polysomnography
a sleep study performed overnight while being continuously monitored by a credentialed technologist. It records the physiological changes that occur during sleep, usually at night —Wikipedia
Science
T/F: women are the weaker sex
Also calibrated: T/F: women and men are basically the same
Lamarckism
a theory of evolution based on the principle that physical changes in organisms during their lifetime—such as greater development of an organ or a part through increased use—could be transmitted to their offspring --britannica.com
Ask-Socrates (AI analysis platform)
"tools intended to help individuals and organizations better research and interpret the global economic and political environment" --ask-socrates.com
correlation of psychiatric pharmaceuticals for adolescents and school shootings
Request: the school shooting phenomenon seems to coincide with increased adolescent use of antidepressant and antipsychotic medications. Is there a connection?
CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research)
International organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory --home.cern
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