Weekly Science And Technology Reports - December 17, 2023 🎅

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Happy Sunday guys !!!

Hope we've all been doing well in the past days, another gentle reminder that Christmas is around the corner - about 2 days from now.........cubed. Also, Santa is expecting your orders. 😁

Seems like half of our reports for today would be on the brain, very fascinating organ. Here's even a fact, did you know that without your brain you can't celebrate Christmas. 😂🤭
How do you see that Santa ?

Santa Claus: 🎅👍

Santa agrees and I believe everyone one of us does too. Alright frenz I think joke time is over, let's begin with the proceedings of today.

‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

What kind of a computer would we have if we happened to combine a brain (lab grown) and electronic circuits ?

You must have guessed right, thanks to the title of this report. With such kind of computer, we should be expecting certain human-like attributes and you won't believe the kind they just spotted the computer to do......continue reading. Looks like AGI (artificial general intelligence) may eventually require biological components like our brain and it makes me wonder 🤔 , could we all be a Boltzmann brain ?

Fungi and flatworms: Scientists want more diverse nature emojis

Emojis are a big part of our online social life, mostly because it's more expressive and makes communication less stressful - if you don't like the stress of typing. I mean, who doesn't like emojis. 😁
So, in this report scientists think that the current catalog of emojis isn't enough, the reason being that......keep reading. Looks like one of the holy grails of social media science is to have a complete "emoji tree of life". 😂

Smoking Linked to Brain Shrinkage, Irreversible Even After Quitting

People have a lot of reasons why they smoke. Well, I don't and in fact, I quit just before I even existed in my mother's womb. 😂

Smoking they say is dangerous but how dangerous is it actually?

For quite a very long time the focus on the bad effects of smoking has been mostly on the heart and lungs, in this report it appears smoking has an irreversible bad effect on the brain - even if you quit early, the damage still continues. So what's this irreversible bad effect of smoking on the brain ?
You probably by now know what to do, which is............ continue reading to find out and more. I think the new caution on cigarettes should be "smokers are liable to have peanut brains and die young". 🤭

Human intelligence: How cognitive circuitry, rather than brain size, drove its evolution

Part of the reasons why we seem to have greater intelligence compared to the rest of the animal kingdom is generally believed to be because we evolved bigger brains. Could that really be true?

There are animals that have large brains too but are yet to display the kind of cognitive abilities we display. In this report, it appears there's more to the evolution of our superior intelligence than brain size.......keep reading to find out more. Oh, this should explain why Einstein despite having a relatively small brain (compared to an average man), was able achieve such intellectual feat.

Black Hole Batteries? Theoretical Physicists Say ‘Yes!’

One of the most important physical quantity in our universe is energy, without energy we can't really do anything and energy seems to be everywhere. For we humans, energy means a lot to us, given that we have the knowledge and power to do with it as we please, especially for our current technological needs that seems to rely heavily on electricity. One of the holy grails of energy science is having a very efficient, sustainable and climate friendly energy source, currently nuclear fusion appears to be the most promising. But could nuclear fusion be the only promising source ?

How about a galactic battery - converting a black hole to a gigantic battery? 😳

Supermassive black holes are at the centre of galaxies such as ours, you could imagine the kind of energy it would possess to influence the dynamics of a galaxy. So, the question now is how would it be possible to convert a black hole to a battery ?

Think no further, for this report got you covered. If we could be able to pull this off, then it wouldn't be hard to believe that the fate of our universe may actually lie in our own hands. 😂

Electric Eel Zaps Can Change Fish DNA

I believe we may have come across electric eels before, not necessarily physically, description is enough. Those natural electrocutioners, I mean if you happen to break their law - do not touch them. 😂

So, in this report it appears there's more to their zapping which may or may not have served an evolutionary purpose for their neighbours, most especially those who couldn't escape the wrath of their zap........keep reading to find out more. I think I need to update my DNA, somebody please get me their contacts. 🤫

It is here we conclude today's report, have a thoughtful day and till i come your way again next week.

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