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On this day in 1923, Walt and Roy Disney opened their Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, CA. Walt had worked with a film ad company in Kansas City, where he had launched his Laugh-O-Gram Studio.  After it went bankrupt, he moved to Los Angeles where his brother was recovering from tuberculosis. There, Walt was able to sell one of his Laugh-O-Gram short films, Alice's Wonderland. With a contract to make six more, the Disney Bros founded their company and asked their collaborator, Ub Iwerks, as well their Alice, Virginia Davis, to join them in California. Disney also launched a series based on a character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. But it was 1928 when the real winner was released, and forged the path for one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in history. Mickey Mouse shorts were so successful for the studio that Walt believed in a feature film.  Starting in 1934, the project went well over budget, but when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  was released in 1937, it was a hit an

  Physics John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton: "For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." They used physics to find patterns in information . Chemistry David Baker: "For computational protein design." Demis Hassabis and John Jumper: "For protein structure prediction." They cracked the code for proteins' amazing structures . Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun: "For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation." Tiny RNAs with profound physiological importance . Literature Han Kang: "For her immense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Biobibliography Peace Nihon Hidankyo: "For its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again." The grassroots movement of atomic

  Sabrina Carpenter Amiah Miller Beyoncé Ashley Park Demi Lovato Brooke Shields Zoe Saldana Some maybes: Taraji P. Henson Andra Day Lupita Nyong'o Certainly a choice to wear the scarf piece as more of a front panel....

  An international research consortium has released the first complete wiring diagram of an entire fruit fly brain. Maps that show every neuron in a brain and the myriad connections between them are called connectomes.  Fruit flies have 139,255 neurons in their brain, with over 50 million synapses. That isn't a lot compared to a human brain, which has about 86 million neurons, but fruit flies do complicated things such as walk, fly, navigate, even sing. "If we want to understand how the brain works, we need a mechanistic understanding of how all the neurons fit together and let you think.  For most brains, we have no idea how these networks function," explains Dr. Gregory Jefferis. The FlyWire Consortium brought together expertise from dozens of labs around the world to achieve this.  Dr. Jefferis and other colleagues annotated the different types of neurons found - 4,500 of which were new to science. The CT1 neuron spans across an entire eye and contains 140,000 synapses

 You may be familiar with Moo Deng - born on July 10th at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand, she has been an internet sensation with her playful videos and memeable faces. She's also a memecoin?  The newest in cryptocurrency.  Someone was somehow able to turn $800 into $7.5 million, and urges others to donate portions to charity. Such as the Pygmy Hippo Foundation, which works to protect the forests in southeast Liberia. The animal is listed as endangered, and actually thought to be extinct in Nigeria. Because they are mainly nocturnal, elusive, and relatively solitary it has been difficult to study them as much as their larger cousins.  They have long been part of West African folklore though. Their habitat is also shrinking.  Large areas of forest along the Ivory Coast have been destroyed in favor of commercial plantations.  A growing threat is illegal mineral extraction. The Fauna and Flora International is also supporting Liberia's conservation efforts, whose main goal is

  On this day in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army.  His body was buried in an unmarked grave, but in 1997 his remains were found and sent back to Cuba.  Castro held a large ceremony for the revolutionary who helped him seize power from Batista in 1959. Before that, Guevara was a medical student at the University of Buenos Aires.  He took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle, and his memoirs were published posthumously. The Motorcycle Diaries He received his medical degree in 1953 but continued traveling, becoming more involved in left-wing organizations.  It was the mid-50's when he met Fidel and his group of exiles in Mexico. By 1963, serving as minister of industry, he and Fidel had some differences over Cuba's economic and foreign policies, so he left.  Apparently he traveled to Africa before being found in Bolivia.  The US government wanted him held for interrogation, but Bolivian officials feared a public trial woul