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Doctor Who Recap: Brains Beat Bullets https://vult.re/2CI5KKN

Cats are intended to teach us that not everyone in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor

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Worries linger as Facebook withholds stolen searches & checkins https://tcrn.ch/2yEuFug

Child's eye
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
----------------------Kailash Satyarthi

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The vision starts with helping humans stay safe at sea, but could put fully robo-boats into action as ferries in just a few years. https://wrd.cm/2yDJahW

My London eyes
Oct 15th 2018

Biologists have grown human retina tissue from scratch to learn how the cells that let us see in color are made.

"...The work may lay the groundwork for therapies for eye diseases such as color blindness and macular degeneration. It also establishes lab-created “organoids”—artificially grown organ tissue—as a model to study human development on a cellular level."

https://www.futurity.org/retinas-organoids-color-vision-1887902/

This is the third shot of have of this tree on three separate trips - i'll get one when there is no snow one day, that will make a cool comparison.

9 tips and tricks to improve your google search efficiency #news #google #tips #tricks #tutorials

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Stephen Hawking feared gene-edited superhumans would kill us all https://nyp.st/2yIjTD2

Detailed review of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL by Dieter Bohn from +The Verge

Verge Score:
Pixel 3: 8.5 ⭐
Pixel 3 XL: 8.5 ⭐

Video review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSFNpJJeo4c

Youngest in Class More Likely to be Diagnosed with ADHD

Children who are the youngest in their classroom are more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) than their older classmates.

The research is in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (full open access)

#mma news Tyron Woodley talks hand injury and says he’ll “probably” fight in January

Mind Games: Craft Killer Experiences with 7 Lessons from Cognitive Psychology by Sarah Weise

Rewiring the Brain to Fight Epilepsy

Researchers have discovered a novel treatment for reducing seizure activity in the brains of rodents, a discovery they hope might one day help people living with epilepsy.

New Simulation Creates "Pulsar in a Box" | NASA Goddard
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated "pulsar in a box" are gaining a more detailed understanding of the complex, high-energy environment around spinning neutron stars, also called pulsars. The model traces the paths of charged particles in magnetic and electric fields near the neutron star, revealing behaviors that may help explain how pulsars emit gamma-ray and radio pulses with ultraprecise timing.

A pulsar is the crushed core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. The core is so compressed that more mass than the Sun's squeezes into a ball no wider than Manhattan Island in New York City. This process also revvs up its rotation and strengthens its magnetic and electric fields.

Various physical processes ensure that most of the particles around a pulsar are either electrons or their antimatter counterparts, positrons. To trace the behavior and energies of these particles, the researchers used a comparatively new type of pulsar model called a "particle in cell" (PIC) simulation.

The PIC technique lets scientists explore the pulsar from first principles, starting with a spinning, magnetized neutron star. The computer code injects electrons and positrons at the pulsar's surface and tracks how they interact with the electric and magnetic fields. It's computationally intensive because the particle motions affect the fields and the fields affect the particles, and everything is moving near the speed of light.

The simulation shows that most of the electrons tend to race outward from the magnetic poles. Some medium-energy electrons scatter wildly, even heading back to the pulsar.

The positrons, on the other hand, mostly flow out at lower latitudes, forming a relatively thin structure called the current sheet. In fact, the highest-energy positrons here—less than 0.1 percent of the total—are capable of producing gamma rays similar to those detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has discovered 216 gamma-ray pulsars.

The simulation ran on the Discover supercomputer at NASA's Center for Climate Simulation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. The model actually tracks "macroparticles," each of which represents many trillions of electrons or positrons.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: "Reaching for the Horizon" and "Leaving Earth" from Killer Tracks
Duration: 2 minutes, 53 seconds
Release Date: October 10, 2018

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Early Alzheimer's Brain Pathology Linked to Psychiatric Symptoms

Earliest stages of the brain degeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease are linked to psychiatric symptoms including anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances.

The research is in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. (full access paywall)

How a dragonfly's brain - with only 16 neurons - is designed to kill.

"It's brain coordinates complex information between its eyes (360-degree vision) and its wings (independently controlled), turning hunting into a simple reflex."

Crawford Ends it Like a Champ

http://tss.ib.tv/featured-articles/53169-crawford-ends-it-like-a-champ

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Google Pixel 3 preview: So far so good for Google’s smaller Android smartphone…

We've only had one of Google's newest devices for a few days so this is our Google Pixel 3 preview, covering our initial impressions, with a full review coming soon.

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