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This Tuesday (05/09/23) - Topics sensationalized!:
It's all so beautiful - Paxlovid Reduces Risk 90% - WHO declares end to COVID - Too long a Telomere? Not good - Magic Mushrooms creates Strange Effect on Color Blindness - Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes - Stool Transplants Show Treating Life-Threatening Infections - Omega 3 Fatty Acid Lipid’s Key Role in Aging Uncovered - Gene Variant Found in Brain’s Immune Cells Diminish the Risk of Alzheimer’s - Diabetes Drug May Ward Off Dementia - Fame-seeking mass shooters - Sustainable Clothing – Synthetic Spider Silk - Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart - Internal Google AI Documents - we're screwed - Best VPN services - ChatGPT can pick stocks - ...And lots and lots of more AI stuff - Crisis in cosmology - European Nuclear Rocket - Heliosphere Has Ripples - New Pancreatic Cancer treatment - Rates of Teen Suicide Surge - Kola Superdeep Borehole - Vast, Oceans on Four of Uranus’ Moons - Education Quality Link to Late-Life Cognition - Cause of rapid ice melting in Greenland - Recycled Gas Feeds a Massive Galaxy - Mars in Unprecedented Detail - El Niño in 2024
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Larry writes:
May 9, 2023 Coronavirus Data Summaries, Updates
U.S. deaths are falling, but not disappearing. Averaging about 150 deaths/day
Latest booster shots available in U.S. for high risk groups
Both the U.S. government and the WHO no longer consider Covid a “global health emergency”
....The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings.....
It looks like it’s time for me to pull the plug on these weekly reports.
I’ve produced them for 3 years now. I hope you’ve found them useful.
5 mins - Most Magical Places on Planet Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DcFfDTIfU
Saving Lives: Study Finds That Paxlovid Reduces Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by 90%
WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency | Reuters
STN member Laurenn Lowland - Link Between Long Telomeres and Long Life Is a Tall Tale, Study Finds
Magic Mushrooms Seem to Have A Strange Effect on Color Blindness : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/magic-mushrooms-seem-to-have-a-strange-effect-on-color-blindness
Don’t Ignore Your Slowing Mobility: It Could Be a Sign of Something More Sinister
Early signals of Parkinson's found in gut microbiota of REM sleep behavior disorder patients
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-early-parkinson-gut-microbiota-rem.html
Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again
https://futurism.com/neoscope/gene-therapy-primates-vision-loss
Better Than Antibiotics – Stool Transplants Show Promising Results in Treating Life-Threatening Infections
Brain Boost: Special Omega-3 Fatty Acid Lipid’s Key Role in Aging Uncovered
https://scitechdaily.com/brain-boost-special-omega-3-fatty-acid-lipids-key-role-in-aging-uncovered/
How the Reduction of a Gene Variant Found in the Brain’s Immune Cells Could Diminish the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
A New Hope: Diabetes Drug May Ward Off Dementia
https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-hope-diabetes-drug-may-ward-off-dementia/
Fame-seeking mass shooters more likely to plan 'surprise' attacks, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-fame-seeking-mass-shooters.html
The Future of Sustainable Clothing – New Breakthrough in Synthetic Spider Silk Fabrication
9 mins - The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTK_bC00ilg
9 mins - STN member Edward Hug - Google AI Documents Leak "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" - Natural 20
https://natural20.com/google-ai-documents-leak/
Best VPN services 2023 — Today's top picks | Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-vpn/
ChatGPT can pick stocks better than your fund manager | CNN Business
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/05/investing/chatgpt-outperforms-investment-funds/index.html
The Laborers Behind The AI Revolution Say They Are 'Grunt Workers who make about 15 an hour
ChatGPT Can Now Pick Stocks Better Than Your Fund Manager, Experiment shows
This New AI Service Can Generate Pictures Of You Doing All Kinds of stuff with your friends
Warren Buffet Has Compared AI To The Creation Of The Atomic bomb and he says he's worried
YouTuber Invents An Amazing Weightlessness Machine - And You
This New AI ChatBot Has Been Designed To Provide You Personal assistance and emotional support
Google's AI Chief Says We Are A 'Few Years' Away From Human-like AI
https://wonderfulengineering.com/googles-ai-chief-says-we-are-a-few-years-away-from-human-like-ai/
The White House Has Unveiled An AI Plan Ahead Of Meeting Witt Tech-CEOs
AI Could Soon Co-Pilot Planes, Reveals Emirates Airline President
https://wonderfulengineering.com/ai-could-soon-co-pilot-planes-reveals-emirates-airline-president/
Microsoft's New AI-Powered Search Engine Is Now Available For everyone
ChatGPT Is About To Face Some Copyright Issues After 'Memorising these books
The White House Has Proposed A 30% Tax On Electricity Used F
This New ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs In Skyrim To Make Up Their own dialogue
The CEOs Of Google And Microsoft Have Been Called To The White House for a meeting about AI
IBM Is Ending Hiring For Jobs That Can Be Done By AI
https://wonderfulengineering.com/ibm-is-ending-hiring-for-jobs-that-can-be-done-by-ai/
Study presents large brain-like neural networks for AI
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-large-brain-like-neural-networks-ai.html
14 mins - We went to MIT to see the first test of a new electric thruster system | Hard Reset - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBet1MQmfk
Is there a crisis in cosmology? Some scientists say yes - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/13-8/crisis-in-cosmology/
Europe Wants To Build A Nuclear Rocket For Deep Space Exploration
https://wonderfulengineering.com/europe-wants-to-build-a-nuclear-rocket-for-deep-space-exploration/
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer Reveals: The Heliosphere Has Ripples!
https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-interstellar-boundary-explorer-reveals-the-heliosphere-has-ripples/
Transforming Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: New Study Uncovers the Hallmarks of the Disease
Alarming – Rates of Teen Suicide Continue To Surge in the United States
https://scitechdaily.com/alarming-rates-of-teen-suicide-continue-to-surge-in-the-united-states/
15 mins - Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Hole Ever Made - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Od6PDbl-RQ
Vast, Hidden Oceans Discovered on Four of Uranus’ Large Moons
https://scitechdaily.com/vast-hidden-oceans-discovered-on-four-of-uranus-large-moons/
Education Quality Matters: Study Finds Link to Late-Life Cognition
https://scitechdaily.com/education-quality-matters-study-finds-link-to-late-life-cognition/
Researchers discover a cause of rapid ice melting in Greenland
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-rapid-ice-greenland.html
Intergalactic Upcycling: Recycled Gas Feeds a Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe
BS - Let There Be Light: Emerging From the Cosmic Dark Ages in the Early Universe
Mars in Unprecedented Detail: Get Lost in the Red Planet’s 5.7 Terapixel Landscape!
15 mins - What El Niño Will do to Earth in 2024 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggRl80WzbE
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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Stephen Goodfellow