Welcome to another seven fun maybe quirky STEM/STEAM links on a Sunday. This week I found links about a 173-year-old mystery about how the Crystal Palace was built in 190 days in 1851. We can’t build that fast today. There’s also a contrarian view about artificial general intelligence (AGI), the real reason music is getting worse not better, how earth is getting a second moon for two months this year, and how Microsoft’s AI efforts are bringing back the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. After they melted down in 1979. And scientists are figuring out to listen in on plants. Hope you find them interesting. Have a fun day.
How standard screws cracked a 173-year-old architectural mystery
https://www.popsci.com/technology/crystal-palace-mystery/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17581206.2024.2391984#d1e154
The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335091-000-the-ai-expert-who-says-artificial-general-intelligence-is-nonsense/
The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains
https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/the-real-reason-why-music-is-getting-worse-rick-beato-explains.html
Scientists store human genome on crystal in hope of helping bring humanity back from extinction | ITV News Meridian
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-09-19/scientists-store-human-genome-on-crystal-which-can-last-billions-of-years#Echobox=1726748579
Earth will get a second “mini-moon” for 2 months this year
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-second-mini-moon-2024/
Massive AI energy demand is bringing Three Mile Island back from the dead
https://www.popsci.com/environment/three-mile-island-ai-microsoft/
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
Scientists may soon be able to translate the languages plants use to communicate
https://bgr.com/science/scientists-may-soon-be-able-to-translate-the-languages-plants-use-to-communicate/