BrutulTM
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They're not going to be building transmission lines out of this stuff any time soon. It will be a massive invention if they can just use it internally in microchips.
Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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They're not going to be building transmission lines out of this stuff any time soon. It will be a massive invention if they can just use it internally in microchips.
BrutulTM
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I've heard that all of the lithium ion batteries in the world have enough capacity to power the US grid for like 3 minutes if you could somehow hook them all up. Without huge advances in battery tech we aren't going to be running the grid on batteries anytime soon either.
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Tuco
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Would be fun to have a website that tracks breakthroughs and summarizes the reason it didn't break through shit.
"NEW DRUG EVISCERATES CANCER" ... "kills the patient..."
"NEW BATTERY TECH STORES 10X ENERGY AS LiON!" ... "loses charge in 3 seconds..."
"NEW PROPELLENTLESS DRIVE" ... "just reacts to the earth's magnetic field..."
Sadly, most areas of research don't terminate with the authors admitting defeat, but instead just drag on as long as the authors can find $$$ to continue research. Which is good. Scientists spending their entire career doggedly pursuing a few ideas and faking it till they make it is how break throughs get made.
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Sweet smell of success: Simple fragrance method produces major memory boost
When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie...
www.sciencedaily.com
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Saw the headlines for this, going to try it for my mother in law and myself/the wifeSweet smell of success: Simple fragrance method produces major memory boost
When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie...www.sciencedaily.com
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interesting.Sweet smell of success: Simple fragrance method produces major memory boost
When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie...www.sciencedaily.com
Here's the article:
Frontiers | Overnight olfactory enrichment using an odorant diffuser improves memory and modifies the uncinate fasciculus in older adults
ObjectiveCognitive loss in older adults is a growing issue in our society, and there is a need to develop inexpensive, simple, effective in-home treatments. ...
www.frontiersin.org
hmmm
here's the products being looked at.
Procter & Gamble Launches Brand Geared to De-Stress Gen-Z
The line features calming essential oil scents in ‘cosmic packaging.’
www.beautypackaging.com
Lavender 40/42 Essential Oil
Oil of Lavender French - 40/42% Lavandula officinalis USA, Bulgaria, France Cultivated. This is a standardized French Lavender essential oil.
www.essentialoil.com
Despite the minimal variety of olfactory exposure each night, we observed a clear, statistically significant (Timepoint x Group interaction, F = 6.63, p = 0.02, Cohen’s d = 1.08, a large-size effect) 226% difference between enriched and control older adults in performance on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT; last learning trial A5; Figure 2). This test evaluates verbal learning and memory, including proactive interference, retroactive interference, delayed recall, retention, and recognition memory. We found that 3 of 11 Controls improved, 1 of 11 stayed the same, 7 of 11 did worse. Among the Enriched group, 6 of 12 improved, 5 of 12 stayed the same, 1 of 12 did worse
I'm not familiar enough with the RAVLT to understand how this result substantiates the headline of "Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group". For me, if you tell me a list of 15 words and ask me to repeat them back in order and I get 5 of them right, and then you have me sleep-sniff essential oil scent of dog farts for 6 months and ask me to repeat that test and tell me I improved by 226%, I'd better have repeated 18.3 of these fucking words, not +0.9 of them.
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I mean it makes sense on some level. Humans very strongly associate smells or tastes with specific memories or experiences. Even if you can’t recall the specific experience or memory, you still recognize it as having been previously experienced, so your brain is working to make those connections even if the original data was from decades ago
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I'm not an expert to say that there isn't anything to any of that study, but literally anything involving essential oils immediately triggers my skepticism. I'm sure they are a decent way to get different scents, but everything about essential oils is a massive scam focused on just selling more essential oils, so I'd much rather see a version that didn't focus on those.
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It probably has less to do with essential oils than what the person associated the smell with. Oils are probably just an easier way to disperse the smells
Like if they used rose oil and as a kid your grandparents had roses in their garden, your brain starts making connections because of the memory associated with the smell
Like if they used rose oil and as a kid your grandparents had roses in their garden, your brain starts making connections because of the memory associated with the smell
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Not really the same thing but since I go around listening to podcasts all day I've noticed when a podcast has a rerun I can always remember what I was doing the first time I heard the podcast and as I listen to it I can remember being in the tractor stacking bales or whatever I was doing the first time it played even if it was years ago.
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I listen to audio books while driving and doing yard work and I have a confused jumble of conflated connections to parts of a story and what I was doing at the time. I blitzed through the entire Cradle series while recovering from a surgery for a week and now whenever I remember that book series I think of the time I spent sitting in my zero gravity chair on my deck.
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Sound/music has long been a mnemonic aid, so I'm not surprised that smell is too. I just can't ever buy an essential oil, so I'd need the scents from something else.
Whenever I listen to a particular album (Omen - Warning of Danger) I remember the Riftwar books by Raymond E. Feist, because I was reading them when I bought that album and played it on repeat for days. Same with Megadeth - Rust in Peace and this hot girl I did Biology lab with in college. She was into the same music so we played it all the time when writing up our reports. To hurt my theory, however, I have no fucking clue what her name was!
The Brady Bunch had an episode about them making a song to remember some facts for a test even. I can't find any clips of it, but it happened I swear!
Whenever I listen to a particular album (Omen - Warning of Danger) I remember the Riftwar books by Raymond E. Feist, because I was reading them when I bought that album and played it on repeat for days. Same with Megadeth - Rust in Peace and this hot girl I did Biology lab with in college. She was into the same music so we played it all the time when writing up our reports. To hurt my theory, however, I have no fucking clue what her name was!
The Brady Bunch had an episode about them making a song to remember some facts for a test even. I can't find any clips of it, but it happened I swear!
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Scientists finally uncover complete Y-chromosome sequence
Scientists have cracked the Y chromosome mystery, providing a full genetic map of the male sex chromosome. This breakthrough will help us decode conditions ranging from infertility to cancer.
interestingengineering.com
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Lmao probably not though because 99% of funding goes to female medical issues.Scientists finally uncover complete Y-chromosome sequence
Scientists have cracked the Y chromosome mystery, providing a full genetic map of the male sex chromosome. This breakthrough will help us decode conditions ranging from infertility to cancer.
