Pasta science! “We tested pasta without salt because salting your pasta water is one of the most common pieces of advice. We tried pasta in cold water to test the story that Lan Lam shared about her friend. And we tried cooking pasta in water that a previous batch of pasta had been cooked in because we heard that some restaurants do this, and claim that it makes the pasta…
I had read bits and pieces of this before, and it’s quite interesting. This is a thorough recap of the investigation into the hypothesis that lithium contamination is a major driver of obesity. “All this seems like pretty strong evidence in favor of the lithium hypothesis. A critic would have to argue that unusually obese cities just happen to be downstream from lithium grease plants that experience catastrophic failures. This…
“With an electrical component about 60 times greater and an electromagnetic energy field 5000 times greater than the brain’s, the heart has a significant influence on the body down to the cellular level.” This article is pretty fringe, with its sole scientific reference being to an article published in 2003. But I don’t know enough to discredit it, so I remain to it being true! ~ learn more
“Since using A.I. to draft prior-authorization requests, he said about 90 percent of his requests for coverage had been approved by insurers, compared with about 10 percent before.” Eventually AI will both write and read the letters. ~ learn more
“The easiest and most literal example of finger tip feeling is the finicky lock on my apartment door. When I first moved in, it would sometimes take me four or five minutes to get it locked or unlocked. Now, I have a sort of intuitive feel for what the lock needs and can usually get it open or closed in a few seconds.” ~ learn more
Check out this new humanoid robot. “Speech-to-speech: capable of conversation with humans through onboard mics and speakers connected to custom AI models … Cameras: AI-driven vision system powered by 6 onboard RGB cameras … Hands: 4th gen hands with 16 degrees of freedom and human equivalent strength” ~ learn more
People working at the cutting edge of AI get together annually to show off their work to one another. This is a summary of several presentations from this year. ~ learn more
“The recovery of Pacific bluefin tuna has achieved a major milestone—the species exceeded international targets a decade ahead of schedule.” ~ learn more
“El Paquete Semana. The weekly packet. A one-terabyte hard-drive loaded with a week’s worth of American movies, shows, music, magazines, and even smartphone apps.” ~ learn more
“The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon rain forest is a dense green mass of humid jungle that covers northeast South America. But after strong winds sweep across the Sahara, a tan cloud rises in the air, stretches between the continents, and ties together the desert and the jungle.” ~ learn more