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This Tuesday (05/02/23) - Topics sensationalized!:
Fungi That Control The Insects They Eat - Larry's COVID Data & Commentary - Wastewater reveals psychoactive drugs - Fried food = anxiety and depression - acts of kindness are frequent - High school students find brain tumor drug - New Tech to Slash Organ Transplant Waiting - cut police-public shootings by 50%? - Solar Airplane flies Itself for months - Predicting and curing all diseases? - Existing antibiotics can cure superbugs - Beetles Found in Dinosaur Feathers - Dandelions a lifeline for bees - Blink - Oldest known projectile points in the Americas - Birds Are Not Normal - If a Whale Swallowed a Poisonous Pufferfish? - Nature Therapy for Veterans - 20,000 previously unknown deep-sea mountains found - AI Now Has Vision - too many AI articles to put here, scroll to links - Can the dark matter puzzle be solved? - About Sex in Space - NASA Reinvents Wheel - England’s Seaside Underground Tunnels - Where human civilization is headed - Earth and Venus are TWINS? - Floating Islands of Avatar's Pandora - Humanoid and Legged Robotics
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Today's links:
12 mins - True Facts: Fungi That Control The Insects They Eat - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaYRSW76Mg
Larry's latest COVID Data & Commentary
Wastewater samples reveal new psychoactive drugs
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-wastewater-samples-reveal-psychoactive-drugs.html
Frequent fried food consumption linked to anxiety and depression
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-frequent-fried-food-consumption-linked.html
Small acts of kindness are frequent and universal, study finds: Around the world, research reveals, people help each other about every 2 minutes -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230424162911.htm
High school student researchers find new brain tumor drug targets using AI
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-high-school-student-brain-tumor.html
Frost Fight: New Tech to Slash Organ Transplant Waiting Lists - proto.life
https://proto.life/2023/04/frost-fight-new-tech-to-slash-organ-transplant-waiting-lists/
11 mins - Can this tech cut police-public shootings by 50%? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FSHwJp1aY
This Solar-Powered Airplane Can Fly Itself — And Stay In The air for months at a time
6 mins - What if we could predict—and cure—all diseases? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/the-well/the-cure-for-everything/
New test reveals existing antibiotics, hiding in plain sight on pharmacy shelves, can cure superbugs
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-reveals-antibiotics-plain-sight-pharmacy.html
4 mins - Symbiotic Beetles Found in Dinosaur Feathers Trapped in Amber | 7 Days of Science - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yf_0XBvcM
Dandelions are a lifeline for bees on the brink. We should learn to love them, says researcher
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-dandelions-lifeline-bees-brink.html
Why did humans evolve to blink?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/blinking-evolution-humans-fish
Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas - The Archaeology News Network
11 mins - It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxA38gH8Gj4
10 mins - What If a Whale Swallowed a Poisonous Pufferfish? ---- Tetrodotoxin explained - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcmaf4cLCIg
Why Nature-Based Therapy Is Gaining Traction Among Veterans | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
Satellite data reveal nearly 20,000 previously unknown deep-sea mountains
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-data-unknown-oceans-sea-mountains
Satellite data reveal nearly 20,000 previously unknown deep-sea mountains
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-data-unknown-oceans-sea-mountains
13 mins - AI Now Has Vision! - MiniGPT-4 Vision Language Model - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAjrpYjx0ps
Artificial intelligence may predict heart attacks
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-artificial-intelligence-heart.html
AI 'godfather' quits Google over dangers of Artificial Intelligence - BBC News
https://youtu.be/DsBGaHywRhs
Artificial intelligence detects fractures on CT images for osteoporosis diagnostics
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-artificial-intelligence-fractures-ct-images.html
Study finds ChatGPT outperforms physicians in providing high-quality, empathetic advice to patient questions
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-chatgpt-outperforms-physicians-high-quality-empathetic.html
Structured exploration allows biological brains to learn faster than AI, suggests study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-exploration-biological-brains-faster-ai.html
New method improves accuracy of DNA sequencing 1,000-fold to detect rare genetic mutations
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-method-accuracy-dna-sequencing-fold.html
Scientists identify antivirals that could combat emerging infectious diseases
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-scientists-antivirals-combat-emerging-infectious.html
ChatGPT scores nearly 50% on board certification practice test for ophthalmology, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-chatgpt-scores-board-certification-ophthalmology.html
AI breakthrough in detecting leading cause of childhood blindness
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-ai-breakthrough-childhood.html
Exploring the role of AI in the ICU
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-exploring-role-ai-icu.html
Scientists use power of AI to supercharge planetary studies
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-scientists-power-ai-supercharge-planetary.html
ChatGPT Is Set To Power Chegg's New Study Buddy - Even As Ed
This New AI Can Make Its Own Prompts - And It Could Change E
This Marvel Director Says AI-Generated Movies Will Be Here I
A Recommendation Letter Written By ChatGPT Just Got A Student a scholarship at Cambridge
This New AI-Generated Pizza Commercial Is Going Viral - And it is a sign of things to come!
The U.S Supreme Court Has Decided Against Giving Patenting Rights for AI
This Amazing New AI tech Is Creating Incredibly Realistic 3D graphics and it's only set to get better
Generative AI Can Boost Employee Productivity By A Huge Marg
ChatGPT Is Now Giving Therapy To People - And It Could Usher in a mental health revolution
This Worker Says ChatGPT Does 80% Of His Work - Allowing Him
Russia Is Deploying Its Own ChatGPT Alternative - GigaChat -
https://wonderfulengineering.com/russia-is-deploying-its-own-chatgpt-alternative-gigachat/
5 mins - Can the dark matter puzzle be solved? Francesca Chadha-Day and Pavel Kroupa lock horns - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yTtE_ulpA
Scientists Issue Warning About Sex in Space
https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-space-sex-tourism-warning
27 mins - How NASA Reinvented The Wheel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSNtifE0Z2Q
9 mins - A Look Inside England’s Seaside Underground Tunnels! | Underground Marvels | Science Channel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTI_aDRerE
22 mins - STN member Robert Baines - Where human civilization is headed: Evolution is speeding up | Manolis Kellis and Lex Fridman - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXw2yK-8FE&t=1s
9 minutes - Earth and Venus are TWINS?! | How the Universe Works | Science Channel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChUIRRXb_0Q
16 mins - Could the Floating Islands on Avatar's Pandora Actually Happen? There Is One Way... - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5L6hLD4KU
2hrs 29 mins - STN member Robert Baines - Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVdsZ3I5os&t=7s
Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his May 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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