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Tuesday, 05/31/22, 11:30am SMA time
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This Tuesday (05/31/22) - Topics sensationalized:
Gettin' in the groove - Funny thing about ADHD - The Dissociative State. No, it's not Texas - More on new Brain Cancer treatment - Age-Related Memory Loss, how it happens - HIV Drug Helps memory loss - Repurposed Antibiotic to fight COVID - Hundreds of new drug tmay combat tuberculosis - Cranberries for memory - Lifespan & Animals - Accelerated Evolution - About time - Better vitamin D tomatoes with CRISPR - Of virgin mice & bananas - Hoisting Hummingbirds Higher - Death under a microscope - The rhythm of the Reefs - Hamsters into skinheads - Pompey victim DNA - The Brain, complexer and complexer - LIDAR & Amazon mounds - Antikythera starting date - Sugarcane waste repurposed - Gel for water in the desert - Longest Paper Plane Flight, Ever - The little Drone that could - Zapping Capacitors - Goin' with the flow - Plasma Turbulence Discovered - Thoughts about life on Titan - New Quantum Technique - Quantum Origins of Gravity
Today's links:
4 mins - The Flow State
https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-flow-state/
Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10R65sgKtZU3MwlDzM9iRJlFWYiY81e4v/view?usp=sharing
New Research Shows ADHD Medication Doesn’t Help Kids Learn
https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-shows-adhd-medication-doesnt-help-kids-learn/
Hunter versus farmer hypothesis - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesis
Relatable! Scientists Say You Likely Enter a "Dissociative State" While Scrolling Social Media
https://futurism.com/neoscope/social-media-dissocation
After 7 Years of Research, Scientists Have Discovered a New Treatment for Devastating Brain Tumors
Neuroscientists Discover Brain Mechanism Tied to Age-Related Memory Loss
https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-discover-brain-mechanism-tied-to-age-related-memory-loss/
HIV Drug Helps Memories Stay Connected With Age, Intriguing Mouse Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/hiv-drug-helps-memory-neurons-stay-connected-in-mouse-brains
Repurposed Antibiotic May Be an Effective COVID-19 Therapeutic
https://scitechdaily.com/repurposed-antibiotic-may-be-an-effective-covid-19-therapeutic/
New study reveals hundreds of new drug targets to combat tuberculosis
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-reveals-hundreds-drug-combat-tuberculosis.html
How Cranberries Could Improve Memory, Boost Brain Function, and Ward Off Dementia
6 mins - The lifespan secret: why giraffes live longer than ferrets - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjuZEG2vxTw
How Einstein changed time forever
8 mins - Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx2N-viNwY
Quantum weirdness could be the driving force behind DNA mutations | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/quantum-weirdness-could-be-the-driving-force-behind-dna-mutations/
Evolution May Be Happening Up to 4 Times Faster Than We Thought, Massive Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-may-be-happening-up-to-four-times-faster-than-we-thought
Scientists Use CRISPR to Seriously Boost Tomatoes' Vitamin D Levels
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-use-crispr-to-add-more-vitamin-d-to-tomatoes
Why Virgin Male Mice Are So Scared by The Smell of This Common Fruit
https://www.sciencealert.com/why-virgin-male-mice-are-so-scared-of-this-common-fruit
Scientists Took Hummingbirds Up a Mountain to See What Climate Change Would Do to Them
35 mins - A Microscopic Tour of Death | Compilation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMd5PYfTGhU
Coral Reefs Generate a Hidden Sound Underwater, And It Could Help Us to Save Them
Gene-Editing Experiments Have Turned Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Bullies - And Scientists Are Surprised
Researchers Sequence First Pompeian Human Genome | Sci-News.com
15 mins - Human Brain and Neurons Turn Out To Be Even More Complex Than We Thought - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tRMWFMV4mw
Forgotten Ruins of 'Monumental' Amazonian Settlements Discovered in Bolivian Jungle
https://www.sciencealert.com/ruins-of-monumental-settlements-uncovered-in-bolivian-jungle
6 mins - Lost beneath the leaves: Lasers reveal an ancient Amazonian civilization - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXrX0veR9Y
13 mins - More Antikythera Mechanism Secrets Revealed: What Was This Ancient Computer For? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjCFgSeYz_Y
9 minutes - How Plates Made From Sugarcane Could Help India's Plastic Problem | World Wide Waste - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcqCWiGyDvw
Low-Cost Gel Harvests Drinking Water From Dry Desert Air
https://scitechdaily.com/low-cost-gel-harvests-drinking-water-from-dry-desert-air/
Watch An Origami Team Break The World Record For The Longest Paper Plane Flight Ever
Ingenuity Was Supposed to Have Only 5 Flights. Watch Its Glorious 25th Flight on Mars!
13 mins - Blowing up Capacitors at 187,000FPS - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUxgmMDts4
19 mins - Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zI9sG3pjVU
High-Speed Moving Fusion Plasma Turbulence Discovered for the First Time in the World
Could Life Exist on Titan?| By Ayman Miazi | Predict
https://medium.com/predict/could-life-exist-on-titan-b2b7519e165e
Empirical Pantheo-Animism: Life on Titan?
https://pantheoanimist.blogspot.com/2008/12/life-on-titan.html
Empirical Pantheo-Animism: Why we may find life on Saturn's Moon Titan
https://pantheoanimist.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-we-may-find-life-on-saturns-moon.html
A New Quantum Technique Could Change How We Study The Universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-quantum-technique-could-change-how-we-study-the-universe
1hr 18mins - STN Member Dirk Bakker - Quantum Origins of Gravity
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his monthly heads-up for June. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
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Stephen Goodfellow