H. Chad Lane

Americans are injecting themselves with unproven peptides More Americans are turning to peptides for muscle building, skin rejuvenation, and to try and live longer even though the substances aren’t FDA approved

What happens when the safest and most reliable system for testing and reviewing medical procedures, vaccines, drugs, etc. is dismantled. My fellow Americans are susceptible to profit driven unproven and risky interventions. abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...

COVID vaccines show an unexpected benefit: helping fight cancer Scientists say mRNA technology could be setting up the immune system to fight deadly tumors—and they’ve got the data to prove it.

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YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj Why AI is Overrated - with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great interview by NDT here... (1) There is a rich discussion of science and impactful stories about scientific discovery, and (2) his views on AI (are level headed and reasonable, and situated historically. Also, he never says "actually", because "people don't like that." youtu.be/BYizgB2FcAQ?...

Wow, we now up to over 6000 confirmed/known exoplanets! So cool. science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/e... Check out whimc.org to see a few of them in Minecraft!

YouTube video by Open Education - OUSL "Innovating Pedagogy with Generative AI in Education"

A video of my webinar on "Innovating Pedagogy with Generative AI in Education" is now on YouTube. Thank you Shironica Karunanayaka, Mark Gaved & Simon Ball for hosting with students and staff from the Open University of Sri Lanka and The Open University, UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rv7...

My journal paper argues for a systems approach to AI and education in a post-digital world. AI is not a single tool but a series of disruptions. Outlines an agenda to reduce systemic blockers, build resilience, design more robust policy. #aieducation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this is all awesome Mark, keep fighting the good fight

Not everything made it into this short news story, but if you are interested, the longer version is is essentially covered in this thread: bsky.app/profile/mark...

YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 I Surprised ChatGPT by Speaking Computer Language

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The great poaching: America's brain drain begins China and Europe are recruiting heavily from U.S. labs.

The great poaching: America's brain drain begins www.axios.com/2025/06/07/u...

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

Of course the government has less fraud than corporate America. Compare the transparency of both: one has had decades of intense scrutiny, the other is a black box. Tons more waste/bloat in corporations!

Former engineer shares his experience working for DOGE www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

RFK Jr.'s MAHA report cited nonexistent studies Certain studies within the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" report do not exist as cited, ABC News has confirmed.

Need evidence for a claim? Just make up a reference!

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With its sycophancy, I would not be surprised to see ChatGPT provide a nasal based curriculum as well (theonion.com/parents-of-n...). I have found that frontier models still generally support the myth of learning styles, but that deep research typically finds the massive evidence against them.

I Have An iPod–'In My Mind' I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of tech-savvy people smugly showing off that new hunk of entertainment hardware, the iPod personal stereo. Well, I might not have the scratch to get one, but frankly, I don’...

I heard about nonstop AI generated music recently (Mubert, Lyria Realtime, Aimi...) and it brought me back to this classic (one might argue, superior technology). theonion.com/i-have-an-ip...

Image description: Quote by H. Holden Thorp on a black background asking, "How can academia engage in honest conversation about reform in a way that rebuilds the partnership with the country ...?"

"At a time when forces are trying to distract and disrupt the scientific enterprise, doing the important work of finding and sharing the truth is now a great act of resistance," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4m8s3f0

Can Scientific Research Survive Without Federal Funding? Universities are offering temporary relief to researchers whose projects have been disrupted by federal funding cuts. But it won't help in the long term, and experts say industry and philanthropy are…

“A decline in research funding will result in fewer inventions, which means fewer innovations will get to market...I imagine that in 10 years, there will be fewer drugs approved than there are today because of these constraints" www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

If You're Over 50, This Common Vaccine Can Lower Your Risk of Stroke and Heart Disease by 23% Protect your heart and mind - get your shingles vaccine now! New research shows a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events and reduced dementia risk. Are you willing to take the step towards a healthie...

Unanticipated bonus for the shingles vaccine: "Staying up-to-date on your shingles vaccine can lower your risk of cardiovascular events—including stroke and heart disease—by a whopping 23%, according to a new study out of South Korea."

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I will always understand debate, criticisms, and compromise over our nations priorities. But I refuse to accept attacks on science and education to this degree as playing within the conventions and rules that have made the United States what it is (hopefully not was) today. www.savensf.com

Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

How many hits can we all take?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

and it's as if no one ever thought to try and figure out the cause(s) until now... "Get that to me by September, ok?"

WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September Anti-vaccine advocates, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have for years inaccurately claimed that routine childhood shots may cause autism.

🤦‍♂️. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

YouTube video by Adult Swim Rick and Morty | Season 8 Early Preview | May 25 | adult swim

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YouTube video by AI For Humans OpenAI’s 4o Image Gen Melted Servers, Got Nerfed… and Raised $40 Billion

NEW EPISODE IS HERE:

- OpenAI's 4o Image Gen Meltdown, Nerfing & Insane Worldwide $40 Billion Success

- Runway's Gen-4 is VERY good. We dive in

- Meta's $1000 AR glasses & whether we're buying

And SO much more AI news & Big Booty Bears.

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@aiforhumans.bsky.social this would be a good one to highlight on the show!

There’s at least a dozen dissertations to be written from this paper by Anthropic alone, which gives us some insight into how AIs “think” and reveal a lot of complexity and unexpected abilities, including generalization and planning. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...

The Lovelace Test was a test of artistic creativity for AI, asking it for artistic work as good as a human. It was often viewed as more difficult & distant than passing the Turing Test

“GPT4o, Add marginalia to this paper on the Lovelace Test to prove you pass the Lovelace Test”