The Hectic Modern World Is Shredding Your Little Cave Man Brain, Scientists Confirm

A Complicated Time To Be a Young Scientist

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New Zealand cave reveals a time capsule to life before

New Zealand cave reveals a time capsule to life before

Ancient cave paintings can harbor human DNA for millennia, scientists find

The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives’

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

The one thing scarier than getting stuck in ancient Mesopotamia

Whoa! Time travel's just been invented! Quick question, though: are you a plucky teenager being mentored by an eccentric scientist? What about an ancient alien with a cool box? No? Then sorry, you're going to have to join the rest of the public in queuing for dramatic sting the Time Travel Department. — Read the rest The post The one thing scarier than getting stuck in ancient Mesopotamia appeared first on Boing Boing.

SUBSTACK 6: DO WE CARE WHY MICE GET FAT?

by GT When Nina Teicholz and I were discussing working together on a Substack newsletter, I suggested a name for it that I’d always joked I’d someday use: “Let’s Pretend This Is Science.” Let’s just say, wiser heads prevailed. Still, that’s the phrase that comes to mind when I write about some of the research in...Read More »

Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found

Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found

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मलाई अचेल साह्रै डर लाग्न थालेको छ। कसैले हालसालै लेखेको सम्झेँ, ‘परम्परागत बौद्धिकहरू डराएका छन्’। आफूमा पनि ‘बौद्धिक’ हुने लक्षण देखियो कि भनेर एक किसिमले खुसी पनि भएँ। फेरि ‘परम्परागत’ पनि भनेको हुनाले मजा मानिनँ। बौद्धिक नै हुने हो भने आधुनिक हुनु नि किन परम्परागत हुने। होस् यस्तो बौद्धिक हुनु परेन बरु यसै ठिक छ। []

Does time come from the entire universe running computations?

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram has a radical proposal for where it comes from. He discussed his ideas on time – and what they mean for free will – with reporter Leah Crane

Popular Mechanics runs science article about mysterious blobs that exist all around us and may be conscious. Subby feels seen [Spiffy]

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A Physics Giant Had His Papers Retracted Decades After His Death. Here’s Why

Not even the greats can escape the droll of bureaucracy, it seems.

Lebanon state media reports Israeli strikes in south

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Mystery cave collapse uncovers 'advanced human time capsule' from 300,000 years ago

Archaeologists say the remarkably preserved site offers a rare glimpse into a pivotal period when early humans were developing increasingly sophisticated skills

Why did Tom Holland find filming The Odyssey 'nostalgic and futuristic'?

Tom Holland felt the making of Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey was nostalgic and futuristic at the same time.

What the ocean taught me about human drift

Out there, stripped of digital noise, meetings, notifications, headlines, and the constant pull of modern life, I had space to think again. Really think. The post What the ocean taught me about human drift appeared first on Upworthy.

Your Brain Prefers to Read on Paper Rather Than on Screens, New Study Says 

A clever new brain imaging study shows our brains have to work harder when we read on screens rather than paper books.

“Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is absurdism done right

David Wain's surreal spin on The Wizard of Oz is full of high-concept, laugh-a-minute bits when we need them most

The Future as Echo: UFOs, Politics, and the Impossibility of the Present

If the cosmos always appears in delay, then perhaps the human future is not what lies ahead of us, but what the past projects beyond its own limit. The post The Future as Echo: UFOs, Politics, and the Impossibility of the Present appeared first on Florence Daily News.