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Feb 9, 2022

Do animals think?

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Feb 8, 2022

Telecommunications bit rates 1798–2120

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This graph shows the progress in telecommunications bit rates over the last two centuries, and a future extrapolation to the 22nd century.

A primitive form of telecommunications emerged in the late 18th century, when French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that delivered messages between Paris and Lille. Known as the optical telegraph, it had a transmission rate of two to three symbols (196 different types) each minute, or about 0.4 b/s.

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Feb 8, 2022

More than 60 years on, Japan’s mercury-poison victims fight to be heard

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Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning.

Feb 8, 2022

Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

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Circa 2018 😀


Fully enclosed, controlled-environment growth chambers can accelerate plant development. Such ‘speed breeding’ reduces generation times to accelerate crop breeding and research programmes, and can integrate with other modern crop breeding technologies.

Feb 8, 2022

Michigan will get a new graphite processing factory to support US EV battery production

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There have been almost no capabilities of processing graphite outside of China to date, but this new Michigan factory will change that.

Feb 8, 2022

Tesla gets all its Supercharger cables stolen at brand new station

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Tesla was the victim of a theft that resulted in having to shut down a brand new Supercharger station, as all the cables on the eight stalls were cut off.

The automaker is currently working to triple the size of its Supercharger network over the next two years.

It is currently growing at a record pace.

Feb 7, 2022

Meteorite older than Earth likely came from a “protoplanet”

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The rock, found in the Sahara, likely comes from a long-lost baby protoplanet.

Feb 6, 2022

Will Your Job Become Obsolete By 2040 Due To Automation?

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Will robots take your job in the near future?


“The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?” Gray Scott.

Feb 6, 2022

If you live in Texas or Florida, let me know

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Genevieve Klien and I may be traveling in those states in the future.

Oh, and if you live in Northern Nevada or plan to visit Reno, let us know!

Update: It looks like we will be relocating a bit north of Austin!

Feb 6, 2022

How did the early Universe expand faster than light?

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According to Einstein’s theories of relativity, no matter can travel faster than light. So how did the early Universe expand at a rate faster than light?

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