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The Historyscoper's Science & Technology News Blog. Daily links to the most eclectic hand-picked news for the elite minority of supergeneralists, plus occasional off-the-wall links.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Gatecrashing Quantum Physics - ChatGPT

https://jembendell.com/2025/03/30/gatecrashing-quantum-physics/ 

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

23andMe was always junk science. Personalised medicine can’t be trusted

https://unherd.com/2025/03/23andme-was-always-junk-science/ 

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Friday, March 28, 2025

The Thesis that Killed Academia? - Sabine Hossenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewg2Mp_j-_g 

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs. I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. They continue to fabricate links, references, and quotes, like they did from day one. (ChatGPT)

https://x.com/skdh/status/1905132853672784121 

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Monday, March 24, 2025

Scientists observe negative time for the first time ever

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-observe-negative-time-for-the-first-time-ever/ar-AA1BxC6m 

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Friday, March 21, 2025

President Trump Announces the F-47: The World’s First Sixth-Generation Fighter Jet

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/21/president-trump-announces-the-f-47-the-worlds-first-sixth-generation-fighter-jet/ 

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Kissing and oral sex could lead to dementia and brain damage, according to new study

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/kissing-and-oral-sex-could-lead-to-dementia-and-brain-damage-according-to-new-study/ar-AA1B1WEu 

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Milloy vindicated on Red Dye No. 3 cancer study. The author of the 1987 study on Red Dye No. 3, which is being cited as the basis for banning the dye as a carcinogen, admits his study didn’t link the dye with cancer as I explained in a video last year.

https://junkscience.com/2025/03/milloy-vindicated-on-red-dye-no-3-cancer-study/ 

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New Tech Bends Sound Through Space So It Reaches Only Your Ear in a Crowd. Audible enclaves are local pockets of sound no one else can hear—no headphones required.

https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/18/researchers-bend-sound-through-space-so-it-reaches-only-your-ear-in-a-crowd/ 

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Humans vs. AI Robots: China's 1st Human/Robot Half Marathon, Humanoid Robots Assemble iPhones (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyI-VvV58KA 

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Monday, March 17, 2025

A Massive AI Analysis Found Genes Related to Brain Aging—and Drugs to Slow It Down

https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/17/a-massive-ai-analysis-found-genes-related-to-brain-aging-and-drugs-to-slow-it-down/ 

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Robotics This Robotic Hand’s Electronic Skin Senses Exactly How Hard It Needs to Squeeze

https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/14/this-sensitive-robotic-hand-wont-crush-your-bones-in-a-handshake/ 

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Green Steel Startup’s Largest Reactor Yet Produces a Ton of Molten Metal With Electricity

https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/13/green-steel-startups-largest-reactor-yet-produces-a-ton-of-molten-metal-with-electricity/ 

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

I wish I was taught Orbitals intuitively this way! (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M--6_0F62pQ 

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This Changed How I See Chemistry Forever! (atomic bonds and octet rule) (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgGq8xXJdIk 

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Scientists Can Now Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a42575068/scientists-use-wifi-to-see-through-walls/ 

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The former head of the UK's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, told Boris Johnson in early 2020 that the Covid virus escaped from the Wuhan lab. That means that the US, UK, Chinese, & German governments all knew the truth, covered it up, and spread disinformation. Case closed. Journal Nature involved.

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1901093982374904120 

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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Looking for your next job? Use this AI trick to make a list of potential companies in seconds

https://www.fastcompany.com/91292185/looking-for-your-next-job-use-this-ai-trick-to-make-a-list-of-potential-companies-in-seconds 

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Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users. The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762 

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Ill-Fated Moon Lander Unexpectedly Woke Up and Sent One Last Message

https://gizmodo.com/ill-fated-moon-lander-unexpectedly-woke-up-and-sent-one-last-message-2000576241 

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Patient With Artificial Heart Smashes Survival Record The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from the hospital.

https://gizmodo.com/patient-with-artificial-heart-smashes-survival-record-2000574948 

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Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets And it was *big.*

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-visitor-solar-system-planets 

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Exotic quasiparticles having mass in one direction yet being massless in the perpendicular direction: Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041057 

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Friday, March 14, 2025

What is an image, anyway? Generators versus duplicators

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/what-is-an-image-anyway 

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Monday, March 10, 2025

Time can run in two directions, new research finds - Sabine Hossenfelder (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO3_x7TCNfs 

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In 2018, an astrophysicist introduced the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea that an advanced civilization may have existed on Earth before humans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-2018-an-astrophysicist-introduced-the-silurian-hypothesis-the-idea-that-an-advanced-civilization-may-have-existed-on-earth-before-humans/ss-AA1AdgdM 

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19 Times Scientists Were Completely Wrong Before Getting It Right

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/19-times-scientists-were-completely-wrong-before-getting-it-right/ss-AA1zUNv0 

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Scientists Turn Light Into a “Supersolid” Form for the First Time—a Quantum Physics Revolution

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-form-for-the-first-time-a-quantum-physics-revolution/ar-AA1AsJ2j 

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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-confirm-the-incredible-existence-of-second-sound/ar-AA1AwcLz 

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Saturday, March 8, 2025

Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1Ez28C-A 

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Scientists Just PROVED The Past Can Change! (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Civvmy4dIg8 

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Trump Says New Tech Will Make Reagan’s Star Wars a Reality "Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there," said Trum

https://gizmodo.com/trump-says-new-tech-will-make-reagans-star-wars-a-reality-2000571747 

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A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University

https://gizmodo.com/a-student-used-ai-to-beat-amazons-brutal-technical-interview-he-got-an-offer-and-someone-tattled-to-his-university-2000571562 

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Which wavelengths of infrared radiation do greenhouse gases absorb most strongly? - TL Winslow, Pansophist master of STEM and world history

https://www.quora.com/Which-wavelengths-of-infrared-radiation-do-greenhouse-gases-absorb-most-strongly/answer/TL-Winslow 

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According to the theory of evolution, why do we die? Not how we die, but either why it is more advantageous to die or why it's impossible to circumvent death despite the inclination to survive. This question previously had details. They are now in a comment. - Suzanne Sadedin

https://www.quora.com/According-to-the-theory-of-evolution-why-do-we-die-Not-how-we-die-but-either-why-it-is-more-advantageous-to-die-or-why-its-impossible-to-circumvent-death-despite-the-inclination-to-survive/answer/Suzanne-Sadedin 

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