Cool Stuff

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https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/02/23/magpies_outsmart_scientists_by_helping_each_other_remove_tracking_devices_818204.html

"When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn't expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds.

Our goal was to learn more about the movement and social dynamics of these highly intelligent birds, and to test these new, durable and reusable devices. Instead, the birds outsmarted us.

As our new research paper explains, the magpies began showing evidence of cooperative "rescue" behaviour to help each other remove the tracker.

While we're familiar with magpies being intelligent and social creatures, this was the first instance we knew of that showed this type of seemingly altruistic behaviour: helping another member of the group without getting an immediate, tangible reward."

 

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https://www.sciencealert.com/we-thought-we-understood-plasma-loops-on-the-sun-we-might-be-wrong

 

[RicInOR]

Endurance is Found.


More at the link

Shackleton's lost ship Endurance is found 107 years after sinking

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion

Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers

 

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion

Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers

Who would have thought a leaf vegetable was the secret to affordable fusion power?

 

[RicInOR]

Toxin-producing yeast strains in the gut fuel inflammatory bowel disease

Individual Candida albicans yeast strains in the human gut are as different from each other as the humans that carry them, and some C. albicans strains may damage the gut of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. The...

medicalxpress.com

 

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Kawasaki unveils a ridable robot goat.

 

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Kawasaki unveils a ridable robot goat.

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Ohhhhh, the Talibanners are gonna love this...

 

[RicInOR]

Voting - Technology Update

1 - paper based
2 - "secure" at least as secure as the State's lotto systems - and you haven't heard of those being hacked, given the $$$ in play, they are a rich target.

Finally: A Transparent Voting Process That Can't Be Corrupted, Hacked, or Cheated — Democrats Will Hate It

The left loves absentee voting, so I say let’s give it to them. And let’s make it as easy as picking up a scratch-off lottery ticket from the local store. Hell, let them vote on their phon...

pjmedia.com

Are there some ways fraud can get in - sure. Still have the issue of someone with a bit of knowledge voting on behalf of another registered voter. Example might be a nursing home.

The state may fail to clean up their voting roles -- cause why would that change?
The state may register ineligible persons - again why would that change?

REDO VOTING: Why Redo Voting

Redo Voting is a hybrid of existing secure document technology used by state lotteries, combined with government-level encryption. The result is a voting system that is paper based, but uses a web browser for data entry.

redovoting.com

ref:

Search results for query: Voting

www.northwestfirearms.com

 

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More photos
https://faithimg.com/high-school-students-build-power-wheelchair-for-2-year-old-boy-who-cant-walk/

news

High School robotics team builds electric wheelchair for 2-year-old whose family couldn't afford one

The family's insurance didn't cover the $20,000 wheelchair, so a group of high schoolers stepped in to help

www.cbsnews.com

 

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X-59

NASA will soon test how quiet its X-59 really is over populated areas

NASA plans to fly its X-59 prototype over populated areas in 2024, putting the X-59's "quiet" supersonic boom to the test.

interestingengineering.com

 

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https://faithimg.com/high-school-students-build-power-wheelchair-for-2-year-old-boy-who-cant-walk/

news

High School robotics team builds electric wheelchair for 2-year-old whose family couldn't afford one

The family's insurance didn't cover the $20,000 wheelchair, so a group of high schoolers stepped in to help

www.cbsnews.com

That's frickin AWESOME!

So, HOW DA PHUCK does a kids wheelchair cost $20,000 dollars, WTAF Over!!!
Something is very wrong in this country when something costs THAT fooking much!

 

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That's frickin AWESOME!

So, HOW DA PHUCK does a kids wheelchair cost $20,000 dollars, WTAF Over!!!
Something is very wrong in this country when something costs THAT fooking much!

Meh. $20,000 is cheap...I have a buddy whose adult kid requires a $65,000 wheelchair.
I might have a pic of it around here or on my phone, but I'd have to edit out the faces for privacy reasons, if I found it...

 

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https://www.inverse.com/article/60470-hometown-for-humanity
Modern Botswana

But then, wouldn't you know it, they started driving those 700hp muscle cars an SUVs and the climate changed and they had to leave.
"But around 130,000 years ago, two specific climate shifts opened what this team refers to as "green corridors." These corridors acted as pathways that our ancestors followed out of the homeland."

 

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https://www.space.com/space-station-spacewalking-astronauts-telescope-photo

A fellow in Germany picks his time, sets up his gear, and from the ground gets a shot of the ISS and two astronauts spacewalking.

 

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Scientists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene.

That looks like a circa 1980 microprocessor 8080/8088, 6502

 

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Scientists map entire human genome
After more than two decades, scientists say they have finally mapped out the entire human genome,

"It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done," said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6987

 

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Death Valley traveling rocks.

 

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On This Day In History – April 11, 1976

 

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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/13/cobalt-free-lithium-ion-auto-batteries/1731649255014/

"...automakers have pledged to start building cars with cobalt-free..."

Pledged.


I am invested in copper, that needs to stay!