TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”
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Posted in r/todayilearned by u/the_one_below • 24,075 points and 417 comments

When we have a critical mass of people, we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way.

  • Keegen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    24 days ago

    The eye opening moment is when one of these threads touches on a subject you know a lot about and the top upvoted comment is spouting complete bullshit. See it once and you start to doubt the credibility of every other highly upvoted comment that looks legit but could be just as wrong, you simply don’t know enough to immediately disprove it.