Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Ms. Laura Trejo, General Manager of Los Angeles’s Department Of Aging.
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Feb 23, 2020
A powerful new antibiotic discovered using machine learning
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Feb 23, 2020
SubTv — Between the Rounds — DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: robotics/AI
Robots are resting, but the #SubTChallenge humans are hard at work today, prepping the course for Round 2 of the Urban Circuit. Have questions about the SubT Challenge? Submit via #AskSubT. We’ll answer as many as we can 2pm ET/11am PT Sunday. Watch:
Feb 23, 2020
Is the polyglot brain different? MIT researchers are trying to find out
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, neuroscience
There are more theories than facts about polyglots. Because internet lists of polyglots identify mainly men, there’s the belief that the male brain is more predisposed to multilingualism. Others believe that polyglots are disproportionately gay and/or left-handed.
These unfounded theories infuriate Ev Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her lab is conducting a study seeking to dispel them and establish a basic understanding of how the polyglot brain works.
Recently, a polyglot named Susanna Zaraysky submitted to a two-hour session of tests inside an fMRI machine. Zaraysky speaks nine languages, most of them the usual suspects — French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian — but also Ladino, the version of Spanish spoken by Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century.
Feb 23, 2020
Science Channel star ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: science
Science Channel star “Mad Mike” Hughes died during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket Saturday.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes’ family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey,” the Science Channel said in a statement.
Hughes was scheduled to launch his homemade rocket for a new Science Channel series called “Homemade Astronauts,” according to the Discovery Channel website.
Feb 23, 2020
Smarticle robots built from smaller swarming robots
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: 3D printing, military, robotics/AI
Swarming 3D printed smarticles unlock new method of robot locomotion and may be able to form load-bearing structures
An accidental discovery about construction staples led to the development of the swarming robots. Nick Gravish, a doctoral student at Georgia Tech working on a project with the Army Research Laboratory, found that if these heavy duty staples were poured into a box with removable sides, they would self-assemble into tower structures that will stay standing even if the box was disassembled. This, he realised, meant that entangling simple structures could lead to the formation of a composite structure with mechanical properties well beyond those of the original structures.
Feb 23, 2020
Elon Musk shares the science fiction book series that inspired him to start SpaceX
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability
As a teenage boy, Elon Musk felt a “personal obligation” for the fate of mankind, according to the book “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance.
Musk’s love of books and the lessons he took from them inspired him to create “cleaner energy technology or [build] spaceships to extend the human species’s reach” in the future, according to Vance.
One set of those books Musk still recommends today: the seven-book “Foundation” science fiction series by scientist and author Isaac Asimov.
