No one can stay awake forever. While we’re awake, our need for sleep gradually increases. If we deprive ourselves of sleep, our brain functions – such as attention or judgement – are impaired, and sleep becomes irresistible. No matter whether we are on a couch or at work – if we ignore our need for sleep, we ultimately crash.
Although sleep is vital, until now it hasn’t been known which structure of the brain tells us when we are tired. But our recent study has shown in laboratory mice that the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for the most complex brain functions – including perception, language, thought and episodic memory – helps us track our need for sleep.
🔴 YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL? 🔴 🤗 One-Time Donation? - PayPal: https://paypal.me/JS2TheFuture. - Bitcoin: bc1qv4lsfsplvfecrrgvmfclhga28we7mvh9563xdj. 🔗 Share the video with anyone who might be interested (it helps a ton!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE: 😏 Tired of YouTube? Then watch ALL our videos on Odysee: https://bit.ly/37yZEKY
CREDIT & A BIG THANK YOU TO: 🙏 Excellent music from Edgaras Žakevičius aka “Stellardrone”. He is an extremely talented musician who produces beautiful space ambient music for free. 🙏 Excellent music from Harris Heller via Streambeats: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ6hCusHlsIDXqoTbbTHSUQ
🚀 Interested in awesome SpaceX rocket models? 👉 Then go to Bohimso’s 3D printing Etsy-shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/Bohimso for the best Starship and also other spacecraft models!
Disclaimer: This video is purely our opinions. #2theFuture #JixuanSebastian #TheJSSpaceReport
A new report about artificial intelligence and its effects warns AI has reached a turning point and its negative effects can no longer be ignored.
The big picture: For all the sci-fi worries about ultra-intelligent machines or wide-scale job loss from automation — both of which would require artificial intelligence that is far more capable than what has been developed so far — the larger concern may be about what happens if AI doesn’t work as intended.
NASA Turned a Star’s Corpse into Sound — and It’s Magical.
We all know that there’s no sound in space. However, one project from NASA is turning that fact on its head by transforming images of space objects into beautiful music.
It’s all a part of a “sonification” project by the agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Universe of Learning program, according to a NASA blog about the topic. The project takes normal charts and images of space and transforms them into sound.
One of the most recent examples of this showcases what the remnants of the Tycho supernova sounds like — and it’s absolutely magical.
What would a world without banks look like? The answer may lie in decentralized finance.
Decentralized finance is an emerging ecosystem of financial applications and protocols built on blockchain technology with programmable capabilities, such as ethereum and solana. The transactions get executed automatically through smart contracts on the blockchain, which includes the agreement of the deal.
“Anyone can actually build businesses on top of these protocols and using them the same way as we can today build an internet business on top of the HTTP IP protocol,” said Stani Kulechov, founder of a DeFi protocol called Aave.
Decentralized finance has captured only 5% of the crypto space, according to CoinGecko, but it has seen massive growth recently. There was $93 billion worth of DeFi assets in the crypto market as of June 2,021 up from $4 billion just three years ago. To be sure, DeFi’s growth has slowed since the summer of 2,020 and regulatory scrutiny from Capitol Hill has spiked over fears of crypto’s checkered past.
1:17-Chapter 1: The ABCs of DeFI 3:16-Chapter 2: The DeFi boom. 5:45-Chapter 3: Why people are excited about DeFi. 7:31-Chapter 4: What’s next?
This is the video of Harold Katcher’s presentation to the London Futurists. It was a great discussion, be sure to check it out.
#haroldkatcher #antiaging #rejuvenation #futurism
It has been known for some time that young blood plasma can confer beneficial effects on various organs in mice, although the mechanisms and implications remained unclear. A recent breakthrough experiment is attracting more attention to this area of research: rats treated with a blood plasma mixture known as E5 subsequently had their effective biological age measured by epigenetic clocks, involving 593 tissue samples. The result was a halving of the epigenetic ages of blood, heart, and liver tissue, and a lesser reduction (still statistically significant) in the epigenetic age of the hypothalamus. This has been heralded as the single most dramatic age-reversal experiment in mammals to date.
On Saturday 18th September, the lead designer of these experiments, Dr Harold Katcher, joined London Futurists to present his analysis of the findings, his own distinctive theories of aging, and his expectation for future research and applications. He also answered questions about his new book, “The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation”, which is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Illusion-Knowledge-paradigm-researc…09C7JNB64/
The event was introduced and moderated by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists.
