Monday, January 13, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jan 13, 2025


 
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vol II No 8

207 links Curated

Snowball Earth, may have created the conditions for complex multi-cellular life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life-20240724/

Tags: #snowball #seawater #viscous #algae #diffusion #Chlamydomonas

Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/

Tags: #VMWare #KVM #license #open-source #Broadcom #VMDK

research increasingly suggests that the music we love can have a huge boost to our health
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/hope-sings-eternal-can-listening-to-music-help-you-cheat-death/

Tags: #music #Tregoning #isolation #co-operation #Cortisol

Science fiction as part of an important feedback loop with real scientific and technological innovation.
https://issues.org/science-fiction-policy-tool-finn/

Tags: #adjacent #imagination #ruleset #Protopia #Specialization #siloed

An enormous, extremely well preserved dinosaur skull unearthed in China belongs to a never-before-seen species
https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/enormous-skull-of-200-million-year-old-giant-dinosaur-discovered-in-china

Tags: #Yunnan #sauropodomorph #Hettangian #Jurassic #herbivore

~fin~

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