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Thu. 07/15 - NASA, Don’t Flub on Hubble Trouble


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It’s not mind reading, but a man’s ability to convey words is partially restored through electrodes and machine learning; NASA carefully prepares to press Control-Alt-Delete on the Hubble Space Telescope; look to the skies, the Perseids are coming; inexplicable black ice worms emerge by the billions from glaciers; and happy 22nd birthday, MetaFilter.

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  • Links:

    Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak (New York Times)
  • ‘Neuroprosthesis’ restores words to man with paralysis (Science Daily)
  • Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria (New England Journal of Medicine)
  • BCI milestone: New research from UCSF with support from Facebook shows the potential of brain-computer interfaces for restoring speech communication (Facebook Reality Labs)
  • Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)
  • In praise of celestial mechanics (The Economist)
  • James Webb Space Telescope (Wikipedia)
  • Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed (EarthSky)
  • The ‘Best Meteor Shower Of The Year’ Is Happening. Here’s How You Can See It (NPR)
  • Perseid Meteors 2021: All You Need To Know (EarthSky)
  • It’s Summer, And That Means The Mysterious Return Of Glacier Ice Worms (NPR)
  • Happy birthday, Metafilter! (MetaFilter)
  • Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)


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