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v1eX7 A new print-in-place technique for electronics is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin, researchers report. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos, and bandages tricked out with patient-specific biosensors.
AD7Dl TIL from Paul Stamets “6 ways mushrooms can save the world” TED talk, that mushrooms and mycelium are powerful antibiotic agents with many potential untapped applications in pharmaceuticals, pesticides, terraforming other planets, ecological healing/the reestablishment of biospheres, and much more.
QVGa TIL that Nazis presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer and launched the first and most broadly reaching anti-smoking campaign of modern times.
x64kk TIL Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through our atmosphere and is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air