Today, you’ll 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 

• “Neural Networks Help Reconstruct Speech From Brain Activity.” Technology Networks. 2023.  
• “How Intel Gave Stephen Hawking a Voice.” by Joao Medeiros. 2015.  
• “Distributed feedforward and feedback cortical processing supports human speech production.” by Ran Wang, et al. 2023. 

Weighted Blankets 

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

Space Radio Burst 

• “A radio burst traveled 8 billion years to reach Earth. It’s the farthest ever detected.” by Eric Lagatta. 2023.  
• “A luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1.” by S.D. Ryder, et al. 2023.  
• “Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe.” EurekAlert! 2023.  

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