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Apr 11, 2023
Incoming hoverboat, morning transport to work at SpaceX
Posted by Eric Klien in category: space travel
This is pretty cool, I just learned from our Felix Schlang that SpaceX operates a hovercraft, kinda of like the hovercraft that Luke used in the original Star Wars movie.
SpaceX is using this to get between two locations that are about an hour apart by road, but only 15 minutes apart via sea. A hovercraft hovers over land or water and is ideal for this purpose.
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Apr 11, 2023
How evolution made humans more like birds than other mammals
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: evolution, neuroscience
To understand helpless human babies, our big brains and oddly involved dads, look to the evolution of birds not mammals by Antone Martinho-Truswell + BIO.
Apr 11, 2023
Scientists discover possible connection between human brain and cosmos on a quantum scale
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics
The human brain, with its intricate networks of neurons, has long been a subject of fascination and mystery. Concurrently, the cosmos, with its vastness and complexity, has intrigued scientists and philosophers for centuries.
Recent research has begun to explore the possibility that the brain and the cosmos might be connected on a quantum scale. This article will delve into the research paper titled “Quantum transport in fractal networks” and discuss its implications for our understanding of the relationship between the brain and the cosmos.
Apr 11, 2023
The Radical Remission Project
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, health
Welcome to the Radical Remission Project, the online community created by NY Times bestselling author Kelly A. Turner, PhD, author of Radical Remission & Radical Hope! We are dedicated to continuing research and creating community for survivors, patients, friends, family, and health professionals.
Apr 11, 2023
What’s Holding Back Solar for Homes in the United States?
Posted by 21st Century Tech Blog in category: materials
The industry, particularly in the U.S. is undergoing significant growing pains with demand outstripping supply in materials and personnel.
Apr 11, 2023
Alibaba plans to roll out A.I. bot rival to ChatGPT
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: business, finance, robotics/AI
CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports on news that Alibaba is releasing a chatbot similar to ChatGPT. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi.
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Apr 11, 2023
Florida fight over ‘baby boxes’ part of bigger culture war
Posted by Ken Otwell in categories: biotech/medical, law
How does this work for the parent when they have a birth certificate but no baby to show for it, and no record of “disposing” of it?
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Safe Haven Baby Boxes and A Safe Haven for Newborns are two charities with similar names and the same goal: providing distressed mothers with a safe place to surrender their unwanted newborns instead of dumping them in trash cans or along roadsides.
But a fight between the two is brewing in the Florida Senate. An existing state law, supported and promoted by the Miami-based A Safe Haven, allows parents to surrender newborns to firefighters and hospital workers without giving their names. A new bill, supported by the Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes, would give fire stations and hospitals the option to install the group’s ventilated and climate-controlled boxes, where parents could drop off their babies without interacting with fire or hospital employees.
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Apr 11, 2023
Don’t Bash Digisexuality. For Some, It Brings Hope
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: computing, ethics, neuroscience, sex, virtual reality
My latest Opinion piece:
I possibly cheated on my wife once. Alone in a room, a young woman reached out her hands and seductively groped mine, inviting me to engage and embrace her. I went with it.
Twenty seconds later, I pulled back and ripped off my virtual reality gear. Around me, dozens of tech conference goers were waiting in line to try the same computer program an exhibitor was hosting. I warned colleagues in line this was no game. It created real emotions and challenged norms of partnership and sexuality. But does it really? And who benefits from this?
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Apr 11, 2023
Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, media & arts
An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director
Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as “one of American film’s modern masters” and “the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation.” Anderson’s films have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time, including Lesley Ann Manville, Julianne Moore, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, Anderson’s entire career—from Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), and Phantom Thread (2017) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short films—is examined in illustrated detail for the first time.
Anderson’s influences, his style, and the recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by firsthand interviews with Anderson’s closest collaborators—including producer JoAnne Sellar, actor Vicky Krieps, and composer Jonny Greenwood—and illuminated by film stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic. Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world.