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Today, you\u2019ll learn about how people who have lost the power of speech could get their voices back through AI, the cool truth about the weighted blanket fad, and an 8-billion-year-old blast from outer space.  

Speech Reconstruction 

• \u201cNeural Networks Help Reconstruct Speech From Brain Activity.\u201d Technology Networks. 2023.  
• \u201cHow Intel Gave Stephen Hawking a Voice.\u201d by Joao Medeiros. 2015.  
• \u201cDistributed feedforward and feedback cortical processing supports human speech production.\u201d by Ran Wang, et al. 2023. 

Weighted Blankets 

• \u201cWeighted blankets improve sleep in children with ADHD, study shows.\u201d by Stacey Coleen Lubag. 2023.  
• \u201cThe Problem With This Year\u2019s Most Comfortable Holiday Fad.\u201d by Ashley Fetters. 2018.  
• \u201cThe Origin Of Weighted Blankets - How Did It All Start? A History Lesson.\u201d by Larry. 2023.  
• \u201cThe efficacy of weighted blankets for sleep in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder\u2014A randomized controlled crossover trial.\u201d by Maria Lonn, et al. 2023.  

Space Radio Burst 

• \u201cA radio burst traveled 8 billion years to reach Earth. It\u2019s the farthest ever detected.\u201d by Eric Lagatta. 2023.  
• \u201cA luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1.\u201d by S.D. Ryder, et al. 2023.  
• \u201cRecord-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe.\u201d EurekAlert! 2023.  

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