• Controlling the Narrative with AI NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-30 03:54:25
    Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Jan 29 2024 Controlling the Narrative with AI Published by Steven Novella under Technology Comments : 0 There is an ongoing battle in our society to control the narrative , to influence the flow of information , and thereby move the needle on what people think and how they behave . This is nothing new , but the mechanisms for controlling the narrative are evolving as our communication technology evolves . The latest addition to this technology is the large language model . AIs The media” , of course , has been a large focus of this competition . On the right there is constant complaints of the liberal bias” in the media , and on the left there are complaints of the rise of right-wing media which they feel is biased

  • DNA Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-26 04:46:03
    Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Jan 25 2024 DNA Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials Published by Steven Novella under Technology Comments : 0 Arguably the type of advance that has the greatest impact on technology is material science . Technology can advance by doing more with the materials we have , but new materials can change the game entirely . It is no coincidence that we mark different technological ages by the dominant material used , such as the bronze age and iron age . But how do we invent new materials Historically new materials were mostly discovered , not invented . Or we discovered techniques that allowed us to use new materials . Metallurgy , for example , was largely about creating a fire hot enough to smelt different metals .

  • Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth Archaeology The Guardian

    Updated: 2024-01-25 20:05:08
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  • Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth Archaeology The Guardian

    Updated: 2024-01-25 20:05:06
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  • Microbes Aboard the ISS NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-23 16:06:40
    Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Jan 23 2024 Microbes Aboard the ISS Published by Steven Novella under Technology Comments : 0 As I have written many times , including in yesterday’s post , people occupying space is hard . The environment of space , or really anywhere not on Earth , is harsh and unforgiving . One of the issues , for example , rarely addressed in science fiction or even discussions of space travel , is radiation . We don’t really have a solution to deal with radiation exposure outside the protective atmosphere and magnetic field of . Earth There are other challenges , however , that do not involve space itself but just the fact that people living off Earth will have to be in an enclosed environment . Whether this is a space station

  • Is Mars the New Frontier NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-22 14:21:07
    Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Jan 22 2024 Is Mars the New Frontier Published by Steven Novella under Technology Comments : 0 In the excellent sci fi show , The Expanse , which takes place a couple hundred years in the future , Mars has been settled and is an independent self-sustaining society . In fact , Mars is presented as the most scientifically and technologically advanced society of humans in the solar system . This is presented as being due to the fact that Martians have had to struggle to survive and build their world , and that lead to a culture of innovation and . dynamism This is a  version of the Turner thesis , which has been invoked as one justification for the extreme expense and difficulty of settling locations off Earth . I was

  • Why Do Species Evolve to Get Bigger or Smaller NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-20 02:20:04
    Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Jan 19 2024 Why Do Species Evolve to Get Bigger or Smaller Published by Steven Novella under Evolution Comments : 0 Have you heard of Cope’s Rule or Foster’s Rule American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first noticed a trend in the fossil record that certain animal lineages tend to get bigger over evolutionary time . Most famously this was noticed in the horse lineage , beginning with small dog-sized species and ending with the modern horse . Bristol Foster noticed a similar phenomenon specific to islands populations that find their way to islands tend to either increase or decrease in size over time , depending on the availability of resources . This may also be called island dwarfism or gigantism or insular

  • January 2024 NeuroLogica Blog

    Updated: 2024-01-16 12:00:05
    , Home About The Author Steven Novella , MD Recent Comments Topic Suggestions Archive for January , 2024 Jan 12 2024 Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle Published by Steven Novella under Astronomy University of Central Lancashire UCLan PhD student Alexia Lopez , who two years ago discovered a giant arc of galaxy clusters in the distant , universe has now discovered a Big Ring This if real is one of the largest structures in the observable universe at 1.3 billion light years in diameter . The problem is such a large structure should not be possible based on current cosmological theory . It violates what is known as the Cosmological Principle CP the notion that at the largest scales the universe is uniform with evenly distributed . matter The CP actually has two components . One is

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