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Mar 6, 2023

This Startup Is Building Computer Chips With Real Neurons

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

There’s an excessive amount of innovation embedded in right now’s cutting-edge pc chips, however not a lot of it’s as out-of-the-box because the considering that’s driving Australian startup Cortical Labs. The corporate, like so many startups with synthetic intelligence in thoughts, is constructing pc chips that borrow their neural community inspiration from the organic mind. The distinction? Cortical is utilizing precise organic neurons, taken from mice and people, to make their chips.

“We’re constructing the primary hybrid pc chip which entails implanting organic neurons on silicon chips,” Hon Weng Chong, CEO and co-founder of Cortical Labs, informed Digital Tendencies.

That is completed by first extracting neurons in two other ways, both from a mouse embryo or by remodeling human pores and skin cells again into stem cells and inducing these to develop into human neurons.

Mar 6, 2023

Does Alkaline Water Make You Live Longer?

Posted by in category: health

Can alkaline water increase your lifespan?


There are many wild claims being thrown around regarding the health benefits of alkaline water. But what exactly is alkaline water, and can it help you live a longer, healthier life?

Mar 6, 2023

This incredibly life-like robot hand can be made for just $2,800

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Low-cost robots that perfectly mimic parts of the human body foreshadow a future in which humanoid robots do all the work people don’t want.

Mar 6, 2023

Why life is not a thing but a restless manner of being

Posted by in category: energy

To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy by Tim Requarth + BIO.

Mar 6, 2023

Exercise Timing Is Associated With All-Cause Mortality Risk

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health

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Mar 6, 2023

The tightest ultracool dwarf binary system ever observed

Posted by in categories: physics, space

Previously, astronomers had only detected three short-period ultracool dwarf binary systems. They were relatively young-up to 40 million years old. In a recent study, astrophysicists at Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have discovered an extreme system: the tightest ultracool dwarf binary system ever observed.

This newly discovered system is known as LP 413-53AB. It consists of a pair of ultracool dwarfs. The system is estimated to be billions of years old. Surprisingly, its orbital period is at least three times shorter than all ultracool dwarf binaries discovered so far.

The proximity between the two stars is like this: they take less than one Earth day to revolve around each other. Each star’s “year” lasts just 17 hours.

Mar 6, 2023

This wearable fabric microphone can listen to the world—and your body

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, wearables

The stylish and stealthy microphone may be useful for monitoring patient health or as aids to its hearing impaired wearers.

Mar 6, 2023

Microsoft and Alphabet Fail to Show at the AI Party

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence is the buzziest of buzz words on Wall Street. Apart, that is, for the two firms that are seen to be at the cutting edge of the technology.

Mar 6, 2023

Women, Pornography, and Sadism | Dr. Del Paulhus | EP 327

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Dr Jordan B Peterson and Dr. Del Paulhus delve deep into the Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy, and the newly added Sadism. From these four traits, researchers can quantify much of the darkness of humanity, and begin to study it in a way that yields numerical results, and the potential to make substantial predictions.

Dr. Delroy Paulhus is a personality researcher whose work in dark personality traits, via a variety of psychometric methods, has yielded measures of the Dark Tetrad. His work has also validated measures of socially desirable responding, perceived control, free will and determinism, and over-claiming. His work has been published in over 150 articles and books, and his current citation count exceeds 43,000.

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Mar 6, 2023

Life Need Not Ever End

Posted by in categories: evolution, law, life extension

At least, that was the assumption in the second half of the 19th century. This scenario became known as the “heat death” of the universe, and it seemed to be the nail in the coffin for any optimistic cosmology that promised, or even allowed, eternal life and consciousness. For example, one of the most popular cosmological models of the time was put forth by the evolutionary theorist Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Charles Darwin who was actually more famous than him during their time. Spencer believed that the flow of energy through the universe was organizing it. He argued that biological evolution was just part of a larger process of cosmic evolution, and that life and human civilization were the current products of a process of continual cosmic complexification, which would ultimately lead to a state of maximal complexity, integration and balance among all things.

When the prominent Irish physicist John Tyndall told Spencer about the heat death hypothesis in a letter in 1858,” Spencer wrote him back to say it left him “staggered”: “Indeed, not seeing my way out of the conclusion, I remember being out of spirits for some days afterwards. I still feel unsettled about the matter.”

Things got even gloomier when the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann put forward a new statistical interpretation of the second law in the latter half of the 19th century. That was when the idea that the universe is growing more disordered came into the picture. Boltzmann took the classical version of the second law — that useful energy inevitably dissipates — and tried to give it a statistical explanation on the level of molecules colliding and spreading out. He used one of the simplest models possible: a gas confined to a box.