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 • 24,000 points and 395 comments

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

  • Blaze (he/him)English
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    3 hours ago

    I agree with you, but not sure if that’s what the person above meant.

    But yeah, centralization should happen. We could probably close 95% of the existing communities and regroup on the last 5%

    !football@lemmy.world for instance covers most of the needs for that sport

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      My read was ‘we need to make more communities, AND we need more users’ and I’m not sure why more communities solves anything since I’ve shown Lemmy to several actual real touch-grass kind of friends and they’re all like ‘but why? there’s nothing there.’

      Which is both very wrong, and completely understandable because if you go searching for a community about something, you’ll find a whole lot of no activity ones and that’s just a misleading and confusing presentation which they’re taking the wrong impression away from.

      I don’t think there’s a group of users who are just sitting out there waiting for a community about Longaberger baskets to make the jump off reddit, but there are a LOT of people who would move if it looks like it’s not just another “reddit killer” with lots of empty zones of nothingness.