What have you learned today?

[hanselthecaretaker2]

James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when life could have emerged

The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues.

www.livescience.com

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The KLF were integral music to me in my youth, not to mention being the progenitor of one of my favorite bands to this day, *The Orb. So I was much surprised to learn...


TL;DW?

The KLF were intentionally an overt satire of [then] popular dance music. The pair started off with little to no inclination for music, but after witnessing others create with ease using sampling, started in on it for themselves. They literally had a formula for making hit songs that the masses ate up for years. They eventually burnt out on the industry and its lack of self-awareness that these "frauds" hadn't been called out after topping charts for so long. They just up and quit, and literally burnt $1,000,000 of their "earnings" as their farewell "fuck you."

*Alex Paterson was a DJ that The KLF ruthlessly and surreptitiously sampled [from his DJ sets] earning themselves the ostensible title as the creators of Ambient House music. Alex Paterson went on to start his own band (The Orb) who have since garnered their own reputation as godfathers of Ambient/Ambient House music.

I've read that one of the members came to regret that stunt of burning a million pounds, thinking that the money could have gone to better use.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I've read that one of the members came to regret that stunt of burning a million pounds, thinking that the money could have gone to better use.

Most likely. I mean, a million pounds has infinitely better uses than turning to ash in front of the eyes of an industry that cares little for whatever statement anyone wants to make about it. They were probably just so caught up in their subversive act (that had already gone too far) that they didn't think it through. Ironic that the inanity they were parodying bled into the act of parodying itself. I guess the music industry won in the end?

Despite the farce... "3am Eternal" is still a banger. KLF did indeed "rock me."

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"3am Eternal" is still a banger.

If I had to pick an "anthem of my youth", that song would be high on the list of candidates.

 

[Gordon_4]

That using a sanding block is a pain in the arse. I’m very close to ruining the bevelling(?) or whatever they call the fancy edging on wood work because it took 30 minutes to properly sand about 6 inches worth of this fancy shit while my power sander is whispering “Deww Iiit” in my ears.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

If this turns out to hold up in future research, would've called it years ago, not from cleverness or anything respectable like that, but an extended period of isolated, rambling withdrawal off a research chemical (can't even Google what it was called anymore cause all results keep coming back with nothing but "FENTANYL!" "FENTANYL REDUX" "FENTANYL BEGINS!" "SHADOW OF FENTANYL!!" "FENTANYL RISES!" "FENTANYL BEYOND!" "FENTANYL INFINITY!" "FENT8NYL!" The algorithm has lost its goddamn mind.) and would like to unethically capitalise somehow of those psychic powers now. Hit me up, CIA: I harbour no, absolutely zero loyalty!

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an unusual explanation of consciousness as a quantum effect...that actually now may have some proof after all

Links:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs....
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_...
#consciousness #quantum #penrose

0:00 Human consciousness and quantum mechanics
0:55 New study about tryptophan
1:30 Penrose proposes consciousness is quantum
3:30 But quantum states are difficult to produce
4:25 Stuart Hameroff explains it with microtubules and anesthesia
5:40 What is consciousness though?
7:20 Anesthesiology research is exciting
8:05 Tryptophan connection
9:25 Ok, microtubules - what are these?
10:35 Microtubules could be the source?
11:30 Disagreement with neuroscience
12:10 New proposition by Penrose and Hameroff
13:20 Basic explanation of everything
14:10 First negative experiment
15:25 Anesthesia experiment finds positive results
16:40 Recent paper shows tryptophan can create quantum effects
18:35 What this shows and why this is important
19:25 Potential medical breakthroughs?

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Whoa -

World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 - The Mainichi

OSAKA -- Clinical trials of the world's first

mainichi.jp

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing

NASA and Boeing engineers are troubleshooting various faults in the Starliner spacecraft. But with only 45 days of docking time available, the window for return is closing.

www.livescience.com

 

[Chimpzy]

New fear unlocked

Penile cancer: 6,500 amputations in Brazil in a decade

"It's something you never imagine will happen to you," says João, 63, who under went a partial amputation.

www.bbc.com