Today, you’ll learn about a groundbreaking new treatment for hair loss caused by autoimmune skin disease, a condition that affects the imagination, and the gadget that will put a cold brew coffee in your cup in minutes instead of hours.

Hair Loss Treatment

• “New treatment could reverse hair loss caused by an autoimmune skin disease.” by Anne Trafton. 2024.
• “Microneedle-mediated Delivery of Immunomodulators Restores Immune Privilege in Hair Follicles and Reverses Immune-Mediated Alopecia.” by Nour Younis, et al. 2024.

Aphantasia

• “Aphantasia linked to abnormal brain responses to imagined and observed actions.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• “What It’s Like to Be ‘Mind Blind’.” by Nayantara Dutta. 2022.
• “Explicit and implicit motor simulations are impaired in individuals with aphantasia.” by William Dupont, et al. 2024.

Ultrasound Coffee

• “Cold brew coffee in under 3 minutes? Ultrasound makes it possible.” by Paul Ridden. 2024.
• “Laser-extracted cold-brew coffee could be a Monday-morning game changer.” by Loz Blain. 2022.

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Today, you’ll learn about the possible link between asthma, ADHD, and income in children, how whale communication is much more complex than we thought, and the secret lithium hidden away for millions of years under Pennsylvania.

Asthma & ADHD

• “ADHD, asthma, and economic hardship: New research suggests a causal pathway.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• “Associations between symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, socioeconomic status and asthma in children.” by Makiko Omura, et al. 2024.

Whale Codas

• “Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalizations.” by Pratyusha Sharma, et al. 2024.
• “Behaviors: Communicating.” Sperm Whales: Dominica. 2018.

Hidden Lithium

• “Estimates of lithium mass yields from produced water sourced from the Devonian-aged Marcellus Shale.” by Justin Mackey. 2024.
• “The Middle Devonian.” Palaeos. 2000.

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Today, you’ll learn about an accidental discovery of a dial in the brainstem that controls the body’s inflammation level, how centipedes might offer a treatment for kidney disease, and the problem with bringing back our deceased loved ones using AI.

Brainstem Dial

• “Found: the dial in the brain that controls the immune system.” by Giorgia Guglielmi. 2024.
• “Your brain could be controlling how sick you get - and how you recover.” by Diana Kwon. 2023.
• “Tissues, not blood, are where immune cells function.” by Donna L. Farber. 2021.

Centipedes & Kidneys

• “Centipedes used in traditional Chinese medicine offer leads for kidney treatment.” ACS. 2024.
• “Giant Redheaded Centipede.” Missouri Department of Conservation. 2024.
• “Structurally Diverse Alkaloids with Anti-Renal-Fibrosis Activity from the Centipede Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans.” by Bin-Yuan Hu, et al. 2024.

AI Ghosts

• “Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones.” University of Cambridge. 2024.
• “Griefbots, Deadbots, Postmortem Avatars: on Responsible Applications of Generative AI in the Digital Afterlife Industry.” by Tomasz Hollanek & Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska. 2024.
• “Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence.” LCFI. 2024.

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