Technology
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Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination | Catherine Bridges
An ibis as "seen" by a machine, 2015. This processed image, which is based on a photograph by Dr. Zachi Evenor, is courtesy of software engineer Guenther Noack, 2015, and is reproduced from Wikimedia ...
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Social Distancing: (Fire) Escape from New York | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. The Covid quarantine has helped remind me of just how much I appreciate my fire escape -- and fire escapes, in general. Unable to sp ...
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The Bionic Breast Project | University of Chicago
May 15, 202 (MedicalXpress) -- About half of Prof. Stacy Lindau's patients over the last decade have had breast cancer and express new difficulties with sexual function during and after treatment. Th ...
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Scientists Break The Link Between A Quantum Material's Spin And Orbital States | Glennda Chui
These balloon-and-disc shapes represent an electron orbital -- a fuzzy electron cloud around an atom's nucleus -- in two different orientations. Scientists hope to someday use variations in the orien ...
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Emergency Bras (Adam Hunger)
(Editor's note: World News Trust first linked to this Reuters photo nearly 10 years ago. -Francis Goodwin) Oct. 16, 2010 (Reuters) -- Dr. Elena Bodnar holds up one of her "Emergency Bras," as John Du ...
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Journalism | Patrick White
Newsrooms need to take advantage of what AI can offer and come up with a new business model. (Shutterstock) Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) May 5, 2020 (The Conversation) -- The ...
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Cuddling Brings Two Minds Together, MRI Study Reveals | Dennis Thompson
Love to cuddle up? It might bring a 'mind meld,' too, new research shows. May 4, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- People in close physical contact appear to have synchronized brain patterns, a revolutionary n ...
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A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli
Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...
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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel
July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But wha ...
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The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer
July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...
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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer
Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...
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