CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research)
International organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory --home.cern
Science
T/F: Google's chatbot is sentient
conversations with LaMDA... support [the] belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child --AI researcher Blake Lemoine
Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping? (video)
Dr. Hawkins' calibrations corroborated with recent study.
Dyson sphere
a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. The concept is a thought experiment --wikipedia
Research article: Daytime napping and Alzheimer's dementia
Older adults tended to nap longer and more frequently with aging, while the progression of Alzheimer's dementia accelerates this change by more than doubling the annual increases in nap duration/frequency --study
Michio Kaku (scientist)
American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator) --wikipedia
Tesla Optimus Robot
a bipedal, humanoid robot that... could take on all the boring, repetitive tasks that humans would rather not do --article
Carbon dioxide scrubbers for climate change
[Biden] administration officials have refused to consider technological solutions to reduce Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere [e.g.] technologies such as Carbon scrubbing that would remove the offending element without destroying fossil fuel-based industries --article
New model of sun's physics a key to global heating?
"considering the sun's rotation, that varied through time, and the magnetic fields it generates, they have been able to explain the chemical structure of the sun."
colonization of Mars (good idea?)
Reasons for colonizing Mars include curiosity, the potential for humans to provide more in-depth observational research than uncrewed rovers, economic interest in its resources, and the possibility that the settlement of other planets could decrease the likelihood of human extinction --wikipedia
Dinosaur Vocalization Study (2022) | Cretaceous Era
Using skull and olfactory cavity proportions, one can attempt to recreate the flow of sound, frequency, and volume of each animal --video
pineal gland
Request: René Descartes believed the human pineal gland to be the "principal seat of the soul." Academic philosophy among his contemporaries considered the pineal gland as a neuroanatomical structure without special metaphysical qualities; science studied it as one endocrine gland among many.
time
"the thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc." —britannica.com/dictionary
T/F: pedophilia (attraction not molestation) is a choice
Pedophilic Disorder is a DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition), diagnosis assigned to adults ( defined as age 16 and up) who have sexual desire for prepubescent children —theravive.com
Mandelbrot set
Iteration of simple rules produces endless fractals.