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Dec 4, 2022

Tim Bayne — Is Consciousness Irreducible?

Posted by in categories: education, neuroscience

Why is consciousness so contentious? Neuroscience can increasingly explain many facets of consciousness, but what about conscious awareness itself? Some philosophers claim that although facets of consciousness—such as how we see edges or colors—can be explained, we have no possibility of explaining, in purely physical terms, the experience of consciousness.

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Dec 4, 2022

What Would an Infinite Cosmos Mean? | Episode 1107 | Closer To Truth

Posted by in category: space

Is the cosmos infinite? Do stars and spaces go on forever? Do the numbers of galaxies, and even of universes, have no end? Here’s how infinity enriches appreciation of reality. Featuring interviews with Martin Rees, Anthony Aguirre, Raphael Bousso, Sean Carroll, and Joshua Knobe.

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Dec 4, 2022

The key to curing cancer in humans may be discovered in dogs

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

The key to curing cancer may be hidden within the genetic differences between humans and dogs. According to scientists working with the National Institutes of Health, dogs get the same diseases that we do, and they have many of the same genes that we do, too.

Dec 4, 2022

The Thymus As A Key Target For Aging Intervention — Dr. Greg Fahy — EARD 2022

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cryonics, genetics, life extension

This is a followup trial result to the first trial that reported 2.5 years of epigenetic age reversal This has interesting reports from the actual patients about how they feel and the changes it made to them. After the first trial I sent an email to see if I could do this but I have IBS which Fahy said would disqualify me.


Dr. Greg Fahy gives an update on the TRIIM-X clinical trial at EARD 2022.

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Dec 4, 2022

Worldwide Connectivity for Almost Every Person on the Planet is Getting Close

Posted by in category: internet

Internet connectivity is charging ahead with 900,000 gaining access daily. By 2032, 8 billion will be online. What are the implications?


Satellite Internet connectivity, faster feeds and speeds, and accessibility will transform our society over the next decade.

Dec 4, 2022

Walking pneumonia: What does it mean?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Walking pneumonia is an informal term for pneumonia that isn’t severe enough to require bed rest or hospitalization. You may feel like you have a cold. The symptoms are generally so mild that you don’t feel you need to stay home from work or school, so you are out walking around.

Chances are you won’t see a doctor for your mild symptoms. If you do see a doctor, you may not seem sick enough to need a chest X-ray, which is the way to diagnose any kind of pneumonia.

Walking pneumonia is often caused by a type of bacterium that produces milder symptoms that come on more gradually than do those of other types of pneumonia. The illness often is brought home by young children who contract it at school. Family members of infected children typically begin having symptoms two or three weeks later. This kind of pneumonia can be treated with an antibiotic.

Dec 4, 2022

The 3013 neurons in the brain of a fly larva have been mapped in full

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a whole-brain “connectome”, and is a stepping stone to describing the brains of more complex animals, including mice and humans.

Dec 4, 2022

Can Stress Cause Crohn’s Flares?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Your brain and gut are more connected than you think. Learn how to shut down a negative stress response to help the digestive symptoms of Crohn’s disease.

Dec 4, 2022

Researchers use machine learning to accelerate computational study of perovskite alloy materials

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability

Researchers in the CEST group have published a study demonstrating the effectiveness of machine learning methods to identify suitable perovskite solar cell materials. Perovskite solar cells are a novel technology gathering a lot of interest due to their high efficiency and potential for radically lower manufacturing costs when compared to the traditional silicon-based solar cells.

Despite their promising qualities, the commercialization of has been held back by their fast degradation under environmental stresses, such as heat and moisture. They also contain that can negatively impact the environment. The search for new perovskite materials that do not have these problems is ongoing, but the established experimental and computational research methods have not been able to handle the high number of material candidates that need to be tried and tested.

CEST members Jarno Laakso and Patrick Rinke, with from University of Turku and China, developed new machine learning-based methodology for rapidly predicting perovskite properties. This new approach accelerates computations and can be used to study perovskite alloys. These alloy materials contain many candidates for improved solar cell materials, but studying them has been difficult with conventional computational methods.

Dec 4, 2022

48,500-year-old ‘Zombie Virus’ Found in Siberia — Ancient Frozen Virus Found in Ice

Posted by in category: biotech/medical