From Phantom Limbs to Alien Comets
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From Phantom Limbs to Alien Comets
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This episode of Above the Noise covers breakthroughs and oddities at every frontier: brain maps that stay stable after limb loss, new ways to forecast dengue outbreaks, microbes surviving millions of years beneath the seafloor, and the transporter that finally solves a 30-year brain nutrient mystery. We’ll dive into AI’s wild progress, from Google Gemini Live’s upgrades to Alibaba’s open-source video generator, plus Databricks’ $100B valuation against the reality that 95% of corporate AI projects fail. In tech and business, OpenAI and Oracle are building a 4.5-gigawatt data center deal, Coinbase is betting on AI-powered stablecoin payments, and humanoid robots still guzzle energy like clumsy toddlers. Health stories bring us gut bacteria linked to depression, DMT’s possible role in near-death visions, and Russia’s “Noah’s Ark” biosatellite. And in the Weird & Wonderful: medieval fake travel stories, an interstellar comet that might be artificial, a living fossil fish caught on film, Stalin-era ape-human hybrid experiments, Bill Gates’ hydrogen superyacht, and a 13th-century knight found under a Polish ice cream shop.