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This Tuesday (07/30/24) - Topics sensationalized!:
Amazing becomes the new normal - 110! - Larry's comments - Mature galaxy discovered in the 'Dark Ages' - Soft drinks - Fruit, Hair, And Gum Hide in Your Gut For Years - 'Brain-eating' amoebas - Dinosaurs Didn't Trudge Through Thick Rainforests - America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math - The Higgs Boson loses glamour - World’s Tallest Abandoned Skyscraper - Boeing Starliner, if its Boeing I'm not going - Slo-mo balloon popping - Uncontacted Tribe - Dogs Smell Our Stress, affects Them Deeply - Iron teethed Komodo Dragons - How Crocs have survived for so long - New clam species discovered - Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life - Nature's batteries at the bottom of the ocean! - 100,000 Dominos Falling - The Biggest Solar Storm 14,000 Years Ago - AI Creates More Work For Human, and it's a drag - AI Is NOT A Bubble!, says someone - Color Temperature Paradox - Wildfire Big Enough To Make Its Own Weather - Plastic Was Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries - Coffee: back to Robusta (sigh!) - Global warming is messing with our rainfall - Earth's Hottest Day On Record Broken Twice This Week - Warming Arctic is accelerating global climate - The Atlantic Ocean might Break soon.
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Bristol woman celebrates 110th birthdayHilda Leggett says her secret to living a long life is being "strong willed".

'Stones' of Undigested Fruit, Hair, And Even Gum Can Hide in Your Gut For YearsIn the first Harry Potter novel, Professor Severus Snape hopes to embarrass Harry by quizzing him on the topic of bezoars.

No, Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick RainforestsThe first jungles dense with flowering plants only formed after an asteroid impact wiped out the giant creatures

The Higgs Boson Might Not Be The Portal to New Physics After AllThey called it the God particle – a particle so 'goddamn' elusive, it took nearly 40 years and a $4.75 billion machine to detect, all in the hopes of closing one chapter in physics and opening a new one.

Boeing Starliner astronauts remain stuck on International Space Station with no set return date, NASA announcesAfter nearly two months of postponement, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are still on board the ISS. But NASA and Boeing say they still plan to return the two aboard Starliner.

An Uncontacted Tribe Has Been Shown 'Dangerously Close' To Logging Areas In New FootageNewly released images have highlighted a critical issue: the uncontacted Mashco Piro tribe in the Peruvian Amazon is living dangerously close to areas

Komodo dragon teeth get their strength from an iron coatStudying the reptile’s ironclad teeth in more detail could help solve a dinosaur dental mystery.

New clam species discovered in South Africa's kelp forestA new study sheds light on the unexplored diversity of galeommatoidean bivalves, a little-known group of marine mollusks, from the western coast of South Africa.

AI Creates More Work For Humans And Contributes To Burnout, Study FindsThe rise of AI is supposed to help companies streamline their operations and potentially take jobs away from humans. However, a recent survey finds th

Plastic Was Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged ArteriesPlastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body, including the placenta.

New research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfallThe past century of human-induced warming has increased rainfall variability over 75% of the Earth's land area—particularly over Australia, Europe and eastern North America, new research shows.

How a warming Arctic is accelerating global climate changeThree recent papers authored by Ted Schuur, Regents' professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, and other researchers around the world, organized through the Permafrost Carbon Network, investigate the biological processes taking place in the warming Arctic tundra and provide insight into what we can expect from that region as the climate continues to change.

Larry's Comments July 30th 2024

Stuff for July30.pdf

Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever SeenA newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our current models of galaxy formation.

Here's What 'Diet' Soft Drink Could Be Doing to Your Health in The Long TermMany people are drinking less sugary soft drink than in the past.

Artificial Sweetener May Be Wreaking Havoc on MicroorganismsWe have a problem with sucralose.

'Brain-eating' amoebas kill nearly 100% of victims. Could new treatments change that?Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.

How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold | Quanta MagazineNumber theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently.

This Gigantic Skyscraper Is the World’s Tallest Abandoned BuildingGoldin Finance 117, or China 117 Tower— it is the tallest abandoned building in the world, standing at a staggering height of 597 meters. Situated o

Dogs Can Smell Our Stress, And It Affects Them DeeplyDogs can smell human stress, and a new study reveals the scent may trigger a similar emotional effect in dogs, prompting them to make 'pessimistic' decisions.

The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life | Quanta MagazineWhen seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

Climate-smart coffee: Researchers explore Robusta coffee as alternative to ArabicaCrave that cup of coffee in the morning? Globally, consumers drink more than 2.2 billion cups daily. Someone grows all that joe: More than 100 million farmers worldwide produce coffee.

The Earth's Hottest Day On Record Broken Twice This WeekThis week, Earth experienced its hottest recorded day not once, but twice, highlighting an alarming trend in global temperatures. Data from the Copern

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the WorldThe Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is like a huge heat pump, taking water from the tropics to the north, warming areas in Europe. But as climate change accelerates, AMOC is becoming less stable. It might even be headed to a shutdown.

Bernie Reim's Astro news, What's up in August

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