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- ESKEMA1
"Eight minus six ... two”
Scientists communicated with asleep dreaming person.https://beta.nsf.gov/science-mat…
a better question would have been:
What's your pin number?
- keewee1
Isn’t space supposed to be empty?
- nobody has believed that since the 1960s, keeweemonospaced
- Gnash7
Fucking magnets
- Man that’s cool, I guess the only energy necessary is to keep the liquid nitrogen at a low temp?_niko
- And they label the crystal and the gold but they don’t tell us what the superconductor is? Or will any superconductive material work?_niko
- But regardless, and not sure if scalable for trains etc but this is pretty badass_niko
- so that's how space ships work? cool!grafician
- using Earth's magnetic field or using a self-generated magnetic field...cool!grafician
- awesomecannonball1978
- brilliant********
- next up: hoverboards! (finally!)Krassy
- mort_3
From the book Biocentrism by Robert Lanza
In reality, recent experiments show conclusively that the brain’s electrochemical connections, its neural impulses traveling at 240 miles per hour, cause decisions to be made faster than we are even aware of them. In other words, the brain and mind, too, operate all by itself, without any need for external meddling by our thoughts, which also incidentally occur by themselves. So control, too, is largely an illusion. As Einstein put it, “We can will ourselves to act, but we cannot will ourselves to will.”
The most cited experiment in this field was conducted a quarter-century ago. Researcher Benjamin Libet asked subjects to choose a random moment to perform a hand motion while hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG) monitor in which the so-called “readiness potential” of the brain was being monitored. Naturally, electrical signals always precede actual physical actions, but Libet wanted to know whether they also preceded a subject’s subjective feeling of intention to act. In short, is there some subjective “self ” who consciously decides things, thereby setting in motion the brain’s electrical activities that ultimately lead to the action? Or is it the other way ’round? Subjects were therefore asked to note the position of a clock’s second hand when they first felt the initial intention to move their hand.
Libet’s findings were consistent, and perhaps not surprising: unconscious, unfelt, brain electrical activity occurred a full half second before there was any conscious sense of decision-making by the subject. More recent experiments by Libet, announced in 2008, analyzing separate, higher-order brain functions, have allowed his research team to predict up to ten seconds in advance which hand a subject is about to decide to raise. Ten seconds is nearly an eternity when it comes to cognitive decisions, and yet a person’s eventual decision could be seen on brain scans that long before the subject was even remotely aware of having made any decision. This and other experiments prove that the brain makes its own decisions on a subconscious level, and people only later feel that “they” have performed a conscious decision. It means that we go through life thinking that, unlike the blessedly autonomous operations of the heart and kidneys, a lever-pulling “me” is in charge of the brain’s workings. Libet concluded that the sense of personal free will arises solely from a habitual retrospective perspective of the ongoing flow of brain events.
- keewee2
-New study sows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe
“We don't know much about dark matter other than that it is a heavy and slow particle. But then we wondered -- what if dark matter had some quality that was analogous to magnetism in it? We know that as normal particles move around, they create magnetism. And, magnets attract or repel other magnets -- so what if that's what's going on in the universe? That this constant expansion of dark matter is occurring thanks to some sort of magnetic force?"
- I can buy this. DM is a fix for forces that we don't yet comprehend. DE too, I suspect.Nairn
- What if magnetism is time itself. And ifwe just put a big enough magnet on a DeLorean we'd have a time machine?shapesalad
- FTL is basically time travel...grafician
- Magnets, how the fuck do they workdrgs
- ESKEMA2
How Earth Will Look In 250 million Years
- according to plate tectonics theoryESKEMA
- Plate techtonics theory: “everything attached”cannonball1978
- PhanLo3
Novel HIV vaccine approach shows promise in “landmark” first-in-human trial and successfully stimulates the production of the rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV in 97 percent of participants
- Thanks in part to Covid research.PhanLo
- is it an mRNA vaccine? doesn't say in the article.renderedred
- https://www.european… Yep, it says in this one.PhanLo
- so 3% of the population will get HIV if injected vs 0.00000003% if not injected.
wake top sheeple, it's easy math
-pr2_niko - ^ Lol Niko. :-)PhanLo
- remember in the 80s when AIDS was a "Gay" thing, fuck the 80'sGuyFawkes
- Gnash2
- musk's company put an implant in an ape's head that lets it play pong with its mind. you could be next! sign up at the link end of video.sarahfailin
- Amazingscarabin
- This is incredibleTOMMYxGUNN
- NBQ001
MICROSOFT RESEARCHERS CLAIM ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS A MACHINE-LEARNING ALGORITHM https://futurism.com/the-byte/mi…
- Are these geniuses saying anything different from Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?mort_
- I believe this is call overfitting, https://pluralistic.…jpgjpg
- "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."mort_
- renderedred0
First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals
The chimaeras lived up to 19 days — but some scientists question the need for such research.
- renderedred0
Need a New Tooth? Drug Discovered to Regenerate Lost Teeth
- https://bloody-disgu…sted
- cure for baldness in there too?grafician
- renderedred1
15 French volunteers leave cave after 40 days without daylight or clocks
Deep Time project investigated how a lack of external contact would affect sense of time – and two thirds wanted to stay longer
- PhanLo1
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'The doctors were puzzled. Parker had a temperature of 38C, complained of aching limbs, and had pustular eruptions all over her body. But as newspapers had announced the last known case of the disease a year before, smallpox was the last thing on anyone’s minds. Parker hadn’t been out of the country, and had been vaccinated against the disease in 1966. But as they noted her raised white cell count and mild renal failure, a terrifying realisation took hold: they had a case of one the world’s most dangerous and contagious diseases in a busy hospital in suburban Birmingham.'
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Mad story about a smallpox outbreak in Birmingham in the 70's. There's a bit about the scientist driving about with samples of the deadliest strains of the disease in the back of his car.
Pretty lucky there were some quick thinking people involved.
- sted4
... Suddenly the team was able to tune different sections of the same magic material into a plethora of electronic states, from superconducting to insulating to somewhere in between. Then, by applying gates in different configurations, they were able to reproduce all of the parts of an electronic circuit that would ordinarily be created with completely different materials.
- sted3
Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs
Japanese scientists who studied an unusual method of delivering oxygen in mammals hope to one day try it in people.
- * gay japanese scientistsESKEMA
- Why wait?drgs
- ButtOxNonEntity
- the phrase "to blow smoke up your ass" comes from using arse belows to save people from drowning https://www.youtube.…kingsteven
- sted4
- https://advances.sci…sted
- So this how they put the nanobots in the vaccines hmmmmmgrafician
- I need one in me right nowBeeswax
