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This Tuesday (02/14/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

Playing animals - Larry COVID data and comments - Most Long COVID Effects Resolve Within a Year - The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square - The neuroscience of loving music - Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities - Sports Cars, Small Penis Size - NASA Has Mapped Earthquake -  New Buildings Collaps in the  Turkey Earthquake - New Earthquake Prediction Model Unveiled - $100 million fund for big medical breakthroughs - Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Work?  - Mushrooms Discovered To Magnify Memory by Boosting - Borders changed by changing rivers - Greenland, Hottest in 1000 Years - Peru's Ancient Solar Observatory - Largest Penguin That Ever Lived - Largest Dinosaurs Ever - Arthropods collectively weigh a butt load -  2.9-million-year-old butchery site - Humans in Spain 200,000 years earlier - Will Your Dog Answer wolves? - Smartwatch powered by slime - World's Wealthiest May Actually Be Less Intelligent - What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? - China Spots An Unknown Flying Object - Shootin' Balloons - A ‘Weaponized’ Starlink - AI Text to 4D - Copyright Case with Big Implications for U.S. Tech Innovation -  A.I. to replace half of all US jobs - GPT to Have adverse environmental impacts - ChatGPT’s Stunning Results on the US Medical Licensing Exam - ChatGPT Is Just A High-Tech Tool For Plagiarism - Exams ChatGPT Has Passed So Far - AI Has Outwits Human Players In the game 'Diplomacy'.


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Today's links:


Do All Animals Play? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hhNl4sR-4


Larry's COVID Data and Commentary


Good News: Most Long COVID Effects Resolve Within a Year After a Mild Infection

https://scitechdaily.com/good-news-most-long-covid-effects-resolve-within-a-year-after-a-mild-infection/


STN member Bill Warren - The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square - In the Media | Institute for Advanced Study

https://www.ias.edu/news/2023/quest-find-rectangles-square


7 mins - The neuroscience of loving music - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/series/explain-it-like-im-smart/your-brain-on-music/


How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-our-reality-may-be-a-sum-of-all-possible-realities-20230206/


Scientists Officially Link Sports Cars to Small Penis Size

https://futurism.com/neoscope/sports-cars-penis-size


NASA Has Mapped The Extent Of The Turkey-Syria Earthquake -

https://wonderfulengineering.com/nasa-has-mapped-the-extent-of-the-turkey-syria-earthquake-and-it-is-being-called-the-disaster-of-the-century/


Why Even New Buildings Collapsed During the Turkey Earthquakes

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a42827498/turkey-earthquake-building-collapses/


Revolutionizing Disaster Prevention: New Earthquake Prediction Model Unveiled by Scientists

https://scitechdaily.com/revolutionizing-disaster-prevention-new-earthquake-prediction-model-unveiled-by-scientists/


6 mins -The $100 million fund fostering the next big medical breakthroughs - YouTube

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


Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Work? Study Finds Meal Frequency Matters More Than Timing

https://scitechdaily.com/does-intermittent-fasting-actually-work-study-finds-meal-frequency-matters-more-than-timing/


Compound in Mushrooms Discovered To Magnify Memory by Boosting Nerve Growth

https://scitechdaily.com/compound-in-mushrooms-discovered-to-magnify-memory-by-boosting-nerve-growth/


10 mins - Borders - BBC Reel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0f0tbmh/the-border-town-that-forgot-it-was-part-of-the-us


The Hottest in 1000 Years – Greenland’s Unprecedented Heat

https://scitechdaily.com/the-hottest-in-1000-years-greenlands-unprecedented-heat/


7 mins -  Peru's Ancient Solar Observatory - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2K6QwYYBM


New Species Discovered: The Largest Penguin That Ever Lived

https://scitechdaily.com/new-species-discovered-the-largest-penguin-that-ever-lived/


Belonging to Some of the Largest Dinosaurs Ever: Researchers Uncover 92 Fossil Nests

https://scitechdaily.com/belonging-to-some-of-the-largest-dinosaurs-ever-researchers-uncover-92-fossil-nests/


All The Arthropods That Call Earth's Land Home Weigh More Than Humans And Livestock : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/all-the-arthropods-that-call-earths-land-home-weigh-more-than-humans-and-livestock


2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools: Discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones in Kenya offers window into the dawn of stone technology -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230209141458.htm


Footprints indicate human were present in Spain 200,000 years earlier than previously thought - The Archaeology News Network

https://archaeonewsnet.com/2022/11/footprints-indicate-human-were-present-in-spain-200000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought.html


The Wilderness Is Calling – Will Your Dog Answer? Extraordinary Research on Dogs’ Reactions to Wolf Howls

https://scitechdaily.com/the-wilderness-is-calling-will-your-dog-answer-extraordinary-research-on-dogs-reactions-to-wolf-howls/


Scientists create living smartwatch powered by slime

https://timeandtidewatches.com/scientists-create-living-smartwatch-powered-by-slime/


World's Wealthiest May Actually Be Less Intelligent Than Those Who Don't Earn As Much : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-wealthiest-may-actually-be-less-intelligent-than-those-who-dont-earn-as-much


22 mins - What's  Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4mH3Hmw2o


China Has Spotted An Unknown Flying Object And Is Considering shooting them down

https://wonderfulengineering.com/china-has-spotted-an-unknown-flying-object-and-is-considering-shooting-it-down/


20 mins - Shootin' Balloons: A History of Balloon Panic - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqC9ICdfhQM


SpaceX President Says Ukraine Has ‘Weaponized’ Starlink

https://wonderfulengineering.com/spacex-president-says-ukraine-has-weaponized-starlink/


6 mins -  Video NeRF + Text To 3D = Text To 4D!? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77y3PrlGb8


STB member Bill Warren - The Supreme Court is Set to Hear a Copyright Case with Big Implications for U.S. Tech Innovation

https://ipwatchdog.com/2022/08/15/supreme-court-set-hear-copyright-case-big-implications-u-s-tech-innovation/id=150902/


The economist who predicted that A.I. would replace half of all US jobs now says ChatGPT is the equivalent of Uber disrupting the taxi market—and it could lead to lower wages | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2023/02/07/chatgpt-economist-says-disrupt-job-market-lower-wages-ai/


Turns Out That Using ChatGPT In Search Engines Would Have adverse environmental impacts

https://wonderfulengineering.com/turns-out-that-using-chatgpt-in-search-engines-would-have-adverse-environmental-impacts/


The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT’s Stunning Results on the US Medical Licensing Exam

https://scitechdaily.com/the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-chatgpts-stunning-results-on-the-us-medical-licensing-exam/


Noam Chomsky Says ChatGPT Is Just A High-Tech Tool For Plagiarism and avoiding learning

https://wonderfulengineering.com/noam-chomsky-says-chatgpt-is-a-high-tech-tool-for-plagiarism-and-avoiding-learning/


Here’s A List Of Some Of The Exams ChatGPT Has Passed So Far

https://wonderfulengineering.com/heres-a-list-of-some-of-the-exams-chatgpt-has-passed-so-far/


Meta's AI Has Outwitted Human Players In Diplomacy - The First AI ever to do so

https://wonderfulengineering.com/metas-ai-has-outwitted-human-players-in-diplomacy-the-first-ai-to-ever-do-it/



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