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Artists transform vacant hospital
Super cool project where 70 artists transformed a vacant hospital into something interesting.
Through July 31, visitors experience an alternative vision for communal healing, all through the lens of 70 artists. Dubbed the Hospital of Emotions, the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into temporary installations based on eight themes: joy, love, fear, anger, hope, sadness, compassion, and resilience. Among the participating artists are Lisa Waud, whose lush florals spill across an operating room, and Greg Corbino, who built a barren forest from cardboard.
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Smart glasses in warfare
Smart glasses in warfare is a natural application of the technology.
Depending on the situation, the glasses for either prototype will overlay certain information onto a soldier’s field of view. This might be as simple as a compass or as complex as an entire map of the area, information about where nearby drones are flying, or AI-driven recognition of a target like a truck.
The soldier would then speak to the interface in plain language—for example, to order an evacuation for someone who’s been injured or to plan a route taking into account which areas are off limits.
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Beta Moms
A Beta Mom might be a new parenting trend.
Despite the name, “Beta Mom” isn’t about being passive or checked out. If anything, it’s a pushback against competitive, high-pressure parenting culture.
Many of the moms identifying with this trend are millennials (and some Gen Xers) who grew up with intense expectations themselves. They have packed schedules, achievement pressure, and the idea that success had to be engineered from childhood.
Now, they’re questioning that whole model.
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An interview with Fiona Cauley
That’s kind of my number one reason for doing all of this. I don’t think I initially understood what an impact bringing a neuromuscular disease or disability into mainstream comedy would have. Most people have a very two-dimensional concept of what disability is and what it looks like. I am a wheelchair user, but I’m not paralyzed. I have a neurological disorder, and people can get upset that I can move my legs.
It’s true. There’s still a large portion of the population that has a very narrow scope of disability.
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Instant coffee, how does it work
Apparently, instant coffee is a technological marvel.
Creating instant coffee required developing techniques to extract the soluble molecules in coffee from the insoluble plant matter without destroying the fragile compounds that make coffee worth drinking.
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Cocaine pollution affects fish
Drugs in wastewater isn’t new, but we now have evidence of its environmental affects.
Juvenile Atlantic salmon that were artificially exposed to the drug and its main breakdown product swam further and dispersed more widely across a lake, suggesting the substances can affect where the fish go, what they eat and how vulnerable they are to predators.
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Scientists have said before that pollution from common drugs poses “a major and escalating risk to biodiversity” and have called on pharmaceutical companies to make greener medicines that breakdown in the environment. Concerns over the contaminants have been fuelled by reports of trout “addicted” to methamphetamine and perch losing their fear of predators because of antidepressant medications.
