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Buddhism, Taoism, the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism, and other schools of Eastern thought have quite a different take on the self, the ego, or “me.”
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California is sponsoring a program to encourage more prescribed burns and cultural burns. The “Prescribed Fire Liability Claims Fund Pilot” will allocate $20 million to cover losses that may occur if a prescribed or cultural burn ends up slipping contro...
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Researchers at the have developed a new type of navigation system in which receivers detect muons — subatomic particles created by collisions between cosmic rays and particles in Earth’s atmosphere — rather than satellite signals.
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.'s DeepMind has developed a self-improving AI agent, called RoboCat, that learns to operate different robotic arms — and take on different tasks — with as little as 100 examples, and it can create its own training data to help sharpen performance.
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. researchers say Kevlar fibers could work — we would just need to constantly repair the tether, the same way the human body constantly repairs its tendons.
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Can you guess what we'll be Hard Reset-ing on our first-ever MEGASODE?
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Something MEGA is coming. Tune into our YouTube channel on 7/13 for the biggest Hard Reset episode EVER. freeth.ink/youtube-subscr
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Scientists generally agree that a massive asteroid or comet killed off the dinosaurs when it struck Earth 66 million years ago. Could a more recent cosmic impact have had the opposite effect on humans by helping usher in the dawn of civilization?
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In small field trials, their gene-edited rice plants yielded five times as much rice as controls when challenged with the fungus that causes blast.
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A new method developed by researchers at demonstrates a pretty straightforward strategy: Have the robot watch a bunch of videos of you doing it.
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US regulators have given the greenlight to 's chicken (under its brand), as well as lab-grown chicken made by , marking that startup’s first approval anywhere in the world.
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The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.
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California-based biotech company Neurona Therapeutics has now presented preliminary results from a trial of its in-development treatment for epilepsy, NRTX-1001.
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TODAY! Don't miss this free, virtual event with former NASA Astronaut Ron Garan. Register here: hopin.com/events/mission
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This study, published in , points in the same direction as previous investigations into how we interact with abstract art.
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Study co-author generalized these findings for : “This means that art has an effect on our general cognitive state that goes beyond how much we enjoy it, to change the way we perceive events and make decisions.”
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The subjects were substantially more likely to choose to place the abstract works in a distant gallery in the future than to do the same with the more grounded works. This tendency to associate abstract art with faraway places or times, even after controlling for how much people… Show more
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The test subjects were asked to view artworks defined as purely abstract, having a clearly defined object, or partly abstract with a definable object. They were then asked to imagine that they were going to decide where to place the painting on display. They could either put it… Show more
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Researchers gathered 840 subjects to test how viewing abstract art affected cognitive changes. What happened next might surprise you. 🧵
🖼️: Wassily Kandinsky
(⏩️bit.ly/3NPyAvV)
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