Breaking News For May 17th
1. Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey? — “‘We have dug up maybe 1% of the site’ – and it is already impressive. I ask him how many pillars – T stones … probably 1000s more of them … there could be dozens more Tas Tepeler we have not yet found, spread over hundreds of kilometres.’” https://www.spectator.co.uk/…/does-an-unknown…
2. Young CSF restores oligodendrogenesis and memory in aged mice via Fgf17. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04722-0
3. When “50% of their performance earnings will be donated to a charity of their own choice. … women increase their performance by approximately 23% & 27% in the piece rate and tournament payment schemes” http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9518&r=
4. “Just imagine how we would have advanced from Stalingrad to Berlin without [American transport]. Our losses would have been colossal because we would have had no manoeuvrability . . . Without [US food supplies] we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army. We had lost our most fertile lands — the Ukraine and the northern Caucasus.” [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/Qke7R
5. Searching for Efficient Neural Architectures for On-Device ML on Edge TPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14007
6. A brain circuit in the thalamus helps us hold information in mind. This circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory. https://news.mit.edu/…/brain-circuit-thalamus-age…
7. Higher Quality Wheat: Increased Yields and Up to 25% More Protein Content https://scitechdaily.com/higher-quality-wheat-increased…/
8. “If cryptocurrency was originally about decentralizing money, Web3 is about decentralizing…everything. Its mission is almost achingly idealistic: to free humanity not only from Big Tech domination but also from exploitative capitalism itself—and to do it purely through code.” [Wired] https://archive.ph/BPvsV
