Japan team has 1st successful engine test for Mach 5 aircraft, eyeing 2-hr trips to US. This would be great. So maybe 1 hour trips to Hawaii? I would love it.
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Several years ago, there were reports that ARB drug like losartan might increase the efficacy of chemotherapy against pancreatic cancer. Even improve survival. I thought it was one of those one-off research findings that wouldn't reproduce and would get forgotten. But ARB drugs can potentiate the effects of olaparib, a PARP inhibitor, which is used in cancers of the pancreas, prostate and ovary.
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The proportion of men who attend college has really dropped off in recent years. And if you are a woman who doesn't attend college, your likelihood of getting married is about 50-50. Times have changed.
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement. He's accused of not reading the room. But other college commencement speakers have been booed, too, while discussing AI. When I was a college student, I knew I didn't know everything, and when the university invited a speaker, it was assumed that some successful person was going to share words of wisdom. Not these kids. Good look on the job hunting.
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Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy. The solar industry desperately needs an efficient way to store energy, not just feed it back into the grid. Maybe this will be a start.
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AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language. The signer would have to wear 7 rings, but the concept is nice.
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The title is misleading – scientists are making some progress in identifying which neurons encode certain memories, but there's no device yet that allows one to erase memories. But here's something interesting:
Meanwhile, Holmes has come up with a brand-new approach to try to erase ‘flashbacks’, the intrusive snapshots of memories that pop into our heads without warning.
“We put people in a brain scanner and what we found is that your brain lights up when you play the computer game Tetris in a similar place as when people have flashbacks,” she says.She has since developed a surprisingly simple technique to reduce flashbacks by essentially hijacking that visual part of the brain.
After you recall the memory of the flashback, you play Tetris for 20 minutes, but do so by carefully focusing on integrating the different shapes together, rather than simply letting them stack up.
Keep a portable game player with you at all times.
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KatanaPDF. Free PDF Editor. Runs in your Browser. This actually works. I tried to send the developer some money but after clicking Pay, the spinner just spins and spins. Get that fixed!
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People are working on devices that will prevent you from being recorded in public. It's becoming commonplace, and a nuisance as well as a privacy invasion. I can understand when law enforcement needs it, but not pranksters, "influencers" or just nosy nerds.
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Multnomah Village rally opposes plan to shift Safe Rest Village to recovery-only model. Portlanders are upset when these shelters are made to actually help people that need it, transforming from 'being just a low-barrier shelter where people can “come as they are,” into a recovery-only model that would likely add strict eligibility requirements'. Isn't that what taxpayer money is paying for? Recovery, not just a place to come and crash whenever, on the taxpayer dime.
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Oregon law can prevent mergers and acquisitions that degrade healthcare in the state. However it hasn't exercise this ability, and mergers and acquisitions have negatively impacted healthcare, especially in rural areas. Doctors are pawns in a game of mega-corporations now. It's not as rewarding to be a physician anymore, and one doesn't want to practice in an environment where one is close to burnout.
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What problems do Portlanders think are most important? So many things to be depressed about.
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Who’s moving to WA, and who’s leaving? There's some White flight. Mostly younger folk. The middle-aged and older folk are leaving. Native Washingtonians are leaving, being replaced by foreign immigrants. They say it's the tech industry. If so, why the White flight? I don't like it.
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