The machine learning invention could wipe out resistant bacteria strains.
Los Angeles: Healthy Aging
Posted in life extension
Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Ms. Laura Trejo, General Manager of Los Angeles’s Department Of Aging.
Ira Pastor Comments:
The World Health Organization (WHO), through their Department of Ageing and Life Course, recently defined this new decade we have just entered (2020−2030) as “The Decade of Healthy Ageing” and see a major opportunity to bring together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media, and the private sector for ten years of concerted, catalytic and collaborative action to improve the lives of older people, their families, and the communities in which they live.
As part of this initiative, they created the WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities, which represents a growing network of any city or community that is committed to creating inclusive and accessible urban environments to benefit their ageing populations.
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:
Robot Carriage
Posted in robotics/AI
Nuclear Research Reactor Pulse
Posted in nuclear energy
Walking on the Moon
Posted in space
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.
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.
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.