A PLoS ONE study of 111 college students found that group discussion improved fake news detection — but individual reflection alone did not. The improvement only happened when people talked it through with others. Also: out of 5,757 documented serial killers worldwide, 3,803 came from the United States — 66% of the global total from a country with 4% of the world's population — and researchers have a specific explanation for why. And the FDA authorized the Aletta, a Dutch robotic device made by Vitestro that autonomously draws blood using ultrasound to find your vein, applies a tourniquet, sanitizes the skin, inserts the needle, swaps collection tubes, and applies a bandage — with a first-attempt success rate of 94.5%, comparable to or better than trained human phlebotomists. Plus the stolen 800,000 bees, the human vs. Terminator cage fight, the medieval castle in a Dublin university, and the Gold Rush town for sale.
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