1.46.2 🪐 Sunday Links… Who Rearranged Our Planets, Boosting Teen Brains, Memories Stored Outside Brain

Welcome and thank you for being here. Today I have seven fun interesting STEM links to share. There’s links about something that may have visited our solar system and rearranged our planets. Like we walk into a room and tidy up. And links that describe how transcendent thinking can boost teenage brains. And an app that helps reduce depression by curbing rumination, revisiting often unpleasant or stressful events over and over. Not to be confused with ruminants like cows. Plus links about mirror life, what cities might be underwater by 2050, and where memories are stored in our brains. Hope you find them interesting and worth sharing.

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-visitor-solar-system-planets

Next Week

The next Wednesday email has fun STEM stories about people trying answer the ancient question: if you plug a mobile phone into a watermelon, will it charge? Also, how Plus codes help refugees have addresses, a poet tries to get ChatGPT to write poetry, raising chickens (they’re divas, apparently), and how AI hurts junior software developers. And a dad joke about, what else, melons. The Wednesday emails also now have a new STEM Bits & Bytes section that makes for a faster read that’s also got the usual detailed links I’ve researched. Look for the email this Wednesday.

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Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

Transcendent Thinking Boosts Teen Brains in Ways That Enhance Life

App Shows Promise in Reducing Depression by Curbing Rumination

Memories are not only stored in the brain, study finds

What 2050 Could Look Like: Climate Central’s Stark Images of Cities Underwater

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.

Scientists Urge Ban on ‘Mirror Life’ Before It Endangers Global Health

Ruminants (in case you were wondering…)

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