Nanowerk: Programmable Shape-shifting Materials Explores groundbreaking developments in materials that can alter their shape in response to environmental stimuli, with potential applications across robotics, biomedicine, and aerospace.
Discover Magazine: Quantum Sensors Navigate by Earth's Magnetic Field Highlights new quantum sensors that could revolutionize navigation systems by using Earth's magnetic field, eliminating the need for GPS.
Google Research Blog: Teaching Machines the Language of Biology Discusses how large language models are being adapted to understand biological data at the single-cell level, enabling breakthroughs in healthcare and biology research.
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What I Am Reading:
Bear Market Investing Strategies
“Harry Schultz has been identifying bear market warning signals and teaching people how to prepare a profitable survival portfolio in light of these signals for over thirty-five years through his highly acclaimed newsletter, The International Harry Schultz Letter, which reaches subscribers in over ninety countries. The 1960s' classic book Bear Markets has been fully updated and revised to reflect the unprecedented changes taking place in today's volatile economic environment-making it extremely relevant to the current financial market. This book provides the necessary tools for investors to construct a portfolio that will allow them to protect and grow their money under the most severe bear market conditions through technical analysis and models of numerous bear market variables. Bear Market Investing Strategies offers practical and approachable strategies that every investor needs today.”
How scientists want to make you young again
“Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth.”
Old Frugal Habits Die Hard: Why I Force Myself to Spend More
“Why enjoying your money is so damned hard!”
With wellness rituals and techniques like yoga and meditation in the mainstream, almost everyone is aware to some level that mindful breathing is a healthy practice. But what if a simple, straightforward breathing technique could significantly impact your health and even heal an injury?
Ever heard of Wim Hof? At this point, probably so. He’s risked life and limb multiple times to set records, usually involving ice: longest time swimming in icy waters, longest time in direct, full-body contact with ice (yes, that’s essentially being buried up to your chin in ice), fastest half-marathon running barefoot on, you guessed it, ice. He’s also done a few mountain climbs in nothing but shorts and shoes, and in an unusual break from his more polar pursuits, he once ran a marathon… in the desert… without water… and rehydrated afterwards with beer.
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