Czytamy naturę #119 | Zgadywanie brakujących literek - Rzeki to apteki - Poznaj swego policjanta!

In the 119th episode of "Reading Nature," I talk about: 1) 00:52 using machine learning to guess missing letters and words in ancient Greek inscriptions; 2) 10:54 measuring the concentration of 61 pharmacologically active compounds in rivers around the world; 3) 19:29 an interesting psychological phenomenon that may make us less likely to commit crimes after meeting a police officer. Sources: 1) Assael, Y., Sommerschield, T., Shillingford, B., Bordbar, M., Pavlopoulos, J., Chatzipanagiotou, M., ... & de Freitas, N. (2022). Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks. Nature, 603(7900), 280-283. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... 2) Wilkinson, J. L., Boxall, A. B., Kolpin, D. W., Leung, K. M., Lai, R. W., Galbán-Malagón, C., ... & Teta, C. (2022). Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(8), e2113947119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... 3) Shah, A. K., & LaForest, M. (2022). Knowledge about others reduces one's own sense of anonymity. Nature, 603, 297–301 (2022). https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... This material was created with funding from the Excellence Initiative Strategic Program at the Jagiellonian University.