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This Tuesday (02/28/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

Names Don't Constitute Knowledge - carolina Bays - 2,200-Year-Old Chinese Flush Toilet - Function of Telomeres -  Your brain and its taste in art - First Lab-Grown Tenderloin - Justice Department Let Farmers Repair their own tractors - Extinct Animals - WEIRD Geosynchronous Orbits - Humans Landing on Mars? -  Wearable Beanbag, Lie Down Anywhere - Dicks Are Getting Longer - Vikings in America up to 1021 - The oceans, the Ice and Us - Turkey Earthquake aftermath - Penrose Tiles Never Repeat -  90% reduction in Steelmaking emissions - 2.9 Million-Year-Old Toolkit - How brilliant was Einstein?  - The Big Bang thingee; reports published! - Lots of ChatGPT stuff - Editing with Google Earth - 82% of Mexico is Empty - Ancient builders of the Amazon

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Today's links:


2 mins -  STN member Hugh Hutner - Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s


Larry's COVID Data   &  Commentary


Subjects - Carolina Bays - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carolina+Bays


6 mins - What’s Up With the Weird Pockmarks Up and Down the East Coast? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDd2n5ClZ8



2,200-Year-Old Flush Toilet Found in China Likely One of The Oldest Ever Discovered : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/2200-year-old-flush-toilet-found-in-china-likely-one-of-the-oldest-ever-discovered


New Study Reveals Yet Another Surprising Function of Telomeres : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-telomere-discovery-could-change-our-understanding-of-aging-and-cancer


How the brain creates your taste in art

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-brain-art.html


13 mins - Could One Physics Theory Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A


This Swiss Startup Has Developed The World's First Lab-Grown Tenderloin Steak

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-swiss-startup-has-developed-the-worlds-first-lab-grown-tenderloin-steak/


The U.S Justice Department Wants John Deere To Let Farmers Repait their own tractors

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-u-s-justice-department-wants-john-deere-to-let-farmers-repair-their-own-tractors/


5 mins -  Best of the Extinct Animals ft. David Attenborough | Nature Bites - YouTube

https://youtu.be/gUIMDZOHBF8?t=106


5 mins -Geosynchronous Orbits are WEIRD - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI8OqpkOVzs


8 mins - What Challenges Will Humans Face Landing on Mars? | How the Universe Works | Science Channel - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK6hm42whA8


This New Wearable Beanbag Allows You To Lie Down Anywhere An

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-wearable-beanbag-allows-you-to-lie-down-anywhere-and-everywhere/


Dicks Are Getting Longer and Scientists Don't Know Why

https://futurism.com/neoscope/penis-length-increase


Vikings lived in North America by at least the year 1021

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vikings-north-america-date-newfoundland


New finding provides better understanding of oceans' capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-oceans-capacity-absorb-atmospheric-carbon.html


America's coastal cities are a hidden time bomb - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/coastal-cities-housing-sea-level-flooding-climate-change/673106/


Before Human-Made Climate Change, Was Earth Actually in a Cooling Phase? : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/before-human-made-climate-change-was-earth-actually-in-a-cooling-phase


* 30 mins - Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate - YouTube

https://youtu.be/Yze1YAz_LYM?t=1144


The Turkey-Syria Earthquake Caused The Deaths Of Whales All

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-turkey-syria-earthquake-caused-the-deaths-of-whales-all-the-way-in-cyprus/


3 mins  - Turkey-Syria earthquake ripped huge chasm in what was once an olive field near Antakya | ITV News - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDvo-xTinY


7 mins - Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eqdj63nEr4


12 mins - New breakthrough claims 90% reduction in Steelmaking emissions. - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX80JkuzfTE


Scientists Have Found A 2.9 Million-Year-Old Toolkit In Kenya here is what's in it

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-have-found-a-2-9-million-year-old-toolkit-in-kenya-here-is-whats-in-it/


8 mins - Robert Baines - How brilliant was Einstein? | Andrew Strominger and Lex Fridman - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3a83brvMg0&t=1s


* SciTechNature - 10-16-18 Galaxies too close to the big bang

https://sites.google.com/site/scitecnature/2018-scitechnature/10-16-18-t-miswa---extended-news-r-lerner---extended-new-items?authuser=0


Paper: "A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang" - Nature,  Published: 22 February 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2

* [Clipped] Neil Degrasse - Deep field images -  2022 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/D7zRrqqbc9c?t=318


* [Clipped] Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse says 'there is nothing wrong with not knowing' - YouTube

https://youtu.be/qjo7VrR3puA?t=97


Today’s news headlines:

“Webb Telescope Finds Evidence of Massive Galaxies That Defy Theories of the Early Universe” - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-discovers-enormous-distant-galaxies-that-should-not-exist/


“'We just discovered the impossible': Giant young galaxies shake up our understanding of the early universe” - Astronomy

https://astronomy.com/news/2023/02/giant-young-galaxies-shake-up-our-understanding-of-the-early-universe


“Study Confirms: Webb Telescope Debunks the Big-Bang Theory” - The Trumpet

https://www.thetrumpet.com/27091-study-confirms-webb-telescope-debunks-the-big-bang-theory


The six candidate galaxies could rewrite the current understanding of the early universe and how galaxies form.” - DW
https://www.dw.com/en/james-webb-telescope-uncovers-giant-galaxies-near-big-bang/a-64790588


“James Webb spots ‘universe-breaking’ massive early galaxies” - Digital Trends

https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/james-webb-early-massive-galaxies/


“Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe” - Science Daily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230223181829.htm


“In Massive Galactic Discovery, Webb Spots Super Old Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist – “It’s Bananas!” - SciTech Daily

https://scitechdaily.com/in-massive-galactic-discovery-webb-spots-super-old-galaxies-that-shouldnt-exist-its-bananas/


12 mins - This AI Chrome Extension Is Amazing! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80eizs-ak8


ChatGPT AI Is Now Writing Church Sermons - And Giving Headaches to Pastors

https://wonderfulengineering.com/chatgpt-ai-is-now-writing-church-sermons-and-giving-headaches-to-pastors/


OpenAI CEO Says AI Will Give Advice To People Who Can't Afford doctors

https://wonderfulengineering.com/openai-ceo-says-ai-will-give-advice-to-people-who-cant-afford-doctors/


China Is Banning Companies From Using ChatGPT Services - Won

https://wonderfulengineering.com/china-is-banning-companies-from-using-chatgpt-services/


More Than 60 Nations Have Agreed To Regulate The Use Of AI In warfare

https://wonderfulengineering.com/more-than-60-nations-have-agreed-to-regulate-the-use-of-ai-in-warfare/


This Sci-Fi Magazine Is Shutting Down Submissions After An O

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-sci-fi-magazine-is-shutting-down-submissions-after-an-onslaught-of-ai-posts/


21 mins - Why Buy ChatGPT Plus If Bing Does It For Free? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYX1BFg84Hw


Google Is Being Accused Of Using AI To Decide Which Employee

https://wonderfulengineering.com/google-is-being-accused-of-using-ai-to-decide-which-employees-to-fire/


10 mins -  Google Earth Studio Zoom Transition Tutorial - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2B_3PaMuU


30 mins - Why 82% of Mexico is Empty - YouTube

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


1 hr (Not available in Mexico, Use  a VPN) Ancient Builders of the Amazon | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS - YouTube

https://youtu.be/dY82nZTxXQ4?t=10904


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

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