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

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Samsung Takes the Market by Surprise with Its QD-OLED TVs. The Koreans go from stealth mode to general availability in a few weeks — so what’s the good news and the bad news?

https://medium.com/geekculture/samsung-takes-the-market-by-surprise-with-its-qd-oled-tvs-c781f005a6e4 

Could the Universe be Constantly Changing the Laws of Physics? Some scientists claim the universe keeps molding the laws of physics all by itself

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/could-the-universe-be-constantly-changing-the-laws-of-physics-73327a2af599 

Are there any Fundamental Laws of Nature? Symmetries run the game

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/are-there-any-fundamental-laws-of-nature-db9a7b7abade 

5 Simple Ways to Drop Your Dementia Risk WHILE THERE IS NO CURE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, there are some lifestyle moves you can make that may lower your risk of developing the disease. We begin with this troubling statistic: Nearly six million individuals in the United States have Alzheimer’s dementia. That’s according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://medium.com/beingwell/3-simple-ways-to-drop-your-dementia-risk-14188d6c4ac9 

Is There An Earth-Like Planet In Alpha Centauri? Thanks to an upcoming telescope, we may soon find out Despite being ‘only’ four and a bit lightyears away, the Alpha Centauri star system remains a tantalising mystery. In theory, a habitable Earth-like exoplanet could exist around either of the binary stars, but the stars are too bright for our current telescopes to see these other worlds hidden…

https://medium.com/predict/is-there-an-earth-like-planet-in-alpha-centauri-93e7f989dfa8 

Yes, the gold given to baby Jesus was made in a neutron star collision When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars. On a frosty winter’s night more than 2000 years ago, a young expectant mother found herself in a wooden manger as she…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/yes-the-gold-given-to-baby-jesus-was-made-in-a-neutron-star-collision-9523635f7acf 

Why only mathematical universes have life And how AI is teaching us what math means

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/ais-failure-to-invent-math-explains-where-numbers-come-from-and-why-we-misunderstand-them-a83bb287f79 

How to Teach Math and Science. Communication is a skill that everyone should take seriously, especially scientists and science communicators.

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-to-talk-about-math-and-science-7c853659ed80 

Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model? Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up. In the entire history of science, no theory has been more successful, in terms of predictions matching the results of experiments and observations, than the Standard Model of…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/did-fermilabs-new-result-blow-a-hole-in-the-standard-model-81e3b210579a 

The Anarchy in Science. Is there even such a thing as the scientific method?

https://medium.com/the-commoner/the-anarchy-in-science-545e5bb0aed 

The Big Misconception About Electricity - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY 

What's happening in your brain moments before death.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/whats-happening-in-your-brain-moments-before-death 

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Your brain is not for thinking

https://osho-international.medium.com/your-brain-is-not-for-thinking-ee7873406138 

We May Have Solved the Mystery Why Human Life Is Only About 80 Years. Have you wondered what causes the average human to die at 80?

https://ronke-babajide.medium.com/we-may-have-solved-the-mystery-why-human-life-is-only-about-80-years-78c221bc0e3b 

Oleic Acid Might Activate Brain Cell Renewal. Oleic acid can bind to a receptor that stimulates brain cell formation (in mice)

https://medium.com/predict/oleic-acid-might-activate-brain-cell-renewal-95510c2185af 

The Beautiful Connection Between Conservation Laws and Symmetries. Can energy be lost or created in our Universe?

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-beautiful-connection-between-conservation-laws-and-symmetries-3ba06e757862 

Scientists Say There’s an ‘Anti-Universe’ Running Backward in Time

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-say-there-s-an-anti-universe-running-backward-in-time/ar-AAWudyz 

Friday, April 22, 2022

Alien civilizations can draw energy from black holes through Dyson spheres.

https://medium.com/@darkenergyarticles/alien-civilizations-can-draw-energy-from-black-holes-through-dyson-spheres-ca8d2f827fe8 

SURPRISE! Science Ready to Reintroduce Extinct Species to Earth

https://redrightpatriot.com/surprise-science-ready-to-reintroduce-extinct-species-to-earth/ 

The (Im-)Possibility of Artificial Gravity The future of space exploration depends on it.

https://medium.com/the-universe-is-a-melon/the-im-possibility-of-artificial-gravity-98a387f7a1ad 

What If Evolution Isn’t Only Driven By Random Selection? A small malaria mutation is making some rethink a major scientific theory

https://medium.com/discourse/what-if-evolution-isnt-only-driven-by-random-selection-cf0beddd28c3 

It Took Me 10 Years to Understand Entropy, Here is What I Learned. From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/it-took-me-10-years-to-understand-entropy-here-is-what-i-learned-b2d51e8ccd4c 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Yesterday Marked the Death of Art as an Industry. Starting yesterday, AI is now definitively better than human artists in almost every sense of the word. Here’s why human art & design is about to crumble.

https://medium.com/geekculture/yesterday-marked-the-death-of-art-as-an-industry-1472b9c49c63 

The physics and metaphysics of mass

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-physics-and-metaphysics-of-mass-72216dcb13c4 

Time dilation is real, and your head ages faster than your feet The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. There’s no such thing as absolute time. No matter where you are, how fast you’re moving, or how strong the gravitational field is around you…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/time-dilation-is-real-and-your-head-ages-faster-than-your-feet-2ae57ba325f2 

Astronomers Find Rapidly Growing Black Hole From Early Universe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/astronomers-find-rapidly-growing-black-hole-from-early-universe/ar-AAWedSK 

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

A Huge Beam of Antimatter Has Been Captured

https://medium.com/predict/a-huge-beam-of-antimatter-has-been-captured-56f84a642e75 

3 Massive Breakthroughs in Materials Science that are Sure to be Game Changers. The science of materials is fast becoming a dark horse in solving world problems

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/3-massive-breakthroughs-in-materials-science-that-are-sure-to-be-game-changers-2ab9d42db06d 

Do Scientists Determine the Results in Advance?

https://michaellaitman.medium.com/do-scientists-determine-the-results-in-advance-ca65a8ee2fcf 

Elon Musk: People Don’t Realize What’s Coming “Earth won’t exist in 12 years”

https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/elon-musk-people-dont-realize-what-s-coming-b5a172672bd8 

The Cutting Edge Satellite Securing Our Future Eco tech has a major problem, but Fleet Space may have the perfect solution. For decades millions of engineers around the world have scratched their heads as they try to solve climate change and avert the impending disaster. Since then, we have started the electric vehicle revolution, built extensive solar farms and even developed…

https://medium.com/predict/the-cutting-edge-satellite-securing-our-future-9ecaf6058286 

Friday, April 8, 2022

Living forever according to physics

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/living-forever-according-to-physics-b12a34f7126e 

James Webb Space Telescope Might Be Able To Detect Other Civilizations by Their Air Pollution

https://medium.com/@gatkata82/james-webb-space-telescope-might-be-able-to-detect-other-civilizations-by-their-air-pollution-d7e513fa0351 

Ask Ethan: Should Alpha Centauri be our first interstellar target? The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there? Assuming humanity can survive the next few decades and centuries — and that’s a big assumption, given the threats of…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-should-alpha-centauri-be-our-first-interstellar-target-95262451aac7 

Astronomers Find Milky Way’s First Rouge Black Hole. The dark object weighs in at seven times the mass of the sun, making it one of the best candidates for a free-floating black hole of stellar mass to date

https://writerharry.medium.com/astronomers-find-milky-ways-first-rouge-black-hole-d09c1144f390 

C.S. Peirce on Abduction: The Logic of Scientific Hypotheses The logician, mathematician and philosopher C.S. Peirce on abductions as “explanatory hypotheses”.

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/c-s-peirce-on-abduction-the-logic-of-scientific-hypotheses-c29bac68cfab 

The Famous Rain Problem and the Importance of Mathematical Reasoning Ability

https://ali.medium.com/the-famous-rain-problem-and-the-importance-of-mathematical-reasoning-ability-40f0bde13cc4 

Is Aging a Disease or a Natural Process? Mystery, stigma, and dreams of immortality fuel a debate that just won’t die

https://elemental.medium.com/is-aging-a-disease-or-a-natural-process-7022d610d95e