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TIGRAN HAMASYAN VIDEO GAME MUSIC. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT: TIGRAN HAMASYAN VIDEO GAME MUSIC
Well, eventually it'll be I guess. This is "The Kingdom," off his upcoming album The Bird of a Thousand Voices. It's supposed to accompany a web game also called The Kingdom, though the song was released a few days ago and the game still isn't live yet. Maybe it'll be released at some point! Until then, the song kicks ass at least.
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
Charlie Wood for Quanta Magazine:
Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious "dark" energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with time. It's a finding that has the potential to shake the foundations of physics.
"If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years," said Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering dark energy in 1998.
I mean, I'm also weakening with time so that checks out
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Mexican Senate approves bill to ban conversion therapy
Michael K. Lavers for the Washington Blade:
The Mexican Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy in the country.
Yaaj México, a Mexican LGBTQ rights group, on X noted the measure passed by a 77-4 vote margin with 15 abstentions. The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Mexico's congress, approved the bill last month that, among other things, would subject conversion therapy practitioners to between two and six years in prison and fines.
Big numbers, though hasn't been approved by the president yet
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Foxes were once humans' best friends, study says
Mindy Weisberger, CNN:
In an ancient grave in what's now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion — but this animal friend wasn't a dog, according to new research. The burial held the skeleton of a type of canid that may have once competed with dogs for human affection: a fox.
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An in-depth analysis of ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating confirmed the fox's species and age, and examination of collagen in the fox's remains revealed that it ate the same food that this group of humans did. Along with the skeleton's placement in the grave, the animal's diet suggested that the fox was tame and may have been kept as a pet, scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence from burial sites on other continents indicating that individual foxes were tamed by humans and shared a connection based on companionship.
What if we were living in the Fox Timeline, I bet none of this shit would be happening right now [gestures vaguely at the entirety of human existence]
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A Baltimore teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist
Jaclyn Diaz for NPR:
A Maryland high school athletic director is facing criminal charges after police say he used artificial intelligence to duplicate the voice of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the community to believe Eiswert said racist and antisemitic things about teachers and students.
lmao
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Gender-nonconforming ancient Romans found refuge in community dedicated to goddess Cybele
Tina Chronopoulis for The Conversation:
Even in the ancient Roman Empire, individuals could transgress traditional conceptions of gender roles in various ways. While Roman notions of femininity and masculinity were strict as regards clothing, for instance, there is evidence to suggest that individuals could and did breach these norms, although they were likely to be met with ridicule or scorn.
As a scholar of Greek and Latin literature, I have studied the "Galli," male followers of the goddess Cybele. Their appearance and behaviors, often considered feminine, were commented on extensively by Roman authors: They were said to curl their hair, smooth their legs with pumice stones and wear fine clothing. They also, but not always, surgically removed their testicles.
omw to curl my hair, smooth my leg with pumice stones, wear fine clothing, and surgically remove my testicles
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Feedback loop that is melting ice shelves in West Antarctica revealed
News release from the University of Southampton:
New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels.
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Previous observations and models have revealed that eastward undercurrents are transporting this warm water to cavities under the ice shelves. Despite its significance, the mechanism driving this undercurrent has remained elusive.
Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato, from the University of Southampton, a coauthor of the paper, says: "Our findings suggest a positive feedback loop: as the ice shelf melts more rapidly, more freshwater is produced, leading to a stronger undercurrent and more heat being transported toward the ice shelves."
Is that good
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I was leaving my hotel a couple of days ago real quick to go grab a shower cap for my aunt, and the lobby was for some reason playing Troy Fernandez's cover of both the Kikaider and Hawaii Five-O theme songs which I totally forgot existed until right now, and I was like "oh shit yes this song." So here it is, off his 2010 album Hawaiian Style Ukulele 2.
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Research revives 1800s photos
Greg Basky with a news post from the University of Western Ontario:
Researchers from Western University developed techniques for creating images from old, badly tarnished photographs. These techniques could also be used to study other historic artifacts and fossils and prevent corrosion in modern materials.
Chemistry professor Tson-Kong (T.K.) Sham and his colleagues recently confirmed a new synchrotron imaging technique they developed is just as effective for retrieving corroded daguerreotypes—the earliest form of photographs—as a strategy they first reported in 2018 and can also be used no matter how badly damaged the image surface is from natural corrosion or cleaning attempts.
Literally all science is just shooting stuff with X-rays and seeing if anything happens
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Bureau of Prisons to close California women's prison where inmates have been subjected to sex abuse
Michael R. Sisak, Michael Balsamo, and Christopher Weber for the AP:
The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women's prison in California known as the "rape club" despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had "taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure and — most critical — employee misconduct."
"Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility," Peters said. "This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources."
One down, a lot more to go
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Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW, giving the union a groundbreaking win
Chris Isidore, CNN:
Hourly workers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, a major breakthrough in the union's effort to organize workers at plants nationwide.
Shortly after 11 pm ET on Friday the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that oversees such votes, announced that 73% of the 3,600 workers at the plant who cast ballots had voted in favor of joining the union. There was an 84% turnout among eligible voters.
Sick
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Colossal prehistoric snake discovered in India
Katie Hunt, CNN:
A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research.
The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to have ever lived, dwarfing present-day anacondas and pythons that can grow to about 6 meters (20 feet). The colossal creature's scientific name is Vasuki indicus, after the mythical serpent around the neck of Hindu deity Lord Shiva and the country of its discovery.
bigg snake
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Tracing the lineage of North America's native Blackfoot Confederacy
Bob Yirka for Phys.org:
A team of researchers with varied backgrounds and affiliated with multiple organizations (including the Blackfoot Confederacy) in the U.S. and Canada has conducted a genetic study focused on tracing the lineage of North America's native Blackfoot Confederacy.
In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group collected tissue samples from several living members of the Blackfoot Confederacy, genetically sequenced them and then compared the data with the results from samples collected from the remains of Confederacy members exhumed from several ancient burial sites.
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In comparing the genetic evidence, the researchers found that modern Blackfoot people are descendants of a lineage that goes back approximately 18,000 years. They also found that the genetic data supports Blackfoot lore, passed down by word of mouth over generations, claiming that the Blackfoot people have been living in North America for at least 10,000 years.
Wonder how many times Native American lore will be proven correct before people stop reflexively doubting it
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Researchers discover new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill news release:
Sixty years ago, researchers discovered that tardigrades could survive radiation about 1,000 times more intense than humans are known to survive. Courtney Clark-Hachtel, a former postdoctoral scholar in the lab, joined the group to examine how tardigrades can survive intense radiation. She found that a species of tardigrade is not immune to DNA damage—irradiation does damage their DNA—but the tardigrades can repair extensive damage.
Clark-Hachtel and Goldstein were surprised to find that tardigrades can increase the volume of production from DNA repair genes. Unlike humans, tardigrades can ramp up the level of DNA repair genes' products to such an extreme extent that they become some of the most abundant gene products in animals.
I bet I could ramp up my level of DNA repair genes if I tried hard enough
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New song by Lemm! This was posted two months ago but I only actually noticed now because I didn't previously subscribe to his YouTube. Here's "Platform 5."
Cool video that he made himself too
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Mysterious Link Between Cats And Schizophrenia Is Real, Study Finds
Rebecca Dyer for ScienceAlert:
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related disorders, according to a recent study.
Australian researchers conducted an analysis of 17 studies published during the last 44 years, from 11 countries including the US and the UK.
"We found an association between broadly defined cat ownership and increased odds of developing schizophrenia-related disorders," explained psychiatrist John McGrath and fellow researchers, all from the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, in their study published last December.
Cats are doing it on purpose. I can tell
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German parliament votes to make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender
Geir Moulson for the AP:
German lawmakers on Friday approved legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.
The "self-determination law," one of several social reforms that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's liberal-leaning coalition government pledged when it took office in late 2021, is set to take effect on Nov. 1.
Germany, the European Union's most populous nation, follows several other countries in making the change. Parliament's lower house, the Bundestag, approved it by 374 votes to 251 with 11 abstentions.
The German legislation will allow adults to change their first name and legal gender at registry offices without further formalities. They will have to notify the office three months before making the change.
Good
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