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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Company Claims It Will Replace Humans on TV News with AI-Generated Anchors

https://thelibertyminds.com/2023/12/28/company-claims-it-will-replace-humans-on-tv-news-with-ai-generated-anchors/ 

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Microsoft's glass data storage system saves terabytes for 10,000 years

https://newatlas.com/computers/microsoft-project-silica-glass-data-storage-10000-years/ 

Bizarre new electronic state discovered in five-layer graphene

https://newatlas.com/materials/graphene-five-layers-new-electronic-state/ 

Earthquake-resistant house 3D printed in just 26 hours

https://newatlas.com/architecture/progreso-3d-printed-house/ 

Lifestyle intervention plus Mounjaro leads to additional weight loss

https://newatlas.com/medical/lifestyle-intervention-plus-tirzepatide-leads-to-additional-weight-loss/ 

‘Green living paint’ produces oxygen and captures carbon dioxide

https://newatlas.com/science/green-living-paint-produces-oxygen-captures-carbon-dioxide/ 

Research uncovers why antidepressants can take weeks to start working

https://newatlas.com/science/why-antidepressants-take-weeks-to-start-working/ 

Long-term air pollution exposure increases breast cancer risk by 28%

https://newatlas.com/medical/long-term-air-pollution-exposure-increases-breast-cancer-risk-by-28-percent/ 

10-second voice test shown to detect type 2 diabetes

https://newatlas.com/medical/10-second-voice-test-type-2-diabetes/ 

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

"Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan used some vials of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines as controls. He was ‘shocked’ to find that they were allegedly contaminated with tiny fragments of plasmid DNA. - Robin Minotti

https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1714164610994000126 

RESEARCHERS JUST FOUND SOMETHING TERRIFYING ABOUT TALKING TO AI CHATBOTS

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-chatbot-privacy-inference 

SCIENTISTS WORKING ON GENE-HACKED PLANTS TO SUCK UP EXTRA CO2

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gene-hacked-plants-co2 

TOYOTA PUT THIS FASCINATING PHOTO IN A PRESS RELEASE ABOUT ELECTRIC VEHICLES

https://futurism.com/the-byte/toyota-solid-state-butt-plug 

SEC HEAD SAYS IT'S A NEAR-CERTAINTY THAT AI WILL CAUSE A FINANCIAL CRASH

https://futurism.com/the-byte/sec-head-ai-cause-financial-crash 

Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He "Ain't Good Enough" to Play in the NFL

https://futurism.com/meta-ai-tom-brady-colin-kaepernick 

Monday, October 16, 2023

Student-designed RoboCup keeps wheelchair users hydrated and independent

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/robocup-wheelchair-users-hydration/ 

Mild long-term lack of sleep can increase women’s heart disease risk

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mild-long-term-lack-of-sleep-increase-womens-heart-disease-risk/ 

Under-the-tongue immunotherapy a treatment for childhood peanut allergy

https://newatlas.com/medical/sublingual-immunotherapy-treatment-for-childhood-peanut-allergy/ 

Thousands of Fanzor DNA cutters that may outperform CRISPR identified

https://newatlas.com/biology/fanzor-crispr-like-dna-cutters-found/ 

NASA mission to US$10-quadrillion asteroid lifts off

https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-mission-10-quadrillion-asteroid-lifts-off/ 

Calorie restriction stimulates muscle health & healthy aging genes

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/calorie-restriction-stimulates-muscle-health-expression-of-healthy-aging-genes/ 

C-Crete hailed as a planet-friendly alternative to cement

https://newatlas.com/environment/c-crete-cement-alternative/ 

Bricklaying robots can now build tennis-court-sized walls in 4 hours

https://newatlas.com/robotics/hadrian-x-bricklaying-robot/ 

Ramjet-powered artillery shell sets new range record

https://newatlas.com/military/ramjet-powered-artillery-shell-new-range-record 

Friday, October 13, 2023

Ultra-efficient machine learning transistor cuts AI energy use by 99%

https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-machine-learning-transistor 

New blood test more convenient for measuring important omega-3 levels

https://newatlas.com/medical/new-blood-test-more-convenient-for-measuring-important-omega-3-levels/ 

Focused ultrasound turns chemo from shotgun blast to sniper shot

https://newatlas.com/medical/focused-ultrasound-targeted-chemotherapay/ 

How inflammation in early childhood can lead to autism and schizophrenia

https://newatlas.com/medical/inflammation-childhood-brain-development-autism-schizophrenia/ 

Common form of vitamin C proves "remarkable" at fighting deadly sepsis

https://newatlas.com/medical/vitamin-c-sepsis/ 

Raytheon to build revolutionary rotating detonation engine for DARPA

https://newatlas.com/military/raytheon-to-build-revolutionary-rotating-detonation-engine-for-darpa/ 

Friday, October 6, 2023

Hottest Evah September!!

https://undark.org/2023/10/06/book-review-eve/ 

My reply:

[[Forster is quite wrong, knowingly I suspect, because it is physically impossible for GHGs to warm the deep ocean. This is because infrared radiation can only penetrate the top few millimeters of the sea.]]

Hit the nail on the head. It’s the Sun’s downward visual wavelength radiation that heats the sea, not downward IR. The sea continually cools via black body IR upward radiation, conduction/convection, and evaporation.

The big haha is that no IR from greenhouse gases can heat the Earth’s surface, land or sea, because it’s not an independent source of energy, just delayed and regurgitated surface cooling IR that is at the tail end of the IR cooling curve, meaning that all the real surface heat radiated at light speed to outer space, permanently cooling the surface until more sunlight is received.

Any dinky downward IR will be completely absorbed by the surface because it’s a black body that absorbs all wavelengths, but it just merges into the internal energy distribution and gets emitted along the surface’s black body radiation curve whose peak power wavelength and intensity are dependent only on its instantaneous absolute temperature. It’s no different than a water hose feeding off a water tank and putting out a fire on a building in the distance. Any small backspray can’t make the tank level go higher. The U.N. IPCC octopus is double-counting energy to push its big hoax.

Greenhouse gas back radiation subtracts from downward solar radiation, not adds to it. In other words, long wavelength low energy intensity 15 micron CO2 back radiation was already emitted by the surface as part of its cooling process, and can’t reheat the surface one iota because it just gets recycled and emitted at shorter wavelengths as a dinky contribution to the ongoing total IR cooling emission power.

If the instantaneous IR cooling radiation drained 1 Joule of energy in the first instant, and the CO2 downward IR radiation returned .01 or even .1 Joule in the second instant, the heat capacity of so many degrees C or K per Joule would lower the surface temperature in the first instant, and in the second instant the downward IR would be swamped out with the lower wavelength emissions during the second instant and couldn’t restore the lost temperature one iota, that is, lower the peak power wavelength and increase its intensity to make the temperature higher than before the first instant. Surface temperature just keeps dropping smoothly with the CO2 radiation having no effect on the instantaneous temperature.

Another big haha. If the surface had a notch in its blackbody radiation emission curve at the greenhouse gas absorption/emission wavelength, which would be equivalent to 100% of the energy returned, it wouldn’t have any effect on surface temperature. Only total solar energy absorbed would determine that. 

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-greenhouse-effect-Is-entropy-the-cause-of-the-greenhouse-effect/answer/TL-Winslow

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Raytheon UK to install laser weapon on British Army fighting vehicle

https://newatlas.com/military/raytheon-uk-install-laser-weapon-british-army-fighting-vehicle/ 

ADHD medication errors in under-20s have increased by almost 300%

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/adhd-medication-errors-in-under-20s-have-increased-by-almost-300/ 

Brain chemical affects how women taste alcohol, changes drinking habits

https://newatlas.com/medical/brain-chemical-makes-alcohol-bitter-to-women/ 

"Mini Mansion" designed as an alternative to sleeping on the sidewalk

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/mini-mansion-mobile-houseless-shelter/? 

US Air Force gets new aggressive electronic warfare aircraft

https://newatlas.com/military/us-air-force-gets-new-aggressive-electronic-warfare-aircraft/ 

Revolutionary "true zero carbon" cement uses electrolysis, not furnaces

https://newatlas.com/materials/sublime-zerocarbon-concrete/ 

Common sweetener now linked to impaired memory and learning

https://newatlas.com/medical/aspartame-artificial-sweetener-memory-loss/ 

“Inverse vaccine” reverses autoimmune diseases like MS, diabetes & arthritis

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/09/bias-reporting-as-social-credit-scheme/ 

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Psychedelics induce “hypersynchrony” in multiple brain regions

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/psychedelics-induce-hypersynchrony-in-multiple-brain-regions-168581 

Childhood personality might not predict political ideology in adulthood, new findings suggest

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/childhood-personality-might-not-predict-political-ideology-in-adulthood-new-findings-suggest-168748 

Testosterone boosts narcissism in men, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/testosterone-boosts-narcissism-in-men-study-finds-175419 

Stereotypes of bisexual individuals vary based on gender, according to new research

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/stereotypes-of-bisexual-individuals-vary-based-on-gender-according-to-new-research-168683 

Social isolation contributes to brain atrophy and cognitive decline in older adults, study suggests

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/social-isolation-contributes-to-brain-atrophy-and-cognitive-decline-in-older-adults-study-finds-183591 

Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/older-adults-who-regularly-use-the-internet-have-half-the-risk-of-dementia-compared-to-non-regular-users-183597 

Monday, September 4, 2023

Insect-inspired robot gets skinny to go through gaps

https://newatlas.com/robotics/clari-insect-inspired-robot/ 

Daily aspirin shown to drive down diabetes risk in older adults

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/daily-aspirin-diabetes-risk/ 

"Beer goggles" may be a myth but "liquid courage" isn't, study suggests

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/study-finds-beer-goggles-effect-may-be-a-myth/ 

AI system does better than humans at identifying odors

https://newatlas.com/science/ai-better-than-humans-identifying-odors/ 

US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones

https://newatlas.com/military/replicator-usa-drone/ 

Antioxidants such as vitamin C found to spur cancer growth & metastasis

https://newatlas.com/medical/antioxidants-stimulate-blood-vessel-growth-cancer-tumors/ 

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Reflective film that mimics butterfly wings can keep cars cool

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2386014-thin-reflective-film-that-mimics-butterfly-wings-can-keep-cars-cool 

Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2385302-flower-that-thrives-in-death-valley-may-hold-secret-to-heat-adaptation/ 

Bees miss out on sleep if they are exposed to light at night. Honeybees exposed to continuous artificial light get much less sleep, and this may affect their ability to pollinate plants

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2385979-bees-miss-out-on-sleep-if-they-are-exposed-to-light-at-night/ 

Does heat cause miscarriages - novel study

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-heat-cause-miscarriages-novel-study-seeks-find-out 

Could losing thymus be fatal?

https://www.science.org/content/article/doctors-have-long-considered-thymus-expendable-could-removing-it-be-fatal 

Gene-engineered flies clone themselves via virgin birth

https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-engineered-flies-clone-themselves-virgin-birth 

How anteaters lost their teeth

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-anteaters-lost-their-teeth 

Microbe stops mosquitoes from harboring malaria parasite

https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-engineered-flies-clone-themselves-virgin-birth 

Fake AI Influencer Attracts Many Men Despite Not Being Real

https://dailypatriotreport.com/fake-ai-influencer-attracts-many-men-despite-not-being-real/ 

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Ecojet airline aims to fly hydrogen-electric aircraft from 2025

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/ecojet-airline-hydrogen-electric/ 

CRISPR tweaks tree genetics to make paper more sustainably

https://newatlas.com/science/crispr-poplar-tree-sustainable-paper/ 

New technique will more accurately detect ET's signals from space

https://newatlas.com/space/new-technique-weeds-out-extraterrestrial-signals-to-earth/ 

First successful robotic liver transplant performed in the US

https://newatlas.com/medical/first-successful-robotic-liver-transplant-us/ 

Chemical cocktail offers "potential to reverse aging with a single pill"

https://newatlas.com/biology/chemical-cocktail-reverses-aging-harvard/ 

AI analysis will predict future disease from bone density scans

https://newatlas.com/medical/machine-learning-predict-future-disease-bone-density-scans/ 

Humans may soon grow new teeth, with promising drug trial set

https://newatlas.com/medical/humans-grow-new-teeth-drug-trial/ 

Saturday, June 17, 2023

I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.) - Sabine Hossenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s 

My reply:

Oh no! Sabine tried to think! Too bad, she fell flat. She thinks Evolution is God, which will save us from entropy by evolving superior lifeforms, which must be immortal or they would age like everything else. Why don't I buy that? And what kind of Universe would they exist in, with no free energy to do work, even batting their eyelashes? Not even a grain of sand to stand on or to admire, and no eyes to see with? And this is the video she's most proud of? If I were her I'd erase this video and scrub it from the Net or it will be dug up against her for years to come. P.S. A real philosopher might use this to add to the proof that women are inferior to men and shouldn't be issued physics degrees because they can't think for themselves and just fill the Net with nonsense :)

Monday, June 12, 2023

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Are Safe, Possibly Beneficial After Heart Attack. Men taking phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors show reduced rates of death and hospitalization

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2017/03/09/14/25/erectile-dysfunction-drugs-are-safe-possibly-beneficial-after-heart-attack 

Viagra and Cialis May Cut Risk of Early Death From Heart Disease by 25 Percent

https://www.everydayhealth.com/heart-health/viagra-and-cialis-may-cut-risk-of-early-death-from-heart-disease/ 

Amino acid in energy drinks makes mice live longer and healthier. Jury is still out on whether taurine supplementation could provide antiaging benefits to humans

https://www.science.org/content/article/amino-acid-energy-drinks-makes-mice-live-longer-and-healthier 

Lava comes in two ‘flavors.’ Scientists may have finally figured out why Chaotic mixing drives smooth pahoehoe to morph into jagged aa, model suggests

https://www.science.org/content/article/lava-comes-two-flavors-scientists-may-have-finally-figured-out-why 

Thursday, June 1, 2023

The Education of ChatGPT. ChatGPT does high-school physics at the level of a confused teenager

https://shortfall.blog/the-education-of-chatgpt-3b9b6cf752fd 

There’s Such a Thing as Vegan Fat Now, and It’s Being Used to Make Pork Belly

https://singularityhub.com/2023/05/31/theres-such-a-thing-as-vegan-fat-now-and-its-being-used-to-make-pork-belly/ 

First-of-Its-Kind Gene Therapy Can Be Applied to Skin Instead of Injected

https://singularityhub.com/2023/05/30/first-of-its-kind-gene-therapy-can-be-applied-to-skin-instead-of-injected/ 

Did Life Evolve More Than Once? Researchers Are Closing In on an Answer

https://singularityhub.com/2023/06/01/did-life-evolve-more-than-once-researchers-are-closing-in-on-an-answer/ 

People Who Like to Be Alone Have These 20 Special Personality Traits

https://beautyhealthpage.com/people-who-like-to-be-alone-have-these-20-special-personality-traits/ 

Mind control brain chip cleared for testing

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/elon-musks-mind-control-chip-30084371 

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Bill Gates lays AI tombstone on Amazon and Google

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-lays-ai-tombstone-on-amazon-and-google-61814cdd 

There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030318 

Decades-old question surrounding the start of the tree of life could finally be solved

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/decades-old-question-surrounding-the-start-of-the-tree-of-life-could-finally-be-solved/ar-AA1bDuiQ 

How Long Does a Tesla Battery Last Before It Must Be Replaced?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/how-long-does-a-tesla-battery-last-before-it-must-be-replaced/ar-AA1bDGGa 

China Built a Hypersonic Generator That Could Power Unimaginable Weapons

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-built-a-hypersonic-generator-that-could-power-unimaginable-weapons/ar-AA17b6so 

New ‘significant’ deep-sea discovery leaves scientists stunned: ‘They are pristine’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-significant-deep-sea-discovery-leaves-scientists-stunned-they-are-pristine/ar-AA1bCQuh 

Monday, January 30, 2023

Unnatural selection. In a new book, “Risky Business,” Amy Finkelstein examines the core issue of the insurance industry: Who gets to be a customer?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/risky-business-book-insurance-amy-finkelstein-0130 

Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene. A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-superconductivity-switches-and-magic-angle-graphene-0130 

“Spleen-on-a-chip” yields insight into sickle cell disease. With this microfluidic device, researchers modeled how sickled blood cells clog the spleen’s filters, leading to a potentially life-threatening condition.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/spleen-chip-yields-insight-sickle-cell-disease-0130 

Scientific Paper Proves COVID Shots Killed at Least 217,000 Americans

https://www.americanlibertyreportnews.com/articles/scientific-paper-proves-covid-shots-killed-at-least-217000-americans/ 

Monday, January 16, 2023

Microsoft AI tool can mimic voice from 3-second audio [Video]

https://crystalclearnews.com/microsoft-ai-tool-can-simulate-voice-from-3-second-audio/ 

How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure? If we can’t measure something, we can’t know its true nature. This fundamental limitation hampers our understanding of the quantum world – but it doesn't preclude scientific thinking

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2353756-how-can-we-understand-quantum-reality-if-it-is-impossible-to-measure/ 

Existential physics: answering life's biggest questions - with Sabine Hossenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9oDJzfg58 

Human 'Mini-Brains' Implanted in Mice Respond to Light in Scientific First

https://www.sciencealert.com/human-mini-brains-implanted-in-mice-respond-to-light-in-scientific-first 

NOVA’S MOST POPULAR SCIENCE DOCUMENTARIES OF 2022

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/most-popular-science-documentaries-2022/ 

First CRISPR’d cockroaches open door to other gene-edited insects

https://www.freethink.com/science/gene-edited-insects 

The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience? - Sabine Hosenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHa1vbwVaNU 

Should we abandon the multiverse theory? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39kfrxOSHg 

Neil Turok: Physics is in Crisis (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI 

New Cosmology Anomaly Confirmed, Particle Physics Anomaly Vanishes - Sabine Hosenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVD99JF-dfE 

Nuclear Fusion Reaches Ignition, Dark Photons, Remote Controlled Magnetic Slime (oh yeah) & More - Sabine Hosenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr0Q_LGrQcg 

‘All Three Vaccines Are Breaking Through:’ Emails Show Discussion of Vaccine Failure Among Health Officials

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/all-three-vaccines-are-breaking-through-emails-show-discussion-of-vaccine-failure-among-health-officials_4974246.html