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5/ Whether the sleeper-agent story is even true is still an open question. Five specimens. So far. Full 3-minute video: youtube.com/watch?v=MThZbW…
4/ The molecular clock puts the lineage at around 65 million years old, roughly when the dinosaurs went out — a point estimate inside a 50–80-million-year window, so hold it loosely. Everything we know rests on five specimens from three sites in Yunnan.
1/ In the mountains of Yunnan, researchers found a fungus growing on oak roots that matched nothing in the record books. Not just a new species — a new genus, and a whole new family. They named it Dianjunus rex. D-rex for short — the Jurassic Park fungus.
The full breakdown is in the new Control Group video — including how this same trick was used to check last week's digital fly brain against real flies. Sequel to the sequel. youtu.be/QSl-wUYhWTY?is…
And the human turn: in 2021, a man blind for nearly 40 years received a light-sensitive protein plus goggles that translate the world into amber light pulses — and learned to find a notebook on a table, 92% of the time. One patient. Partial vision. Proof of concept, not a cure.
This week's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to a light switch. For the brain. 🧵
5/ So nobody uploaded a mind. But 91% of circuit predictions matching real experiments — from a wiring diagram alone — is the most startling neuroscience result of the year. The full three-minute story is up now. ⬇️ 6/ youtu.be/dKKU0GTMZLM?is…
4/ The honest part headlines skip: Eon's own write-up admits the walking wasn't the brain's doing. Pre-trained body controllers do the walking; the brain model sends only high-level commands — a driver working pedals. The map is real; the walk was rehearsed.
1/ In March, a startup put a computer model of a fly brain into a simulated fly body. It walked. It groomed its antennae. When its legs tasted sugar, it reached out to feed. And on Monday, the technique used to test that model won the Nobel Prize. 🧵
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