She was sick of her mail being stolen, so she shipped herself a package with tracking device and waited to see where it ended up. Then the called the cops. Color me surprised that the cops actually did something about it. Way to go, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office! ~ learn more
“Sodium solid-state batteries are usually seen as a far-off-in-the-future technology, but we hope that this paper can invigorate more push into the sodium area by demonstrating that it can indeed work well, even better than the lithium version in some cases,” [first author] Deysher said. ~ learn more
“Cultivarium builds tools to grow, transform, and engineer “extraordinary” microbes: the salt lovers, heat tolerators, and geyser growers that have long been inaccessible to scientists. Studying such organisms might lead to better gene-editing tools or medicines. And regardless of whether Cultivarium’s engineering efforts succeed or fail, they give all their knowledge away for free, in the expectation that the next biological breakthrough will come from these overlooked microbes.” ~ learn…
This is anonymously published by “a midwestern doctor” so who knows just how much of this is bs. Informed readers, please write to me! “Skin cancers are by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, so to prevent them, the public is constantly told to avoid the sun. However, while the relatively benign skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, the ones responsible for most skin cancer…
“Mark Twain was once invited to give a toast to a gathering of the great Civil War heroes in New York. He could have chosen any topic, but Twain, always looking for the unexpected and the humorous, chose babies. When it comes to our children, “we stand on common ground,” he said, facing Sherman and Grant and hundreds of other officers who had all bravely served under fire.” ~ learn…
“These female AI users, flipping the stereotype of under-socialized men chatting with AI girlfriends in their parents' basement, are challenging assumptions about the nature of human intimacy.” ~ learn more
“If you outsource your core competencies to someone else, particularly a 3rd party AI company, then that tool is getting better and regardless of what it does or doesn’t do with your data, it may enable more people to compete with you. So the question is - when a company comes to you with an AI product that can help automate something you consider core, do you buy it?” ~…
Don’t worry, a new technology could allow the recycling of urine into drikable water. “The prototype, modelled on the “stillsuits” in the sci-fi classic Dune, collects urine, purifies it and can return it to the astronaut through a drinking tube within five minutes.” ~ learn more
“She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one problem.” ~ learn more
“Flettner rotors are large rotating cylinders that produce aerodynamic thrust at right angles of the air passing over them. The CoFlow Jet cylinders developed by Zha don't rotate. They draw in a bit of the air from the wind blowing across and through them and then expends it at another part of the cylinder. By drawing in a small amount of air from the intake, pressurizing it using an impeller,…