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Aug 13, 2024

Prehistoric Humans Had ADHD, Too, But the Trait Hasn’t Adapted to Modern Life

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Research shows that people with ADHD are better at foraging, an essential skill for prehistoric Homo sapiens.

Aug 13, 2024

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

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Aug 13, 2024

New study highlights impact of socioeconomic factors on ADHD in autistic youth

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The associations between neighborhood characteristics and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children.

Aug 13, 2024

Chaos theory approach reveals long-distance relationship in seemingly random behavior of bowhead whales

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Applying chaos theory to the movement of iconic arctic whales uncovered a 24-hour diving cycle and a long-range (~100 km) synchronization.

Aug 12, 2024

Forget Cutting Sugar—New Tech Makes It Healthier Instead

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Scientists are experimenting with enzymes that turn sugar to fiber in the gut, microscopic sponges to soak up sugar, and more.

Aug 12, 2024

Govee’s New Evangelion Themed RGB LED Lights Are on Sale Today

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The deals won’t last for-EVA.

Aug 12, 2024

Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation That Revolutionized Map Design

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In 2017, we brought you news of a world map purportedly more accurate than any to date, designed by Japanese architect and artist Hajime Narukawa. The map, called the AuthaGraph, updates a centuries-old method of turning the globe into a flat surface by first converting it to a cylinder. Winner of Japan’s Good Design Grand Award, it serves as both a brilliant design solution and an update to our outmoded conceptions of world geography.

But as some readers have pointed out, the AuthaGraph also seems to draw quite heavily on an earlier map made by one of the most visionary of theorists and designers, Buckminster Fuller, who in 1943 applied his Dymaxion trademark to the map you see above, which will likely remind you of his most recognizable invention, the Geodesic Dome, “house of the future.”

Whether Narukawa has acknowledged Fuller as an inspiration I cannot say. In any case, 73 years before the AuthaGraph, the Dymaxion Map achieved a similar feat, with similar motivations. As the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) points out, “The Fuller Projection Map is [or was] the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in the ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.”

Aug 12, 2024

Fish recall hits East Coast over fears of Botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning

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Cold smoked capelin from North Fish USA is potentially contaminated, the FDA says. Botulism attacks nerves in the body and can be fatal.

Aug 12, 2024

The Boring Company Starts Tests on its Latest Tunnel Boring Machine

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The Boring Company’s newest TBM, Prufrock 4, is undergoing tests in Bastrop, Texas. Will Prufrock finally outrun Gary the Snail?

Aug 12, 2024

Magnetic storm intensifies on Earth

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Магнитная буря, накрывшая Землю, из средней стала сильной, сообщил ведущий специалист центра погоды “Фобос” Михаил Леус в Telegram-канале. РИА Новости, 12.08.

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