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This Tuesday (03/28/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

Shooting Spiderwebs - Larry's COVID and Comments - Volcanic smoke rings, and the others - Beethoven's DNA - Purple Vegetables - Detection and Cure for High Blood Pressure -  (You just can't make titles like this up): Bomb-sniffing rodents undergo 'weird' vaginal transformations -  Tossing and turning judo athletes can't get good sleep - (Homelessness is good for you?) 16 Evidence-Based Benefits of Being Outdoors - Cure for Sleeping sickness at hand - Experimental Pill Cures Cancer In 18 Patients - Mosquitoes No More? - Train Derailment Has Resulted In The Death Of 45,000 animals - Endangered Vultures Returns to Bulgaria - New Way To Prevent Vision Loss - Lake In Tanzania Turns Animals into stone - This Drone Will Change Everything - Alien mothership ln solar system watching us with probes, says Pentagon official - Harvard Physicist Prepares Expedition To Recover an alien artifact - A bunch of AI stuff - What is wrong with current physics - Big Bang stuff - Photosynthesis "Hack" Paves Way for Renewable Energy - Scientists Debunk Controversial Theory of Stonehenge as a Solar Calendar - 1,000-plus years of tree rings confirm 2021 western North America hottest year - Greenland Ice Sheet close to no return melting point - Arizona Cave Frozen in Time - Powdered Beer - Scientists Discover Giant Metal Ball In The Earth - Bases in DNA and RNA found in meteorites - Sam Altman bangs on about ChatGPT4 


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Today's links:


4 mins - Real-Life Spider Shoots Web 25 Metres Long! | The Hunt | BBC Earth - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRkwuAcUd4


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


Larry's COVID Data  &  Commentary


STN member Larry Dworsky - 2 high schoolers say they've found a proof for the Pythagorean theorem which mathematicians thought was impossible

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-high-schoolers-theyve-found-145534941.html


STN member Bill Warren How Do Volcanic Smoke Rings Form? New Clues in the Vapor.

https://vuink.com/post/algvzrf-d-dpbz/2023/03/21/science/volcanoes-smoke-rings-vapor-d-dhtml



STN member Bill Warren - Volcano blows smoke rings - Stromboli in eruption Jan 2019 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8rRtfp_54



Spectacular, incredible, amazing.. rarely seen smoke rings at Mt Etna - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbV98Z0QP-k



Smoke-rings and the Plasma

http://goodfelloweb.com/nature/plasma/index.html


Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 195 - YouTube

https://youtu.be/EVbdbVhzcM4?t=379


Dolphin blowing bubble rings - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NdY9sZ8Wk


Ludwig van Beethoven's genome sheds light on chronic health problems and cause of death -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230322140929.htm


Researchers Discover That Purple Vegetables and Fruits Have Anti-Diabetic Properties

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-that-purple-vegetables-and-fruits-have-anti-diabetic-properties/


10-Minute Scan Enables Detection and Cure of Common Cause of High Blood Pressure

https://scitechdaily.com/10-minute-scan-enables-detection-and-cure-of-common-cause-of-high-blood-pressure/


Bomb-sniffing rodents undergo 'weird' vaginal transformations

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-bomb-sniffing-rodents-weird-vaginal.html


Tossing and turning: Elite judo athletes struggle with poor sleep quality

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-tossing-elite-judo-athletes-struggle.html


16 Evidence-Based Benefits of Being Outdoors – Well-Being Secrets

https://www.well-beingsecrets.com/benefits-of-being-outside/


Sleeping sickness is nearing elimination. An experimental drug could help

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleeping-sickness-elimination-experimental-drug-africa


This New Experimental Pill Has Cured Cancer In 18 Patients Already

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-experimental-pill-has-cured-cancer-in-18-patients-already/


Mosquitoes No More? New Research Could Help Control Infectious Pests

https://scitechdaily.com/mosquitoes-no-more-new-research-could-help-control-infectious-pests/


The Ohio Train Derailment Has Resulted In The Death Of 45,000 animals

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-ohio-train-derailment-has-resulted-in-the-death-of-45000-animals/


Considered Extinct for 36 Years: Endangered Vulture Returns to Bulgaria

https://scitechdaily.com/considered-extinct-for-36-years-endangered-vulture-returns-to-bulgaria/


Incredible Potential: A New Way To Prevent Common Causes of Vision Loss

https://scitechdaily.com/incredible-potential-a-new-way-to-prevent-common-causes-of-vision-loss/


This Bizarre Lake In Tanzania Instantly Turns Animals That Touch it into stone

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-bizarre-lake-in-tanzania-instantly-turns-animals-that-touch-it-into-stome/


31 mins - Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU


Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests | Space

https://www.space.com/alien-mothership-lurking-in-solar-system-pentagon-official-suggests


This Harvard Physicist Is Preparing An Expedition To Recover a possible alien artefact

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-harvard-physicist-is-preparing-an-expedition-to-recover-a-possible-alien-artifact/


[Clipped] Background radiation Should We Abandon the Big Bang Theory? - Eric Lerner / Claudia Maraston Debate - YouTube

https://youtu.be/aFVZqDo6R_A?t=908


[Clipped] 28 mins - JWST Found Six "Impossible" Galaxies. Here's What The Researchers Have To Say - YouTube

https://youtu.be/xPK9kF2tqfk?t=1320


Expansion size - Tolman surface brightness test - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman_surface_brightness_test


The Tolman Surface Brightness Test for the Reality of the Expansion. IV. A Measurement of the Tolman Signal and the Luminosity Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106566


How to prove the Big Bang with an old TV set - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-old-tv/


[Clipped] Background radiation Should We Abandon the Big Bang Theory? - Eric Lerner / Claudia Maraston Debate - YouTube

https://youtu.be/aFVZqDo6R_A?t=908


[Clipped] JWST Images Raise Questions about the Big Bang - YouTube

https://youtu.be/d6G6IXrLSg0?t=277


Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#History


Scientists Debunk Controversial Theory of Stonehenge as a Solar Calendar

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-debunk-controversial-theory-of-stonehenge-as-a-solar-calendar/


Ingenious Photosynthesis "Hack" Paves Way for Renewable Energy Breakthroughs

https://scitechdaily.com/ingenious-photosynthesis-hack-paves-way-for-renewable-energy-breakthroughs/


1,000-plus years of tree rings confirm historic extremity of 2021 western North America heat wave

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-plus-years-tree-historic-extremity.html


The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-greenland-ice-sheet.html


10 mins - A Cave in Arizona Is Frozen in Time! | Underground Marvels | Science Channel - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRvqZu9W6hs


Google's New AI Says Google Is A Monopoly And The Government should break it up

https://wonderfulengineering.com/googles-new-ai-says-google-is-a-monopoly-and-the-government-should-break-it-up/


Google And Microsoft Chatbots Are Already Citing One Another

https://wonderfulengineering.com/google-and-microsoft-chatbots-are-already-citing-one-another-and-generating-misinformation/


AI Art Generators Have Finally Figured Out The One Thing That kept holding them back

https://wonderfulengineering.com/ai-art-generators-have-finally-figured-out-the-one-thing-that-kept-holding-them-back/


This German Brewery Has Created The World's First Powdered Beer

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-german-brewery-has-created-the-worlds-first-powdered-beer/


Scientists Have Discovered A Giant Metal Ball Inside The Earth's core

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-giant-metal-ball-inside-the-earths-core/


All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites


29 mins - What is wrong with current physics | Eric Lerner, Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, and more! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYN9GWS1xjM


2 hrs 23 mins -  Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw


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

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