Interesting Things with JC #490: "Heart Disease and Gray Hair" - An observational study found that the amount of gray hair in adult men is associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

Ref - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehj.2017.07.001

Interesting Things with JC #483: "A Story Written by ChatGPT" - ChatGPT is a prototype of an AI chatbot made by OpenAI. It focuses on being easy to use and communicating. The chatbot is built on the GPT-3.5 architecture and uses a huge language model that it learned through reinforcement learning. This story about a woman named Alice and her flying machine was written by ChatGPT on 6 Dec 2022. This is a Royalty Free Educational/Informational recording available for fair use.

Please visit https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ to learn more about this revolutionary breakthrough in AI development.

Interesting Things with JC #480: "Stan Munro - Toothpick World" - He combines technical blueprints, satellite imagery, building owners, and drone footage to build authentic toothpick buildings.

Interesting Things with JC #475: "2 New Minerals Discovered in Meteorite" - The minerals were discovered within a slice of the ninth-largest meteorite ever discovered, the El Ali meteorite, which crashed in Somalia in 2020.

Ref - https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/11/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html

Interesting Things with JC #474: "Nanorobotic Antibodies" - Professor Yanay Ofran has developed the first nanorobotic antibodies, tailored to combat cancer, now in human trials.

Interesting Things with JC #472: "Black Olives" - Green table olives are made edible by putting them in lye, while black olives turn black by being exposed to air!

Interesting Things with JC #469: "I-35 Little Czech Bakery" - They sell fresh Czech pastries, coffee, travel pillows, and tamales, and is a typical Texas rest stop too. A poster in the store says that each week, the Czech Stop bakes with more than 1,200 pounds of cream cheese, 9,000 pounds of flour, 750 gallons of milk, 2,400 pounds of butter, 1,300 pounds of sausage, 2,100 dozen eggs, and 2,500 pounds of American cheese.

They’re the home of Kolache (pronounced "koh-LAH-chee") and klobasnek (pronounced "klo-BAH-snik") which are Czech pastries that is wildly popular in Texas.

Interesting Things with JC #465: “Calvin Klein” Limited was a startup coat boutique in the York Hotel that opened in 1968 with $10,000. The original Calvin Klein collection was comprised of "young, uncomplicated coats and dresses".

Interesting Things with JC #463: "Possible Habitable Super-Earth Discovered" - 105 lightyears away from Earth, scientists have discovered two Super-Earth planets near the star LP 890-9. They believe that one of these two planets could support life.

Delrez L. et al, Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022

Interesting Things with JC #462: "Aztec Medicines" - The Aztecs are famous for their ancient pyramids and chocolate recipes, but their medicines may have been as advanced as drugs used today.

Interesting Things with JC #461: "Where Traditional Kampo Medicines of Japan Came From" - Researchers from Japan and China, led by Professor Toshihiko Matsuo of Okayama University's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, conducted a thorough review of available Chinese, Japanese, and English literature in order to shed light on a long-standing mystery.

Interesting Things with JC #460: "Scientists Create a Miniature Universe" - A group of physicists utilized a "quantum field simulator" to model an expanding ultracold atom cosmos, in a lab.

Viermann, Celia & Sparn, Marius & Liebster, Nikolas & Hans, Maurus & Kath, Elinor & Parra-López, Álvaro & Tolosa-Simeón, Mireia & Sánchez-Kuntz, Natalia & Haas, Tobias & Strobel, Helmut & Floerchinger, Stefan & Oberthaler, Markus. (2022). Quantum field simulator for dynamics in curved spacetime. Nature. 611. 260-264. 10.1038/s41586-022-05313-9.

Interesting Things #459: "Crystals That Generate Electricity From Heat" - A new study shows that simple changes to a synthetic copper mineral's composition can give it a complex structure and microstructure, laying the groundwork for properties that could change the way industry generates electricity.

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Interesting Things with JC #451: "Vitamin D Deficiency" - Vitamin D's main job is to keep the right amount of calcium and phosphorus in the blood, which is important for keeping bones strong. Experts say that our modern way of life is one of the primary causes of vitamin D deficiency.

Interesting Things with JC #449: "International Sandwich Day"—Every year on November 3, the unofficial holiday commemorates the birthday of John Montagu and the naming of the Sandwich!

Interesting Things with JC #447: "Princeton Physicists Find Room-Temperature Quantum State".

Interesting Things with JC #445: “World Record Jack-O-Lantern” - A gardener in Minnesota is turning the biggest pumpkin ever grown in the United States, which weighs 2,560 pounds (1,186 kg), into the biggest jack-o'-lantern ever made.

Interesting Things with JC #427: "Roy Hamilton" infused the Great American Songbook with soul by fusing semi-classical technique with passionate traditional black gospel. Many singers covered his 1955 hit "Unchained Melody."

Interesting Things with JC #424: "World Porridge Day" is an annual celebration held on the 10th of October.

Interesting Things with JC #419: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) began broadcasting on October 5, 1970, when National Educational Television (NET) was renamed PBS.