Note that the study included an experimental manipulation of anesthetic exposure in a sample of rats. This was an experimental manipulation which means that the author's could make a much stronger claim for causation. As far as mechanisms, this is being explored but it appears to be something that normal processes of synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning.

Well not right after I posted. Did you kill their server?

I live in a multiverse too.
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Chinese spying?

Isnt the cosmic background radiation generally the same in all directions?

I doubt there is substantive evidence that we are the center of our Universe. However, is there any evidence that we are not at the center of the universe? How would one falsify the hypothesis? Also, I was under the impression that the Universe appears the same in all directions we look from earth...

I think, this is a risk that can and should be born.

And the management of the transition from in house to outsourced seed-planting/irrigation robot building was handled by an outsourced AI ran management firm.

Imagine a world where a computer can always do it cheaper than a human. In that case, no humans will be employed. In this scenario, what is the harm in providing people with income via fiat money creation? I don't see much harm as long as it does not spend past the point of rampant inflation, and I sure as hell can see the harm in letting people go hungry without hope of income.

How about Big Rig and cab drivers.

Or just helicopter drop them some money.

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Bullshit. If there is good data that is contrary to the general consensus, you better believe that scientists will claw for it....

Over 10,000 scientists were invited to participate. That a whole lot of 'friends and coworkers'