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David Harvey
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I am ever curious, always learning, silly, smart, and creative. I've been everything from a museum blacksmith to an archaeologist, historian, conservator, museum consultant, author, videographer, teacher of online courses. I have walked a wonderful path.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 21h
From blending in to standing out: A new study explores what helps moths avoid predation best. Plus, would you recognize a rodent hand if you saw one?
Moth Survival Strategies And A Rodent Thumbnail Mystery
Moths’ evolutionary split between bright warning colors and subtle camouflage depends on the context. Plus, mysteries of the rodent thumbnail.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 5h
Space may be a vacuum, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it's silent.

🎶 Celebrate World Space Week by listening to some ethereal sounds derived from the cosmos: buff.ly/MXNCPmr
"it seemed almost obvious that there’d be some connection between the cyclical patterns in the universe and the cyclical patterns in music and, in particular, the harmony of both. And it turns out there is a lot of overlap." —Matt Russo
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 23h
Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find
Babies Start Processing Foreign Languages before They Are Born
Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2h
Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy
This AI Spots Disease by Reading Your Tongue’s Color
Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 16m
Meanwhile.
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"It Smells Really Bad": Ancient Life Frozen In Alaska For 40,000 Years Has Been Woken Up

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"It Smells Really Bad": Ancient Life Frozen In Alaska For 40,000 Years Has Been Woken Up
Heat at a mild temperature for several months and voilà: ancient microbial life, good as new.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 23h
Jupiter-Bound Mission To Snap Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: "This Campaign Was Unexpected For Everybody" 🔭

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Jupiter-Bound Mission To Snap Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: "This Campaign Was Unexpected For Everybody"
Even deep space probes are getting in on the action.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 17m
You Knew this was Coming.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 23h
Behold! The World’s First Butt-Drag Fossil, Committed By A Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago

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126,000 Years Ago, A Rock Hyrax Dragged Its Butt Across The Floor And Made A World-First Fossil
God bless you and your itchy butt, Late Pleistocene rock hyrax.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 6h
Gold Literally Grows On Christmas Trees In Lapland

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Gold Literally Grows On Christmas Trees In Lapland
Not all that glitters is gold, although the snow-tipped spurs of Lapland aren't a bad place to start.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 20m
Fishing Spiders.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 2h
Meet The Fishing Spiders: Stealthy, Semi-Aquatic Hunters That Can Kill Prey 5 Times Their Size

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These Spiders Hunt Fish, Killing Prey That Can Be Five Times Bigger Than They Are
Fish, tadpoles, frogs, and even crayfish. It’s all on the menu for these spiders.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 21m
The X-Frog.
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Hairy Frog: The Wolverine Frog That Breaks Its Bones To Make Claws When Threatened

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Hairy Frog: The Wolverine Frog That Breaks Its Bones To Make Claws When Threatened
No wrath burns hotter than that of a furry frog.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 22m
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What's Really Lurking In The Deep Dark Waters Of Loch Ness?
You might be surprised.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 24m
Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

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The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in five charts
Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 25m
These intriguing materials - the world's most porous sponges - won today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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World’s most porous sponges: intricate carbon-trapping powders hit the market
Metal-organic frameworks were the next big thing in chemistry when they were invented more than three decades ago. Now, these intriguing materials are becoming commercial tools for capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from the air.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 26m
Tests of LLMs reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways

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AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?
Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 27m
Regulatory T cells, the immune cells at the centre of Monday's Nobel Prize, are showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and even organ transplants

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?
Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 30m
It's not just total hours.

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There Are 5 Profiles of Sleep – Here's What Yours Says About Your Health
A team of scientists has identified five different sleep profiles that link the quality of a person's shut-eye with a variety of health, psychological, and lifestyle outcomes.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 30m
'Enormously useful'.

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Quantum Tunneling Experiments Earn Team The Nobel Prize in Physics
Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting quantum mechanics into action and enabling the development of all kinds of...
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 32m
'Enormously useful'.

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Quantum Tunneling Experiments Earn Team The Nobel Prize in Physics
Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting quantum mechanics into action and enabling the development of all kinds of...
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 33m
And we can modify them.

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Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With Four Risk Factors
Heart attacks and strokes rarely occur without warning.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 33m
As close as the International Space Station.

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A Rock Just Came Within 270 Miles of Hitting Earth – And We Only Noticed After
Earth was grazed by a tiny asteroid last week, which passed about as close as the International Space Station (ISS).
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 34m
Supplements aren't risk-free.

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Do Picky Eater Kids Need Supplements? An Expert Explains The Facts.
Walk down the health aisle of any supermarket and you'll see shelves lined with brightly packaged vitamin and mineral supplements designed for children.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 37m
A pivotal moment in history.

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A 3,000-Year-Old Workshop May Have Revealed The Origins of The Iron Age
The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop calle...
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 38m
The secret ingredient: flavanols.

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Cocoa Extract Supplements Could Reduce Aging-Related Chronic Inflammation
An extract made from cocoa beans may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by reducing age-related inflammation, according to a recent study by an international team of researchers.
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David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 39m
Keep calm.

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4 Plane Failures That Are More Common - And Less Dangerous - Than You Think
"It is the closest all of us passengers ever want to come to a plane crash," a Qantas flight QF1889's passenger said after the plane suddenly descended about 20,000 feet on Monday September 22, and di...
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