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Oct 19, 2022

What’s next after NASA’s asteroid crash? A New Study on the Environmental Impact of Bitcoin & more

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, bitcoin, existential risks, mathematics, quantum physics, sustainability

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Welcome everybody to our first episode of Science News without the gobbledygook. Today we’ll talk about this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, trouble with the new data from the Webb telescope, what’s next after NASA’s collision with an asteroid, new studies about the environmental impact of Bitcoin and exposure to smoke from wildfires, a test run of a new electric airplane, and dogs that can smell mathematics.

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Oct 19, 2022

The Last Days on Earth

Posted by in category: futurism

Oct 19, 2022

Ben Goertzel | Beyond AGI: Imagining the Unimaginable

Posted by in categories: finance, robotics/AI

Dr. Ben Goertzel, a self-described Cosmist and Singularitarian, is one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial general intelligence (AGI), natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, and virtual worlds and gaming He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles.

Oct 19, 2022

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison / Narrated by Ian Gordon

Posted by in category: futurism

My 2015 recording of the Ellison classic.

More recordings: https://www.youtube.com/HorrorBabble

Oct 19, 2022

#alzheimers #science #Brain #dentist #dentistry #oralhealth #disease #alzheimersawareness #alzheimerscare #health #Wow #amazing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience, science

798 views, 6 likes, 1 comments, 18 shares, Facebook Reels from The Neuro-Network.

Oct 19, 2022

BYU engineers design a molten-salt reactor that will never melt down and fits on a flatbed truck

Posted by in category: transportation

https://www.21stcentech.com/micro-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-meltdown-works/

Oct 19, 2022

Microbrewery may be where your glass of milk will come from in the near future

Posted by in category: futurism

https://www.21stcentech.com/lab-grown-meet-big-deal-lab-made-milk/

Oct 19, 2022

Russia finds 40% of its Chinese chip imports are defective

Posted by in category: computing

As reported by The Register, pro-Putin newspaper Kommersant writes that the percentage of defective imported chips into Russia before the war was just 2%, which isn’t very good considering how many components are found in today’s electronic items. Now, almost eight months after the country invaded Ukraine, it stands at 40%.

Oct 19, 2022

Antidote saved 100% of bees from lethal pesticide

Posted by in categories: chemistry, food, particle physics

Immunizing bees against pesticides.


‘We wanted to develop a strategy to detoxify managed pollinators and found we can do it by incorporating it into their food, senior author Minglin Ma, a biomaterials engineer at Cornell University told Chemistry World.

“Managed bee colonies are constantly in need of being replenished due to losses. This relieves the stress for beekeepers to meet the ever-increasing demand for pollination,” James Webb, also a co-author of the study, told Salon by email.

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Oct 19, 2022

The Many-Worlds Theory, Explained

Posted by in categories: information science, particle physics, quantum physics

Quantum physics is strange. At least, it is strange to us, because the rules of the quantum world, which govern the way the world works at the level of atoms and subatomic particles (the behavior of light and matter, as the renowned physicist Richard Feynman put it), are not the rules that we are familiar with — the rules of what we call “common sense.”

The quantum rules, which were mostly established by the end of the 1920s, seem to be telling us that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time, while a particle can be in two places at once. But to the great distress of many physicists, let alone ordinary mortals, nobody (then or since) has been able to come up with a common-sense explanation of what is going on. More thoughtful physicists have sought solace in other ways, to be sure, namely coming up with a variety of more or less desperate remedies to “explain” what is going on in the quantum world.

These remedies, the quanta of solace, are called “interpretations.” At the level of the equations, none of these interpretations is better than any other, although the interpreters and their followers will each tell you that their own favored interpretation is the one true faith, and all those who follow other faiths are heretics. On the other hand, none of the interpretations is worse than any of the others, mathematically speaking. Most probably, this means that we are missing something. One day, a glorious new description of the world may be discovered that makes all the same predictions as present-day quantum theory, but also makes sense. Well, at least we can hope.