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Joe Rogan and the Media Algorithm
The latest controversy over Joe Rogan and Spotify is a symptom of a long-standing trend, exacerbated by social media but not caused by it. The problem is with the algorithms used by media outlets to...
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Incremental Advance Treating Spinal Cord Injury
In my opinion one of the most encouraging future technologies that we are developing today is hacking the nervous system through electromagnetic recording and stimulation. Nervous system signals are...
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JET Fusion Milestone
There is a lot of media buzz about the “fusion breakthrough” at the JET (Joint European Torus) experimental fusion reactor in Culham near Oxford, UK. Many people e-mailed me links to news reporting...
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Possible Planet Around White Dwarf
Astronomers may have discovered a planet around a white dwarf, and more importantly the planet (if it is real) exists in the habitable zone of the system. This is not the first planet found around a...
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LOHCs for Hydrogen Storage
The “coming hydrogen economy” never came, and may never come, because of the critical problem of hydrogen storage. Hydrogen can be a great fuel because it is light and burns clean with oxygen, creating...
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Exercise For Your Memory
Most people I know, whether personally or as my patients, want to take positive steps to improve their health and quality of life. Unfortunately, many people who make a decision to get healthier rely...
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Orphaned Technology and Implants
Rapidly advancing computer technology has greatly enhanced our lives and had ripple effects throughout many industries. I essentially lived through the computer and internet revolution, and in fact...
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Using Nanoparticles to Stop Internal Bleeding
“Nanotechnology” is one of the buzzwords of our time. It is used the exact same way “space age technology” was used in the last few decades of the 20th century, and to a lesser extent even to today. It...
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Number Reasoning and Language
Think of the number 23. What just happened in your brain? You have some sense of how large a number 23 is. You are reading, so probably the first representation was the written form, and then you may...
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Some Good News on Climate Change
One of the challenges of being a science communicator is keeping up to date. About 2.5 million scientific papers are published every year. Most of this is noise, preliminary studies, speculations,...
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