Just Plain WEIRD #2
An artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered rhynchosaur, Beesiiwo cooowuse, named in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area in which it was found. Gabriel Ugueto – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 27 – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Do you really need another water bottle, or is your brain just tired? Teera Konakan/Moment Collection/Getty Images – By Matthew Pittman, Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee Published: 2023 Apr 25 – The Research Brief is a short take …
Willie Nelson’s face is as iconic as his voice, his songs and his beat-up old guitar. Gary Miller/Getty Images – By Jason Mellard, Director of the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University Published: 2023 Apr 25 – Willie Nelson’s unofficial theme …
A stormtrooper vacuums at the beach … except the vacuum head is a pool cleaner and it’s plugged into his butt. We live in interesting times. nVidia – By Loz Blain 2023 Apr 23 – “Will Smith eating spaghetti” made text-to-video generative AIs look …
Researchers identified this fossil as a chile pepper due to its unique ‘hat’. The discovery has caused scientists to rethink the plant’s evolutionary timeline. Rocío Deanna/University of Colorado Boulder – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 23 – Fossilized plants can provide much information about …
Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defenses. A strain of E. coli more likely to evade our immune system’s first line of defense emerged as a result of using colistin as a growth promoter …
Google boss says issue keeps him up at night, while thousands have urged six-month pause on creation of ‘giant’ AIs. An AI-generated deepfake image of pope Francis wearing a puffer jacket. Photograph: Reddit – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Dan Milmo and Alex Hern …
A female P. regius, another of the keen-sighted North American jumping spiders, which only grows to a maximum 0.87 in (22 mm) in size. Depositphotos View gallery – 3 images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Apr 20 – Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the …
Image of SPAM can removed at request of AP representative. AI may make spam more pervasive than ever. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar – By John Licato, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Director of AMHR Lab, University of South Florida Last Updated: …
Image of a C. elegans worm genetically engineered to show fluorescence – the green dots are neurons that have responded to cannabinoids. Stacy Levichev/University of Oregon (CC BY-SA) – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 20 – Researchers got tiny worms high on cannabis to …
