Crazy things happening in the world this week. The header image of this post (well, the one in the header is a copy) was sold for $1.36 million. This NFT stuff still goes over my head, but seems like is something that will stick around, whether it really makes sense to burn energy this way… anyway, all hail capitalism I guess. There have been quite a lot of news on the topic, if you are interested[1,2,3]
MindPong revisited
Really cool video from P. Nuyujukian, going into all the details of the latest advances shown by Neuralink last week. It really was like watching a movie director’s cut.
Look at that one!
Astonishing collection of science-related images, made by Nature each month
Brace yourselves, they are coming
I knew at some they would stop dancing…
The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios, on theverge.com
The end of paywalls on papers?
It seems we crossed the point of no return in going open-access, but is is not clear at all which is going to be the final model. An interesting debate is ongoing, as many institutions are pushing for making every public research publicly available, but that often interferes with journal publishers. You can read a nice piece on the topic here:
A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing, on nature.com
Technologies that shaped music
Really cool video by Rick Beato on 20 inventions that revolutionized music. While I would have added some (I cannot believe mp3 and microphones did not make into the list!), the video is a nice take on the history of music.
Get out of here, stalker!
The film that keeps on giving. OpenCulture posted this week a video I did not know about on the history behind the movie. Really interesting.
The Story of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Troubled (and Even Deadly) Sci-Fi Masterpiece, on openculture.com
And that’s it for the week. Stay safe!
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