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Feb 1, 2022

RefSeek 404

Posted by in category: futurism

Just reminder, Google isn’t everything.

www.refseek.com — Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

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Feb 1, 2022

How ‘Dormant’ Cells In The Aging Brain Contribute To Cognitive Decline

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

The Neuro-Network.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 ‘𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭’ 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚. 𝘼𝙡𝙡… See more.

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Feb 1, 2022

Man Builds Massive 27,000,000mAh ‘Portable’ Power Bank

Posted by in category: energy

Power all the things.


YouTuber Handy Geng built a massive 27,000,000mAh power bank that is capable of recharging any device and even powering a washing machine.

Feb 1, 2022

Radio Amateurs & Skywatchers Rejoice, Sat Operators Worry: Solar Storm Incoming

Posted by in category: space

How do you look back over your life and divide it up? Maybe by decades, cultural moments, or geopolitical events. For radio amateurs with older callsigns there’s a temptation to do so by solar cycles, as the roughly 11-year period of the Sun’s activity had a huge effect on radio propagation through the charge it creates in the upper atmosphere. We’re now in solar cycle 25, numbered since the 18th century when the science of solar observation began, and as never before we’re surrounded by information from experts such as [Dr. Tamitha Skov], the so-called [Space Weather Woman]. When she says something is on the way we listen, so a recent Tweet predicting a direct hit from a solar storm with a good probability of auroras in lower latitudes is very much worth sharing.

We must extend our commiserations to readers in equatorial climes and ever through the lower half of the USA, southern Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan, and China. You won’t see the aurora we’ll catch in Europe along with our friends in New Zealand, Canada, Russia, and northern USA. But even then to those of us at moderate latitudes an aurora is a pretty rare event, so we’re hoping for clear skies on the 2nd of February and would advise you to look out too if you’re in the likely zone even if they won’t be quite as impressive as those in our header picture. Meanwhile radio amateurs everywhere don’t have to see pretty lights in the sky to reap the benefits in terms of propagation, so happy DX hunting! The Tweet is embedded below the break, so you can play the timeline for yourselves.

Direct Hit! NASA, NOAA & MetOffice predictions agree the #solarstorm launched Jan 29 will hit Earth by early Feb 2! This one is slow so expect #aurora only as far south as Netherlands, north USA, & up to north New Zealand & Tasmania. #GPS & HF #radio issues on Earth’s nightside! pic.twitter.com/Uua1LGMgJR

Feb 1, 2022

Dr Kevin Perrott, PhD — Founder & CEO — OpenCures — Accelerating Research To Prevent & Cure Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, engineering, life extension, policy

Accelerating Research To Prevent & Cure Disease — Dr. Kevin Perrott, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, OpenCures; Co-Founder & Treasurer, SENS Research Foundation


Dr. Kevin Perrott, Ph.D. is Founder and CEO, OpenCures (https://opencures.org/), Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta, Co-Founder and Advisor, Oisin Biotechnologies, President, of Global Healthspan Policy Institute, and Co-Founder and Treasurer, SENS Research Foundation.

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Feb 1, 2022

A new video of Tianwen-1 flying above Mars is pretty epic

Posted by in category: space

The space industry will contribute more to China’s growth as a whole.

Feb 1, 2022

The Neuroscience of Superfluid Thinking

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The cerebellum may coordinate thoughts much like it coordinates fluid movements.

Feb 1, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Suffers from The Biases of their Human Creators, that Causes Problems Searching for ETs

Posted by in categories: alien life, robotics/AI

One structure on the dwarf planet Ceres made big news but there is a hitch. It seems that the square-shaped form inside a larger triangle, located in a crater. Everyone else saw it, but the use of artificial intelligence might be a square peg not fitting a round hole. This remark by a Spanish neuropsychologist is questioning the veracity of depending on AI, which might be unsound by SETI.

Ceres is located in the main asteroid belt, a dwarf planet, and the biggest object too. One of its craters, Occator had bright lights which lead to several ideas of what it was. NASA sent the Dawn probe to go close enough to capture visual evidence of what these lights were and solve the mystery. These lights were from volcanic ice and salt eruptions, nothing more.

It gets more interesting as researchers based in the University of Cadiz (Spain) have examined images of these spots. Areas like them are called Vinalia Faculae, in an area where geometric contours are very evident for observers. It now serves as a template to compare how machines and humans perceive images on planetary surfaces in general. Tests like these will show artificial intelligence can see technosignatures of other lifeforms besides human-civilization.

Feb 1, 2022

The 19-year-old tracking Elon Musk’s jet on Twitter says the billionaire has blocked him

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

In a new interview with Bloomberg, Sweeney said Musk blocked all social media accounts connected to Sweeney on Sunday night. “You know, it’s kinda strange, he wants it down and seems like he’s really mad,” Sweeney told Bloomberg.

Sweeney told Insider last week Musk had introduced some measures he himself had recommended during their Twitter conversation, which make it harder to track the jet.

Harder, Sweeney said, but not impossible. “I just have to work around it,” Sweeney told Insider.

Feb 1, 2022

Researchers develop artificial muscles made of natural proteins

Posted by in categories: chemistry, cyborgs, energy

The movements are driven by a chemical reaction that consumes molecular energy for this purpose.