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1 day agoCurrent Event baron778
Higher Levels of Fitness Linked to Executive Function and Brain Activity in Older Adults
The aging process is associated with declines in brain function, including memory and how fast our brain processes information, yet previous research has found that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults leads to better executive function in the brain, which helps with reasoning and problem solving. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels have also been found to increase brain volume in key brain regions.
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1 day agoCurrent Event baron778
Germany abolishes Nazi-era abortion law
Germany on Friday abolished a Nazi-era law forbidding doctors from providing information about abortions. The Bundestag lower house of parliament voted to scrap the law, meaning doctors are now allowed to give out additional information about abortions without fear of prosecution.
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4 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Antony Starr’s Performance On ’The Boys’ Is The Best On Television
Between slime puppy and a dick pic to dad, Succession has tried to be the most grotesque show on television. It comes close, but Amazon Prime’s The Boys takes the honor in a more literal sense: in the currently running third season alone, we’ve seen a man inside a bag of cocaine and we’ve seen The Deep eat a live octopus with whom he had sexual relations.
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10 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Lager Beer Significantly Increases the Number of Health-Promoting Bacteria in the gut Microbiome of men
Lisbon (Portugal) Diet has a strong influence on the intestinal flora and thus also on human health. A study recently showed that a low-fat, vegan diet leads to more healthy intestinal bacteria and thus makes it easier to lose weight. In a pilot study, scientists at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa have now investigated whether and how lager beer affects the intestinal microbiome.
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11 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
Teslas running Autopilot have been in roughly 273 crashes in less than a year
Regulators released the first batch of information since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
‘Space bubbles’ between Earth, sun possibly could reverse destructive climate change, MIT researchers say
It’s too late to stop catastrophic climate change, many people fear. Frequent extreme heat waves, droughts and floods: these are already happening, and most climate experts say they’re likely to get worse. But what if science and technology could provide a solution? A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes the “worst-case scenario” of a warming planet possibly could be avoided through human ingenuity – namely, the building of frozen “space bubbles...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
The federal government is planning to phase out single-use plastics at national parks
The U.S. Interior Department, which helps oversee the country's national parks, says it is planning to phase out single-use plastics on its land and facilities by 2032. The agency would be tasked with finding alternative materials to disposable plastics, such as cutlery, bags, cups, bottles, straws and food containers, it announced Tuesday in honor of World Ocean Day.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research
A tiny group of people with rectal cancer just experienced something of a scientific miracle: their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment. In a very small trial done by doctors at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, patients took a drug called dostarlimab for six months. The trial resulted in every single one of their tumors disappearing. The trial group included just 18 people, and there's still more to be learned about how the treatment worked. But som...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
Individualised mRNA vaccine shows promise in pancreatic cancer patients
Phase I study shows that mRNA-based vaccines can be used to stimulate T cells to recognise neoantigens in pancreatic cancer patients.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
Why Your Brain Needs to Dream
We often hear stories of people who’ve learned from their dreams or been inspired by them. Think of Paul McCartney’s story of how his hit song “Yesterday” came to him in a dream or of Mendeleev’s dream-inspired construction of the periodic table of elements.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
Andrew Garfield talks new true-crime series, Spider-Man return: 'Maybe it's better to leave on a high'
Andrew Garfield is having a very good year. In the past 12 months, the actor has portrayed disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, landed an Oscar nom for playing Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick … Boom! and dusted off his web-shooters to return as everyone’s favourite wall crawler in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis baron778
LSD microdosing does not appear to improve mood or cognitive ability, according to new placebo-controlled study
A new randomized controlled study of LSD microdosing has failed to find evidence that the psychedelic practice results in improvements to mood or cognition. The research has been published in the journal Addiction Biology.
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1 month agoExpression baron778
I tried Google's text-to-image AI and was shocked by the results
Text-to-image artificial intelligence programs aren’t anything new. Indeed, existing neural networks like DALL-E have impressed us with their ability to generate simple, photorealistic images from brief yet descriptive sentences. But this week I was introduced to Imagen(opens in new tab). Developed by Google Research’s Brain Team, Imagen is an AI similar to that of DALL-E and LDM. However, Brain Team’s aim with Imagen is to generate images with a greater level of accuracy and fidelity, usi...
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Robotic buoys developed to keep Atlantic right whales safe
A Cape Cod science center and one of the world’s largest shipping businesses are collaborating on a project to use robotic buoys to protect a vanishing whale from lethal collisions with ships. A lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed the technology, which uses buoys and underwater gliders to record whale sounds in near real time.
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1 month agoExpression baron778
5 Futuristic Inventions You Won’t Believe Actually Exist
There’s no way you know about all of these.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies?
Bending your head to use a phone stresses the spine, say chiropractors – and that’s not the only way the devices are injuring and changing us.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Johnny Depp Says He Called Warner Bros. About Amber Heard's Aquaman Role: 'I Curbed Their Worries'
Johnny Depp claims he played a part in landing Amber Heard her Aquaman role. On Wednesday, the actor, 58, returned to the stand when his team called him to testify again in his ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife. In this final week of testimonies, Depp got the chance to respond to some matters brought up during Heard's defense, including her saying he did not get her blockbuster Aquaman role for her.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Logitech’s new mouse and keyboard offer a quieter click and more clack, respectively
Logitech’s latest computer accessories offer a quieter or more tactile way to use your computer, depending on your preferences. The new MX Master 3S is a minor update to the existing MX Master 3 mouse with a quieter mouse click and a more sensitive sensor. Meanwhile, the MX Mechanical and MX Mechanical Mini are a pair of keyboards whose mechanical switches should make them a more tactile (if slightly louder) counterpart to its existing MX Keys devices.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Domestic violence app aims to help victims, including disguised emergency button
A domestic violence app aims to provide help to victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), offering everything from an encrypted diary of evidence to a way to call police without the need to speak.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
The “Final Stretch Alliance To End Horse Slaughter” Was Just Announced To Permanently Ban The Slaughter Of Horses In The U.S. - World Animal News
A diverse group from the equine industry, along with several animal welfare organizations just announced the “Final Stretch Alliance to End Horse Slaughter”—a collaborative effort to permanently ban the unnecessary slaughter of American horses. In an open letter to congressional leaders, including U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and U.S. Senators...