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Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 11:22 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_(disambiguation)
- Turbo C++ was not just for C. Borland’s own documentation says it was used to create and run both C and C++ programs.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/caffeine-works-in-some-people
- The cited meta-analysis did not measure IQ, and its effect sizes are standardized mean differences from tasks like attention, reaction time, and driving performance—not IQ-point changes.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 09:26 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seder_hishtalshelus
- This passage misdefines both avir and tekhelet. Kabbalistic sources use avir to mean "air," "atmosphere," or "empty air/space," and rabbinic sources explain tekhelet as the blue color associated with the sea, sky, and the Throne of Glory—not Jupiter, silica, or constellation mechanics.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 09:24 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Worlds
- This overstates the case. Steiner did use the Eastern-derived theosophical term 'Devachan,' but terms like 'etheric' and 'astral' already existed in Western vocabulary and Western esoteric traditions.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:58 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/happiness-research-doesnt-make-you
- This overstates the evidence. Recent systematic reviews of randomized trials find that exercise does reduce depressive symptoms on average, even after accounting for bias concerns.
- This presents a single-cause theory of depression that contradicts mainstream medical evidence. Depression is understood as a multifactorial disorder with genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological contributors.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:57 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/nootropics-a-fraught-but-promising
- This is backwards for inorganic arsenic: authoritative cancer agencies say there is sufficient evidence it is carcinogenic in experimental animals as well as humans.
- Blinded drug studies are plainly possible: many approved drugs, including pitolisant (WAKIX), were tested in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:55 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/why-culture-got-worse-after-the-00s-...
- This misstates the cited evidence. The review the article points to says the decline has multiple causes, and specifically says stricter parental rules and attitudes helped drive some of the decline in adolescent drinking.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:54 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/academias-prestige-will-nosedive
- This overstates how long the global fertility decline has been underway. Global total fertility did not begin a sustained decline in the 1950s; it stayed around five births per woman until the mid-to-late 1960s, then fell thereafter.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:47 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/most-accurate-national-iqs-possible
- The territory in South America is called French Guiana, not French Guinea. “French Guinea” refers to a former French colony in West Africa.
Substack Jul 27, 2026 at 08:47 PM
www.technotheoria.org/p/nicotine-it-works
- The claim that nicotine shows "no dose response relationship beyond 1mg" is contradicted by controlled human studies that found better cognitive performance at higher doses (for example, 2 mg outperforming 1 mg, and 4 mg outperforming placebo/2 mg on attention tasks).
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 08:30 PM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E7%BA%BF%E7%94%B5%E8%A7%86%E...
- CNN当前并非由“透納廣播公司”所有。CNN官方资料显示，它现在是华纳兄弟探索旗下的一个部门。
- 这条现任高管信息已过时。华纳兄弟探索现行官网显示，CNN Worldwide 的现任董事长兼 CEO 是 Mark Thompson，而不是 Jeff Zucker。
- “CNN Pipeline”早已不是 CNN 的现行在线收看方式。它是旧服务名称，CNN 现在通过 CNN.com、CNN app、订阅或电视运营商提供观看。
- 时代华纳并非在 1995 年完成并购 Turner。官方资料显示，这笔收购是在 1996 年 10 月 10 日完成的。
- 第二架被劫持的飞机撞上的不是北塔，而是南塔。官方 9/11 时间线均记载，9:03 a.m. 的 Flight 175 撞入 South Tower。
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 08:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN
- CNN’s live stream is no longer limited to pay-TV subscribers. CNN officially says you can also stream live news with a CNN All Access subscription.
- CNN’s own current fact sheet says it has 37 bureaus worldwide, not 42.
- CNN’s weekday schedule no longer starts with “CNN Headline Express.” CNN announced in January 2025 that the 5–6 a.m. ET slot is “5 Things with Rahel Solomon.”
- The network was MSNBC, not “MS NOW.” Contemporary 2021 ratings reports identify CNN’s competitor as MSNBC.
- The host’s name is Christiane Amanpour, not “Christine Amanpour.”
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 07:58 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covilh%C3%A3
- This is outdated. Covilhã’s current mayor is Hélio Jorge Simões Fazendeiro, not Vítor Manuel Pinheiro Pereira.
- This infobox entry is outdated. Covilhã’s municipal president is Hélio Jorge Simões Fazendeiro, not Vítor Manuel Pinheiro Pereira.
- The municipality of Covilhã has 21 civil parishes, not 31.
- This understates the number of primary/basic schools. The municipality’s official education pages list many more than three basic schools.
- This is incorrect. Reference works place Francisco Álvares’s death in or after his years in Italy/Rome, not on a voyage to Brazil.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 07:07 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Br%C3%A9ard
- Andrea Bréard’s official FAU CV lists her TU Munich research post only for 1991–August 1992, not 1992–2004.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 04:45 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia
- Ancient sources on the Taurians describe them sacrificing shipwrecked men, captured Greeks, or strangers—not bulls and virgins.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 10:25 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/220%E5%B9%B4
- 神功皇后通常被现代学界视为传说人物，这一“200年－270年”的摄政年代也被认为是虚构的传统纪年，而非可确认的历史在位时间。
- 这条年代表把霍斯羅夫一世的在位终点写成238年，但权威参考资料显示，提里达梯二世在217年就已获授亚美尼亚王位，因此霍斯羅夫一世不可能一直在位到238年。
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 08:39 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_fistulosum
- This is too late. Sources record common onion cultivation in China centuries—possibly millennia—before the 19th century, so the statement is inaccurate for East Asia as a whole.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 08:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_NEET_controversy
- NTA’s official result release says 11.21 lakh candidates qualified, not 110,000.
- CBI’s 12 May release said it had registered an FIR and formed teams, not that several people had already been arrested. Arrest announcements came in later releases.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 07:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Doom
- This cover is not from January 2020. Marvel lists Guardians of the Galaxy (2023) #1 as published on April 12, 2023, and Marvel announced the Alex Ross 'Timeless' villain variant program for 2023.
- 2019 was not Doctor Doom's first solo series. Marvel had already published the solo title Doom 2099 beginning in 1993.
Wikipedia Jul 27, 2026 at 07:12 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
- Leibniz did not discover binary arithmetic from Chinese texts. He had already developed his binary system by 1679 and only later connected it to the I Ching after correspondence with Joachim Bouvet.