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Scientists reversed memory loss by powering the brain’s tiny engines Scientists have discovered a direct cause-and-effect link between faulty mitochondria and the memory loss seen in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a novel tool to boost mitochondrial activity…

French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd
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Very sorry to hear this. I’ve been a fan since I read Gorky Park as a teenager. Arkady has been good company ever since.

Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...

The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours.

OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow.

Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art

Judge Orders Mississippi Newspaper to Remove Editorial, Alarming Press Advocates The owner of The Clarksdale Press Register said he planned to challenge a judge’s order against an editorial that criticized city officials.

A Mississippi judge issued a temporary restraining order requested by the city of Clarksdale requiring a local newspaper, The Clarksdale Press Register, to remove an editorial that criticized city officials. The paper's owner said he planned to challenge the order.

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In honor of his birthday, the extraordinary last paragraph of Charles Portis's TRUE GRIT:

A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.

Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.

Hang onto your hat. This is wild.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Is Already Rewriting Solar System History Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, but have already found several surprises

‘Billions of years ago Bennu was apparently part of a water-soaked world now long lost and otherwise forgotten, one with a beating geologic heart and an abundance of prebiotic organic material.’