One of the strangest natural phenomena I’ve had the pleasure of tracking here at MU has been incidents involving megacryometeors. These anomalous and isolated balls of ice appear to fall from cloudless skies for no apparent reason and have only begun to be recognized by the meteorological community as a genuine phenomenon. Early last year,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/possible-megacryometeor-shatters-colorado-womans-sunroof/…
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Denver may become the first US city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms
The city’s voters are now deciding whether to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. Denver is now voting on whether it should become the first US city to effectively decriminalize mushrooms containing the psychedelic psilocybin — also known as magic mushrooms. Initiative 301 would designate “the personal use and personal possession of psilocybin mushrooms” among people 21 and… Continue reading Denver may become the first US city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms
The race to save the planet from plastic
Scientists are trying to accelerate evolution to make plastics rot. A tiny new organism is showing them how. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan. The site, located by a bustling port in one of the… Continue reading The race to save the planet from plastic
Does a year in space make you older or younger?
The NASA Twins study – featuring astronaut twins Scott and Mark Kelly – was the perfect space experiment. Scott spent a year in space aboard the International Space Station. Mark remained on Earth. The results? Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/year-in-space-human-body-twins-study…
Traversable Wormholes Can Exist, But They’re Not Very Useful For Space Travel, Physicists Say
A new study from physicists at Harvard and Stanford says that wormholes can exist but they’re not very useful for humans to travel through. “It takes longer to get through these wormholes than to go directly, so they are not very useful for space travel,” said the author of the study, Daniel Jafferis. From the report: Despite his pessimism for…
Olympic Cyclist Kelly Catlin Seemed Destined for Glory. Then She Killed Herself.
Catlin was lining up for a shot at Olympic gold. And an elite mathematical mind would open opportunities off the track. But torment lurked behind the success. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/sports/kelly-catlin-death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
What’s new on Coursera for Business – February and March 2019
We launched 97 new courses in February and March of this year, including 13 courses in Arabic, 10 in Spanish, and 11 in Russian. Here are our top ten courses in English from the past two months: AI For Everyone, deeplearning.ai – AI is not only for engineers. If you want your organization to become […]
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Behind the Scenes at edX
In the second part of our edX Insider series, we’re heading over to the engineering team to chat with a software engineer. We’re talking with Brittney, a Senior Software Engineer on our Business Engineering Team. A Colorado native, Brittney is a problem solver who is passionate about how edX uses technology for social good. Q: What do you think makes…