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This Tuesday (05/16/23) - Topics sensationalized!:
Snoring hummingbird and Aquatic curiosities - Larry's comments - Human DNA is everywhere - The peer review thingee - Brits are popping off- Plastic on the Brain - the Pursuit of Happiness - Bias in IQ Testing - People more creative just as they wake - Lab-Grown Meat, large carbon print - Obesity Drug works for Cancer Killing - Brain Cancer Breakthrough - mRNA vaccine treats aggressive pancreatic cancer - Phage structure, captured for the first time - Largest 3D-Printed Building - Revisiting Slime Mold, again - Med Eradicates a Tumor, pronto - Reversing Aging, blood - Dunning-Kruger Effect debunked - Wind Turbines kill more Bats than birds - Desert Dust feeds Oceans - Wind Now Main Source Of UK Electricity - HP Disabling Customers' Printers when using cheaper alternatives - The last lamplighters - Space Station hidden in Sun - Saturn's Clouds Broke Their Models - Have you 'Barded' yet? - ...And other AI articles - Strange Pattern in the Red Sands of Australia - Earthquakes in US East much more Dangerous - ChatGPT changes the future of programming
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Today's links:
Snoring hummingbird - BBC - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEfmQt34Nc
9 mins - 25 Fascinating Sea Creatures Of The Deep | Nature Bites - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSDxZymE6k
STN member Bill Warren - Human DNA is everywhere. That's a boon for science, and an ethical quagmire
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-human-dna-boon-science-ethical.html
STN member Bill Krajec - The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
STN member Bill Krajec - The dance of the naked emperors - by Adam Mastroianni
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-dance-of-the-naked-emperors
STN member Bill Krajec - The Failure of Modern Science - Vox Popoli
https://voxday.net/2023/05/15/the-failure-of-modern-science/
STN member Bill Krajec - Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common
STN member Bill Krajec - 'Brits are dying in their tens of thousands - and we don't really have any idea why' - Mirror Online
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/brits-dying-tens-thousands-dont-29955386
STN member Bill Krajec - Plastic Is Everywhere Now, Including Your Brain - LewRockwell
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/joseph-mercola/plastic-is-everywhere-now-including-your-brain/
Is the Pursuit of Happiness Overrated? - proto.life
https://proto.life/2023/05/is-the-pursuit-of-happiness-overrated/
Why IQ Tests Are Bad Science: Racial, Class Bias in IQ Testing
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a43862561/why-iq-testing-is-biased/
New study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-people-creative-earliest-stage.html
Study Shows Lab-Grown Meat Produces Up To 25 Times More CO2
Popular Obesity Drug Turns Out to Have a Secret Cancer-Killing Effect : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/popular-obesity-drug-turns-out-to-have-a-secret-cancer-killing-effect
Brain Cancer Breakthrough: Glioblastoma Therapy Doubles Down on Tumor Destruction
Personalized mRNA vaccine to treat aggressive pancreatic cancer in clinical trial
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-personalized-mrna-vaccine-aggressive-pancreatic.html
Phage structure, captured for the first time, could benefit biotech applications
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-phage-captured-benefit-biotech-applications.html
Watch Europe's Largest 3D-Printed Building Coming Into Shape in just 140 hours
17 mins - The Insane Biology of: Slime Mold - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOQQp8CCls
“I’ve Never Seen Something That Eradicates a Tumor Like This” – New Therapeutic Permanently Eliminates Gastric Cancer
Blood May Hold the Key to Reversing Aging
https://scitechdaily.com/blood-may-hold-the-key-to-reversing-aging/
The bloody legend of Hungary’s serial killer countess
Math Professor Debunks the Dunning-Kruger Effect
https://scitechdaily.com/math-professor-debunks-the-dunning-kruger-effect/
Dunning–Kruger effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
A 13-Year Study Shows Wind Turbines Are Deadlier For Bats Th
Desert Dust Plays a Vital Role in Fertilizing Phytoplankton Growth in Oceans
Wind Is Now The Main Source Of UK Electricity For The First time
https://wonderfulengineering.com/wind-is-now-the-main-source-of-uk-electricity-for-the-first-time/
HP Is Reportedly Disabling Customers' Printers If They Use Ink cartridges from cheaper alternatives
5 mins - Hidden Histories - BBC Reel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0fm4f8m/the-last-remaining-lamplighters-of-london
This Incredible Close-Up of The Sun Conceals a Hidden Detail. Can You Spot It? : ScienceAlert
15 mins - What NASA Discovered Deep Beneath Saturn's Clouds Broke Their Models | CASSINI - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75blaWkIrQ
4 mins - 10 crazy announcements from Google I/O - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmfRDRNjCnM
New Harvard-Developed AI Predicts Future Pancreatic Cancer Up to Three Years Before Diagnosis
Machine learning model able to detect signs of Alzheimer's across languages
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-machine-alzheimer-languages.html
8 mins - AI Professor WARNS Artificial Intelligence could END Civilisation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpx9NFq-oo
Artists Are Suing AI Art Companies Midjourney And Stability
Novel AI-based software enables quick and reliable imaging of proteins in cells
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-ai-based-software-enables-quick-reliable.html
This AI Company Says Their AI Has A Rudimentary Conscience
https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-ai-company-says-their-ai-has-a-rudimentary-conscience/
9 mins - Strange Pattern Found in the Red Sands of Australia! | What on Earth | Science Channel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvNZ8gAe1Dw
35 mins - Why Earthquakes in the East are so much more Dangerous - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn2KFC8cX-g
35 mins . STN member Robert Baines - How ChatGPT changes the future of programming | Stephen Wolfram and Lex Fridman - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QPQpEI4WM&t=1s
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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Best,
Stephen Goodfellow