape of a stalagmite? A new study provides the first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

The analysis shows that volcanic material in the sample contains sulphur compounds that are highly depleted of sulphur-33 (or 33S), one of four radioactively stable sulphur isotopes.

Exotic sulphur hidden in moon's mantle - Mapping Ignorance

Researchers report anomalous sulphur in rock samples taken from the moon's Taurus Littrow region during Apollo 17

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

What determines the shape of a stalagmite? A new study provides the first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/14/first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

Researchers report a sulphuric surprise in rock samples taken from the moon’s Taurus Littrow region during Apollo 17.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/07/exotic-sulphur-hidden-in-moons-mantle/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

First complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/10/14/first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes/

Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

As Sora 2 fills social feeds with visuals, the question won’t be whether AI uses more energy than Netflix, but whether we can expand our digital infrastructure responsibly enough to make room for both.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act requires developers of “high-impact” systems to document computation and energy use.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 1d

Depending on what we read, AI is either an ecological crisis in the making or a rounding error in global energy use. As AI moves rapidly into video, clarity on its footprint is more urgent than ever.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2d

As Sora 2 fills social feeds with visuals, the question won’t be whether AI uses more energy than Netflix, but whether we can expand our digital infrastructure responsibly enough to make room for both.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2d

Longtermists are guilty of a kind of intellectual arrogance (what the ancient Greeks called hubris) almost as infinite as their imaginary expanse of their circle of empathy.

The brief life of longtermism (& 2) - Mapping Ignorance

Longtermism is guilty of intellectual arrogance almost as infinite as the imaginary expanse of the circle of empathy of its proponents

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2d

Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act requires developers of “high-impact” systems to document computation and energy use.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2d

One of the main flaws of longtermism is that its fixation on “existential risks” is so strong that its adherents consider devoting resources to other grave and more pressing social problems far less important.

The brief life of longtermism (& 2) - Mapping Ignorance

Longtermism is guilty of intellectual arrogance almost as infinite as the imaginary expanse of the circle of empathy of its proponents

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · 2d

Depending on what we read, AI is either an ecological crisis in the making or a rounding error in global energy use. As AI moves rapidly into video, clarity on its footprint is more urgent than ever.

Sora 2 and the environmental impact of OpenAI

The new video generator by OpenAI marks a watershed moment and has raised concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

mappingignorance.org