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Today we explore the science behind getting great ideas in the shower, how regular chocolate consumption can slow down cognitive decline, and how a black hole recently burped out the remnants of a star it absorbed four YEARS ago! 

Shower Ideas  

• “The Science of Why You Have Great Ideas in The Shower” by Stacey Colino
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower/ar-AA10ANav
• “An improved neuroanatomical model of the default-mode network reconciles previous neuroimaging and neuropathological findings” by Pedro Nascimento Alves, Chris Foulon, Vyacheslav Karolis, Danilo Bzdok, Daniel S. Margulies, Emmanuelle Volle & Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0611-3

Medicinal Chocolate 

• “Daily Chocolate May Rescue The Brain From Cognitive Decline” by Gary Wenk
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-food/202209/daily-chocolate-may-rescue-the-brain-cognitive-decline
• “Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study” by Ian Sample
  • https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/14/daily-multi-vitamins-may-improve-brain-function-in-older-people-us-study

Black Holes Burping

• “‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star” by Harvard Center for Astrophysics
  • https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star
• “Ask Ethan: Are Black Holes Made Of Dark Matter?” by Ethan Siegel
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/09/04/ask-ethan-are-black-holes-made-of-dark-matter/?sh=77bd9483438b
• “A Mildly Relativistic Outflow Launched Two Years after Disruption in Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz” by Y. Cendes et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac88d0
• “Black hole is 'burping out' a 'spaghettified' star it devoured years ago” by Robert Lea
  • https://www.space.com/black-hole-spews-star-devoured-years-ago
• “Are black holes and dark matter the same?” by University of Miami
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211220120813.htm#:~:text=Astrophysicists%20suggest%20that%20primordial%20black,dark%20matter%20in%20the%20universe.

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