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    RIP Jane Goodall (91), primatologist and conservationist

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347 https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/459238450/jane-goodall-primatologist-dead-91 https://whyy.org/articles/jane-goodall-died-chimpanzee-research-environomental-advocacy/...
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    Music Favorite songs (cont.)

    I just discovered this song "What I'd Say" by Barbara Lynn & Clarence Brown
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    B Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1% risk of a multi-megaton impact in 2032 (now ruled out)

    https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/2024-yr4/ There has been some noise about hitting the moon, and some persons want to sent a nuclear warhead to try and explode the asteroid. Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon. Scientists propose nuking it before that happens...
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    Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation

    https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/c-h-activation/Chemists-finally-know-palladium-beats/103/web/2025/09
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    RIP Claudine Cardinale

    Claudia Cardinale, Italian Movie Star Who Appeared in ‘Pink Panther,’ ‘8 1/2,’ Dies at 87 https://variety.com/2025/film/news/claudia-cardinale-dead-pink-panther-leopard-1236527489/ I remember her from the Pink Panther movie with Peter Sellers and David Niven.
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    News Weird News Compilation

    Strong lightning strike destroys New Zealand radar https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/strong-lightning-strike-destroys-zealand-153829036.html :oops:
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    Is AI hype?

    Enhancing Generative AI Trust and Reliability https://partners.wsj.com/mongodb/data-without-limits/enhancing-generative-ai-trust-and-reliability/ Good article by Wall Street Journal Business.
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    Super Typhoon Ragasa, strongest so far this year, 2025

    Super Typhoon Ragasa is the strongest on earth this year https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/world/video/super-typhoon-ragasa-philippines-hong-kong-ldn-digvid https://apnews.com/article/typhoon-ragasa-philippines-hong-kong-china-57f9409705d52e077062a3b17b05fb2f...
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    A.I. - Human Job Replacement

    Goodwill CEO says he’s preparing for an influx of jobless Gen Zers because of AI—and warns, a youth unemployment crisis is already happening https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/goodwill-ceo-says-preparing-influx-090000273.html
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    Is AI hype?

    Be careful for what one wishes. Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem. https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem-20200130/ A lot of the AI queries about AI, e.g., questions about ChatGPT, concern Generative AI (GenAI)...
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    AI Marketed To Students: "Hello easy A's!"

    That looks like AI-generated spam.
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    Google DeepMind, AI/ML and ALPHA-fold

    I came across a video regarding the use of AI/ML to work through complex datasets to determine complicated protein structures. It is a promising and beneficial use of AI/ML. AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done...
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    Chagas disease now established in US

    ‘Kissing bug’ disease is here to stay in the US, experts say. Here’s why it’s spreading https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kissing-bug-disease-stay-us-100005828.html Worse than bed bugs. Yikes!
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    Happy Pythagorean Day!

    In mm/dd/yy format, 9/16/25 is 32/42/52. In dd/mm/yy, it's 42/32/52, still Pythagorean, but not monotonically sequential.
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    RIP Robert Redford (89)

    https://www.newsweek.com/robert-redford-dead-hollywood-live-updates-2130559 Apparently Redford was a somewhat poor student, so was headed to Europe to study art and painting, but stopped in New York and studied acting. Notable movies include Barefoot in the Park (1967 with Jane Fonda), Butch...
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