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Discrimination Alters Brain-Gut 'Crosstalk,' Prompting Poor Food Choices And Increased Health Risks | University Of California, Los Angeles

Obesity. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University of California, Los Angeles -- Medical Express Oct. 2, 2023 People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress response that changes biological processes and how we process food cues. These are findings from UCLA researchers conducting what is ...

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Hermit 'Scribblings' Of Eccentric French Math Genius Unveiled | Juliette Collen

Hermit genius mathematician as surrealist painting. by Bing Juliette Collen -- Phys.org Sept. 29, 2023 Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) | Wikipedia

By Prompt by JPxG, model by Boris Dayma, upscaler by Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie et al. - https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini/ BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License])., Apache License 2.0, ...

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Why US Democrats Are Growingly Challenging Israel | Ramzy Baroud

Israel's far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the so-called 'Flag March' in Jerusalem. (Photo: via Ben-Gvir TW Page) Time will tell what direction Washington will take in the future. But, ...

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Transphobia | Wikipedia

Transphobic graffiti in Rome, meaning "trans out" in German, with a swastika. Atreliu, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia May 13, 2023 Transphobia consists of negative attitudes, ...

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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek

Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...

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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and ...

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The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson

Justin Jackson -- Phys.org March 29, 2023 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional ...

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ChatGDP: How We End Poverty | Francis Goodwin

Francis Goodwin asks ChatGPT: "How do we end poverty?" ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or opinions. However, according to the United Nations, ending poverty requires ...

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Human gut bacteria have sex to share vitamin B12 | University of California - Riverside

Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Dec. 1, 2022 (Phys.org) -- Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 ...

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Towards Quantum Simulation Of False Vacuum Decay | University of Cambridge

Measured momentum distribution of the shaken quantum gas during the phase transition. The central peak on the left corresponds to the initial Mott insulator while the two peaks on the right indicate ...

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If Google suddenly had real competition in search, how would news publishers’ world change? | Nieman Journalism Lab The tech giant's ongoing antitrust trial raises the possibility of the federal government, Apple, or both giving Google its first meaningful search competition in decades. www.niemanlab.org/2023/10/if-google-suddenly-had-real-competition-in-search-how-would-news-publishers-world-change/

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How creatives can stop AI from stealing their work - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Organizations can manipulate how their data contributions flow to AI systems to ensure more democratic governance. thebulletin.org/2023/10/how-creatives-can-stop-ai-from-stealing-their-work/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=TwitterPost102023&utm_content=DisruptiveTechnologies_Creatives_1003023

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Molecular knots, left and right: How molecules form knots

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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Saw Missing Billions as ‘Rounding Error,’ Biographer Michael Lewis Says Michael Lewis revealed management failings at crypto exchange FTX and a multi-billion-dollar plan to keep Donald Trump from running for office again, in an interview… www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/02/bankman-fried-saw-missing-ftx-billions-as-rounding-error-biographer-says/

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Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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‘Flashing Red Warning’—$33 Trillion U.S. ‘Debt Death Spiral’ Could Suddenly Trigger A Bitcoin Price ‘Vicious Circle’ www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/01/flashing-red-warning-33-trillion-us-debt-death-spiral-could-suddenly-trigger-a-bitcoin-price-vicious-circle/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1&cap=swipe

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Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation. www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/29/where-liquid-staking-meets-tokenization/

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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI | Nieman Journalism Lab Some of the funding will go to form a "studio" within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP's grantees. www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/openai-will-give-local-news-millions-to-experiment-with-ai/

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Mouthwash for dogs: Water additive with pomegranate helps to keep canine teeth healthy

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