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Good idea: custom shelters for amphibians
https://www.ecowatch.com/frogs-shelter-protection-fungus-temperature-conservation.html
Biologists have created small hotspot shelters that operate like little saunas to help vulnerable and endangered amphibians fight off a fast-spreading and deadly fungal disease that has been a major threat to amphibians for decades.
Researchers from Macquarie University and the University of Melbourne developed the shelters as a way to help amphibians ward off chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease of the skin.
'Like a Mini Med Spa for Frogs': Biologists Develop Shelters to Help Vulnerable and Endangered Amphibians Fight Disease - EcoWatch
Biologists have created small hotspot shelters to help vulnerable and endangered frogs and other amphibians fight off a deadly fungal disease.
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Good idea: use dead leaves for bags and paper
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/06/23/european-cities-give-their-dead-leaves-to-this-startup-to-turn-them-into-shopping-bags-and
Using dead leaves rather than healthy trees to make paper: that's the idea behind Ukrainian startup Releaf Paper.
While still at school, founder Valentyn Frechka used his passion for biochemistry to find new ways to make cellulose, the key ingredient in paper.
After a failed experiment with grass and straw, he discovered that it was possible to extract fibre from leaves.
This Ukrainian startup is making paper without cutting down trees
The paper industry buys more than 30% of all the industrial wood sold worldwide.
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Good Idea: Think of LLMs as synthesizers
https://thesephist.com/posts/synth/
A synthesizer produces music very differently than an acoustic instrument. It produces music at the lowest level of abstraction, as mathematical models of sound waves. It begins with raw waveforms defined as oscillators, which get transmogrified through a sequence of filters and modulators before reaching our ears.The understanding of sound and writing as mathematical objects revolutionized music and language processing. Just as synthesizers transformed music by creating sounds from mathematical models rather than natural materials, LLMs enable new ways of processing and generating text through interpretable features. This approach allows for precise editing of concepts and styles within text, akin to manipulating sound waves in music production. The analogy underscores how advances in mathematical understanding open new creative possibilities and tools, transforming both artistic expression and cognitive processes.
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Good idea: understand how a child learns language
https://lithub.com/how-babies-and-young-children-learn-to-understand-language/
Babies astoundingly start learning language even before birth, picking up on the rhythmic patterns of their caregivers' speech while still in the womb. Once born, they quickly begin to distinguish and process the sounds they've been familiarized with, using innate abilities to parse continuous streams of speech into recognizable words. By their first birthday, infants eagerly mimic and experiment with language, gradually building their vocabulary and understanding grammatical structures through natural immersion and interaction with their environment.
How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language
How children learn language has long been of interest to those concerned with its evolution. The idea that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ has been promoted, which means the stages o…
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Good Idea: Solar Power
Paywalled: https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar-power-is-going-to-be-huge
Free: https://archive.is/yStc7
Photovoltaic cells convert sunlight directly into electricity and are central to solar energy systems. In 2023, around 70 billion of these silicon-based cells were produced globally. Solar energy is gaining traction due to its low operational costs, lack of emissions, and minimal maintenance. The rapid growth is driven by falling costs, economies of scale, and technological advances, allowing for quicker installations. Despite challenges like nighttime power availability and grid integration, advancements in battery technology are making solar power more viable. Solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts by 2023, far exceeding earlier forecasts, and is expected to become the largest energy source by the 2040s, significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
Sun Machines
Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge
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Good Idea: Prepare for Unplugust
https://www.opal.so/blog/how-to-successfully-digital-detox
The ministry will also go unplugged this august for #Unplugust
In order to prepare yourself, go outside this sunday, shut off your phone (after telling your importants), read a book, meet friends, make music etc.
How To Successfully Digital Detox: A Comprehensive Guide | Opal
Discover the art of successful digital detox with our comprehensive guide. Take control of your digital life and find balance.
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Good Idea: Do not hope for mars as backup plan
https://www.asimov.press/p/grow-mars
Transforming Mars into a habitable planet faces insurmountable challenges, including extreme radiation, toxic soil, freezing temperatures, and a severe lack of accessible water. Despite advancements in synthetic biology, creating life that can survive on Mars is unlikely.
Given these obstacles, it makes more sense to focus on restoring Earth, where life already thrives and where our efforts can yield more immediate, impactful results. Prioritizing the healing of our own planet is both a practical and scientifically sound strategy for ensuring a sustainable future for humanity.
Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars*
Making sense of progress in biotechnology. Visit our website: press.asimov.com
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Good Idea: See systems for what they are
https://www.population.fyi/p/don-quixotes-fried-eggs-the-purpose
In "Don Quixote," Cervantes intended to mock chivalric romances, but the novel ended up celebrating the noble ideals he meant to criticize. This irony reflects a broader truth: systems and policies often produce results that contradict their original goals. For example, progressive housing policies in San Francisco have led to high rents, while more relaxed policies in Austin and Houston have been more effective. Similarly, political ideologies don't always align with practical outcomes, as seen in varying unemployment benefits and family support. Ultimately, what matters is what a system actually does, not what it claims to do.
Don Quixote's Fried Eggs: Purpose Of A System Is What It Does
“And he who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a special courier. He asked me, or to be truthful, he begged me to send him Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue would be taught, and it was his wish that the book to be read should be the History of Don Quixote.” - Miguel de Cervantes’s Dedication of Volume II .
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Good Idea: Biodegradable Environmental Sensors
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01824-w
Recent breakthroughs have led to the development of biodegradable sensors which, after collecting data, break down into byproducts that are harmless to their surroundings. Using these sensors to collect ecological data on vast scales and in fine resolution could transform our management and understanding of natural ecosystems.
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Recent breakthroughs have led to the development of biodegradable sensors which, after collecting data, break down into byproducts that are harmless to their...
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