WEIRD FACTS
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 …
Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta. George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images – By Thomas Doherty, …
In rousing new historical drama Chevalier, the story of Joseph Bologne, often crudely referred to as ‘Black Mozart’, is finally given the spotlight it deserves. ‘The Black contribution to classical music has always been very robust and very diverse’ … portrait of Joseph …
