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This Tuesday (03/19/24) - Topics sensationalized!:
Cows do virtual reality - Re-entry on video - Larry's Comments 03/19/24 - Dead? Offer your body to the "Cremulator" - More nice things about Ketamine - More nice things about Broccoli - AI food display - Yeah, sorry; 8-hour intermittent fasting doesn't work - Medication collision - Bad: Excessive sitting - Shock therapy - Chinese railgun - Houthi rebels win the blockade war. How? - Meat vats - DNA hacking, Cow milk with insulin - Our near-extinction 900.000 years ago - Science and The mystery of consciousness - Dog face licking - Indian Ocean; discovered Coral Superhighway - Iceland volcano, now - Time machine map; when NOT to go back - Oceans; where'd all that water come from? - Human=Humanoid Robot Full-Body Teleportation - Robot tech moving faster than expected - Blurring your home on Google Maps - AI teaches AI - Elon Musk releases open source AI - Universe craziness, several articles - Global climate change, several articles - Battery prices fall - Dinosaur killing Asteroid aftermath - Ocean Watch.

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Larry's Comments 03/19/24

Stuff for March 19.pdf

Ketamine Unlocked: Rapid Depression Relief Meets Long-Term RecoveryDiscovery opens door to developing non-toxic fast and sustained-effect antidepressants. ‘Ketamine alongside conventional antidepressants could amplify therapeutic effects’ A fast-acting antidepressant ‘is enormously helpful for patients,’ potentially reducing their risk of death and suicide

8-hour intermittent fasting tied to 90% higher risk of cardiovascular death, early data hintA study followed participants for about eight years and found an increased risk of death in those who practiced intermittent fasting. But more data is needed.

Excessive Sitting Raises Risk of Early Death: Now We Know How MuchAdvances in technology in recent decades have obviated the need and desire for humans to move.

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy | Quanta MagazineElectroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain.

China Is Building A Giant Rail Gun To Launch Hypersonic Planes Into SpaceChinese scientists are progressing on the construction of a massive electromagnetic rail gun known as Tengyun, designed to launch 50-ton hypersonic pl

Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face? Here's The ScienceAny dog owners reading this will know the joy of getting home and being greeted with utter delight by their pet – tail wagging wildly before enthusiastic but face-drenching licks.

Human-To-Humanoid Robot Full-Body Teleportation Has Been Made A RealityThanks to a challenge developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the entire system of remote control of human-to-human robots has been un

Why You Should Blur Your Home On Google Maps, And How To Do ItGoogle Maps’ Street View is a feature that provides users with a first-person perspective of locations using footage from Google’s Street

New research suggests that our universe has no dark matterThe current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it's made of normal matter, dark energy and dark matter. A new University of Ottawa study challenges this.

Speck of light spotted by Hubble is one of the most enormous galaxies in the early universe, James Webb telescope revealsThe ancient obect Gz9p3, which appeared as a single point of light through the Hubble Space Telescope, is actually one of the most enormous galaxies in the early universe, James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal.

Startling Findings – The Arctic Could Become “Ice-Free” in Less Than 10 YearsAccording to a recent study from the University of Colorado Boulder, the Arctic may experience summer days almost entirely free of sea ice within the next few years. The findings, published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, suggest that the first ice-free day in the Arctic

Urgent Climate Red Flag: Global Warming Is Disrupting the Natural Flow of RiversNew research indicates that climate change is altering the seasonal river flows in the far northern regions of America, Russia, and Europe, presenting risks to water security and natural ecosystems. A team of scientists led by the University of Leeds analyzed historical data from river gauging st

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After You Die, This Is the Ultimate Way to Give Your Body Back to NatureThe process of grinding up your bones in a “cremulator” may sound grisly, but it’s gaining traction in the death market.

Broccoli's Anti-Cancer Compound Could Have a Whole Other Health BenefitA chemical found naturally in broccoli could one day prevent and treat the blood clots that can lead to strokes – currently the second leading cause of death worldwide.

AI Noodle Bowl
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Feast Your Eyes: How AI Serves Up Yummier Food Imagery Than RealityA new study shows preference for AI-created food imagery due to its optimized attractiveness, with potential implications for consumer health and environmental sustainability. With the Global Nutrition and Hydration Week 2024 starting today, researchers have announced an intriguing discovery – co

When Medications Collide: New Model Identifies Drugs That Shouldn’t Be Taken TogetherUsing a machine-learning algorithm, researchers can predict interactions that could interfere with a drug’s effectiveness. Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for

Breaking: Emerging Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Originated in a LabResearch points to an unnatural origin as the likely source for COVID-19. The origin of COVID-19 is highly debated – most studies have focused on a zoonotic origin, but research from the journal Risk Analysis, examined the likelihood of an unnatural origin (i.e. from a laboratory.) The results i

Yemen's Houthi Rebels Now Have Hypersonic Missiles, Reports IndicateYemen’s Houthi rebels have purportedly unveiled a new hypersonic missile, as reported by Russia’s state media outlet RIA Novosti. The claim, l

Study Reveals How Ancient Humans Escaped Climate Extinction 900,000 Years AgoSome 900,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct.

Cow Hacked With Human DNA Produces Milk Containing High Levels of Human InsulinResearchers have created a gene-edited cow that produces human insulin in her milk in Brazil.

Hidden Coral Superhighway Discovered in the Indian OceanRecent research has discovered that Seychelles' remote coral reefs are interconnected through a "coral superhighway," facilitated by ocean currents, emphasizing the role of larval dispersal in reef health and the importance of informed conservation efforts to ensure reef resilience against climate c

Google Gemini: what it is and how you use it | Digital TrendsHere is everything you need to know about Google's AI chatbot Gemini and how to use the service.

This Next-Gen AI Software Developer Can Spawn And Train Its Own AIsCognition Labs introduces Devin, a smart software developer with the ability to revolutionize the way software is managed and executed. Devin is known

Two artificial intelligences talk to each otherPerforming a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI).

Rewinding Cosmic Time With Webb’s Discovery of a 13-Billion-Year-Old Dead GalaxyAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found an ancient galaxy with halted star formation, raising questions about galaxy life cycles. A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescop

Rethinking the Cosmos: Hunt for Luminous Galaxies Could Upend Dark Matter TheoriesShould theories of cold dark matter hold true, the Webb Space Telescope should discover tiny, bright galaxies of early universe For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed not long after the Big Bang, giving scientists the

This Overlooked Feedback Loop Is Accelerating Climate ChangeScientists at Tufts University state that soil, which contains 80 percent of the Earth's carbon, emits more greenhouse gases as droughts cause soils to crack due to drying. The precision of climate models is influenced by numerous elements, including greenhouse gas emissions stemming from industria

Bernie Reim's astronomical update for March

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