No song today.
Another penitential cover will be forthcoming. I’m a tired man.
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An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable of … Read the rest “An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.”
Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of years… Read the rest “Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.”
Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.
EurekAlert shares a University of Queensland study that shows a turn to violence among courting whales along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Whales seeking mates are giving up courtship… Read the rest “Australian whales looking for mates have given up singing and taken up fighting.”
NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.
Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full year living in space:
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Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study why the same oils… Read the rest “Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960”
We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.
Ars Technica reports on the ongoing blotting out of the stars at night, with artificial light pollution doubling in the last 10 years alone. There are ways, however, to bring the stars back… Read the rest “We can get back to the night sky. But it will take work.”
Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.
Science News looks at a Viking burial site in England where animals were buried alongside humans, and finds that radioactive traces show these critters traveled to Great Britain aboard… Read the rest “Vikings brought animals to England, radioactive analysis shows.”
Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly to be made of metal. But inside…… Read the rest “Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011”
Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.
Bolts magazine has an article by one of the researchers published in American Political Science Review who found that police interactions directly correlate with lower voter turnout,… Read the rest “Researchers: one police stop makes a person less likely to vote.”
The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.
Researchers from Imperial College London and the Paris School of Economics have looked across the pond at 50 years of data and found that America, rather than being the country of dreams,… Read the rest “The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in the U.S. than Europe.”
Kids are wearing toxic make-up
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an alarming study that’s found levels of carcinogens and other toxic materials, including … Read the rest “Kids are wearing toxic make-up”
Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit.
From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at www.genome.gov – though … Read the rest “Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute”
SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me
SONG: “Whispering Secrets to Me”.
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SOURCE: Defector 15 Nov 2022, “Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Whispering Secrets to Me”
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found … Read the rest “Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton”