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Trump Ending Carbon Capture Mandates Attached To Grants Could Spark A New Industrial Revolution
The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing.
The Largest Camera In The World Reveals Its First Image
Its high-definition images use six different color filters can photograph 45 times the area of the full moon in the sky with each exposure. So wide it can capture the entire southern sky in just three nights of shooting.
Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling
Bubbles In Ice Could Be A Future Medium For Secret Codes
A 'message in a bubble' has limited practical utility, information storage in Antarctica and the Arctic is expensive but less challenging than storing message in ice, but they are more covert than paper documents and can easily be carried.
Nearly Complete Harbin Skull From 146,000 Years Ago Belongs To The Denisovan Lineage
Humans Have Always Adapted To Changing Climates - It's Why We Conquered The World
A new study shows we were adapting to diverse areas and environmental changes long before the creation of agriculture and resulting civilizations. Even before worldwide migration, we were bending African forests and deserts. Failing to do so was why the probably earliest migration efforts seemed to have disappeared with barely a trace.
Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert
Social Media Addiction Behavior, Not Time, Is A Harbinger Of Young Mental Health
National surveys have documented rising screen use but a new paper mapped longitudinal trajectories of addictive use specifically, rather generic limits on screen time.The data were social media use of nearly 4,300 children enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, starting at age 8, and how use changed over the next four years.
Social Media Savvy: Democrats Request Community Notes On Twitter Twice As Often?
That's all factually true but if enough people object to that framing and demand a Community Note and then the Community Note is clarified by people like them, I would be a data point showing that Clinton supporters are far more likely to engage in disinformation than Obama ones.
Isoprene: Plants Can Make Their Own Pesticide But The Environmental Cost Is High
Companies will cater to that also. If enough people mobilized by politicians and activists insist they don't want some harmless food coloring or BPA, companies will remove those and simply charge more. The products won't be healthier, just more costly. Yet sometimes mimicking the natural world can be beneficial, like with neonicotinoid seed treatments based on natural pesticide effects and have reduced mass spraying and off-target effects so well that bees have rebounded and now exist in record numbers.
Marshall McLuhan Hated TV But He Might Like AI
Today’s large language models (LLMs) process information across disciplines at unprecedented speed and are challenging higher education to rethink teaching, learning and disciplinary structures.
As AI tools disrupt conventional subject boundaries, educators face a dilemma: some seek to ban these tools, while others are seeking ways to embrace them in the classroom.
Both approaches risk missing a deeper transformation that was predicted 60 years ago by Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan.
Yelling Fascism Is The Fashion, But The Left Is Actually Less Diverse
Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides
If so, this could help Europe, which has declared it wants to reduce pesticides 50% by 2030 but found its efforts stymied when they had to engage in limited boycotts of its primary food exporter, Russia. Even though they exclude Organic™ pesticides from their goals, despite those being up to 600% more chemicals per calorie produced.(1)
With New Acceptance Of Vaccines, The Left Needs To Rethink Pesticides Next
Nightshade: AI Scraping Arms Race Escalates
Editorial: This Week’s LA Non-riots
A Facebook friend opined that Los Angeles protesters could “turn LA into another Portland.” I expand for you my rejoinder to his post:
The Lizard Poop Of Madagascar
Isolated from all other landmasses, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity hotspot unlike anywhere else on Earth. One way biodiversity spreads is by endozoochory, which is the process name for animals eating plant seeds and then pooping them out somewhere else, which may cause them to grow in the new location. Birds are an obvious mode of transport but a new study takes a look at the role lizard poop has played.
Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces
A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signal decoding, AI, and bioengineering but what should really worry residents of a communist dictatorship is how they believe it will shape autonomy, identity, and mental privacy.
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