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Oct 5, 2020
Tesla in talks with Vale to buy Canadian nickel for electric cars
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in July urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company’s electric cars. Musk offered a “giant contract” if supplies could be produced in an environmentally sensitive way.
While EVs are expected to help reduce global carbon emission, environmentalists are concerned that production of EV parts and increased mining may damage the environment.
Oct 5, 2020
Futurist Neologisms You Should Know As We Enter the Cybernetic Era
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Terms such as ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘Neurotechnology’ were new some time not so long ago. We can’t evolve faster than our language does. We think in concepts and evolution itself is a linguistic, code-theoretic process. Do yourself a humongous favor, look over these 33 transhumanist neologisms. Here’s a fairly comprehensive glossary of thirty three newly-introduced concepts and terms from The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution by Russian-Amer… See More.
Oct 5, 2020
Researchers find ‘Queen of the Ocean’ ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The shark, named Nukumi by researchers, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old.
Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia found a nearly 2-ton great white shark believed to be roughly 50 years old, dubbing her a true “Queen of the Ocean.”
Coming in at more than 17 feet long and 3,541 pounds, she is the largest shark the group has been able to sample in the Northwest Atlantic, according to a Friday Facebook post by OCEARCH, a non-profit marine research organization. She’s been named Nukumi for “the legendary wise old grandmother figure” of the Indigenous Mi’kmaq people, a First Nations group native to that region of Canada.
Oct 5, 2020
Tesla Model 3 crushes Dodge Charger in 1-year review of cost of operation as police car
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: sustainability, transportation
Tesla Model 3 is crushing Dodge Charger as a police car when it comes to the cost of ownership as the Bargersville Police Chief who pushed to electrify his fleet shares a 1-year review of the cost of operation.
Last year, we reported on the Bargersville, Indiana, police department updating their fleet with Tesla Model 3 vehicles.
Bargersville Police Chief Todd Bertram commented at the time:
Oct 5, 2020
How the Brain Helps Us Navigate Social Differences
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
When we talk to someone from a different socioeconomic background, our brain reacts differently than when we address someone with a similar status to our own. Researchers found higher activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language and attentional control when people speak with those of different socioeconomic status. different socioeconomic background, our brain reacts differently than when we address someone with a similar status to our own. Researchers found higher activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language and attentional control when people speak with those of different socioeconomic status. different socioeconomic background our brain reacts differently than when we address someone with a similar status to our own. Researchers found higher activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language and attentional control when people speak with those of different socioeconomic status.
Oct 5, 2020
Russian surfers say mystery ocean pollution is poisoning them and killing animals
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Images on social media show masses of sea life washed up on the beaches of Kamchatka, and water tests found high levels of oil products and other compounds.
Oct 5, 2020
Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find Out
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: robotics/AI
Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command fund year-long effort to train a neural net to rank credibility and sort news from misinformation.
Oct 5, 2020
Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience
When the brain forms a memory of a new experience, neurons called engram cells encode the details of the memory and are later reactivated whenever we recall it. A new MIT study reveals that this process is controlled by large-scale remodeling of cells’ chromatin.
This remodeling, which allows specific genes involved in storing memories to become more active, takes place in multiple stages spread out over several days. Changes to the density and arrangement of chromatin, a highly compressed structure consisting of DNA and proteins called histones, can control how active specific genes are within a given cell.
“This paper is the first to really reveal this very mysterious process of how different waves of genes become activated, and what is the epigenetic mechanism underlying these different waves of gene expression,” says Li-Huei Tsai, the director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the senior author of the study.
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Ever wanted to get rid of a memory that holds you back or torments you? Well, you might soon be able to.
In an experiment out of the films Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, painful experiences have been erased from the brain.