Curated Links of the Peculiar and the Prodigious
Vitamin D deficit is associated with accelerated brain aging in the general population
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
Startup Uses AI Chatbot to Provide Mental Health Counseling and Then Realizes It ‘Feels Weird’
Class action lawsuit against Microsoft GitHub and OpenAI on Copilot violating open-source licenses
Class action lawsuit challenges that Stable Diffusion “violates the rights of artists”
The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry
Five-Decade Decline in Fatal Police Shootings
2022 Ranked Choice Voting Year in Review
UAPs are the new UFOs, and we have a new agency in America to deal with them: the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Here’s their 2022 annual report.
Marine cloud brightening “This would produce a cooling, which general circulation model (GCM) computations suggest could—subject to satisfactory resolution of technical and scientific problems identified herein—have the capacity to balance global warming up to the carbon dioxide-doubling point”
A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate
Chemists cook up brand-new kind of nanomaterial
Two Wild Soviet Personal Computers of the 1980s
All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites
The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
Prehistoric population once lived in Siberia, but mysteriously vanished, genetic study finds
confirmation for predictions about early, rapid, galaxy formation
‘Disruptive’ science has declined
Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? Salt Lake City seeks to solve mystery
Why Archeologists Are Too Scared To Open The Tomb Of China’s First Emperor
The vampire who created the modern world
