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Brewer’s Yeast, Constructed Languages, Memory Direction
Today, you’ll learn about a new plan to use waste from beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply, a study that puts languages like Orc and Klingon to the test, and a discovery about the direction our memories travel in our brains.
Brewer’s Yeast
- “The same beer waste that gives us Vegemite could help us recycle metal waste.” n.a. 2024.
- “Spent brewer’s yeast as a selective biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste streams.” by Anna Sieber, et al. 2024.
- “What Is E-Waste Recycling and How Is it Done?” by Tin Lok Wu. 2023.
Constructed Languages
- “From Star Trek’s Klingon to Tolkien’s Orkish: Unraveling the auditory aesthetics of constructed languages.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
- “Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics.” by Christine Mooshammer, et al. 2024.
Memory Direction
- “Brain Waves Travel in One Direction When Memories Are Made and the Opposite When Recalled.” by Grant Currin. 2024.
- “Theta and Alpha Oscillations Are Traveling Waves in the Human Neocortex.” by Honghui Zhang, et al. 2018.
- “The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing.” by Uma R. Mohan, et al. 2024.
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