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Re: Science
« Reply #91 on: April 08, 2022, 02:31:20 PM »

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523

The weight of a particle is bigger than the current model of science says it should be, by enough to potentially require a new theory of how everything works.
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« Reply #92 on: April 17, 2022, 07:55:41 PM »

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-why-humans-die-around-173539273.html

Why do we mostly die around age 80? A new theory.
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« Reply #93 on: April 18, 2022, 09:40:29 AM »

Also contributes to our understanding why, if you maintain a healthy CV system, it will likely be cancer that gets you in the end.  (also relates to telomere length, but that's a whole other topic)  On my mom's side there's a Methuselah gene there and their CV systems are going strong in their 80s, but cancer still picks them off.  Mutations build up and those cells that don't fall to apoptosis or necrosis, turn rogue.
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« Reply #94 on: April 22, 2022, 09:56:32 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/world/perseverance-rover-mars-eclipse-scn/index.html

Phobos by Perseverance. Further down the story is a video of the full transit.
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« Reply #97 on: May 28, 2022, 05:30:19 PM »

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Re: Does pupil size indicate presence or absence of visual imagination?!
« Reply #98 on: May 28, 2022, 05:34:17 PM »

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/the-minds-eye-pupil-size-may-be-indicator-of-aphantasia

Fascinating.  Had not heard of the condition. I come from very visual people who do various arts and photography and architectural/interior design stuff, so it's difficult for me to imagine that kind of cognition. 
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« Reply #100 on: June 11, 2022, 12:56:32 PM »

This guy might be a little gullible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

LaMDA is a very clever program, but its sentience is likely an illusion.
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« Reply #101 on: June 11, 2022, 01:06:05 PM »

This guy might be a little gullible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

LaMDA is a very clever program, but its sentience is likely an illusion.

At best, it is an incomplete sentience and should be finished with a question mark, not an exclamation point.
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Re: Science
« Reply #103 on: June 17, 2022, 04:03:25 PM »

Today's NYT article on peecycling (urine as fertilizer for crops) is about an overdue idea that should be adopted widely.  Sorry no got link but will post if I can recover it.  Google new york times peecycling.

LOL at one scientist saying he got into the research "for the puns."

I'm sure the days just whiz by.
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« Reply #104 on: June 17, 2022, 04:31:24 PM »

Today's NYT article on peecycling (urine as fertilizer for crops) is about an overdue idea that should be adopted widely.  Sorry no got link but will post if I can recover it.  Google new york times peecycling.

LOL at one scientist saying he got into the research "for the puns."

I'm sure the days just whiz by.

https://archive.ph/3pa98 - The NYT peecycling article.
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