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WEEKLY: IN-DEPTH REPORTING, LITERARY VARIETY, AND CURRENT EVENTS
OUT OF THE BLUE
If something happens out of the blue, you did not expect it.
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PINNED POST (2025)
Biological Anthropology: “Theory of Mind” — The cognitive capacity to infer and reason the mental states of others.
Bonobos can tell when they know something you don’t | New Scientist
“Apes Might Know That You Don’t Know What They Know”
https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Elsevier/Call_Does_TrendsCogSci_2008_1554401.pdf
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NEWSROOM March 2025
SPACE TOURISM (“To date, Blue Origin’s spacecraft have flown 52 people above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.”)
JEFF BEZOS’S BLUE ORIGIN TO TAKE AN ALL-FEMALE CREW TO THE EDGE OF SPACE (NEW SHEPARD’S 31ST MISSION). WHEN: “The flight will launch this Spring (2025).”
Blue Origin Announces Crew For New Shepard’s 31st Mission | Blue Origin
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Image: Matt Winkelmeyer-Getty Images (Gayle King & Katy Perry)
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Blue Origin: The aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos
NEWSROOM March 2025 – “PROPERTY RIGHTS” IN SPACE
UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
NEWSROOM March 2025
“A HOTEL IN SPACE COULD BE OPERATIONAL IN JUST 5 YEARS”
A Hotel in Space Could Be Operational in Just Five Years | Architectural Digest
ABOVE – Providing More Space in Space
NEWSROOM March 2025
A BLAST FROM THE PAST: “WOOLLY MAMMOTH” “WOOLLY MICE” (‘HAVE A NICE HAIR DAY!)
NEWSROOM February 2025
“WORLD’S FIRST HUMANOID ROBOT TO PERFORM A FRONT FLIP”
China, China, China! Shenzhen-based EngineAI Robotics. Shenzhen-based EngineAI was co-founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Zhao Tongyang. Before this company, he established a robotics start-up called Dogotix, which was acquired by Chinese electric vehicle (EV) firm Xpeng in 2020.
NEWSROOM February 2025
CREEPIEST THING
“Protoclone,” a robot that Clone Robotics calls the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. (Futurism Magazine, 2/20/2025)
NEWSROOM February 2025
DEEPSEEK: IS IT SAFE TO USE?
What DeepSeek r1 Means—and What It Doesn’t | Lawfare
Chinese technology start-up ‘DeepSeek’ built large ‘language models and AI solutions’ with a fraction of the cost and computing power. Check it out. https://deepseek.ai
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NEWSROOM February 2025
GLASS WATER BOTTLES ARE BETTER FOR YOUR HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
**Drinking water from a glass bottle is generally safe and can help preventing microplastics getting into your brain — Also, it preserves the purity of the water.**
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653524012736
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adr8243
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NEWSROOM February 2025
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THE HUMAN MACHINE: HUMANS ARE THE BEST ‘DISTANCE RUNNERS’ ON THE PLANET
Running has many health benefits, including building stronger bones and muscles, improving cardiovascular fitness, and reducing the risk of cancer. Running can also help you sleep better.
NEWSROOM FEBRUARY 2025
PhD (RESEARCH) STUDENTS: UNDERPAID AND OVERWORKED
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https://escholarship.org/content/qt57z8172j/qt57z8172j.pdf
“High-level research universities are typically divided into levels based on their research activity, most commonly using the “R” classification from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, with “R1” representing the highest level of research activity, followed by “R2” for high research activity, and then “R3” for moderate research activity. R1 students (e.g. Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Sorbonne, Yale, Stanford, Chicago University) are often considered to be under a significant amount of stress due to the highly competitive academic environment, demanding coursework, pressure to publish research, and the expectation of achieving excellence in a rigorous field, which can lead to feelings of overwhelming workload and pressure to succeed at a very high level. Perhaps, only those (MA, PhD) students who went through extreme levels of research competition and scrutiny may come to appreciate the importance of humor and a secured professional position (while completing their dissertation(s). KUDOS to all hard-working PhD students out there.
NEWSROOM February 2025
A PhD thesis is a comprehensive written document that presents the results of original research conducted by a doctoral student as part of their PhD program, detailing their findings and conclusions on a specific topic to demonstrate their expertise in the field and earn their degree; it’s often referred to as a dissertation as well.
NEWSROOM February 2025
SHOULD ROBOTS PAY TAXES? Bill Gates suggested that robots should pay taxes in 2017. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, proposed that companies that use robots to replace human workers should pay taxes on the machines.
Bill Gates: This is why we should tax robots | World Economic Forum
NEWSROOM February 2025
CONUNDRUM: ARE AI MACHINES CAPABLE OF BEING CONSCIOUS?
(HOLLOW COMPARED TO SOULS)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/16/1081149/ai-consciousness-conundrum
NEWSROOM February 2025
THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGUE (Steven Pinker: Experimental Cognitive Scientist, Harvard University)
In a metaphorical sense, “language is a virus” — A phrase often used to describe how language can spread rapidly, infect people’s thoughts and behaviors, and even change their perception of reality, similar to how a biological virus works.
“LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS” (Laurie Anderson, Visual Artist and Composer)
NEWSROOM February 2025
AMERICANS: FAT AND UNHAPPY? STEVEN PINKER
https://news.gallup.com/poll/654425/americans-say-overweight-slim-down.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/610133/less-half-americans-satisfied-own-lives.aspx
NEWSROOM February 2025
BILINGUAL EDUCATION: (ESL) ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
“Bilingual Education is considered good for your cognitive development, academic achievement, problem-solving skills, cultural awareness, and overall brain function as it allows you to learn and utilize two languages, which can enhance your ability to think critically, multitask, and adapt to different situations; it can also improve your memory and potentially delay the onset of dementia.”
NEWSROOM February 2025
FREE WILL, LIMITED CHOICES
https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-sapolsky
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/05/biologist-robert-sapolsky-takes-human-behavior-free-will
NEWSROOM February 2025 HELLO QUANTUM COMPUTERS!
NEWSROOM February 2025 PREHISTORY (THE STONE AGE)
Prehistoric humans (Homo sapiens) did indeed live alongside Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis) for a period of time, most notably in Europe, where they overlapped for several thousand years and even interbred with each other.
NEWSROOM February 2025 PREHISTORY (THE ICE AGE)
Prehistoric humans (Homo sapiens) did indeed live alongside Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis) for a period of time, most notably in Europe, where they overlapped for several thousand years and even interbred with each other.
NEWSROOM February 2025
“SINGULARITY IS THE WEIRDEST CONCEPT OUT THERE”
Singularity can refer to a point in space-time where gravity is so intense that space and time break down, or to a future where machines surpass human intelligence.
NEWSROOM February 2025
BLACK HOLE (LOOK UP AT THE STARS!)
NEWSROOM February 2025
“NASA RELEASES AUDIO OF WHAT A “BLACK HOLE” “SOUNDS” LIKE”
NEWSROOM February 2025
“GENETIC ENGINEERING WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING FOREVER”
NEWSROOM February 2025
“HOW GENE EDITING WILL CHANGE THE WORLD”
NEWSROOM February 2025
“UNDEAD GENES”
SCIENTIST PROFILE
PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING (University of Cambridge Scholar)
SCIENTIST PROFILE (University of Cambridge Scholar)
MINERAL PHYSICIST AND ENVIRONMENTALIST: SIMON REDFERN
NEWSROOM February 2025
HIGGS BOSON: WHAT IS THE ‘GOD’S PARTICLE?’
“David” (Michelangelo)
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