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This new technology detecting deadly landmines with 92% accuracy could help Ukraine

160,000 square kilometers of the Ukrainian territory of land may be “contaminated” by landmines.

New technology to detect lethal explosives designed to maim and kill has been tested by researchers from the Demining Research Community.

The researchers have been in Oklahoma for two weeks setting up grids of mines and munitions to train a drone-based, machine-learning-powered detection system to find and identify harmful explosives without the need for people to do so, Scientific American magazine reported on Wednesday.

It’s not easy to find places where you can lay dormant mines and fly drones.

A new technology to detect lethal explosives designed to maim and kill has been tested by researchers from the Demining Research Community, a non-profit organization that bridges academic research and humanitarian demining efforts.

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No knowledge, only intuition!

Article originally published on LINKtoLEADERS under the Portuguese title “Sem saber ler nem escrever!”

In the 80s, “with no knowledge, only intuition”, I discovered the world of computing. I believed computers could do everything, as if it were an electronic God. But when I asked the TIMEX Sinclair 1000 to draw the planet Saturn — I am fascinated by this planet, maybe because it has rings —, I only glimpse a strange message on the black and white TV:

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Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

https://youtu.be/pDSEjaDCtOU?t=2526

Ian Hutchinson’s concerns for existential risk after minute 42.

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. Current nuclear reactors are based on fission as we discuss. Ian has also written on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and religion.

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Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers

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The idea that some mimic might steal your identity and replace you, or takeover your mind, is terrifying. But could we encounter aliens that were able to do this?

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Alien Civilizations: Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers.
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 359a, September 11, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.

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How Did Life Begin?

Researched and Written by Leila Battison.
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly.
Script Edited by Pete Kelly.
Art by Khail Kupsky.
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza.

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References for the video:

https://archive.org/details/molecularorigins0000brac/page/2/mode/2up https://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddo…p173822459 https://www.wired.com/2014/06/fantastically-wrong-how-to-gro…-are-wrong https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/TAPA/51/Spontaneous_Generation*.html#note52 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926753/

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How Did Human Beings Acquire the Ability to do Math?

(October 29, 2012) Keith Devlin concludes the course by discussing the development of mathematical cognition in humans as well as the millennium problems.

Originally presented in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.

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https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

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Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness

Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new treatment for balding, Wired reports — a condition experienced to varying degrees by two-thirds of American men by age 35.

The team, associated with the University of California, Irvine and a biotech company called Amplifica, believes they’ve identified the signaling pathway that drive hair growth to find new ways to stop stem cells from giving up on producing hair follicles.

Experiments with mice, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Developmental Cell last month, have been promising. The mice were genetically modified to have the hair growth signaling pathway turned on permanently.

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