A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
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Father Time is ticking away in our DNA.
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One question for Thomas Nicholas, a computational plasma physicist and former fusion researcher who now studies climate science at Columbia University.
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Immediately after Russian troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022, a group of Western countries – including the U.S., EU states, Australia, Great Britain and Japan – imposed tough sanctions against Russia. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on March 1, 2022, that the West would wage “an all-out economic and financial war against Russia.” However, even after more than nine months, the sanctioned state, Russia, shows only moderate signs of economic weakening. On the contrary, revenues from oil exports have amounted to about $20 billion per month until mid-2022, a significant increase of about one-third from $14.5 billion per month in 2021. Not only can the Russian government continue the war of aggression, but it is also liquid enough to manage without exporting gas to Western Europe.
Tiny genetic sequences in a mother’s bacteria seem to hop into the infant's bacteria, perhaps ensuring a healthy microbiome later in life.
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Two Jackson Wild fellows on what we can learn from the birds.
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Here is a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.
This is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.
Play that lazy beat - Slippery friction (Live Stream Clip)
We continue to work on a song idea for a film soundtrack.
Building a song from a random idea
This song is actually an idea that we came up with during another live stream songwriting session.
We decided to use this as the main theme for the film soundtrack that we've been working on.
A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
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What language AIs make up for in efficiency they lack in humanity.
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One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.
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