Now they should interrupt the presumed REM sleep and see if the result conforms to that of higher animals whose REM sleep has been disturbed.

I suggest that, considering there is a spectrum of attributes among humans (heights for example), there must also be, genetically, a spectrum of levels of production of microglia in individuals, making some people prone to Alzheimer's early in life due to a lesser supply of these cells, and others sharp into their nineties due to an abundant production of these critical cells. In which case, circadian rhythm actually would have little to do with it.

It is now time to put a library of human knowledge and history on the Moon, and perhaps on Mars too. Perhaps in a monolith, as in 2001 A Space Odyssey.

A massive corporation thinks it can just append the latest thing to its core business, but it ends up with little actual support inside the company and eventually the program becomes chaotic and loses people. Ford's core business is making cars. It isn't Apple's.

Not a good idea. It would effectively increase the surface area of the Earth for the interception of Sun energy and add to global warming.

I've had a developing suspicion that humans have evolved the ability to evolve faster than what is normal. Normal theories of Natural Selection cannot explain such a dramatic change in such a short time.

What the employees were engaging in by protesting Google's client list according to their own personal political and social beliefs is what I call "theft-of-forum." They were hired into the Google workplace for a particular purpose and accepted that purpose by accepting employment at Google. They then turned that workplace into a forum for their complaints in order to direct the course of the company in conformance to their beliefs. They stole from the company their forum, and they attempted to bully and intimidate the company into following a business path determined by themselves.

Since life on Earth today evolved from the survivors of the Chicxulub impact, the life forms today would be more likely to survive another such impact. The percentage lost would be much lower.

I understand the normal enthusiastic boosterism of people attracted to new technology and the human delusion that all things constructed as "problems" can be solved.

Increasing EV use will cause fossil fuel generation losses, transmission line resistive losses, reactive losses and battery heating losses that require more, not less fossil fuel to convey an equivalent amount of energy to the vehicle as gasoline would provide directly. And with the addition of millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, even billions of EVs to the world, many more power stations would have to be created to power them, consuming ever increasing amounts of fossil fuel. Also, these EVs would place a time dependent load on the power grid that would require a tremendous number of reserve power plants running 24/7 causing increased fossil fuel use.

"The primary limitations on the transmission of power are the high reactive power loss on heavily loaded lines, as well as possible line outages that reduce transmission capacity."

"Simply put, when there is a net reactive power loss in a system, it costs power plants more resources to output that power." Obviously, this means more oil, coal, gas is consumed.

EVs are an inefficient use of fossil fuel. Increasing use of EVs will actually create MORE carbon dioxide than just using fossil fuel directly to power vehicles. And, if you say power them with nuclear power plants, I say you just transfer the carbon problem to a nuclear waste problem that has not been solved to this day. If you say they'll use solar power to charge EVs in the future, I say, that is a fantasy.

This is just another case of woman's privilege. According to her thinking she can deliberately wear a shirt with "penetration testing" on it and not expect to get sexual banter about it. When women demand that they be allowed to do anything they want to with no consequences, that is not equality. In this case her company was wrong and should have pointed out to her that she invited the comments. Equality with no responsibility is not equality; it is license.

I think after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima that even the Chinese are aware of the possible loss of life and land that a nuclear accident would cause. Such an event would severely undermine respect for the Communist Party and the rulers of China, and that is something they are always very interested in avoiding.

Liquid metal or liquid salt reactors are very dangerous and knowing that, that is probably why the Chinese are putting those reactors in the desert and western part of the country. The Soviets had problems with the liquid metal or salt reactors on their submarines and several famous accidents.

This sounds suspiciously like gain-of-function research as is used in scientific study of viruses. There is some questioning as to whether or not COVID-19 is the result of a gain-of-function experiment that escaped the lab.

Weiss obviously had management positions. Women can manage. Intel's problem is the lack of aggressively creative males.