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Jan 26, 2023

Did Life on Mars Self-Destruct?

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks

An overview of the possibilities of life on Mars and recent science that suggests that it may have gone extinct by its own doing.

An exploration of time scales and time passage and its relation to the Fermi Paradox as a straightforwards solution.

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Jan 26, 2023

Fermi Paradox: Degrading Civilizations

Posted by in category: existential risks

An exploration of the idea of asymptotic or homeostatic civilizations that degrade over time, thus solving the Fermi Paradox.

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Jan 26, 2023

Three mind-blowing space mysteries that could be solved in next decade — including what lies beneath the Earth’s crust

Posted by in category: cosmology

AS technology advances rapidly, we’re getting closer to cracking space mysteries that once baffled scientists.

Some experts think we could solve mysteries like dark matter in the next decade.

We’ve rounded up some of the biggest space mysteries that scientists are hoping to solve in our life times.

Jan 26, 2023

‘Mystery’ condition causing ‘terrifying’ hallucinations in one million Britons

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

More than one-third of UK health experts are not aware of Charles Bonnet syndrome — CBS — a condition which can cause vivid, and sometimes frightening, hallucinations.

A poll of 1,100 health experts — including GPs, doctors and optometrists — found 37 per cent were not aware of CBS.

The condition is not caused by mental health problems or dementia. It is purely due to a loss of sight — 60 per cent or more — which reduces or stops the regular messages from the eye to the brain.

Jan 26, 2023

Thomas Yeo: Human brain network organization across different timescales

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The human brain is a complex system exhibiting multi-scale spatiotemporal organization. In this talk, I will provide an overview of my lab’s work on large-scale functional network organization across different timescales. First, I will present a biophysically plausible model of second-level fluctuation in the brain’s functional connectivity patterns. I will then discuss how minute-level task-state changes can predict behavioral traits. This is followed by exploring how brain dynamics can vary over the course of a day. Finally, I will discuss our work on estimating individual-level network markers that are stable across weeks and months.

This video is part of the SNAC seminar series organized by Mac Shine, Joe Lizier, and Ben Fulcher (The University of Sydney).

Jan 26, 2023

An Energy News Bulletin: About the Latest on Solar Cells, Energy Storage and Power Transmission

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

A new solar cell breakthrough, an energy vault comes to Northern California, and Bill Gates talks about the U.S. bringing the grid into the 21st century.


UCLA invents enhanced perovskite solar cells, PG&E partners with Energy Vault on a storage project, and Bill Gates talks about power lines.

Jan 26, 2023

DoNotPay Retires ‘Robot Lawyer’ Before It Even Has Its First Case

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

They threatened to prosecute the founder.


Company founder, Joshua Browder, says DoNotPay is staying away from law for now, after he received a barrage of ‘threats’ from State Bar associations.

Jan 26, 2023

Hear professor’s prediction on the future of AI tools

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

The first 5 minutes are well worth it.


ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with users and can provide lengthy and thorough responses to questions and prompts, is stunning users. Professor Scott Galloway from NYU Stern School of Business joins CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss. #CNN #News

Jan 26, 2023

Lee Hood on Systems Biology and Systems Medicine

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In this video, Dr. Lee Hood traces the beginnings of systems biology and the founding of the Institute for Systems Biology to its role in the creation of systems (P4) medicine and ISB’s recent affiliation with Providence.

Jan 26, 2023

Scammers posed as tech support to hack employees at two US agencies last year, officials say

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government

Cybercriminals hacked employees of at least two US federal civilian agencies last year as part of a “widespread” fraud campaign that sought to steal money from individuals’ bank accounts, US cybersecurity officials revealed Wednesday.

In one case, the unidentified hackers posed as tech support, convinced a federal employee to call them and then instructed the federal employee to visit a malicious website, according to the advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and a threat-sharing center for state and local governments known as MS-ISAC.

The goal of the scam, which appears to have hit both private sector and government agencies, was to trick victims into sending the scammers money. It was unclear if that happened in the case of the federal employees.