Episode #831
News Items
- Regeneration
- Social Media and Memories
- 3D Printing Reusable Rockets
- Mental Illness and Mass Shootings
- Magnetized by Vaccine
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Cicada
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
A new study finds that brain age can be accurately predicted to within 4.6 years in healthy individuals based on an overnight EEG. https://www.sleepmeeting.org/artificial-intelligence-predicts-brain-age-from-eeg-signals-recorded-during-sleep-studies/
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Item #2
Fiction
The CHIME radio telescope has discovered 5,350 FRBs including 182 repeaters in its first year of operation, increasing the catalogue of FRBs by more than a factor of 10. https://news.mit.edu/2021/chime-telescope-fast-radio-bursts-0609
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Item #3
Science
Studying country-level data, researchers find that social media use was one of four factors that most predicted spread of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, more so than temperature or humidity. https://floridanewstimes.com/social-media-uses-one-of-four-factors-associated-with-the-high-spread-of-covid-19-early-on/282072/
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.” ― Elizabeth Loftus