Ruth Report — 2024-07-17

Business News

Charlie Munger once called real estate a ‘very lousy investment’ for him and his partner Warren Buffett — here’s why [Yahoo]

Intermittent fasting over two days can help people with Type 2 diabetes [Seattle Times]
Diet Sodas, Hot Dogs, and Other Ultra-Processed Foods Are Even Worse for You Than You Think, New Study Finds [Food & Wine]
New Test Predicts Future Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease [Science Alert]
Music composers have more efficient neural pathways in specific brain regions, study finds [PsyPost]
The Neurological Basis of Anorexia May Have Just Been Discovered [Science Alert]
Brain Chemistry Sheds Light on Overeating and Memory [Neuroscience News]
Researchers pinpoint specific brain region necessary for motivation to help others [News, Medical & Life Sciences]

Walking for weight loss: How to burn fat during walks [Yahoo!]
Best Low-Light Indoor Plants for Better Air Purification [CNET]
Eat nuts and start resistance training: 5 wellness tips for a healthy week ahead [Yahoo!]
Jesse Plemons explains inspiration behind 50-pound weight loss, without using Ozempic [Fox News]
Scientists find out why dance therapy works for those with neurological disorders [Independent]
What is social health? The little-known idea that could make all the difference [Guardian]
Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide [Seattle Times]
BMI is flawed. Try a body composition test [NPR]

Engineers Discovered the Spectacular Secret to Making 17x Stronger Cement [Popular Mechanics]
World’s most efficient engine becomes a colossal clean energy generator [New Alerts]

Couple walking across the U.S. reach Montana [KRTV]
Tacoma ranked one of the worst U.S. cities for renters, according to new study. Here’s why [The News Tribune]
In writing the country’s most sweeping AI law, Colorado focused on fairness, preventing bias [NPR]
New map shows vast potential for geothermal energy beneath entire US [The Hill]

Chimpanzees seen self-medicating with healing plants when sick or injured [Seattle Times]
Scientists Discover a Face-Detection Circuit in The Brains of Primates [Science Alert]

How Denmark Is Nudging the Nation to Cut Back on Meat [Bloomberg]
Gaza’s water system, destroyed by war, is sickening its children [BBC]
Lululemon Taps China’s Hottest Comedian-turned-director Jia Ling as Ambassador [WWD]

‘Time Cells’ in The Brain Could Be More Crucial Than We Ever Realized [Science Alert]
‘TIME TRAVELING’ QUANTUM SENSOR BREAKTHROUGH ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO GATHER DATA FROM THE PAST [The Debrief]
Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion, Says a New Study [Yahoo]
All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It’s So Much Older Than We Thought. [Popular Mechanics]

Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open: here’s a ranking [Nature]
Blistering 402 Tb/s fiber optic speeds achieved by unlocking unused wavelengths [TechSpot]
Wind tunnel study shows hypersonic jet engine flow can be controlled optically [Phys.org]
Say goodbye to solar panels with this wind fence for your garden: 2200 kWh and quiet energy [EcoNews]

‘Nobody liked Ray Davies’: How the Kinks curmudgeon made English rock great, without making friends [The Telegraph]
Nicole Kidman on marriage, marijuana and the making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ [Yahoo]
Someone turned the Ocarina of Time soundtrack into a perfect Zelda jazz album [Polygon]

Move Over, Genghis Khan. Many Other Men Left Huge Genetic Legacies [Smithsonian]

Never write yourself off! 25 things I’ve learned about getting fit – after almost 60 years of sloth [Guardian]
Program 484: Macedonia; Senior Nomads [Rick Steve’s Europe]
The Styrofoam Titans [Slate]
Elon Musk’s Brother and Sister-in-Law Reveal Details About the Tech Billionaire’s Life: ‘There’s a Lot of Chaos’ [People]

How to use the free Jacob Collier Audience Choir | Native Instruments [YouTube]
A Crash Course in Database Sharding [ByteByteGo]
Exploring Destructuring in JavaScript [Dev]
How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive [Trigger.dev]
How Bend Works: A Parallel Programming Language That “Feels Like Python but Scales Like CUDA” [Medium]
7 Open Source Projects You Should Know – Java Edition [DEV]

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence [Wikipedia]
Hunter RMV’s New Acela Apex 6×6 Overlander Is a Luxury Studio Apartment That Travels [MotorTrend]
Industrial Society and Its Future [Wikipedia]