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This Tuesday (04/11/23) - Topics sensationalized!:
Monarchs and Painted Ladies - Guns'n COVID - Cure for 'double-jointedness' - Hope against fatty liver disease - Broccoli! - Muscle Pain or Fatigue From Statins? - Antifragile kids - Hallucinogenic Drugs used 3,600 Years Ago - Math Formula For Achieving a Male Orgasm - Chernobyl Dogs, Rapid Evolution - Methane's Unexpected Cooling Impact - Ice Sheets Can Collapse 20 times Faster - Earth's Population Start Falling? - Nature's unusual moments - Collective Stupidity - Sinking of the Vasa - AI stuff - Bard - 2024 Total Solar Eclipse - Deep field Galaxies and JWST - Uranus Ice Rings - Cosmic Tadpole - Cooking Up Plasmas With Microwaves
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(From last week we didn't get to)
Bed Bugs - Saturn's rings - Wikipedia Founder; It Should Be Written By AI - A new Open-Source ChatGPT - Rich and influential people want to put the brakes on ChatGPT
If you've been awe-struck and feel generous, here's my $$$ PayPal $$$
Today's links:
8 mins - The Amazing Journey of the Monarch Butterfly - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEXhI8VQ9W4
Larry's COVID Data & Commentary
Study: Those who avoided COVID-19 precautions early in the pandemic are more likely to buy firearms
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-covid-precautions-early-pandemic-buy.html
Could a vitamin deficiency cause 'double-jointedness' and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?
New drug treats fatty liver disease in animal models, brings hope for first human treatment
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-drug-fatty-liver-disease-animal.html
A True “Superfood” – New Study Indicates That Eating Broccoli Protects Gut Lining, Reduces Disease
Muscle Pain or Fatigue From Statins? What Cholesterol Patients Need To Know
https://scitechdaily.com/muscle-pain-or-fatigue-from-statins-what-cholesterol-patients-need-to-know/
10 mins - Want antifragile kids? Get out of their way - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/raise-resilient-kids/
Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago : ScienceAlert
Researchers Just Developed a Math Formula For Achieving a Male Orgasm : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-developed-a-math-formula-for-achieving-a-male-orgasm
Chernobyl Dogs Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Biologists Say
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a43457220/chernobyl-dogs-dna-evolution/
Climate Science Shock: Methane's Unexpected Cooling Impact Unveiled
https://scitechdaily.com/climate-science-shock-methanes-unexpected-cooling-impact-unveiled/
20 Times Quicker – Ice Sheets Can Collapse Far Faster Than Previously Thought Possible
Earth's Population Could Soon Start Falling. Here's Why : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-population-could-soon-start-falling-heres-why
5 mins - One In a Billion Moments In Nature - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X73Eiad0JmM
17 mins - Collective Stupidity -- How Can We Avoid It? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kqobiv4ng&t=1097s
14 mins - Sinking of the Vasa - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoHL8467ba8
Levi's Is Going To Start Using AI Models To 'Supplement' Human models
https://wonderfulengineering.com/levis-is-going-to-start-using-ai-models-to-supplement-human-models/
This Programmer Hooked Up ChatGPT To A Furby - And It Says It wants to take overr the World
GPT-4 Becomes More Accurate When It Is Asked To Critique Itself report says
15 mins - STN member Edward Hug - GPT 4 Can Improve Itself - (ft. Reflexion, HuggingGPT, Bard Upgrade and much more) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SgJKZLBrmg
Google's AI Bard
https://bard.google.com/
Bill Gates Says Pausing AI Development Won't Solve Any Challenges
https://wonderfulengineering.com/bill-gates-says-pausing-ai-development-wont-solve-any-challenges/
New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient's Ailments Like a Human Colleague
https://futurism.com/neoscope/ai-gives-advice-patients-doctors-trust
Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
400 million years - Journey to the Edge of Time: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Most Distant Galaxies
8 mins - Universe breaking galaxies that should not exist! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eDGjAFqCYw
Dazzling Rings and Dynamic Atmosphere Stun in Webb’s Spectacular New View of Ice Giant Uranus
Mysterious Cosmic Tadpole: A Strange Gas Cloud Dances With a Colossal Black Hole
From Warzone to Fusion Power: Breakthrough in Cooking Up Plasmas With Microwaves
Short - Microwaving grapes makes plasma - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LY6xeFpBeMQ
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24 mins - Bed Bugs- What You've Been Told is Totally False - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8
6 mins -The Wisdom of Teeth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVKVEWX5i6U
Does Nothingness Exist, or Is It an Impossible Concept?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43337132/what-is-nothingness/
Saturn's rings are raining down particles on its atmosphere | Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/saturn-rings-atmosphere/
Wikipedia Founder Says Maybe It Should Be Written By AI Too
https://wonderfulengineering.com/wikipedia-founder-says-maybe-it-should-be-written-by-ai-too/
This New ChatGPT Alternative Is Free And Open-Source - Wonde
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-new-chatgpt-alternative-is-free-and-open-source/
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak And 1,122 Other People Have Signed an open letter calling for a halt to AI development
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his April 2023 heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.
SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.
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Best,
Stephen Goodfellow