LINKS 07 – 2023 17- 31
Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
https://phys.org/news/2023 – 07-supermoons-august-stargazing-fun.html
Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for Making the Most of Your Day
In 1996, at the age of 74, Kurt Vonnegut talked to Inc. about envelopes.
The magazine was interviewing the writer (along with fellow novelist Tom Clancy) about the inching role of technology in society, and at one point, Vonnegut decided to tell a short story about leaving his house to buy envelopes, in order to illustrate a point on the importance of human contact. We’ve copied his quote in full below, because it’s worth every gosh darn word.
AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics
Bioengineers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to bring molecules back from the dead1.
To perform this molecular ‘de-extinction’, the researchers applied computational methods to data about proteins from both modern humans (Homo sapiens) and our long-extinct relatives, Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and Denisovans. This allowed the authors to identify molecules that can kill disease-causing bacteria — and that could inspire new drugs to treat human infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023 – 02403‑0
The DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag Into A Surveillance Tool
Are the “missing baryons” simply too hot to see?
There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
CDC Warns Red Meat Allergy Caused By Ticks An ‘Emerging Public Health Concern’
Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk
Terrestrial and sub-Neptune planets are expected to form in the inner (less than 10 au) regions of protoplanetary disks1. Water plays a key role in their formation2,3,4, although it is yet unclear whether water molecules are formed in situ or transported from the outer disk5,6. So far Spitzer Space Telescope observations have only provided water luminosity upper limits for dust-depleted inner disks7, similar to PDS 70, the first system with direct confirmation of protoplanet presence8,9. Here we report JWST observations of PDS 70, a benchmark target to search for water in a disk hosting a large (approximately 54 au) planet-carved gap separating an inner and outer disk10,11. Our findings show water in the inner disk of PDS 70. This implies that potential terrestrial planets forming therein have access to a water reservoir.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023 – 06317‑9
This New Edition of a Hunter S. Thompson Collection Has More Metallica In the Mix
Hunter S. Thompson’s short story “Screwjack” had a long and circuitous road to being widely available. As Keith Phipps noted in a review of the book in which it first appeared, it was first published as a private edition for friends of the author. Phipps also refers to the story as “a slim, sexually explicit description of the author’s affection for the tomcat he shared with a woman who left him,” which sounds even more like a Ralph Steadman illustration waiting to happen than most of Thompson’s bibliography.
The Winners of the 2023 iPhone Photography Awards
Antelope Island: Is This Seemingly Bleak Environment Nature’s Survival Garden?
Antelope Island is rich in halophytes and other naturally salt-tolerant plants; however, it is also part of the dying Great Salt Lake ecosystem that could collapse completely within five years according to a report by scientists at Bingham Young University. With sea level rise and natural disasters accelerating, saltwater intrusion is leaving land barren in many parts of the world.
How to Run an Unrestricted ChatGPT Alternative on Windows With FreedomGPT
ChatGPT is great if you don’t mind sharing your every input with its creators, OpenAI. However, if you are more security-conscious, don’t like being tied to an internet connection, or would prefer ChatGPT to act more like a local app instead of an online service, you ought to look into FreedomGPT.
https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-freedomgpt-chat
Analysis: Is it actually hotter now than any time in the last 100,000 years?
50 years on: Is David Bowie’s masterpiece ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ the greatest album of all time?
What Does London Smell Like? These Maps Have The Answer
Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes is the amazing title of this series of maps that look at how London smells. The smelly maps project involves Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella (University of Torino), Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs) and Kate McLean.
https://brilliantmaps.com/london-smell
Ukraine’s baby factories rake in record profits amid chaos of war
While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy but financially desperate women to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners.
Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby factory.”
Dalíland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8399658
Michael Kleinburger hat kürzlich vom Hochkar ein spektakuläres Foto eines Meteoriten geschossen. Astronomy Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230724.html
The Sounds Of Space
https://students.tools/sounds-of-space
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Ancient 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck found off coast of Italy
The cargo ship was found off the port of Civitavecchia, about 50 miles (80km) north-west of Rome.
It dates from about the 1st or 2nd Century BC and was found laden with hundreds of amphorae — a type of Roman terracotta jar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66337902
Julian Assange: US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks founder during Ausmin talks
After high-level talks in Brisbane largely focused on military cooperation, Blinken confirmed that the Australian government had raised the case with the US on multiple occasions, and said he understood “the concerns and views of Australians”.
Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly UnFakeable
To make something hard to fake you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use.Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical instruments, as described in the Publications of the National Academy of Scientists by a group led by Khachatur Manukyan, a research associate professor at the Nuclear Science Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ben-franklin-colonial-currency
Real or fake: Identifying AI-generated music and voices
Though the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in music has been growing over many years, there has been a recent explosion of conversation around AI-generated music. The latest crop of AI-generated music that has dominated the conversation involves deepfakes, where the vocals in a musical work are swapped with the AI-generated voice of a known artist. There are a growing number of examples: Blur’s “Song 2” with vocals replaced by AI-generated Kurt Cobain, Billy Joel’s Piano Man sung by AI-generated Paul McCartney, and a Rickroll with Rick Astley’s voice replaced by AI-generated Michael Jackson, to name a few.
The UFO reports piquing Nasa’s interest
For the first time ever, a team of Nasa scientists is taking unidentified anomalous phenomena seriously. But how will they sift out the incidents worthy of investigation?
WormGPT And FraudGPT Emerge As Scammers Weaponize AI Chatbots To Steal Data
Threat actors are using generative artificial intelligence tools “to automate the creation of highly convincing fake emails, personalized to the recipient, thus increasing the chances of success for the attack,” according to cloud security company SlashNext.
According to findings from SlashNext, bad actors have repurposed technology like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to accelerate cybercrime. They found a new AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT on dark web communities. It has been advertised as a way to launch sophisticated phishing attacks.
“This tool presents itself as a blackhat alternative to GPT models, designed specifically for malicious activities,” said security researcher Daniel Kelley.
New dinosaur species discovered in Thailand
A multi-institutional team of paleontologists has identified a new dinosaur species dug up in Thailand in 2012. In their paper published in the journal Diversity, the group describes where the fossil was found, its characteristics and its condition.
The fossil was uncovered at a dig site in Phu Noi, in Northern Thailand. The geological area is known as the Phu Kradung Formation. The dig site has yielded a large number of fossils over the years. In this new effort, the research team focused their effort on a fossil embedded in stone that was in good condition. It is a previously unknown species, now named Minimocursor phunoiensis.
https://phys.org/news/2023 – 07-dinosaur-species-thailand.html
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
A coalition of a half-dozen open-source AI stakeholders — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the world’s first comprehensive AI law.
In a policy paper released today, “Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act,” the open-source AI leaders offered recommendations “for how to ensure the AI Act works for open source” — with the “aim to ensure that open AI development practices are not confronted with obligations that are structurally impractical to comply with or that would be otherwise counterproductive.”
N. Atlantic ocean temperature sets record high: US agency
On the heels of a new record high in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic reached its hottest-ever level this week, several weeks earlier than its usual annual peak, according to preliminary data released Friday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
https://phys.org/news/2023 – 07-atlantic-ocean-temperature-high-agency.html
Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider. The particle could help researchers catalogue the states of exotic matter and figure out how fundamental particles stick together
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Laser mapping reveals a forgotten Maya city in the jungle
For the past decade, he’s been a trailblazer in the archaeological application of LiDAR, airborne light detection and ranging equipment that can find structures obscured by dense tree canopies and other vegetation — relics that in some cases reveal traces left by a lost civilization.
Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years
A soil nematode reanimated from Siberian permafrost had laid dormant for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study publishing July 27, 2023 in the open access journal PLOS Genetics by Anastasia Shatilovich at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS in Russia, Vamshidhar Gade at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany, and colleagues
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/996694
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quadruped-robot-unitree-go2
Shutdowns machen auch an den Wochenenden nicht Halt
Das Internet vergisst nicht? Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Denn auch im Netz gehen gewaltige Datenberge verloren. Das Archive Team durchforstet deshalb die Weiten des WWW und rettet Daten vor ihrer Auslöschung – und zwar rund um die Uhr und ehrenamtlich.
The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
The concert is in London. You’re watching it live from your home in Atlanta. What makes that possible is a network of subsea cables draped across the cold, dark contours of the ocean floor, transmitting sights and sounds at the speed of light through bundles of glass fiber as thin as your hair but thousands of miles long.
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.
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Origin of Life Molecules in the Atmosphere After Big Impacts on the Early Earth
The origin of life on Earth would benefit from a prebiotic atmosphere that produced nitriles, like HCN, which enable ribonucleotide synthesis. However, geochemical evidence suggests that Hadean air was relatively oxidizing with negligible photochemical production of prebiotic molecules. These paradoxes are resolved by iron-rich asteroid impacts that transiently reduced the entire atmosphere, allowing nitriles to form in subsequent photochemistry.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09761
A Complete Guide to Capturing Gorgeous Photos of the Night Sky
Peter Baumgarten is an award-winning nature photographer, educator, and OM SYSTEM Ambassador based on Canada’s Manitoulin Island. The island’s dark sky location provides Baumgarten with stunning nature and minimal light pollution, which allows the photographer to capture bright stars, the Milky Way, and northern lights from right outside his front door.
https://petapixel.com/2023/07/25/a‑complete-guide-to-capturing-gorgeous-photos-of-the-night-sky
Edward Teller’s UFO file
A field trip to Stanford to read some of Professor Teller’s non-digitized files
As part of my previous work, I spent a good deal of time looking into the Manhattan Project-era scientists and their possible connections to UFO stuff. One intriguing potential lead I came across had to do with Edward Teller — “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb.” Teller is an interesting character. I haven’t seen it yet but given his role and personality I can’t imagine he isn’t prominently featured in the current Oppenheimer summer blockbuster. I won’t go into much detail about his background here. The movie may or may not end up doing him justice but I’ll let Christopher Nolan handle that aspect of the storytelling for now.
https://markbeef.substack.com/p/edward-tellers-ufo-file
Krakow Torch Sockets
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/krakow-torch-sockets
Als die Habsburger die “Wilden” in Amerika trafen
Auch wenn ihre Kolonialpolitik eine untergeordnete Rolle spielte, kamen die Habsburger mit weit entfernten Kulturen in Kontakt. Auch Indigene waren darunter.
Have any stars visible to human eyes already died?
All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?
The Ancient World Comes to Life in an Animation Featuring Istanbul’s Islamic, Ottoman, Greek & Byzantine Art
Syrian German filmmaker Waref Abu Quba was so taken with Istanbul’s timeless beauty on his first visit in 2021 that he resolved to photograph as many examples of it as possible.
Welcome to Flash Museum!
FlashMuseum is a project archiving flash games and animations and making them playable again on your browser.
Keine Normalisierung von Schadsoftware mehr
Der Koalitionsvertrag der Ampel-Regierung hatte es bereits festgeschrieben: Justizminister Buschmann legt nun einen Gesetzentwurf vor, um die Regelungen zum Einsatz von Staatstrojanern zu stutzen. Aber reicht das? Die Ampel-Regierung muss sich endlich fragen, ob sie die Hacking-Branche weiter päppeln will. Ein Kommentar.
Kodak Specially Manufactured Black and White 70mm Film for Oppenheimer
“It’s an intimate, emotional and immersive psychological drama, as well as spectacular event cinema,” says cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema FSF NSC ASC, as he reveals details about capturing Christopher Nolan’s nail-biting thriller, Oppenheimer, in IMAX (15-perf) format using KODAK 65mm large-format film, including, for the very first time, sections on 65mm B&W shot in IMAX.
https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/oppenheimer
Customs officials seize cheese wheels filled with cocaine at Texas border
DOJ says it will sue Texas over buoy wall barrier in Rio Grande
https://www.houstonchronicle.com
Justice Department Faces Off With Texas: No, You Can’t Drown Immigrants For Their Own Safety
The US Department of Justice is telling Texas to remove the floating border barriers that it has installed down the middle of the Rio Grande between the US and Mexico, or the DOJ will sue Texas. In a letter sent Thursday, the DOJ informed Texas that Greg Abbott’s Wingnut Line violates US law.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/justice-department-faces-off-with
The Flipper Zero has an app store now
The Flipper Zero — a dolphin-themed digital multitool — now has a mobile app store, which makes it much easier to browse and install third-party tools and plug-ins right from your phone. The marketplace is built into the latest version of Flipper’s official app, which is out today.
St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy
Iwas 20 years old and had J Robert Oppenheimer’s house all to myself. From the porch of the small yellow cottage, four steps led down to the beach where coconut trees swooped low at the water’s edge and the Evian-clear Caribbean gently lapped the sugar-white sand. Day after day, I’d hike here after work to marvel at the parrotfish, butterflyfish and hawksbill turtles that glided between the shallow coral reefs, never once seeing another soul.
Here’s What ‘Oppenheimer’ Gets Right – and Wrong – about Nuclear History
Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the hydrogen bomb.
A Potentially Spectacular Comet Will Fly by Earth Next Year
Professional and amateur astronomers alike are hoping that Comet C/2023 A3 will sparkle in Earth’s skies in the fall of 2024, although comets are notoriously difficult to predict.
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ChatGPT wird immer dümmer, doch niemand weiß, warum
Forschende schickten die KI für eine Studie mehrfach in einen Testparcours und bewiesen einen signifikanten Abfall der Qualität
Understanding The Global Supply Of Water
As the world’s population and its agricultural needs have grown, so too has the demand for water, putting the world’s supply of water under the microscope.
A century ago, freshwater consumption was six times lower than in modern times. This increase in demand and usage has resulted in rising stress on freshwater resources and further depletion of reservoirs.
An open source 3D universe simulator with support for more than a billion objects
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky
Schweizergarde-Lieferant Schmidberger: “Eisen ist geduldig”
Seine Schmiede macht Rüstungen für die Schweizergarde, Zugbrücken und Nägel. Johann Schmidberger über 600 Jahre alte Ambosse, KI und Preissteigerungen, die ihn nicht stören.
How an ancient solar flare illuminated the start of the Viking Age
Calamity after calamity befell Europe at the beginning of the so-called Dark Ages. The Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Volcanic eruptions in the mid-sixth century blocked out the sun, causing crop failure and famine across the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the Justinian Plague arrived, killing, by some estimates, nearly half of everybody in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and scores of others elsewhere.
The 20 Best Live Streaming Encoders: Software & Hardware [2023]
Consumers expect quality video experiences at the touch of a button. Without live streaming encoders, though, this wouldn’t be possible.
Streaming encoders are an essential tool for transporting live video across the internet. Their utility is two-fold: content distributors use encoders to digitise video (changing from analog to digital) while simultaneously shrinking gigabytes of data down to megabytes.
https://bitmovin.com/live-streaming-encoder
QR Code AI Art Generator
We use the QR code image as the initial image and the control image, which allows you to generate QR Codes that blend in very naturally with your provided prompt. The strength parameter defines how much noise is added to your QR code and the noisy QR code is then guided towards both your prompt and the QR code image via Controlnet.
Pytorch implementation of “ControlVideo: Training-free Controllable Text-to-Video Generation”
https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/ControlVideo
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Sally Cruikshank
In this ongoing series, we profile the most interesting independent animation filmmakers working today — the artists who, through short films and other projects, change our ideas of what the medium can do.
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AI Art Weekly #43
Hello there, my fellow dreamers, and welcome to issue #43 of AI Art Weekly! ????
Another crazy week is behind us. Meta open-sourced Llama2 and Apple is apparently working on their own LLM called Apple GPT. Yours truly is moving flats tomorrow, so apologies if this issue contains a bit more typos than usual as I’m writing this issue while sitting between chairs. So let’s jump in.
https://aiartweekly.com/issues/43
Sidebery
Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.
https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery
Amazon is spending $120 million on a building for its internet satellites
Amazon builds new Florida satellite facility for its Starlink rival
Charisma is a commandline tool to generate ASCII Art directly from your terminal. It uses Dalle Mini (aka Craiyon) API to convert your words into reality. It’s written in beloved rust with powerful tools come with it.
https://github.com/UTFeight/Charisma
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Kevin Mitnick, 1963 – 2023
Kevin David Mitnick, 59, died peacefully on Sunday, July 16, 2023, after valiantly battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year. Kevin is survived by his beloved wife, Kimberley Mitnick, who remained by his side throughout their 14-month ordeal. Kimberley is pregnant with their first child. Kevin was ecstatic about this new chapter in his and Kimberley’s life together, which has now been sadly cut short.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
The Mitnick attack http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php/The_Mitnick_attack
Ukraine’s cyber police dismantled a massive bot farm spreading propaganda
The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards.
Archaeologists Found an Ancient ‘Entrance to the Underworld’ Under a Church In Mexico
Apocalypse Clown (Official Trailer)
Netflix Drops Trailer for Documentary About James Webb Space Telescope
Street Photographer Captures Funny Moments When the Universe Lines Up
First co-orbiting exoplanet hints at our Moon’s origin
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4
Nix is a tool that allows you to define your software environment from code. Nix has several components to it, and one of the most interesting to me is NixOS, which lets you use Nix tooling to define your entire OS configuration using plaintext files.
https://mtlynch.io/nixos-pi4
La huella del hacha de cobre de Tepoztlán
En 36 años de andar para la conservación del patrimonio, aún es un reto comprender la
naturaleza de los objetos como lienzos de barro y plastilina donde los apegos, los des-
apegos, los afectos y la geo-naturaleza los van modelando.
https://inah.gob.mx/images/suplementos/tlacuache/1086/web
Last week was the hottest ever recorded — here’s why we keep smashing records
Global temperatures are shattering records as El Niño and climate change compound.
On July 3, the planet sweltered as the average global temperature reached 17.01° Celsius (62.62° Fahrenheit), the highest ever recorded, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. That surpassed the previous record of 16.92° C (62.46° F) from August 2016.
By the end of the week, that new record was tied or broken three more times, peaking on July 6 at 17.23° C (63.01° F). And Earth just experienced its hottest June ever recorded.
Remote Neural Stimulation Using Magnetic Nanoparticles
Abstract
Neural stimulation provides a means for scientists to investigate brain functions and neurological diseases. There is also mounting interest in using remote stimulation of neuronal circuits for brain-machine interfaces. In this review, we highlight recently developed technologies utilizing magnetic nanoparticles to generate heat or exert mechanical forces for remote control of brain circuits and compare these with conventional (electrical stimulation and drugs) and second-generation (ultrasound and light) techniques. We also present some of the challenges and progress in areas like genetics, nanoparticle synthesis and energy delivery devices to translate the use of these innovative nanoparticle-based platforms in research and clinical settings.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27528057
Want to Help Tackle Disinformation? Train Your Community to Stop the Spread of False Information
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will equip professionals who are passionate about tackling disinformation to hold workshops and events for their communities, helping more people spot and push back against harmful, false information that can undermine democracy, endanger people’s wellbeing and more.
ICFJ is now accepting applications for this “training of trainers” opportunity from individuals in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It is part of Disarming Disinformation, a three-year global project run by ICFJ with lead funding from the Scripps Howard Fund.
“Our goal is to equip journalists and community leaders across the world with the knowledge and skills to empower their local communities,” ICFJ Senior Program Director Paul Rothman said. “Effectively combating disinformation and fostering healthy, fact-based information ecosystems requires community-level awareness and action.”
Reconstructing Ötzi’s shoes
Ötzi the Gletshermummie, Ötzi the Iceman and Tisenjoch are the names we gave the man that walked in the Alps 5,300 years ago. Thanks to the Ötzi museum in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, I had the opportunity to reconstruct Ötzi’s shoes. For making the shoes I used a flint knife, for both shoes I mostly used one knife. The net is made by hand so not many tools were needed to reconstruct the shoes.
https://exarc.net/issue-2023 – 2/at/reconstructing-otzis-shoes
Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin — Cuneiform Eye Disease Texts
Cuneiform therapeutic prescriptions on eye disease form the largest surviving corpus of
ophthalmology from the Ancient Near East, sharing numerous comparable features with
medical practices from synchronic and diachronic neighbouring cultures. This volume
is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh
dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in the British Museum
since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the
Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BCE. In contrast to classical sources,
the material edited in this volume derives from original manuscripts and not from later
copies. Thus, the cuneiform texts in this volume are of utmost importance for the history
of ancient medicine.
4 reasons not teaching evolution in schools is immoral
Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or something unnecessary has been included.
This is what happened in the recent redesign of the Australian Curriculum, for example, where the emphasis on Western civilisation became politicised.
https://theconversation.com/4‑reasons-not-teaching-evolution-in-schools-is-immoral-208653
Animate-A-Story: Storytelling with Retrieval-Augmented Video Generation
Generating videos for visual storytelling can be a tedious and complex process that typically requires either live-action filming or graphics animation rendering. To bypass these challenges, our key idea is to utilize the abundance of existing video clips and synthesize a coherent storytelling video by customizing their appearances. We achieve this by developing a framework comprised of two functional modules: (i) Motion Structure Retrieval, which provides video candidates with desired scene or motion context described by query texts, and (ii) Structure-Guided Text-to-Video Synthesis, which generates plot-aligned videos under the guidance of motion structure and text prompts.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06940
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Giant Deep Sea Oarfish is Filmed by Divers in Rare Encounter
Mammal bites dinosaur in ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ fossil find
A badger-like mammal was sinking its teeth into the ribs of a dinosaur three times its size when they were buried in volcanic ash 125 million years ago, capturing the pair in a deadly embrace.
The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth during the Cretaceous period more than previously thought, scientists said on Tuesday.
Isak Finnbogason — ICELAND FPV
Archaeological Dig Reveals History of Human Settlement in Oregon
Evidence suggests people lived there over 18,000 years ago
The Perseid meteor shower begun once again on July 14, running until September 1. They are expected to peak in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday August 13.
https://www.venture.photography
Kablammo takes variable fonts to the next level, drawing inspiration from the maximalist curly doodads of the ’90s, the Memphis Design movement, as well as cartoons and toys from that era. The decorative elements fly around and change in unconventional ways, which makes for fun animations.
https://fonts.withgoogle.com/kablammo
CIGARETTE IN SOIL — 1 YEAR Time Lapse [8K]
27.000 Jahre alte Schmuckstücke aus Brasilien werfen Fragen auf
Steinklingen, die jemand vor mehr als 16.000 Jahren gefertigt hat, 23.000 Jahre alte Fußabdrücke oder Mammutknochen, an denen vor 37.000 Jahren herumgeschnitzt wurde – auch wenn viele dieser Funde in der Fachwelt umstritten sind, sie werfen Fragen auf.
Tupac Shakur: Police search house over 1996 killing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66240750
https://www.rawstory.com/tupac-investigation-warrant
Christopher Nolan calls out Silicon Valley leaders at ‘Oppenheimer’ screening
“Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan is not mincing words when it comes to Silicon Valley’s inner circle.
In a post-screening panel Saturday in New York City, Chuck Todd, the longtime host of “Meet the Press,” asked Nolan about an obvious parallel to his three-hour-long epic about physicist and “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer: the founders and chief executives helming the world’s buzziest tech companies, especially the ones betting big on artificial intelligence.
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27,000-year-old jewelry from Brazil raises questions
The peopling of the Americas and human interaction with the Pleistocene megafauna in South America remain hotly debated. The Santa Elina rock shelter in Central Brazil shows evidence of successive human settlements from around the last glacial maximum (LGM) to the Early Holocene. Two Pleistocene archaeological layers include rich lithic industry associated with remains of the extinct giant ground sloth Glossotherium phoenesis. The remains include thousands of osteoderms (i.e. dermal bones), three of which were human-modified. In this study, we perform a traceological analysis of these artefacts by optical microscopy, non-destructive scanning electron microscopy, UV/visible photoluminescence and synchrotron-based microtomography.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316
GNU Boot 20230717 released!
https://gnuboot.vimuser.org/news/gnuboot20230717.html
Eine neue Vorhersagemethode für Sonnenstürme spart wertvolle Zeit
Bisher war die Vorhersage von Sonnenstürmen Pionierarbeit mit sportlichem Reiz, wenn sich etwa Forschungsgruppen mit immer besseren Prognosen gegenseitig zu übertreffen suchten. Das Thema hat allerdings große praktische Relevanz. Sonneneruptionen können auch hier auf der Erde spürbar werden, wenn sie Satelliten lahmlegen, Navigations- und Kommunikationssysteme stören oder im Extremfall sogar die Stromversorgung beeinflussen.
Over the course of his 35-year career, Damon Albarn has reached international fame with two very different bands. In 1988, Damon created the rock band Blur with four friends in his native London. Blur started out as what Damon calls a “classic art school band” before quickly moved to the forefront of the ‘90s Britpop explosion along with their formal rivals, Oasis.
Best Illusion of the Year Contest
Schauen Sie sich eher “Barbie” oder “Oppenheimer” an?
Den 20. Juli hat sich wohl schon der eine oder andere Filmfan rot im Kalender angestrichen – denn an diesem Tag erfolgt der Kinostart zweier Filme, die wohl unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, aber jeweils auf seine Art bereits mit Spannung erwartet werden. “Barbie” und “Oppenheimer” sollen sich ein regelrechtes Duell an den Kinokassen liefern.
How to Photograph Bison in Yellowstone
Finding subjects for wildlife photography in summer is a challenge. As I look forward to arguably my favorite time of the year – the fall mating season for big mammals such as elk, moose, bighorn sheep, and so on – I first have to make it through the summer. Long days filled with harsh light provided by the sun directly overhead and heat, that unbearable heat.
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