discussion the 'Stuff That's Just Really Interesting 'thread

[Marzipan]

VR could replace or supplement anesthesia in surgeries.

Patients in VR during surgery need less sedatives, trial finds

A fascinating clinical trial has reported virtual reality immersion can reduce the amount of anesthetic needed during certain types of hand surgery. The trial found patients using VR could get through an entire surgical procedure with only local anesthetic.

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[Marzipan]

why are legal contracts so hard to understand? bad writing apparently.

three dudes won the Ig Nobel Prize for their study on why legal contracts are so hard to understand:

Study revealing why legal contracts are hard to read wins Ig Nobel Prize

Running for over 30 years, the Ig Nobel Prizes serve as a good-natured counterpoint to the sometimes stuffy and impenetrable Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobels are not about ridiculing absurd research but instead they celebrate the stranger side of science – focusing on those discoveries that can make you…

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[Marzipan]

fetus don't like kale!!!

Incredible study images babies responding to taste of kale in the womb

An extraordinary new study has recorded the first evidence of babies in the womb reacting to flavors of foods eaten by their mothers. The stunning images show fetuses crumpling up their faces in disgust minutes after a mother consumes bitter kale or smiling with glee in the presence of sweet carrot…

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[Lysrin]

Sky burial is the way to go.

For me personally though, I have a fear of waking up after everyone thinks Im dead so idk.

You won't survive the embalming process... so you're good there

 

[Marzipan]

sky burial sounds so neat and then turns out to be boring. last act as a conscious being is to tell someone to litter a pristine spot of mountain wilderness with your body.

 

[Marzipan]

the whitest paint reflects 97% or more of light

World's whitest paint is now thin enough to coat cars and planes

Last year, engineers at Purdue University used their expertise in materials science to produce the world’s whitest paint, with an ability to reflect around 98% of incoming sunlight and therefore holds great potential when it comes to energy efficiency for buildings. The team has now made some…

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[GeezerGamer]

This is cool to me. Less work?

Asus Wants to Spark a 'Revolution' to Hide All PC Cables

Someone from Asus must have seen the inside of our mid-tower.

www.extremetech.com

 

[Marzipan]

I dunno about you, but with a proper barrel I think China might have an edge over SlingLaunch in getting stuff into LEO:

China turns on the world's largest compressed air energy storage plant

The world's largest and, more importantly, most efficient clean compressed air energy storage system is up and running, connected to a city power grid in northern China.

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that or lobbing the worlds biggest paint balls. better than nukes, right?

 

[Izerous]

I dunno about you, but with a proper barrel I think China might have an edge over SlingLaunch in getting stuff into LEO:

China turns on the world's largest compressed air energy storage plant

The world's largest and, more importantly, most efficient clean compressed air energy storage system is up and running, connected to a city power grid in northern China.

newatlas.com

that or lobbing the worlds biggest paint balls. better than nukes, right?

I read that and all I really got from it was "we built a really inefficient pipe bomb."

 

[moocow]

At this point China has to try anything beside burning more coal and natural gas. Then again they are just burning infrastructure cash that have no ROI just to prop up the GDP.