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How I saved my Mom (and myself): The DeHaviland Comet - Best Road Surfaces - Larry's Comments - STN member John Paulos article - Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump - Cannabis use among seniors surges - Obeying orders dulls our sense of moral responsibility - Breakthrough Toward Full Cure for HIV - Fecal transplants: Promising treatment or potential health risk? - Personality Traits of Influencers - The Hospital at the Center of A Global Pandemic - Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothing - Tiny device spins blood clots away - Start-Up Unleashes Navigation Tech That Could Upend GPS - Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in Michigan - British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age civilizations - New study quantifies fish slaughter pain and cost-effectiveness of welfare solutions - Evidence of butterflies or moths discovered in 236-million-year-old poop - SpaceX Is Now Selling a Much-Requested Starlink Power Access - New Starlink Satellite The Size Of A Boeing 737 To Bring 10x Faster Internet And 5 ms Latency - Measuring the Universe With A Human Touch - James Webb telescope unveils largest-ever map of the universe, spanning over 13 billion years - Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sure - Titan May be the Liveliest Place in the Solar System - Misconceptions: Learning Not To See - China on the Verge of a Major Quantum Breakthrough? - I Proved Static Electricity Makes No Sense - Tracking of 12,000 marine animals reveals ocean giants are in trouble.
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STN member John Paulos' article:

Bullshit and Cons: Alberto Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump - 3 Quarks Dailyby John Allen Paulos

Obeying orders dulls our sense of moral responsibility, brain scans revealA study analyzed the brain activity of military officer cadets and civilians while they were making moral decisions and concluded that the perception of being the author of our actions and their consequences decreases when we follow orders, whether we are civilians or military.

Fecal transplants: Promising treatment or potential health risk?Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) have been touted as a potential treatment for a variety of conditions, from inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity, and type 2 diabetes to autism.

Emergent Holographic Forces from Tensor Networks and Criticality
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021078

Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothingPhysicists have managed to simulate a strange quantum phenomenon where light appears to arise from empty space a concept that until now has only existed in theory. Using cutting-edge simulations, researchers modeled how powerful lasers interact with the so-called quantum vacuum, revealing how photons could bounce off each other and even generate new beams of light. These breakthroughs come just as new ultra-powerful laser facilities are preparing to test these mind-bending effects in reality, potentially opening a gateway to uncovering new physics and even dark matter particles.

Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michiganIn the dense forests of Michigan s Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have uncovered a massive ancient agricultural system that rewrites what we thought we knew about Native American farming. Dating back as far as the 10th century, the raised ridged fields built by the ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe covered a vast area and were used for cultivating staple crops like corn and squash. Using drone-mounted lidar and excavations, researchers found evidence of a complex and labor-intensive system, defying the stereotype that small, egalitarian societies lacked such agricultural sophistication. Alongside farming ridges, they also discovered burial mounds, dance rings, and possible colonial-era foundations, hinting at a once-thriving cultural landscape previously obscured by forest.

New study quantifies fish slaughter pain and cost-effectiveness of welfare solutionsA new study in Scientific Reports reveals the hidden pain of fish during slaughter and offers practical solutions to improve their welfare. Focusing on rainbow trout, the research quantifies pain in air asphyxia—a common slaughter method—using the innovative Welfare Footprint Framework (WFF). With up to 2.2 trillion wild and 171 billion farmed fish killed annually, the findings highlight an opportunity for welfare reforms on a massive scale.

SpaceX Is Now Selling a Much-Requested Starlink Power AccessorySpaceX has introduced a new power accessory for Starlink that can use both AC and DC power. The accessory, which costs $200, is now available on the o

Largest map of the universe announced revealing 800,000 galaxies, challenging early cosmos theoriesIn the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time. And it's been challenging existing notions of the infant universe.

Larry's Comments June 11, 2025

Stuff for June 11 2025.pdf

Cannabis use among seniors surges 46% in two years--Study revealsCannabis use among older Americans has climbed dramatically, with 7% of adults 65 and older now reporting recent use. This rise isn't just in numbers but also in diversity older users today are more likely to be women, college-educated, and higher-income. Researchers suggest legalization and growing social acceptance are contributing factors, especially in states with medical marijuana laws. The trend is especially notable among those with chronic illnesses, raising both opportunities and concerns for medical professionals trying to balance symptom relief with the complexities of aging.

"Gasping": Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Full Cure for HIVScientists found a way to make the HIV virus visible, potentially laying the groundwork for ways to banish it from the body altogether.

Scientists Figured Out the Personality Traits of Influencers, and It Could Explain a LotYoung people often want to be influencers — but certain personality types appear more likely to pursue it as a career than others.

French Start-Up Unleashes Revolutionary Navigation Tech That Could Upend GPSA French start-up has amazed the world of technology with a new invention that could revolutionize navigation. Sodern, a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, ha

British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age civilizationsChemical evidence of tin from coastal British sites reaching Bronze Age Mediterranean societies highlights a supply chain dispute.

Oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths discovered in 236-million-year-old poopA team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has discovered evidence of scales from lepidopterans in dung samples recovered from a dig site in Talampaya National Park, Argentina. In their paper published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, the group describes how they found the scales in the dung samples and what the find means for scientists who study butterflies and moths.

New Starlink Satellite The Size Of A Boeing 737 To Bring 10x Faster Internet And 5 ms LatencySpaceX is preparing to change satellite Internet by launching its Starlink V3 satellites, which are said to be as big as a Boeing 737 when fully opene

James Webb telescope unveils largest-ever map of the universe, stretching from present day to the dawn of timeThe largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed into a tiny piece of sky and spanning almost all of time.

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they're not so sureFor years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become a staple of astronomy documentaries, textbooks and popular science writing.

Titan May be the Liveliest Place in the Solar SystemTitan has no liquid water whatsoever on its surface. But it does have liquids. Seas, lakes, streams, rivers…of methane and ethane.

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