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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

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://bigthink.com/

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

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-happens-when-you-take-a-hummingbird-on-holiday-up-a-mountain

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

https://www.sciencealert.com/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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/gene-editing-experiments-have-turned-hamsters-into-hyper-aggressive-bullies-and-scientists-are-surprised/

Researchers Sequence First Pompeian Human Genome | Sci-News.com

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/first-pompeian-human-genome-10851.html#:~:text=Scientists%20from%20the%20United%20States,Mount%20Vesuvius%20in%2079%20CE.

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

https://wonderfulengineering.com/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!

https://www.sciencealert.com/ingenuity-was-supposed-to-fly-5-times-here-s-video-from-its-insane-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

https://scitechdaily.com/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

https://youtu.be/-OkwGDKoY0o

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