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1.10.2 🐈 Sunday Links... Coughing Trees, NASA Cat Video, Ancient Dinner, Explaining AI and Deep Fakes

1.10.2 🐈 Sunday Links... Coughing Trees, NASA Cat Video, Ancient Dinner, Explaining AI and Deep Fakes
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This Sunday our links feature a cat named Taters whose high definition video of them chasing a laser pointer was sent 19 million miles to test their new laser communications technology in deep space. There's also fun stuff that happens when you're at high altitudes, trees that cough, someone who forgot to eat their dinner a couple thousand years ago, an explanation of deep fakes, and more. Plus a video of Taters chasing a dot from a laser pointer.

6 weird things that happen to your body at high altitude
https://www.advnture.com/features/weird-things-that-happen-at-altitude

Remains of an ancient dinner still sit in a Bronze Age village 2,850 years later
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/britain-pompeii-science-newsletter-wt-scn/

How A Cat Became The Star Of The First Ultra HD Video Sent From Space
https://www.slashgear.com/1542665/taters-the-cat-first-ultra-hd-video-from-space/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-from-deep-space-via-laser
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2024/1/29/the-nasa-cat-video-explained/
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GvJtVOmFs5Q

'Drinking bird' toys upgraded to generate clean energy from water
https://newatlas.com/energy/drinking-bird-toy-generator/

Trees "Coughing" as They Fail to Capture Excess CO2
https://futurism.com/the-byte/trees-struggling-co2

Science shocker: Light can vaporize water without heat, says MIT study
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/science-shocker-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-says-mit-study

How I Explained AI and Deepfakes Using Only Basic Vietnamese
https://themarkup.org/languages-of-misinformation/2024/04/25/how-i-explained-ai-and-deepfakes-using-only-basic-vietnamese

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