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Next week, live presentation! Join Jessica Vineyard, aka Ms. Galaxy, as she takes you on a journey into the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

This Wednesday (08/13/25) - Topics sensationalized!:

Booze - Larry's comments - Bitcoin? - Live on the Planet? Atmosphere sites that can be really useful - You're on your own again, Federal U.S. Court Cancels Consumer-Friendly Click-To-Cancel - Former NIH science research director, "It's Carnage!" - Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing - Laughter, a therapeutic medicine? - Couples who meet online less happy in love - Gossip is good for romance - Sugar-coated particle reduces COVID-19 infection rates by 98.6% - An 'evolution engine', rapidly reprogram proteins - Snoring? You need a Conch Shell - Duck to a wet, salty rock; showing off new super glue - Homemade “Desktop AI” Discovers New Laws of Physics, nixing Decades of Plasma Science - Airbus lands on Antarctica For The First Time - Battery Almost Too Dangerous to Exist - 7 Incredible Cities of Tomorrow - Viking silver hoard reveals trade links between England and the Islamic world - Livestock blamed on prehistoric plague infections - Decoding sweet potato DNA...and Potatoes - World-Changing Comet Explosion 12,800 Years Ago - multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars? - Let's talk Big Bang - Heretic Rupert Sheldrake on Gravitational Constant - The new GPT Model; it's brilliant, it's crap - White Balance is Broken - See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky - North Atlantic now a hotspot for hurricane clusters - Our planet is warming TWICE as fast as we thought.
Next week, Live Astronomy presentation by Astronomer Jessica Vineyard
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Bernie's Astro for August

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Is laughter a form of therapeutic medicine?University of Jaén investigators report significant reductions in anxiety and increased life satisfaction in adults through laughter therapy across 33 clinical trials.

Gossip is good for romance, study finds"Spill the Tea, Honey: Gossiping Predicts Well-Being in Same- and Different-Gender Couples" is the name of a new study from UC Riverside psychology researchers that found gossip within couples is associated with greater happiness and better relationships. The paper is published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Lab-made sugar-coated particle reduces COVID-19 infection rates by 98.6% in human cell testsResearch led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem—a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle—that can block COVID-19 from infecting human cells, reducing infection rates by nearly 99%.

Ancient practice of blowing through a conch shell could help treat dangerous snoring conditionPeople who practiced blowing through a conch shell regularly for six months experienced a reduction in their symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a small randomized controlled trial published in ERJ Open Research.

Unbelievable Footage Shows An Airbus A340 Pilot Landing The Plane In Antarctica For The First TimeAn Airbus A340 has landed in Antarctica for the very first time in 2021, in an astonishing feat of aviation prowess and adventure that was also a firs

Viking silver hoard reveals far-reaching trade links between England and the Islamic worldNew research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr. Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on the international scope of Viking wealth—revealing that a significant proportion of the silver originated not from local raids, but from long-distance trade networks extending deep into the Islamic world.

Decoding sweet potato DNA: New research reveals surprising ancestryThe sweet potato feeds millions worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where its natural resilience to climate extremes makes it crucial for food security. But this humble root vegetable has guarded its genetic secrets for decades. Now, scientists have finally decoded its complex genome, revealing an intricate origin story and providing powerful tools to help improve this vital crop.

Scientists Finally Know Where Potatoes Come From - And The Answer Is Very WeirdIt turns out we have tomatoes to thank for potatoes. A newly published study in Cell has revealed that the humble potato owes its existence to a surpr

OpenAI Just Released A Free GPT Model That Can Run On Your LaptopOpenAI has unveiled GPT-OSS, a fully open-weight AI model available for free download, customization, and local use even on a laptop. GPT-OSS comes in

OpenAI Claims ChatGPT Is Now At 'PhD Level' After GPT-5 RevealOpenAI has released the newest version of its artificial intelligence chatbot tech, GPT-5, which it says provides PhD-level knowledge in fields includ

Chat GPT 5 is horrible
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See how aerosols loft through Earth’s skyAerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

Stark warning for US as hurricane 'traffic jams' 10x more likely to formThe North Atlantic has claimed a new title as the global hotspot for hurricane clusters, with the likelihood of these forming increasing tenfold in the past 46 years. A new study provides the first robust quantification of how the Earth's warming patterns are shifting where these multiple-storm…

Larry's comments 07/30/25

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Federal U.S. Court Cancels Consumer-Friendly Click-To-Cancel RuleA federal appeals court has halted the enforcement of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signin

‘It’s carnage’: Former NIH director decries Trump administration efforts to slash research spendingElias Zerhouni tells Chemistry World what's changed from when he was appointed by a Republican president to the current Trump administration

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study WarnsA small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.

Couples who meet online less happy in love, study showsPeople who meet their romantic partners online report lower levels of marital satisfaction and experience love less intensely than those who meet in person. That's according to an international team of researchers led by Dr. Marta Kowal from the University of Wrocław, with contributions from experts at The Australian National University (ANU).

Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteinsIn medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have developed a synthetic biology platform that accelerates evolution itself—enabling researchers to evolve proteins with useful, new properties thousands of times faster than nature.

Forget Supercomputers: This Homemade “Desktop AI” Has Discovered New Laws of Physics, Overturning Decades of Plasma ScienceA custom-built AI has uncovered hidden forces in a strange cosmic material found from Saturn’s rings to wildfire smoke.

Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections, genomic study findsAround 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known only from ancient DNA, this enigmatic "LNBA plague" lineage has left scientists puzzled about its likely zoonotic origin and transmission.

Evidence of World-Changing Comet Explosion 12,800 Years Ago Found in The OceanMicroscopic grains of alien dust buried in the sediment at the bottom of the ocean could be evidence of a comet that exploded in Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago.

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on MarsNASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece of coral.

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