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An estimated 32% of the recycling we send off to sorting centers actually gets recycled. Enter AMP Robotics, a Denver-based company training neural networks to speed through sorting plastic and paper with 99% accuracy by recognizing materials on a moving belt. New episode: https://youtu.be/o6VQnmd_lfA?si=QzJNh...
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Personalized 4D-printed supplements? 🤯 This is IINK - "Innovative Individualized Nutritional Kit" - and it 4D-prints customized pills. You do a self analysis in the app, and then the machine prints you a custom vitamin. It's that easy. WATCH: ▶️ https://youtu.be/ehTe55Lt0kE?si=ZGXMe...
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This new material could dramatically cut the cost of carbon capture. ✍️ By Kristin Houser It’s an amine-based material — meaning it contains nitrogen atoms — but it also includes copper. According to the Lehigh University team’s study, this allows it to absorb up to three times as much CO2. “This material can be produced at very high capacity very rapidly,” lead author Arup SenGupta told New Scientist. “That definitely should improve the cost-effectiveness of the process.” How it works: Instead of using heat to extract the trapped carbon and then pressurizing and liquifying it for storage — processes that add to the total cost — the researchers found they could just expose their material to seawater. Seawater triggers a reaction that turns the carbon into sodium bicarbonate — better known as baking soda — which could be stored without any additional processing. The material could potentially cut the cost of direct air capture down to less than $100 a ton. The bonus: In theory, we could use this sodium bicarbonate in the oceans, where it might combat the acidification that’s being caused by our pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere. The researchers are now setting up a company to further develop their carbon-trapping material. Read more here: https://www.freethink.com/energy/direct-air-capture-systems?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youtube_community
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Many gamers dream of being paid to game instead of doing it as a hobby, but they don’t imagine that it’s possible as a viable career path. Even when gamers succeed and go professional, non-gamers might still view gaming as something frivolous or childish. Enter Jeannail “Cuddle Core” Carter. She’s a professional Tekken 7 player challenging all the stereotypes of pro gaming. ▶️ https://youtu.be/VsU851fjqfU Video from @MillionStoriesMedia
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3 days ago • Freethink
Researchers have now published the results of a phase 2 trial in which people treated with the GLP-1 agonist lixisenatide experienced no progression in their Parkinson’s motor symptoms over one year. “This is the first large-scale, multicentre clinical trial to provide the signs of efficacy that have been sought for so many years." 🔗 Read here: https://www.freethink.com/health/parkinsons-symptoms-glp-1-agonist?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youtube_community
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4 days ago • Freethink
Check out our latest partnership with the @AbundanceInstitute , a nonprofit creating an environment for emerging technologies to grow, develop, and thrive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnw0s...
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In June 2023, a SpaceX rocket deployed a first-of-its-kind spacecraft designed to autonomously synthesize a drug — the HIV-AIDS medication ritonavir — while in Earth’s orbit. Varda had built the craft to demonstrate how “space factories” could autonomously produce products that are easier to manufacture in the absence of gravity, starting with certain pharmaceuticals but eventually expanding to fiber optic cables, semiconductors, and more. The space factory was supposed to return to Earth about a month after launch, but issues with regulators delayed the homecoming until February 2024. Varda has now had time to study its space drugs and has shared a detailed report on the preprint server ChemRxiv. The short story, though, is that the ritonavir was successfully synthesized and remained stable throughout the reentry process. “Our process and hardware performed flawlessly throughout in-orbit operations, reentry, and recovery operations,” tweeted Varda on March 20. “The one-liner is…them space drugs cooked real good,” tweeted Delian Asparouhov, one of the California startup’s co-founders. 🔗 Watch a video from Varda here: https://www.freethink.com/space/space-drugs?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youtube_community
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5 days ago • Freethink
We tried the new AI music generator, Udio, that lets anyone generate surprisingly good music. We asked it to make us a song about "building a solarpunk future" in a pop-synth style. It wrote us a 30-second song, and even allowed us to extend the song + lyrics, generate an AI album cover, and edit what it had already generated. It took less than 15 minutes. https://x.com/freethinkmedia/status/1778814449886851199
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6 days ago • Freethink
From the Freethink Archives: Their model predicted that the best amount of force for building muscle is around 70% of your maximum load — the amount you could lift once. When you go above or below 70%, something interesting happens: https://www.freethink.com/health/building-muscle?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youtube_community
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Mindfulness is a building constructed on shaky foundations. According to Odysseus Stone from the University of Copenhagen, mindfulness makes three big philosophical errors. | ✍️ By Jonny Thomson 1. Not all thoughts are equal If you’ve ever experienced some guided mindfulness, you likely heard something like this: “Imagine your thoughts are like cars, and you are watching them pass. Here comes a thought. There goes the thought. Do not pause for too long on any thought. Let them come, notice them, and then let them go.” But is this right? As Stone writes: “Take, for example, feelings of anger that we might have about the policy decisions of the Danish government. Is it beneficial to view such emotions as if they are passing clouds in the sky with little importance or relation to reality?” 🔗 Read the rest of this article, written by by Jonny Thomson, here: https://www.freethink.com/society/mindfulness-myths?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=youtube_community
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