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Weird & Interesting science
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If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)
Domestic cats treat an optical illusion of a square on the ground the same as a taped square on the ground, showing they're susceptible to the illusion. 
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
Could the Milky Way's central black hole actually be something else?
Archeologists have discovered a mystery under Lake Huron
Something is happening at Chernobyl
Stop me if you've heard this one before...
Could a Canadian company's new project finally make fusion power a reality?
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
One on the "interesting" side:
Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out It's in a mainstream newspaper, not a science journal. OTOH, The Guardian is not known for sensationalism.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
giant comet/minor planet is approaching from the Oort Cloud
The Register: Researchers find evidence that stress does turn your hair grey, and it can be reversed – you just need a holiday
When people say you look younger after a vacation, this might be what they're talking about... maybe.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
NASA has discovered a 6 star system in which the Stars Constantly Eclipse the Others
Anton Petrov - What if those liquid water lakes on Mars are something else entirely?
Slime mold colony emergent intelligence
We've heard a lot of claims about thorium salt reactors over the years, now China is going to give it a try
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noli esse culus
A skeptical Look at Climate Science
DNA analysis of ancient remains found in Indonesia discovers previously unknown human lineage
https://www.livescience.com/amp/mysterio...GcWsv6oack 
A couple of interesting videos I ran across recently
This first is interesting but probably faces limited use cases, the second can make an interesting grid scale alternative to massive lithium ion battery facilities and things like pumped hydro, but the fourth is quite possibly the most immediately exciting even if I suspect it will only be in high end devices for the first few years seeing as how there's at the moment only one company I'm aware of that has actually announced near term plans to ship anything.
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
No, this tech isn't ready for the real world yet.
Toyota halts use of self-driving vehicle at Paralympic village after collision with visually impaired athlete
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown  (08-31-2021, 06:14 AM)robkelk Wrote: No, this tech isn't ready for the real world yet. Yeah... I spotted a headline over the weekend about a Tesla self-driving car that hit a police car...
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... (08-31-2021, 07:21 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:(08-31-2021, 06:14 AM)robkelk Wrote: No, this tech isn't ready for the real world yet. I don't recall who it was, but someone a few years back commented that we'd know self driving cars were truly getting ready for prime time when the discussion wasn't, "Will it work?" but questions about liability and legality such as, "If you are over the legal alcohol limit to operate a car, but it's in self driving mode and you're in a passenger seat, is that being responsible or a drunk driving ticket?" or, "Is it acceptable to send your kids to school in a self driving vehicle set to go to the school and then return home?" Or a more straightforward, "You have the car in self-driving mode and it is involved in a collision. Who bares the liability if your vehicle is found the be all or partially at fault?" If we're still asking whether it's ready and not those kinds of questions, it's not ready.
Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
RE: Weird & Interesting science
09-03-2021, 11:56 AM (This post was last modified: 09-04-2021, 01:29 AM by Norgarth.)
Scientists discover 43 million year old fossil of a 4 legged whale
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/2...1630408266 EDIT: Discoveries found on Mercury that no one expected - Astrum
Science doesn't get weirder or more interesting than the Ig Nobel Prizes...
This year's Ig Nobel Prize in Economics is "for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption". Well, duh - haven't they heard of "fat cats"? The Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to the team that demonstrated "that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing". The line for the follow-up study forms on the left...  Then there's the paired Physics and Kinetics Prizes - one for "experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians" and the other for "experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians". Who said you can't have it both ways? And we can't forget the Transportation Prize, for "experimentally determining that it is safe to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside down" If you want to know who won the other five Ig Nobels this year, go read the article.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
paleontologists identify pterosaur precursors, filling a gap in early evolutionary history
https://www.geologypage.com/2020/12/pale...cJyoXNLyZk
https://scitechdaily.com/sodom-and-gomor...an-valley/
Evidence that a major Bronze Age city Tall el-Hammam (located near the Dead Sea in Jordan) was destroyed by a Tunguska style airburst in the year 1650 BC. This may be the inspiration for the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  (09-21-2021, 03:28 PM)RMH999 Wrote: https://scitechdaily.com/sodom-and-gomor...an-valley/ I read the part about Lot's wife and now I have Boston's "Don't Look Back" stuck in my head. Yeah, my brain. Anyway, here's the original article if you're interested: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
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