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Friday Nite Videos | June 15, 2018

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Jeff Sessions Cites the Bible in Separating Children From Parents. Mississippi John Hurt | You Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley. The Courage to Change | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Stupid Watergate II. Where Did Viruses Come From?

Where Did Viruses Come From?

 
There are fossils of viruses, of sorts, preserved in the DNA of the hosts that they’ve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from, how they evolved and even whether viruses are alive.

How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech

John Rennie Quanta Magazine
By paying more attention to behaviors, and not just to the activity of neurons, two researchers critical of most neuroscience learned how brains make sense of spoken language.

Study Links Breast Cancer Rates with Neighborhood Factors

Kristen Thometz WTTW - Public TV in Chicago
An increase in overall neighborhood socioeconomic status should result in better health for residents, not worse health. But because these neighborhoods were still low-income, they didn’t have as many resources such as health care facilities and access to mammography and follow-up care.

Friday Nite Videos | June 1, 2018

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Greatest Scam Ever: Televangelist Begs for a Private Jet. Dave Van Ronk | He Was a Friend of Mine. Why Did Two Sexes Evolve? Conservatives Narrow Down the Real Cause of Gun Violence. Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, Conservatives Demolish Public Education.

Why Did Two Sexes Evolve?

The origin of the sexes is a very interesting question in theoretical biology. This video covers a famous hypothesis for the evolution of the sexes: The Hurst-Hamilton Hypothesis.

Friday Nite Videos | May 25, 2018

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Trump Cancels NK Summit, Pushes Crazy Spy Claim. Teach Your Children | Playing For Change. The Break With Michelle Wolf. The Truth About the Money Bail Industry | John Legend. How Researchers Are Teaching AI to Learn Like a Child.

How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World

Lizzie Wade Science
Hunter-gatherers didn’t learn farming themselves, or from their immediate neighbors, but rather from distant people moving into their territory—a pattern that may have played out throughout this part of the globe.

AI Mimics Brain Codes for Navigation

Francesco Savelli & James J. Knierim Nature
An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.
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