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For #news #quiz inspiration this week, we mined The Conversation's weekly Curious Kids column, which tasks experts with answering questions posed by children.

Here's your first question – good luck!

If everyone on Earth got in the ocean and submerged themselves underwater at the same time, about how much would the world's sea level rise?

Check your answers and satisfy your curiosity, here: https://theconversation.com/the-conversation-u-s-weekly-news-quiz-189437?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=quiz


The Conversation U.S. weekly news quiz

Test your knowledge with a weekly quiz drawn from some of our favorite stories.
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  • The width of a human hair (81%, 109 votes)
  • The diameter of a baseball (10%, 14 votes)
  • The height of Herbert Hoover (2%, 3 votes)
  • The height of the Empire State Building (6%, 8 votes)
134 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

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The Conversation U.S.
The Conversation U.S.
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If you want to get that question right, read this 🌋 🗑️ https://theconversation.com/if-everyone-on-earth-sat-in-the-ocean-at-once-how-much-would-sea-level-rise-156626

If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise?

Even if every human being on Earth went for a dip in the ocean at the same time, they’d be just a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the planet’s seas.
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The Conversation U.S.
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And if you like that, we've got a new #podcast for kids (and adults with curiosity): https://pod.link/1736984532

The Conversation's Curious Kids

Kids ask the coolest questions! And on The Conversation’s Curious Kids, we get the brainiest people we can to answer them!  Every week, a curious kid joins host Eloise to ask the world’s top researchers their burning question – whether it’s about sp…
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Petra van Cronenburg
Petra van Cronenburg
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This podcast would have been my childhood's dream, so I bookmark it as an adult! 🥰
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The Conversation U.S.
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@kevinrns Not to the account running the poll. We don’t even see the usernames of the people who vote.

I have no idea about the backend, but it would be entirely out of character of the Mastodon software to do that.

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Kevin Russell
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I doubt there is much way to prevent the instance computer from knowing the poll IPs, so some portion of each of the thousands? of instances.

I am sure Mastodon is designed to not leakm and wonerful upgrades all the time.

But security is NOT Mastodon's big code assurance, commications is.

Dont think of Mastodon as secure, its a moderated non commercial lets-do-this project of volunteers.

Hidden links are allowed, no more secure than an email link.

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@kevinrns So don’t vote if you’re worried. I’m sure your sending a reply or favoriting also potentially exposes your instance IP as well.
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Kevin Russell
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I dont. I am not attacking you, I am asking questions, because there are reasons to ask questions. Mastodon DOES NOT do security very well, for example, Mastodon coders have said specifically. There is leakage in blocking, leakage in DMs.

I should have said:

"Does any know"

before asking my question

And VC money has been added to the Board of Mastodon, and Mastodon integrated with facebook and the criminal zucker. So questions.

So again sorry this felt like an attack

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