Links for 2022-09-02
A fully animated explanation for how solar panels work: https://youtu.be/L_q6LRgKpTw
"Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?…game of submarine hide-and-seek may be approaching the point at which submarines can no longer elude detection and simply disappear. It may come as early as 2050" https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-submarine
‘Post-Quantum’ Cryptography Scheme Is Cracked on a Laptop https://www.quantamagazine.org/post-quantum-cryptography-scheme-is-cracked-on-a-laptop-20220824/
"Across 11 world regions, male and female faces rated as more attractive were rated as more confident, emotionally stable, intelligent, responsible, sociable, and trustworthy... evidence that the 'attractiveness halo effect' can be found cross-culturally." https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-022-03575-0
“White students reported spending an average of 56 minutes per day on homework compared with 37 minutes among Black students and 50 minutes among Hispanic students. Meanwhile, Asian students spent substantially more time per day on homework than students of any other racial or ethnic group at 134 minutes per day.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/07311214221101422
“We discovered that rapid eye movements (REM) during sleep provide a readout of the internal representation of head direction, suggesting they could reveal gaze shifts in dreams.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562880436694421506.html
Scientists Grow “Synthetic” Embryo With Brain and Beating Heart – Without Eggs or Sperm https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-grow-synthetic-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-without-eggs-or-sperm/
New fossil: bipedalism is really old (7M years) in the hominin lineage. Much older than things like fire, stone tools, etc. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04901-z