Featured Links - August 19, 2024

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

The entrance to Frenchman's Bay

• Cutting-Edge Brain Implant Gives Patient With ALS His Real Voice Back – With A Little Help From AI. "The team behind the brain-computer interface say it’s the most accurate system ever."
• Has Reducing Ship Emissions Brought Forward Global Warming? "Analysis of recent temperature anomalies indicates Northern Hemisphere surface temperature anomalies in 2022–2023 are correlated with observed cloud radiative forcing and the cloud radiative forcing is spatially correlated with the simulated radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping emission changes. Shipping emissions changes could be accelerating global warming."
• We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses - here's how (archive.ph link). "Cases of prostate cancer are surging alarmingly around the world. Thankfully, we are developing more accurate tests that can catch the condition early." An important article for men aged 50 and over.
• VIDEO: Chilling Secret Recording Exposes Project 2025 Agenda. "A secret recording has revealed project 2025 plans. MSNBC’s Jason Johnson reports and is joined by Democratic Strategist Aisha Mills and Ofirah Yheskel, former adviser for Tim Walz." If what they've revealed is chilling, what is the stuff that the Project 2025 leader won't talk about publicly? 
• ‘World’s smallest disco’ spins diamonds 1.2 billion RPM for quantum gravity. "Spinning the diamond at incredible speeds, the researchers observed how this rotation uniquely impacted the spin qubits, a phenomenon known as the Berry phase." I understand very little of the science behind this experiment, but the technology is seriously impressive. 
• Gmail Users Beware—This Simple Mistake Could Wreck Your Privacy. 'Making this mistake not only compromises your privacy, but also has the potential to compromise account security beyond the boundary of just email. Stop being “clever” with your email address or you could be leaking confidential information like a sieve.'
• Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach. It may not be "3 billion people" but it's a lot of stolen data, and yours may be in it. 
• The secret movement bringing Europe’s wildlife back from the brink. 'It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d read a magazine article about how the beaver was indigenous to Belgium, though it had long been nearly extinct. Bringing beavers back, he thought, “would be a great project.”'