It’s not mind reading, but a man’s ability to convey words is partially restored through electrodes and machine learning; NASA carefully prepares to press Control-Alt-Delete on the Hubble Space Telescope; look to the skies, the Perseids are coming; inexplicable black ice worms emerge by the billions from glaciers; and happy 22nd birthday, MetaFilter.

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Links:

• brain-implant-computer.html?referringSource=articleShare">Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak (New York Times)
• ‘Neuroprosthesis’ restores words to man with paralysis (Science Daily)
• Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria (New England Journal of Medicine)
• BCI milestone: New research from UCSF with support from Facebook shows the potential of brain-computer interfaces for restoring speech communication (Facebook Reality Labs)
• Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)
• In praise of celestial mechanics (The Economist)
• James Webb Space Telescope (Wikipedia)
• Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed (EarthSky)
• The ‘Best Meteor Shower Of The Year’ Is Happening. Here’s How You Can See It (NPR)
• Perseid Meteors 2021: All You Need To Know (EarthSky)
• It’s Summer, And That Means The Mysterious Return Of Glacier Ice Worms (NPR)
• Happy birthday, Metafilter! (MetaFilter)
• Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)

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