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Is the world changing too fast for you? You may feel that way with each new revelation of the alleged powers of Generative Pre-trained Transformers – better known as GPT-3.5 and now GPT-4 – which use deep learning from the Internet to produce human-like text and serve as the platform for chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s PaLM and Microsoft’s Bing AI. Well, it is time to speed up your own learning process as AI…
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When we look out into space, all of the astrophysical objects that we see are embedded in magnetic fields. This is true not only in the neighborhood of stars and planets, but also in the deep space between galaxies and galactic clusters. These fields are weak — typically much weaker than those of a refrigerator magnet — but they are dynamically significant in the sense that they have profound effects on the dynamics of the…
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However, despite recent findings that suggest plesiosaurs were adapted to tolerate freshwater and might have even spent their entire lives in it, a research project published to the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by scientist Paul Scofield showed that plesiosaurs were actually very unlikely to ever lift their heads above the water. It is much more likely, according to Scofield, that plesiosaurs used their long necks to dredge the seafloor. “They have these enormous teeth arranged…
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This article is more than two years old and was last updated in October 2021. The Mel Meter is a paranormal multi-tool designed by Gary Galka, a name that may be familiar to some as Gary occasionally appears on the long-running US ghost hunting show, ‘Ghost Adventures’. He invents paranormal investigation tools for Zak Bagans and the rest of the show’s team. The device is named after Gary’s late daughter, the word Mel is short…
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If you believe in the paranormal you might not be surprised if you hear stories of deceased loved ones appearing during the night, huge explosions heard just as someone is drifting off with no obvious cause, and other peculiar occurrences. But what if you don’t? My interest in the paranormal started with an impromptu coffee with a colleague, Chris French, who researches reports of paranormal experiences. He told me stories of countless people who had recounted…