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This Tuesday (01/24/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

Mongooses & Warthogs - Bernie Reim Feb Astronomy - Larry's COVID & Reviews - How to NOT handle COVID - The proposed Ban on Gas Stoves - New Sleep Apnea Drug - Anti-Aging Treatments, Limited Impact - Statins, New Potential Benefits - Double your Brain Power - Intermittent Fasting Extends Life Spans - Split-second of evolutionary cellular change - Mammoth Extinction not so fast - Do humans have souls? - Rice Harvesting, 10,000 Years Ago – Rice Breeding Breakthrough Could Feed Billions - What ChatGPT and Future of Artificial Intelligence - College Student Outsmarts Chat GPT - Spotting AI-Generated Art - Amazo, soon More Robot Employees Than Humans - The Great Drowning of Men - UFO-like Cloud Formation - Dust & Magnetism - Cosmic Magnetic Fields - Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance - Solar-Powered Reactor coverts it all into good stuff - Battery-powered urban flight - Abandoned Railway Tunnel In Australia Glowing Blue - Green Comet Will Appear - Working In The Metaverse? A nightmare - Bell's old recordings come to life - Salts on Ceres - See Through Walls with Wi-Fi - Nuclear Propulsion Concept, to reach Mars In 45 days - 1859 Carrington Event revisited.


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Today's links:


Mongooses Give Warthogs a Spa Day | Serengeti III | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrDZhDq_H0


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his February 2023 heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site


Larry's Covid

and article reviews


5 mins - STN member Robert Baines - How Not To Handle COVID: Chinese Edition - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-g1_e3iezk&t=1s

The U.S Is Considering A Ban On Gas Stoves

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-u-s-is-considering-a-ban-on-gas-stoves/


STN member Bill Krajec - Home Cooking - Doomberg

https://doomberg.substack.com/p/home-cooking


New Sleep Apnea Drug Shows Promising Results in Human Trials

https://scitechdaily.com/new-sleep-apnea-drug-shows-promising-results-in-human-trials/


Not Effective? Popular Anti-Aging Treatments Shown To Have a Limited Impact on Aging

https://scitechdaily.com/not-effective-popular-anti-aging-treatments-shown-to-have-a-limited-impact-on-aging/


Scientists Identify New Potential Benefits of Statins Beyond Lowering Cholesterol

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-identify-new-potential-benefits-of-statins-beyond-lowering-cholesterol/


6 mins - How to double your brain power - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/build-a-second-brain/


How Intermittent Fasting Extends Life Spans – Time-Restricted Eating Reshapes Gene Expression Throughout the Body

https://scitechdaily.com/how-intermittent-fasting-extends-life-spans-time-restricted-eating-reshapes-gene-expression-throughout-the-body/


Split-second of evolutionary cellular change could have led to mammals, suggests new hypothesis

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-split-second-evolutionary-cellular-mammals-hypothesis.html


New Study Refutes Current Timeline of Mammoth Extinction

https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-refutes-current-timeline-of-mammoth-extinction/


8 mins - Ask a physicist: Do humans have souls? - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/series/great-question/do-humans-have-souls/


10,000 Years Ago – Ancient Stone Tools Provide the Earliest Evidence of Rice Harvesting

https://scitechdaily.com/10000-years-ago-ancient-stone-tools-provide-the-earliest-evidence-of-rice-harvesting/


This Rice Breeding Breakthrough Could Feed Billions And Solve food shortages

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-rice-breeding-breakthrough-could-feed-billions-and-solve-food-shortages/


14 mins - What ChatGPT Could Mean for the Future of Artificial Intelligence - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5dN72GTQ8&t=17s


This College Student Has Created An App That Can Outsmart Chat GPT

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-college-student-has-created-an-app-that-can-outsmart-chatgpt/


How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-spot-generative-ai-art-according-to-artists/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_31325761-bd08-4211-bc5d-4fe60b30a7a9_popular4-1


Amazon Could Soon Have More Robot Employees Than Humans

https://wonderfulengineering.com/amazon-could-soon-have-more-robot-employees-than-humans/


20 mins - Grote Mandrenke: The Great Drowning of Men - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWsMFS77X8&t=5s


Bizarre UFO-like Cloud Formation Appears Over Turkey And Bafflers everyone

https://wonderfulengineering.com/bizarre-ufo-like-cloud-formation-appears-over-turkey-and-baffles-everyone/


Particle simulation of the strong magnetic field effect on dust particle charging process | Scientific Reports

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28310-y


The Mechanism Of Cosmic Magnetic Fields Explored in the Laboratory

https://www.newswise.com/doescience/the-mechanism-of-cosmic-magnetic-fields-explored-in-the-laboratory/?article_id=785336


13 mins - The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0TuIPoeBs


This Solar-Powered Reactor Converted Plastic And Greenhouse gasses into sustainable fuels for the very first time

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-solar-powered-reactor-converted-plastic-and-greenhouse-gases-into-sustainable-fuels-for-the-very-first-time/


15 mins - The dawn of battery-powered urban flight | Challengers - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaeNyrt5g-I


This Abandoned Railway Tunnel In Australia Glows Blue In The dark

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-abandoned-railway-tunnel-in-australia-glows-blue-in-the-dark/


A Once In A Generation Green Comet Will Appear Next Month -

https://wonderfulengineering.com/a-once-in-a-generation-green-comet-will-appear-next-month-here-is-how-you-can-see-it/


People Forced To Work In The Metaverse Are Saying That It's actually a nightmare

https://wonderfulengineering.com/people-forced-to-work-in-the-metaverse-are-saying-that-its-actually-a-nightmare/


The Scientists Are Restoring Hundreds Of The World’s Oldest sound recorrdings by Alexander Graham Bell

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-scientists-are-restoring-hundreds-of-the-worlds-oldest-sound-recordings-by-alexander-graham-bell/


8 mins - Planetary Geologists Find Salts on the Dwarf Planet Ceres | How The Universe Works | Science Channel - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWVQfkvHOeQ


This New Tech Can See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-tech-can-see-through-walls-using-wi-fi/


This New NASA Nuclear Propulsion Concept Could Reach Mars In just 45 days

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-nasa-nuclear-propulsion-concept-could-reach-mars-in-just-45-days/


17 mins - The 1859 Carrington Event - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYR6EPlPDPU


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his January 2023 heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.

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