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(From the December 26, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Still not tired of YouTubers trying to make a buck off of that popular Veritasium Video about the way electrical energy travels in a circuit? Well, then try out: I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate.
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First Full Asteroid Return Sample Confirms Early Solar System Origins
What Makes an mRNA Vaccine So Effective Against Severe COVID-19?
FDA Approves a New RNA-Based Treatment to Lower Cholesterol
FDA Authorizes the First Pill Meant to Prevent Severe Covid-19
Research Team Creates the World’s Lightest Isotope of Magnesium to Date
Researchers Use Electron Microscope to Turn Nanotube into Tiny Transistor
Could Meditation Strengthen Your Immune System?
Omicron: Most Common Symptoms, When to Get Tested, and Latest Booster Data
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(From the December 19, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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NASA spacecraft enters the Sun’s corona for the first time
Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened
Ferrite Antennas for Very Low Frequencies
PAPA System Choosing an HF Transceiver 04dec21 – Ft Rob Sherwood NC0B
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The MIRI (Mid InfRared Instrument). It must be cooled to 7 degrees Kelvin or -448 degrees Fahrenheit to work properly. NASA uses a cryo-cooler pictured below to achieve that temperature.
Note the opposing cylinders containing pistons. This eliminates any vibration which is very important for such a sensitive telescope. It uses helium as a refrigerant. The cryo-cooler is located 30 feet below the MIRI to keep any heat away from the CCD detectors.
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Latest Science on Omicron: Vaccine Effectiveness, How It Multiplies, and More
Pfizer’s Low-Dose Covid-19 Vaccine Fails in Kids Under 5, Trial Data Shows
This ‘Breakthrough’ in Chipmaking Could Bring Us a Phone with One-Week Battery Life
The FDA Just Approved Eye Drops to Correct Aging Vision
Nuclear Experts: Hey, So, Those Anti-5G Radiation Necklaces Are Actually Radioactive
Study Shows That Zwitterions Can Raise the Dielectric Constant of Soft Materials
Blue Flash in Space Known as ‘The Cow’ May Have Been a Black Hole Being Born
Newly Discovered Millipede Is First with More Than 1,000 Legs
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A Netflix Suggestion, from yours truly…
Arcane
This might not be quite your ‘cup of tea’, but if you are curious about the first time creative types have taken a video game (League of Legends) and turned it into a well written, well drawn, engaging, animated sci-fi drama with complex themes and equally complex characters, then check out Arcane. If it isn’t something you might be interested in, tell your harmonics (children) or second harmonics (grandchildren) – due to violent themes, it is something like a PG-13 production. Even if they already heard about it before, it will gain you some ‘cool points’ from your ‘zoomer’ or millennial offsprings.
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(From the December 12, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Still interested in other YouTuber’s opinions of Veritasium’s YouTube describing the transmission of electrical energy via electromagnetic waves? Well here is one from a great YouTuber – his expertise is as an electrician with experience building simple circuitry:
Some thoughts about Veritasium’s electricity theory.
Still interested? Well, here’s a fellow that has already put up his response – this is his follow-up on his response (will he offer a follow-up on his follow-up any time soon?):
Electric Energy Doesn’t Flow in Wires – Follow-up No. 2
See through walls! Flir One Thermal Imaging Infrared Camera review
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Early Data on Omicron: There’s Good News and Bad News
The Coronavirus Can Infect and Possibly Hide in Fat Cells, Study Finds
We Finally Know Why the Brain Uses So Much Energy
Are Scientists Homing in On a Cure For Parkinson’s Disease?
Revolutionary Silicon Chip Micro-Speakers Promise to Make Wireless Earbuds Even Smaller with Better Battery Life
Designers Hope Hydrogen-powered Plane Will Fly Halfway Around the World Without Refueling
UK Scientists Are Testing a New, Minimally Invasive Weight Loss Surgery
Another Galaxy Weirdly Appears to Have No Dark Matter
Success In Visualizing the Propagation Path of Electromagnetic Waves from Space To Ground .
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A Netflix Suggestion, from yours truly…
Arcane
This may not be your own ‘cup of tea’. If the idea of a video game that finally was made into an engaging animated story with complex themes and complex characters, well written, and well acted, then maybe you can recommend it to one of your ‘harmonics’ (children) or second harmonics “grandchildren’ – this has some violent themes, so consider it PG-13. If they have already learned about Arcane, at least it will give you ‘cool points’ in your zoomer or millennial offspring’s eyes.
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(From the December 5, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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ARRL Author, QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, SK
9 Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions
Noted Problematic New Technology Deflator, Thunderf00t’s: Solid Hydrogen: BUSTED!
More Discussion on That Veritasium YouTube, Regarding the Flow of Electrical Energy: Veritasium’s Big Misconception About Electricity video and the point about Poynting
The COVID-19 vaccines’ “spike protein is very dangerous, it’s cytotoxic”? – NOT REALLY!
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
Two Astronauts that are also HAMS did an EVA last week to replace a failed S band antenna unit. It all went well for Tom Marshburn KE5HOC and Kayla Barron KI5LAL.
Below is what it looks like. There are two units located on the space station. This one was on the truss one section located on the port side of the ISS. NASA has spare antennas stored on the exterior of the ISS.
The unit is called the S-band Antenna Support Assembly (SASA)
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Why the Answers on Omicron Are Still Weeks Away
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds
One in 44 U.S. Children Are Being Diagnosed with Autism, CDC Finds
Russia may press criminal charges in 2018 ISS pressure leak incident
Most Dog Breeds Are Super Inbred, Study Finds
How to Spot Leonard, the Brightest Comet of the Year
Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Using Large Hadron Collider
Astronomers Spot Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
Physicists Finally Observe an Exotic State of Matter First Predicted in 1973
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(From the November 28, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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A lot of people are trying to get on the ‘Veritasium bandwagon’ offering their two-cents worth for Veritasium’s excellent YouTube that explained that electrical energy is transferred via electromagnetic waves in the dielectric material, not through those wires that we tend to assume:
What Are Electrons REALLY Doing In A Wire? Quantum Physics and High School Myths
(This is an old pre-Veritasium one, that demonstrates that people’s concept that conductors have loosely attached electrons, that can be yanked off of one atom and stuck on the next atom is not really what goes on with – even though dislocated electrons in metal crystals is not really what is going on with electrical energy transmission.)
Energy Doesn’t Flow Inside Wires – Is Veritasium Wrong – RSD Academy
(This fellow prefers to explain it in more classical terms, based on the wires behaving as either capacitors, or inductors, or an antenna!
EEVblog 1439 – Analysing Veritasium’s Electricity MIsconceptions Video
(demonstrates a bit more finesse than the above YouTube – he considers the wire in Veritasium’s YouTube as both an inductor, AND a capacitor, or more accurately as a ‘lumped circuit’ in a transmission line!)
Explaining Veritasium Electricity Video: Energy doesn’t flow in wires (with Eric Bogatin)
…is the perfect example of a very knowledgeable fellow, who seems to spend most of his time speaking to either Physicists, Electrical Engineers or Electrical Engineers in training. Gone are the helpful simplifications found in the Veritasium video. Professor Bogatin clutters his disorganized explanation in transmission line theory, circuit board traces, instantaneous impedance calculations, reflection coefficients, displacement currents, current’s direction of propagation, AND circulation, time domain reflectometry, transient vs. steady state conditions, quantum mechanics, general relativity, electrodynamics, quantum electrodynamic, the calculated g-factor of an electron AND MUCH MUCH MORE. It is an object lesson in how being more informative to a beginner audience can lead to confusion, migraines and fear to even attempt to make sense of all these concepts in one hour’s time. Is Professor correct in his comments? Yes! Is he that helpful to people with little to no training in Electrical Engineering, or advanced non-classical Physics? I doubt it. If you would like to tempt fate and a possible migraine, check this video out (this video is the equivalent of quenching a mild thirst with a fire hose going at full pressure)!
Webb Telescope Not Damaged Following Mounting Incident, NASA Says
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Armageddon Mission to Deflect an Asteroid
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Bill Gates’s TerraPower Will Build Experimental Nuclear Reactor in Idaho
A Weekly Dose of Red Light Might Improve Aging Eyesight, Study Finds
De-Cluttering May Not Help People With Dementia
Pentagon Forms New UFO Investigation Group to Figure Out What the Hell Just Whizzed By
Using Molecules And Atoms To Conduct The Double-slit Experiment
In The Quantum Realm, Not Even Time Flows As You Might Expect
Octopuses, Crabs, and Lobsters are Sentient Beings, Says Updated UK Law
Photon-Counting CT Promises a New Era of Medical Imaging
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(From the November 21, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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The Big Misconception About Electricity
Circuit Energy doesn’t FLOW the way you THINK!
Great analogy – the ‘flow’ of electrical energy being similar to the flow of some fluid, like water – but is the analogy an accurate depiction?
How long do you think it would take for current to reach the lightbulb after the switch is closed???
Integrated Microwave Photonics
NASA Has a New Plan to Wake Up the Hubble Space Telescope
Elon Musk Says First Orbital Launch of Starship Could Happen by January
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Covid-19 Boosters for All Are on the Way
Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor
What to Know About Kessler Syndrome, the Ultimate Space Disaster
Experimental Anti-Tick Vaccine Aims to Stop Bites That Could Spread Lyme
A Genetic Change for Achieving A Long And Healthy Life
A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine
The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward
Coffee and Tea Linked to Lower Risk of Stroke and Dementia in 11-Year Study
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(From the November 14, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
NASA Delays Moon Landing to 2025, Blames Jeff Bezos and Congress
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Getting Absolutely Clobbered by Dust
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Next Week’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Will Be Longest for Next 648 Years
Next Generation of COVID-19 Vaccine May Launch a Two-Pronged Attack Against The Virus
That New EV Battery Will Be a Headache to Recycle: These Solutions Can Help
Making Aircraft Fuel from Sunlight and Air
Fungi Were Able to Absorb Radiation on the ISS. Could Astronauts Grow Their Own Radiation Shields in Space?
Space Force Detects Mystery Object in Orbit Alongside Chinese Satellite
Pet Cats Are Spreading a Brain Parasite to Wildlife, New Research Suggests
A Famous Dark Matter Signal Is Probably Coming from Something Else
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(From the November 7, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?
With Hubble Stuck in Safe Mode, NASA Tinkers With Its Storied Space Telescope
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Pfizer’s Experimental Covid-19 Pill Found Highly Effective at Preventing Hospitalization and Death
The Skeevy Stem Cell Industry Is Booming
Zinc May Help You Beat a Cold, but No One Knows the Best Way to Take It
NIH Scientists Identify Mechanism That May Influence Infectivity Of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
The Vast Little Library Inside Your Cells
A New Method Using Nanowires Can Make Solar Panels Much More Efficient and Much Cheaper
Hand Washing and Sanitizing Not Enough: Close That Toilet Lid After Flushing!
‘5D’ Storage Could Fit 500TB On A CD-Sized Glass Disc
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(From the October 24, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Blue Origin Announces Plans for a Commercial Space Station
The Morning After: NASA sets a new date for its Artemis I Moon mission
We Won’t Have Electric Airplanes Until Battery Tech Improves
Star Trek And Science: Does Kirk Die When He Goes Through The Transporter?
LoRa
LoRa Mestastic Range Test, Portable Relay & Your Questions – Off-Grid Communication
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Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos of Amazon) will build a space station called the Orbital Reef before the end of the decade. It will have a crew of ten compared to the seven that are now on the International Space Station.
Here are two pictures of what it could look like.
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The Most Promising Signal of Alien Intelligence Just Went Bust
COVID Vaccines Five Times More Effective at Preventing COVID-Related Hospitalization Than Prior Infection Alone
FDA Authorizes Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine for Kids Aged 5 to 11
Needle-Free Vaccine Patches Coming Soon, Say Researchers and Makers
Scientists Identify the Cause of Alzheimer’s Progression In The Brain
Scientists Just Need to Follow These 7 Steps to Prove Aliens Exist
Humanity’s Ancestor Could Get a New Name: ‘Homo Bodoensis’
Critically Endangered Condor Chicks Are Species’ 1st Known ‘Virgin Births’
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(From the October 24, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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NASA targeting Feb. 2022 to launch new lunar program Artemis
NASA Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Why Are Some Asteroid Surfaces Rocky?
What is CRISPR?
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Microphones that are still operating on Mars
The microphones and their locations on the 2,260 pound Perseverance Mars rover that landed February18, 2021
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What to Know About Mixing and Matching Your Covid-19 Booster
The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint
Scientists Just Broke the Record For The Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded In A Lab
Physicists Trap Ultracold Neutrons in a Bottle to See How Long They Live
Confirmed: Vikings Reached the Americas Long Before Columbus
A GPS-Based Bug Could Roll Back Your Devices to 2002
There are 6×10^80 Bits of Information in the Observable Universe
New York City Hit by Spike of a Rare Disease Spread by Rat Urine
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(From the October 17, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Apollo Comms Part 2: Inside the Traveling Wave Amplifier
New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
China Launches 3 Astronauts On 6-month Space Station Mission
5 Cool Things To Know About NASA’s Lucy Mission To The Trojan Asteroids
CycloTech First Flight
Holey Plugs, Batman! But… what are they for?
Here’s One For You Really Clever People:
What’s inside the ‘Black Box with the ‘?’
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FDA Advisory Panel Unanimously Backs a Half-Dose Moderna Booster for Covid-19
An FDA Panel of Experts Backs J&J COVID Vaccine Booster
One Coronavirus Vaccine May Protect Against Other Coronaviruses
Most People Shouldn’t Take Baby Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks, U.S. Experts Say
Bye, Privacy – Phones Are Collecting Your Data More Than Believed Before
Cooling Radio Waves to Their Quantum Ground State
Strange Radio Signal from Galactic Center Has Astronomers Flummoxed
A Last-Minute Nuke to Shatter an Incoming Asteroid Could Actually Work, Study Suggests
Scientists Find Evidence the Early Solar System Harbored a Gap Between Its Inner and Outer Regions
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(From the October 10, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Here’s A Bird’s Eye View of a New Digital Voice Standard Being Developed for the Amateur Radio Community!
Perseverance Rover Images Reveal Ancient History of a Water-Soaked Martian Crater
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The path that the LUCY Spacecraft will take in the next 12 years:
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LUCY on its mission about 500 million miles from the Sun.
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Latest Results from Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements
China Reports Zero New Locally Acquired Covid-19 Cases for Fourth Day in a Row
WHO Approves The World’s First Malaria Vaccine
16-Million-Year-Old Tardigrade Found Preserved in Amber
Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Figuring Out How We Can Feel Pressure and Heat
Photon–Photon Collisions Could Shed Light On Physics Beyond The Standard Model
You Can Stop Putting Spider Silk on Your Wounds
Engineers 3D-Print Personalized, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge
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A Book Suggestion, from yours truly…
The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World
Were you ever fascinated by all those infinitesimal creatures that live in a drop of lake water, made visible with the use of a microscope? Well, microscopes can be expensive, and a chore to learn to use to their best strengths, so coffee table books are a decent substitute. This book is a bit too small to be considered a standard coffee table book (8″ x 8″), but it will re-awaken the wonder you had when you first peered into the eyepiece of a microscope. A lot of pretty pictures and just the right mix of text, explaining interesting aspects of the microscopic creatures pictured in this book!
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(From the October 3, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Why Does Music Only Use 12 Different Notes?
The Surprising Origins of Digital Audio Sampling Rates
Multiband End-fed Half-wave EFHW Antenna
KK4OBI End Fed Half Wave Antennas
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Pharma Companies Are Racing to Develop a Covid-19 Pill That Works
Illinois Man Turns Down Treatment After Bat Bite, Dies a Month Later from Rabies
New Dawn for South African Radio Astronomy As Major Telescope Nears Completion
Solid-state Silicon Batteries Could Last Longer and Charge Faster
Artificial Sweeteners May Be More Hunger-Inducing Than Sugar for Some People
Have We Detected Dark Energy? Scientists Say It’s a Possibility
A Universal Equation for The Shape of An Egg
Modern Snakes Evolved From A Few Survivors of Dino-killing Asteroid
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A Book Suggestion, from yours truly…
Hyperion Cantos
“Hyperion Cantos” is an oldie, but a goodie! It is also a series made up of FOUR books – Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion. I doubt know how I missed this when it was written in the 1990’s but I am glad that I have discovered it now. It is the distant future of mankind. A mankind splintered into humans, modified humanoid. ‘Outsters” seeking to destroy primitive mankind, and the ‘TechCore” a society of artificial intelligences with differing goals, using cybetically implanted humanoids to interact with humans. The first book, ‘Hyperion’ is an intriguing mixture of The Canterbury’s Tales, and Beowulf. If you like world making epics check this series out.
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(From the September 26, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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WY2U RF Exposure Calculator
Deriving Hawking’s most famous equation: What is the temperature of a black hole?
The Technical Wizardry of VORs – How they work
Want To Buy A Slightly Used Tesla Tower?
The Previous Owners Appear To Have Gone Bankrupt…
An expose of Zenneck waves and surface plasmon polaritons
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“Ultra-White” Paint Could Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning
Early Intervention to Reduce Autism Symptoms Shows Promise in Clinical Trial
Ivermectin Research Has a Big Fraud Problem, Scientists Say
Comparing Covid-19 to the ‘Spanish Flu’ Just Shows How Badly We Screwed This One Up
A Mystery Worm Infection in Vietnam Shows a New Species Can Live in Humans
Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Astonishing Gold Hoard Buried by Pre-Viking Chieftain
Microplastics Are Showing Up in Baby Poop
Acetaminophen May Be Less Safe During Pregnancy Than Previously Thought
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A Book Suggestion, from yours truly…
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
“The Doctor Who Fooled the World” is the terrible story of one despicable man, that tried to sell his medical credibility for 10 pieces of gold, and caused the death of thousands in the modern anti-vaxxer movement, that he spawned.His medical license revoked, he became a pariah in his native land of the United Kingdom, and now must grift among the conspiracy fans of Texas to make a disreputable living, adding fuel to the flames. Well, at least the jerk isn’t practicing bad medicine anymore. This is a well written exploration into this terrible man, written by a journalist that first unearthed what he did, and why he did it. A fascinating read into a banal little man that caused so much damage in his wake.
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(From the September 19, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Feast Your Eyes on the 12 Winning Astronomy Photographer of the Year Images
SpaceX’s Surprisingly Secretive Inspiration4 Mission Is a Major Letdown
Apollo Comms Part 1: Opening the S-Band Transponder and Amplifier
Pictures of the FR beacon on 407 kHz
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The Dragon spacecraft with the crew access arm.
Launch of the Inspiration4 crew.
Hayley Arceneaux (the PA Physician’s Assistant) floating in the Dragon cupola.
The four civilians that are now astronauts inside their spacecraft orbiting higher than the International Space Station. Jared Isaacman with the mic is the commander. Sian Proctor who is in front of the oval window is the pilot and Chris Sembroski is the mission specialist. Hayley Arceneaux is the medical expert for this mission.
The Inspiration4 crew Dragon splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
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FDA Panel Votes Against Boosters for All, Unanimously Recommends Them for Elderly and High-Risk Groups
The Pentagon Wants to Know if Employees Have ‘Havana Syndrome’
Vaccinated Groups at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Hospitalization and Death Identified Using New QCovid Tool
Scientists Claim That Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause of Obesity
Effect Of Electrons with Negative Mass In Novel Semiconductor Nanostructures
New Gravitational Wave Detector Picks Up Possible Signal from The Beginning of Time
Dark Energy Could Be Responsible for Mysterious Experiment Signals, Researchers Say
Fusion Energy Nears Reality Thanks to An Ultra-Powerful Magnet
I Was Just in Shock’: Mass Bird Death Reported in New York City
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A Book Suggestion, from yours truly…
Is This Wi-Fi Organic?
‘Is This Wi-Fi Organic?‘ is a pleasant re-introductions to basic science concept, in order to demonstrate how quacks market “natural, chemical free” products, ‘guaranteed’ to ‘detoxify’ you of all that synthetic stuff that is poisoning modern man. Yes you too can be as healthy as your ancient ancestors – you know the ones with a life expectancy of 30 years. Need an antidote to pseudo-science, like ‘Quantum Consciousness, or ‘Structured Water’? Well, this book written by a YouTuber (Professor Dave Explains) is very easy to follow and will provide a refresher course of many basic concepts in Biology and Physics. I found it an enjoyable book.
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(From the September 11, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Do you recall last Sunday’s conversation about electronics being about complex exponential numbers and such things as Euler’s Number? Well, this new YouTube scratches the surface of this topic in a very nice way…
Turning Waves into Circles with Imaginary Numbers
NASA will finally launch the James Webb Space Telescope on December 18th
Smoke Detector Triggers Alarm in Russian Segment of the International Space Station
Ground Loops
Why do voltage potential differences, as you go higher and higher above ground level do not electrocute anyone:
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Hospital Can’t Be Forced to Treat Covid-19 Patient with Ivermectin, Ohio Judge Rules
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Reverses Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
China Wants to Build a Mega Spaceship That’s Nearly a Mile Long
‘You Bloody Fool,’ Says First Talking Duck Known to Science
A Spoonful of Sugar Opens a Path to Longer Lasting Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Scientists Discover Oldest Cavities Ever in Mammals
India Is Trying to Contain Latest Outbreak of Deadly Nipah Virus After 12-Year-Old Dies
A Single Laser Fired Through a Keyhole Can Expose Everything Inside a Room
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Some Book Suggestions, from yours truly…
How Fascism Works
How Fascism Works is a fascinating ‘read’ in our times. It deconstructs Fascism in the many nations from which it has burst forth. Fascism is not a uniform global form of politics but a slightly different thing in each and every nation from which it arises. Each version comes with its own ‘Us’ and ‘Them,’ as well as its own mythological past when they were great (before the weak and lazy ‘thems’ somehow overpowered ‘us’ and started to ruin everything). If you have already drunk the Kool-Aid and are getting the lint off of your stormtrooper uniform, this book might be too late for you, but for the rest of us, consider giving it a read!
On Tyranny
If the first book is too long (256 pages), On Tyranny is only 128 pages. It doesn’t duplicate the content of How Fascism Works, but complements it in a very concise, thought out way, helping to explain how too many Nations across the world, crumbling into tyrannies, got there. So much for the dribble written in The End of History and the Last Man. We’re in for A LOT more history!
Highly Irregular
Highly Irregular is a very entertaining book written by an author that explains why the English language looks the way that it does on her YouTube videos. Every wonder why we REALLY park on a driveway but drive on a parkway? Well, Seinfeld won’t help you here, but the author, Arika Okrent, will, in this amusing little book.
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(From the September 5, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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New Cracks on ISS Expose Deteriorating State of Russian Segment
China’s Concept for a Martian Helicopter Seems Awfully Familiar
5 Reasons Why the World Is Running Out Of Chips
Stanford Researchers Develop An Engineered ‘Mini’ CRISPR Genome Editing System
Back to Basics: Impedance Matching (Part 1)
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Inspiration4 Cupola
The new rocket company Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket with four Reaver engines ready to launch
Launched…
But almost 3 minutes to 50 kilometers high it blew up.
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Chinese Battery Maker Says It’s Ready to Produce Cobalt-free EV Power Packs At Scale
COVID-19 Treatments Require so Much Oxygen it Could Delay Rocket Launches
U.S. Judge Rejects Bid for Patent by A.I. ‘Inventor’
Masks Work, Major Study Finds
Judge Orders Hospital to Give Severely Ill Covid-19 Patient Ivermectin
Traces of Beer Discovered in 9,000-Year-Old Chinese Pots
Astrophysicists Suggest New Place Where Planet Nine Could Be Hiding
Coronavirus Epidemics First Hit More Than 21,000 Years Ago
Wave-Particle Duality Quantified for The First Time
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(From the August 29, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Video Shows a Fresh Panoramic View of Mars
Is The Light from Lasers Reduced By The Inverse Square Law As Distance Grows, Similar To Other Light Sources?
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The third try to reach orbit is a failure for the new rocket company ASTRA. The rocket fell sideways right off the launch pad, but then took off after hovering for a while and then almost made it to space anyway. At 50 kilometers altitude it went out of control and had to be destroyed by mission control.
The James Webb Space Telescope before being shipped.
The James Webb Space Telescope after it is shipped through the Panama canal and then launched into space.
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Researchers Make Rechargeable Batteries That Store Six Times More Charge
New Study Confirms It’s Much Safer to Get Vaccinated Than to Catch Covid-19
U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Covid-19 Not a Biological Weapon, but Lab Incident Still on the Table
The Truth About Ivermectin
Flu Season Is Gonna Be Weird This Year, So When’s the Best Time to Get a Flu Shot?
Electronic Gadgets Can Interfere With Pacemakers And Defibrillators, Study Reveals
Japan Halts Moderna Vaccinations After Foreign Substances Found in 39 Vials
Space Force Now Says Its Most Important Mission Is Protecting GPS Satellites
New Dark Matter Detector Records Unexplained High-Frequency Signals
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(From the August 22, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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The COMPLETE guide to complex numbers
Swiss University Claims It Broke The Record For Pi Calculation
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Researchers Just Set a New Distance Record for 6G Transmissions: A Building Next Door
Say Goodbye to the Magnetic Strip on the Back of Your Mastercard
Laser-powered Fusion Energy Inches Closer to Reality
Moderna Set to Test Experimental HIV mRNA Vaccine in People
U.S. Set to Offer Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots for All Starting in September
SARS Survivors Vaccinated Against Covid-19 May Have Super-Antibodies to Coronaviruses
What If You Could Become Invisible to Mosquitoes?
Chicago Pharmacist Faces 120 Years in Prison for Allegedly Selling CDC Vaccination Cards on eBay
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(From the August 15, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Perseverance Fails to Collect its First Sample
Fighting Flat-Earth Theory
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NASA just sent one of the world’s smartest slimes to space
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Anti-Vax Nurse Allegedly Injects 8,600 People with Salt Water Instead of Covid-19 Vaccine
Over 1 million People Have Gotten Unauthorized Covid-19 Booster Shots: Report
Certain Immunocompromised People Can Now Get Third Vaccine Doses in the U.S.
Invasive ‘murder Hornets’ Are Officially Back in The U.S.
Want a LEGO James Webb Space Telescope? It Even Folds Up
NASA Refines Threat Posed by Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
Introducing The Non-Radiating Antenna
A Holistic Approach to Materials For The Next Generation Of Electrical Insulation
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(From the August 8, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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ARRL RF Exposure Calculator
The ISS Backflipped Out of Control After Russian Module Misfired, New Details Reveal
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This is a picture of what MARS DUNE ALPHA, a 1,700 square foot 3D built facility will look like.
This is the Starship which is the black section. The silver section is the booster.
This is the mating of the two halves. Looking at the workers gives you a good idea of the size of the rocket.
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Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study
Report: FDA to Unveil Booster Dose Strategy by Early September
Hospitalizations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds
The World’s Blackest Ink Will Make Your Doodles Look Like Empty Voids on the Page
Intel Has a Plan to Go Beyond 3nm Chips
Using graphene foam to filter toxins from drinking water
What to Know About the Newly Discovered Tetraquark at the Large Hadron Collider
Scientists Spotlight Behind a Black Hole for The First Time
A So-Called Game-Changing Weight Loss Drug Is Here—So What Happens Next?
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(From the August 1, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Introduction to VNA Basics
NanoVNA (rev3.4): Correct 2-Port Calibration
Why Does Gravity Pull Us Down and Not Up?
10 Wild Theories About the Universe
Scientists Transform Water into Shiny, Golden Metal
Newly Launched ‘Galileo Project’ Will Hunt for Alien Technologies in Our Midst
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Has Flown a Total Of One Mile On Mars
Russia Says Software Glitch Caused New ISS Module to Accidentally Fire Thrusters After Docking
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This is a picture of NAUKA taken by a HAM on board the International space station, Astronaut Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD. It is 43 feet long and 15 feet in diameter. It weighs 20 tons.
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‘The War Has Changed,’ Against New Delta Variant, Internal CDC Presentation Says
China Plans To Build The First ‘Clean’ Commercial Nuclear Reactor
Radio-wave Therapy Is Safe For Liver Cancer Patients And Shows Improvement In Overall Survival, Study Suggests
Oxford Scientists Are Testing a Vaccine for the Plague
New Lightweight Rocket Fuel Tank Ditches Metal for Carbon Fiber and Plastic
FDA Clears Synchron’s Brain-computer Interface Device For Human Trials
Physicists See Light Echoing From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time
Cosmic-Ray Threat To Quantum Computing Greater Than Previously Thought
People Who Live To 100 Have Unique Gut Bacteria Signatures
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(From the July 25, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Russia Averts Possible Disaster as New Space Station Module Finally Reaches Proper Orbit
Did You Notice That Corded Venetian Blinds Are No Longer Available For Sale!?
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What to Know About the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine and the Delta Variant
U.S. Life Expectancy Has Biggest Fall Since WWII Amid Covid-19 and Drug Overdoses
Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimeter Tall
Our genes shape our gut bacteria, new research shows
‘Wrapping’ Anodes In 3D Carbon Nanosheets: The Next Big Thing In Li-ion Battery Technology
‘Alien Abduction’ Stories May Come From Lucid Dreaming, Study Hints
Where Can We Find A Fifth Force Of Nature?
High Coffee Consumption Linked to Smaller Brain Volume and Increased Dementia Risk
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(From the July 18, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Hubble Space Telescope Is Back
A Wine Glass Shattering at 187,500 FPS Reveals the Destruction in Excruciating Detail
What if YOU were made of Light?
The different types of COVID-19 vaccines
What to know about the Coronavirus and Blood Donation
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The NASA Starliner is ready to launch by the end of this month.
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Genetically Modified Babies Are Still a Bad Idea, WHO Committee Concludes
Journal Retracts Flawed Study That Claimed to Show Face Masks Harm Kids
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Will Reportedly Get New Warning Label Over Rare Nerve Condition
Biosignature Spotted on Venus Could Be from Volcanoes, Not Life
LIGO Gravitational-wave Signal Backs Up Hawking’s Area Theorem
How a Common Fungus May Contribute to Digestive Issues
As Little As 1.5% Of Our Genome Is ‘Uniquely Human’
Some Doctors Say They Won’t Give Their Patients a Contentious New Alzheimer’s Drug
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(From the July 11, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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How big is a visible photon?
Electrons DO NOT Spin
The Biggest Myth in Education
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Moderna Enters Clinical Trials for Its mRNA-Based Flu Vaccine
Israel Says Delta Variant Better at Breaking Through Immunity, but Vaccine Protection Still Strong
Being Clean Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Our Immune System, Scientists Say
Radiofrequency Transistors Based on High-purity Carbon Nanotube Arrays
LIGO Mirrors Have Been Cooled to Near Their Quantum Ground State
New Clues To Why There’s So Little Antimatter In The Universe
Can We Explain Dark Matter by Adding More Dimensions To The Universe?
High-Resolution Microscope Is Made from LEGO Bricks
Rep. Katie Porter Calls for Investigation into FDA Approval of Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug
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(From the July 4, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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China’s Zhurong Rover Captures Remarkable Sights and Sounds on Mars
Is the Universe a giant Black Hole?
Scales do NOT measure Weight!
The Current Readability of the WWVB Time Code
WWVB Antenna Configuration and Power
Nasa rockets, satellite team up to study ‘Earth-sized electric generator’
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Walmart Rolls Out a Cheaper Insulin
How Worried Should Vaccinated People Be About the Delta Variant?
Journal Retracts Terrible Study That Claimed Widespread Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths
Covid-19 Vaccines Make Breakthrough Infections Shorter, Less Contagious: CDC Study
T-Mobile, AT&T, And Verizon Have Taken Steps To Reduce Spoofed Scam Calls
CRISPR Gene Editing Breakthrough Could Treat Many More Diseases
CDC Warns Doctors About a Mystery Bacterial Outbreak With No Clear Origin
Astronomers Found an Ultra-Dense White Star the Size of Our Moon
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(From the June 27, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Hubble Space Telescope Takes Another Look at ‘Weird’ Galaxy That Seems to Lack Dark Matter
Martian Dust Could End NASA’s InSight Mission in a Matter of Months
China Hopes to Put First Human on Mars in 2033: Report
Read the Pentagon’s Big Declassified UFO Report Right Here
The Delta Variant: What Scientists Know
What Do Protons Taste Like?
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99% of Americans Dying of Covid-19 Were Not Fully Vaccinated
How mRNA Vaccines Help Fight Cancer Tumors, Too
Birds Use Quantum Mechanics to See Magnetic Fields, New Research Suggests
A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters May Be Needed for Some People Sooner Than Others
A Woman Developed Life-Threatening Sepsis 14 Months After She Got Cosmetic Butt Fillers
No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds
Study Suggests Scientists May Need to Rethink Which Genes Control Aging
Stress Can Turn Hair Gray — And It’s Reversible, Researchers Find
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(From the June 20, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
How Do We Know If An Asteroid Headed Our Way Is Dangerous?
NASA Asteroid-hunting Satellite Clears Hurdle On Path To 2026 Launch
Inventing the Buck Converter Series #2 with EveryCircuit
Magnetic Loop Antenna Current and Voltage Distribution
RF Exposure Calculator
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New Vaccine Failure Reminds Us How Much Worse Things Could Be Right Now
Humpback Whale Swallows Lobster Diver Before Spitting Him Out
Coffee Is Good for You, Coffee Is Bad for You
A Deadly Super-Fungus Has Emerged in Brazil, Aided by Covid-19
Gigantic ‘Blinking’ Star Presents a Cosmic Mystery
The Mystery of Betelgeuse’s Weird Dimming Is Likely Solved
Going The Distance to Confirm A Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter
The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long
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(From the June 13, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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NASA to land payloads on the far side of the Moon for the first time
Venus Will Have a Fleet of Spacecraft as Europe Adds Orbiter Mission
Ames Window: The Illusion Only Some People Can See
The Illusion Only Some People Can See
European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for Next 30 Years of Space Exploration
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
Here’s an example of how Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will be seated inside the spacecraft.
There will be a launch of a solid fueled rocket by Northrop Grumman this Tuesday morning at 7am. It will be a Minotaur 1 rocket that can be viewed from Long Island. The map below shows how many seconds after the launch that you should be able to see the light from the booster stage. It should be about 60 seconds for Suffolk county NY.
China used a remote camera to take this picture of its rover and lander on Mars last week.
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Here’s What You Should Know About COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots
Global Weight of All Active SARS-CoV-2 Viruses Is Between 0.1 and 10 Kilograms
Previously Common Diseases Are Bouncing Back After a Covid Hiatus
Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptive to Sleep, Study Finds
Boy Gets Burned by Wet Cement in Rare Case
A ‘Breakthrough’ Trial Used Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes to Stamp Out Dengue
Graphene Could Allow Hard Drives to Hold 10 Times More Data
New Quantum Microscope Can See Tiny Structures in Living Cells
Frozen in Siberian Permafrost for 24,000 Years, Microscopic Animal Comes Back to Life
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(From the June 6, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Hell Yes, We’re Going to Venus
SpaceX Cargo Mission to I.S.S. Includes Baby Squid, Tardigrades, and Avocados
NASA Delays the James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again
NASA Will Send Two Missions to Venus By 2030
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The Pandemic Might Have Killed Off Some Flu Strains for Good
British and Indian Variants Renamed ‘Alpha’ and ‘Delta’ Under New WHO Covid-19 Guidance
New Study Backs Up Finding That MagSafe Can Interfere with Medical Devices
A Man Overdosed on a Homeopathic Drug, Which Is Supposed to Have Nothing in It
Puppy Experiment Shows How Dogs Connect with Humans from Birth
Engineers Have Created a Simple Slide Coating That Can Impressively Boost the Resolution of a Microscope
Johnson & Johnson Forced to Pay $2.1 Billion in Baby Powder Cancer Case After Supreme Court Denial
Researchers Successfully Trained People to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks
The Best Dark Matter Map to Date Raises Questions About the Universe
China’s Gigantic Multi-modal Ai Is No One-Trick Pony
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(From the May 30, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Navigation Error Sends NASA’s Mars Helicopter on Wild Ride
This Optical Illusion Tricks You Into Seeing Different Colors. How Does It Work?
60 Minutes, Navy Pilots Describe Encounters with UFOs: BUSTED!
Will gallium nitride electronics change the world?
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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find
Spacetime Crystals Proposed by Placing Space And Time On An Equal Footing
(If You Want To See The Actual Technical Paper for the Above, And You’re Not Frightened By Higher Mathematics…)
Man Blinded for 40 Years Has Sight Partially Restored Using Gene Therapy
Diabetes Vaccine Shows Promise for Some Patients In Early Trial
Thousands of Unknown Viruses and Bacteria Are Living in Our Subways
Artificial Intelligence System Could Help Counter the Spread of Disinformation
Researchers Reveal Key Information About How Genes Turn on And Off
Hong Kong Could Throw Out Millions of Expiring Pfizer Doses if Vaccination Rate Doesn’t Speed Up
The Mystery of the Watermelon’s Origins May Have Been Solved
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(From the May 23, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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China Reveals First Mars Photos Taken By The Zhurong Rover
European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for a Lunar Satellite Network
The Future of Grilling Season Is a Levitating Hot Dog Roaster
Andy Weir’s New Book: ‘Project Hail Mary’
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The ramps that the Zhurong (pronounced ja rong) had to drive down
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A New Coronavirus May Be Jumping from Dogs to People, Scientists Report
Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang
Scientists Shot Tardigrades from a Gun to Test a Theory About Aliens
The Case of the Disappearing Cicadas
Interstellar Comet Borisov Was Leaking Metal When It Zipped Past Us in 2020
India Reports 4,529 Covid-19 Deaths in Single Day, a Grim New Record
Covid-19 Vaccines Don’t Work as Well for Immunocompromised People
Google Plans to Build A Commercial Quantum Computer By 2029
Space Force Commander Fired After Badmouthing the Military on a Conservative Podcast
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(From the May 16, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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China rover to attempt Mars landing over coming days
Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?
A Recent New York Times Article That Highlights the Morbid World We Seem to Now Be Living In…
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Everything You Need to Know About the Sunrise Eclipse of June 2021
Mysterious Ailments Are Said to Be More Widespread Among US Personnel
For Its Next Trick, Motorola Is Working on Smartphones That Can Charge Wirelessly Over the Air
If We Live in a Sea of Dark Matter, This Tiny Mirror Might Be Able to Detect It
Two Common Food Dyes Could Be Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Racing Back to Earth with a Scoop of Asteroid
Man Caught Three Whole Diseases from a Single Tick Bite
Intel Says It Has Solved A Key Bottleneck In Quantum Computing
NASA’s Voyager 1 Probe Detects the Steady ‘Hum’ of Plasma in Interstellar Space
Doctors Discover Disease in Which People Can’t Make Antibodies
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(From the May 9, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting
Astronomers Capture Wild Image of China’s Out-of-Control Rocket
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Starship SN 15 Launches
Starship SN 15 Lands
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IBM Says It Has Created the World’s First 2nm Chip
Too Many of You Still Believe in 5G Conspiracy Theories
We Need 6 Times More Minerals to Meet Our Clean Energy Goals
Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends If You Want
The Pentagon’s Inspector General Is Investigating the Pentagon’s UFO Investigation Program
Scientists Find That Cats Love to Sit Inside Squares—Even Fake Ones
Three Alzheimer’s Patients Were Able to Communicate Again After Experimental Radiation Treatment
Natural Radio Signals Detected in Venus’s Atmosphere
60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected
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(From the May 2, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Mars Helicopter Makes 4th Flight, Gets Extra Month of Flying
NASA, SpaceX Pause Work on The Lunar Lander Deal Due to Contract Challenges
Humans Can’t Fly A Helicopter on Mars, And That’s Why Ingenuity Is So Amazing
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The Release of 1 Billion Exterminator Mosquitoes Has Begun
Space Junk Is Blocking Our View of The Stars, Scientists Say
Scientists Created the Whitest Paint Ever
India Could Have Up to 500 Million Covid-19 Cases, Experts Believe
A Clock’s Accuracy May Be Tied to The Entropy It Creates
The Asteroid Impact Simulation Has Ended in Disaster
Smallest, Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered is Only 1,500 Light-Years Away
Stars Made of Antimatter Could Exist in The Milky Way
Black Hole Spin Finding Could Shed Light on Relativity, Stars
Physicists Measure the Neutron Skin of an Atom: ‘What Experimental Scientists Live For’
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(From the April 25, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Russia Is Considering Leaving The ISS For Its Own Space Station
Thunderf00t HUMILIATED by Mars Helicopter Success!
SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions
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Another crew of four of which three have their amateur radio tickets launched to the ISS on Friday Morning. There now are eleven people in orbit at this time.
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Pink Supermoon Will Light Up the Night This Monday
UK Researchers Will Try to Reinfect People with the Coronavirus, for Science
New Device Can Detect Airborne Virus Particles That Cause Covid-19, Says Maker
Imagine, Surgery Without a Scar
Woman Mistakes Nail Glue for Eye Drops, Glues Eye Shut
Radioactive Fallout from Cold War Nuclear Tests Is Still Creeping into U.S. Honey
Scientists Developed Batteries That Last Up To 3 Times Longer Than Current Lithium-Ion Elements
Sunny Superpower: Solar Cells Close in on 50% Efficiency
Proxima Centauri Shoots Out Humongous Flare, With Big Implications for Alien Life
Physicists Solve Centuries-old Brachistochrone Problem for Complex Quantum Operations
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(From the April 18, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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New Horizons Captures Goosebump-Inducing Image as It Approaches Milestone Distance from the Sun
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This Country Vaccinated Nearly Every Adult in Two Weeks
Covid-19 Booster Shots Likely Needed Within a Year, Top Biden Advisor Says
The Challenges of Unravelling Long Covid
Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days
21-Year-Old Man Nearly Dies of Heart Failure After Drinking Four Energy Drinks a Day
Former CDC Director Under Trump Now Promoting Unproven Virus-Killing Tech for ‘Big Ass Fans’
Navy Acknowledges Weird Footage of Unidentified Objects Flying Around Its Ships Is Real
New Video Puts Iconic Image of Black Hole in a Cosmic Context
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(From the April 11, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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1901 Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Tests
‘You Can’t Trust Anyone’: Russia’s Hidden Covid Toll Is an Open Secret
Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
Galvanic Series
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Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal
EmDrive, the ‘Impossible’ Engine Tested by NASA, Is Knocked Down Once Again
Goodbye, Asteroid Bennu, It’s Been Real
They Are Not Alone: U.F.O. Reports Surged in the Pandemic
Scientists Show You Can Collect DNA From the Air
Scientists Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Natural Cyan-Blue Food Coloring
A Trio of Extreme Brown Dwarfs Have Been Found Spinning at Their Physical Limits
Scientists Dive into Axolotl Genome, Looking for Secrets to Regeneration
Fungus Turns Wood Piezoelectric, Allowing It to Power LEDs
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(From the April 4, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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A Billionaire Names His Team to Ride SpaceX, No Pros Allowed
An Amplifier That’s Not Based on Vacuum Tubes, Nor Transistors?
But How Does Bitcoin Actually Work?
Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It – An Idea Stolen Outright from The Simpsons!
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is under assembly for a 2022 launch. It’s as big as a tennis court with an Ion engine.
Ingenuity is one step from being deployed on Mars.
Europa Clipper test dipole
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Stanford Scientists Post Entire mRNA Sequence for Moderna Vaccine on Github
Earth Is Safe from Infamous Asteroid Apophis for the Next 100 Years, NASA Says
IBM’s first ‘retail’ quantum computer is headed to the Cleveland Clinic
There’s an Ancient Connection Between Our Saliva and Snake Venom
Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero
Astronomers Spot X-Rays Coming from Uranus
This Is Why Stress Makes Your Hair Fall Out
MIT Researchers Use Radio Waves to Help Robots Find Hidden Objects
Physicists Think They’ve Spotted a Very Rare Black Hole
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(From the March 28, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Some fun links:
Stephen Hawking was a brilliant theoretical Physicist, BUT when it came time to explain how Hawking Radiation occurred, in his books, that made Physics understandable to the non-Physicists, he decided to tell a fairy tale. Rather than his own original scientific theoretical reason to explain the phenomenon, he decided to offer nonsense that less schooled minds would accept more easily, than his original, actual explanation.
Here, a very a clever Physicist explains the real reasoning Hawking used in his original technical papers, albeit in very non-mathematical terms:
How Does Hawking Radiation REALLY Work?
If You Like This, Try Out A Few More Topics That He Explores:
The REAL source of Gravity might SURPRISE you…
What the HECK is Time?! (in Einstein’s Relativity)
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Prince Rupert’s Drop
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
NASA will help fund new commercial space stations to replace the ISS. One of those companies, SNC Sierra Nevada Corporation has an interesting proposal. Note the three Dream chasers in the photo. SNC already has a NASA six mission contract for cargo deliveries to the ISS by the SNC built Dream chaser.
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Lego’s New Space Shuttle Discovery with Hubble Telescope Will Send Your Inner NASA Nerd into Orbit
Amateur Astronomer Spots a Rare Visible Nova
Was A Passing Satellite Mistaken for A Distant Gamma-ray Burst?
Leveraging the 5G Network to Wirelessly Power IoT Devices
Porous Carbon Aerogels Might Power Future Mars Missions
To Be Declassified: UFO Broke Sound Barrier with No Sonic Boom
Ex-CDC Director Believes COVID-19 Escaped from a Lab, But Cites No Evidence
Eating Mostly Restaurant Meals Linked to Higher Risk of Early Death
How Microsoft’s Quantum Boast Went Bust
Mysterious Bald Eagle Killer Finally Identified
See a Black Hole’s Magnetic Fields in New Image from the Event Horizon Telescope
Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans
A Very Powerful Solar Storm Hit the Earth Back in 1582
Some of Our Brain Cells Get More Active Hours After We Die, Study Finds
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(From the March 21, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Unprecedented Footage Reveals the Bizarre Inner Workings of a Beehive
Computer Graphics Artist, Beeple, Sold An NFT For $69 Million
Etendue
Everything We Know About the Coronavirus Variant Spreading in New York City
Sunrise Sunset Deltas
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Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First COVID-19 Cases in Wuhan, China
An Alkaline Water Brand Is Making People Seriously Ill in Nevada, Officials Say
No Good Evidence That 5G Harms Humans, New Studies Find
Russia Sank A Neutrino Observatory into The World’s Deepest Lake
Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Could Be the Shattered Remnant of a Pluto-like Object
Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon, First Predicted 50 Years Ago
Proton Contains More Anti-Down Quarks Than Anti-up
Spacecraft in A ‘warp Bubble’ Could Travel Faster Than Light, Claims Physicist
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(From the March 14, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Hubble Beholds a Big, Beautiful Blue Galaxy
Watch Perseverance Land on Mars
Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, and Others Come Alive (creepily), Thanks to AI
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Travelling Wave, Broadband, and Frequency Independent Antennas
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NASA’s Experimental Electric Airplane Edges Closer to Its First Flight
Scientists Sequence 64 Human Genomes to Better Reflect Genetic Diversity
Dress Inspired by Perseverance Rover’s Parachute
A Boy’s Smelly Nose Was Caused by a BB Pellet Stuck Inside for Years
Primates Appeared Almost Immediately After Dinosaurs Went Extinct, New Research Suggests
C.I.A. to Expand Inquiry into Mysterious Health Episodes Overseas
Malaria Is Notoriously Hard to Vaccinate Against. A New Vaccine Technology Might Change That.
Neanderthals Had the Capacity to Perceive and Produce Human Speech
Black Holes Could Be Dark Stars With ‘Planck Hearts’
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(From the February 28, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Half-wave dipole
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The Worst of the Pandemic Is Truly Behind Us
Cleanup Costs at the Damaged Arecibo Observatory Could Reach $50 Million
SARS-CoV-2 Jumped from Bats to Humans Without Much Change
Vaccine-induced Antibodies May Be Less Effective Against Several New SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Eye Color Genetics Not So Simple, Study Finds
Physicists Measure the Smallest Gravitational Field Ever Detected
Living Near Water Can Be Beneficial to Your Mental Health
How Fast Is the Universe Expanding?
Philly To Dim Lights to Make It Safer for Birds In Flight
Light Could Levitate Micron-thin Aircraft in Earth’s Mesosphere
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(From the March 7, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Some fun links:
Hubble Beholds a Big, Beautiful Blue Galaxy
Watch Perseverance Land on Mars
Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, and Others Come Alive (creepily), Thanks to AI
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Travelling Wave, Broadband, and Frequency Independent Antennas
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NASA’s Experimental Electric Airplane Edges Closer to Its First Flight
Scientists Sequence 64 Human Genomes to Better Reflect Genetic Diversity
Dress Inspired by Perseverance Rover’s Parachute
A Boy’s Smelly Nose Was Caused by a BB Pellet Stuck Inside for Years
Primates Appeared Almost Immediately After Dinosaurs Went Extinct, New Research Suggests
C.I.A. to Expand Inquiry into Mysterious Health Episodes Overseas
Malaria Is Notoriously Hard to Vaccinate Against. A New Vaccine Technology Might Change That.
Neanderthals Had the Capacity to Perceive and Produce Human Speech
Black Holes Could Be Dark Stars With ‘Planck Hearts’
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(From the February 28, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
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Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
Color perception – how do the eyes see colors?
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There Was A Secret Code in The Perseverance Parachute
What to Know About Johnson & Johnson’s One-Shot Covid-19 Vaccine
Americans Are Warming Up to Covid-19 Vaccines, Poll Finds
Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Ready to Test Out Their Vaccine Updates Against Covid-19 Variants
Covid-19 Survivors Have a Low Risk of Reinfection, Study Suggests
Air Purifiers Could Spread Viruses in Confined Spaces
One Type of Fast Radio Bursts… Solved?
New Crystalline Form of Ice
70,000 Never-before-seen Viruses Found in The Human Gut
Light-emitting Tattoo Engineered for The First Time
An Ancient Dog Bone Could Be Evidence of the Route Humans Took to North America
Cosmologists Create 4,000 Virtual Universes to Solve Big Bang Mystery
World’s First Live Video of a Space-Time Crystal Created at Room Temperature
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(From the February 21, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Sorry Gang. Due To Technical Issues, February 21’s TechNet Has Been Cancelled!
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First Photographs of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
Highest-Resolution Images of DNA Reveal It’s Surprisingly Jiggly
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Another New Coronavirus Variant Now Detected In 13 Countries
Vitamin D Supplements Don’t Seem to Help People Sick with Covid-19
An mRNA Vaccine for Cancer Immunotherapy
Promising Gene Therapy Trials Suspended Over Potential Cancer Risk
A Speed Limit Also Applies in The Quantum World
Planet 9 Probably Doesn’t Exist, New Paper Argues
Astronomers Confirm the Most Distant Object in The Solar System
Astronomers Publish Map Showing 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes
The First Black Hole Ever Discovered Is More Massive Than Previously Thought
A new Approach Could Tease out the Connection Between Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
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(From the February 14, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Some fun links:
How Does The Rubber Pencil Illusion Work?
The Crab Nebula Seen in 3 Dimensions
Explore Every Gravitational Wave Event Spotted So Far
Coronavirus Variants and Mutations
Here is a YouTube Presentation of the NanoVNA by W2AEW, an Very Smart EE Working At Tektronix
And for The More Intrepid…
Here’s A YouTube, With A Nice Explanation That Physics’ Laws of Conservation Are Due to Inherent Symmetries, That Do not ALWAYS Exist in Our Universe
Here’s A Very Nice, Straight Forward Introduction into The Concept of Quantum Field Theory. It uses High School Differential Calculus Equations, But If you Don’t Understand Them, Don’t Let That Fluster You – You Can still get A Better Sense for Why ‘Electrons” appear to Have Zero Diameters. Give It A Try!
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If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
It’s Okay to Be Optimistic About Ending the Pandemic
WHO Scientists Say Wuhan Lab Leak ‘Extremely Unlikely’ to Have Caused Covid-19 Pandemic
International Space Station Sheds Light on Blue Jets from Thunderstorms
‘Gamechanger’ Drug for Treating Obesity Cuts Body Weight By 20 Percent
Scientists Prepare for Their Last Good Look at Asteroid Apophis Before 2029 Flyby
More Trees Do Not Always Create A Cooler Planet, Geographer Finds
A New Technique to Find Cold Gas Streams That Might Make up the Missing (Normal) Matter in the Universe
Quantum Theory Proposes That Cause and Effect Can Go in Loops
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(From the February 7, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Name Submissions For Members Of THE SPACE FORCE!!!!!
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If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
The Real-World Covid-19 Vaccine Data Is Looking Really Good
How SARS-CoV-2 Mutates to Escape Antibody Binding
A Nasal Spray for the Common Cold Is Closer to Reality
Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick Pan
What Are Venus Flytraps Doing with Magnetic Fields?
More Evidence That Neanderthals Were ‘Absorbed’ by Humans, Not Wiped Out
A Warp in The Milky Way Linked to Galactic Collision
Packing More Juice in Lithium-ion Batteries Through Silicon Anodes And Polymeric Coatings
Genes for Face Shape Identified
Fecal Transplants Might Help Boost Cancer Treatment, Study Finds
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(From the January 31, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
A Very Cogent YouTube Discussing Why The Covid-19 Infection Rate And Death Rate Is SO Much Higher In Some Countries, And Not In Others – “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.”
Professor Lewin Discovers That His Perpetual Motion Machine Is Not Quite What It Appeared To Be, At First…
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If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
The Second Wave of Covid-19 Vaccines Is Looking Really Promising
Two Worrying Coronavirus Variants Local to U.S. Flagged by Researchers in Ohio
Intriguing ‘Life’ Signal on Venus Was Plain Old Sulphur Dioxide, New Research
Xiaomi Announces a Long-Range Wireless Charger You Probably Won’t Be Able to Buy for Years and Years
A Knowledgeable EE Explains Why the Xiaomi Technology Will Probably Not Go Anywhere
Physicists Are Reinventing the Laser
America’s First Composting Funeral Home Is Finally Open
Toothbrushes Might Not Be Covered in Poo After All
UCLA Scientists Successfully ‘Jump-Start’ the Brains of People in a Coma-Like State
NASA’s Asteroid-Sampling OSIRIS-REx Probe Will Head Back to Earth in May
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(From the January 24, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Sorry Gang. Due To Technical Issues, Tonight’s TechNet Has Been Cancelled!
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If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
The Winter Covid-19 Peak Is Finally Starting to Slope Downward
Scientists Now Worried the UK Coronavirus Variant Is Deadlier
Scientists Have Finally Made Quieter Velcro
Using The Unpredictable Nature Of Quantum Mechanics To Generate Truly Random Numbers
Magnetic Waves Explain Mystery Of Sun’s Outer Layer
Synthetic Cornea Helped A Legally Blind Man Regain His Sight
A Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron Stars
Scientists May Have Found The Background Ripples Of The Universe
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(From the January 17, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Professor Walter Lewin Discovers A Perpetual Motion Machine<grin>???
Some Of ‘Ham Radio University 2021’ Presentations Are On YouTube!
Marc WA2MAV’s MATLAB Simulations of Transmission Lines:
(some of the labels need to be fixed a bit)
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
NASAs first test of it’s new engines to be used to send astronauts to the moon and beyond started out great but shut down early. They will solve the problem and try again in about a month.
Another new rocket engine is ready to be tested called the AR1 built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. This will be used for a private rocket named Firefly built by Firefly Aerospace. It has a similar thrust as the one just tested by NASA last Saturday.
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This just out! The FCC reminds Hams NOT TO BREAK THE LAW!
WARNING: AMATEUR AND PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES LICENSEES AND OPERATORS MAY NOT USE RADIO EQUIPMENT TO COMMIT OR FACILITATE CRIMINAL ACTS
The Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) of the Federal Communications Commission issues this Enforcement Advisory to remind licensees in the Amateur Radio Service, as well as licensees and operators in the Personal Radio Services, that the Commission prohibits the use of radios in
those services to commit or facilitate criminal acts.
The Bureau has become aware of discussions on social media platforms suggesting that certain radio services regulated by the Commission may be an alternative to social media platforms for groups to communicate and coordinate future activities. The Bureau recognizes that these
services can be used for a wide range of permitted purposes, including speech that is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Amateur and Personal Radio Services, however, may not be used to commit or facilitate crimes.
Specifically, the Bureau reminds amateur licensees that they are prohibited from transmitting “communications intended to facilitate a criminal act” or “messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning.”1 Likewise, individuals operating radios in the Personal Radio Services, a category that includes Citizens Band radios, Family Radio Service walkie-talkies, and General Mobile Radio Service, are prohibited from using those radios “in connection with any activity which is against Federal, State or local law.”2 Individuals using radios in the Amateur or Personal Radio Services in this manner may be subject to severe penalties, including significant fines, seizure of the offending equipment, and, in some cases, criminal prosecution.3 Media inquiries should be directed to 202-418-0500 or MediaRelations@fcc.gov.
To file a complaint with the FCC, visit https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov or call 1-888-CALLFCC.
To report a crime, contact your local law enforcement office or the FBI.
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If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests
Severe Allergic Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccines Are Extremely Rare, CDC Says
Two Worrying Coronavirus Variants Local to U.S. Flagged by Researchers in Ohio
A Startup Demonstrated a Wirelessly Powered TV at CES 2021 and I Want to Believe
The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky
CIA Releases Entire Collection of UFO-Related Documents to ‘Truth-Seeking’ Website
Astronomers Detected Gravitational Waves. Now They Want to See the Cosmic Ocean
Hypersonic Superweapons Are a Mirage, New Analysis Says
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(From the January 10, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
There IS A Feature Within FLDIGI to Detect What Mode Is Being Received (RSID). Your Mileage Might Vary!
If I Have Any Free Time For ScienceTalk, My Stories Are Based On These Articles:
Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant
Good News: Natural Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, Study Suggests
FDA Shoots Down Plan to Extend Vaccine Supply with Alternate Dosing
The Rate of Earth’s Spin Appears to Be Accelerating
Physicists Are Looking for Dark Matter in Tiny, Ancient Black Holes
Astronomers Calculate Universe’s Age with Atacama Desert Telescope
This ‘Unusual Star’ Is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before
Two Failed Stars in Our Cosmic Neighborhood Seem to Have… Stripes?
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(From the January 3, 2021 edition of the TechNet:)
Here’s a Very Amusing YouTube of Our Future Robot Overlords Frolicking About 2021!
Earth’s Ionosphere
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