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Good morning! On this first Tuesday in February, you are all invited to read through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per ancient xkcd custom.
@LucasWerkmeister Not really a fan of the fact that the heading structure seems to be messed up as a result. Also, <onlyinclude> would’ve been better for leaving out the introduction/footer.
One good thing would’ve been being able to remove references via Lua without having to wrap them in <noinclude> but AFAIK it is impossible (even if <ref> strip marker is not in the output, the reference gets rendered).
@LucasWerkmeister does it exists in other langages? Such as french?
@ProfesseurSubrin yes, it’s available in 21 other languages, including French here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%27id%C3%A9es_re%C3%A7ues
@LucasWerkmeister TIL:
Although the human population of Earth is increasing, the rate of human population growth is decreasing and the world population is expected to peak and then begin falling during the 21st century. Improvements in agricultural productivity and technology are expected to be able to meet anticipated increased demand for resources, making a global human overpopulation scenario unlikely.
I'd heard that the population was expected to peak sometime around 2050 (very approximately), but I was also given to understand that depletion of global production resources was likely to result in shortages before that.
Good to know that my information is outdated! ^.^
@LucasWerkmeister Scrolled randomly, and yep, that is a misconception I had:
Microwave ovens are not tuned to any specific resonant frequency for water molecules in the food. They cook food via dielectric heating of polar molecules, notably water and fats.
@lovestha @LucasWerkmeister banana-flavoring doesn't taste like bananas of the old times. The reality is natural flavors are too complicated to accurately replicate
@tuv @LucasWerkmeister Yeah, I've been believing that one :(
Although the way I read it, old bananas had more of that particular flavour, so they did taste more like the artificial, just not in a big meaningful way.
@LucasWerkmeister well TIL things in the first place I guess.
@LucasWerkmeister @0xabad1dea ah shit I did this already like two days ago
I didn't even realize it was a tradition, I just wound up on the article and read the whole thing
@LucasWerkmeister This is my favourite. I knew the lemmings' suicide was a myth, but not that it was popularised by an act of mass animal cruelty by #Disney for its family-friendly docutainment,
@LucasWerkmeister Didn't know about this awesome tradition. I do confess that, as a programmer, I kind of prefer this collection of "awesome falsehoods", though: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
@Denian @LucasWerkmeister
Too bad it has many dead links :(
@LucasWerkmeister thank you for sharing this!!
@LucasWerkmeister "Undocumented immigrants in the US have substantially lower crime rates than US-born citizens."
@LucasWerkmeister Now I want to edit that Wikipedia page to correct the common misconception that the first Tuesday in February is "correct a common misconception" day.
@LucasWerkmeister Citation needed
@LucasWerkmeister
Oh, this wiki is brilliant ...
I'm sharing this with one of the teacher in my son's school
The school is open to new ways to teach kids
@LucasWerkmeister
This is very cool