“If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology—and you don’t understand your problems.”—Laurie Anderson
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Absence of USAID likely slowed Ebola detection and response, former officials say nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
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"We've tested people who claim they've never been infected...99.4% of samples had anti-nucleocapsid.
So basically everyone's been infected whether they know it or not."
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Spoiler alert: 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞
A study comparing 15 potential longevity markers found the amount of physical activity in a typical day (as measured by a wrist tracker) to be a better predictor than diabetes, heart disease, cancer, or even age
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I am working on multiple H5N1 projects & thus have a higher risk of exposure than the public.
I am not STOCKPILING antivirals, nor will I do so. It’s unethical & selfish to hoard medications needed by others or to select for drug-resistant variants by taking them off-label.
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"If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology - and you don't understand your problems."
~ Laurie Anderson
thanks to @dark_shark
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This is called an Omega sunset
It looks like the Greek letter Omega (Ω) due to sunlight refracting through warm air just above the water.
The “feet” of the Ω are just inverted images of the parts of the Sun directly above them. The inverted part of the image, below the fold line, is an inferior mirage, named so because it appears below the "real" sun.
This mirage occurs due to refraction caused by a layer of warmer and less dense air near the ocean's surface.
[📸 Juan Antonio Sendra]
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I love Susan Sontag's radical vision for reimagining education — no school between ages 12 and 16, then go back to school for those extra four years at 50 themarginalian.org/2013/02/0…
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Coffee and #Covid: Study finds coffee inhibits SARSCoV2 & offers a potential dietary defense strategy. The new research comes on the heels of earlier British research revealing coffee consumption (1 cup daily) was associated w/ a 10% lower Covid risk news-medical.net/news/202311…
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Is it time to revisit the idea of cosmic purpose? Does the fine-tuning argument have any legs? @Philip_Goff, author of Why? Interviewed for @five_books fivebooks.com/best-books/cos…
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A special toothpaste aimed at alleviating peanut allergy appears to be safe, a new study found. Peanut allergy usually lasts for life & accounts for most serious cases of food allergy globally. Amount of peanut protein in the toothpaste was not disclosed medpagetoday.com/meetingcove…
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In the lab: Newly isolated antifungal molecule kills fungi w/out toxicity in human cells. The molecule was created by tweaking the structure of a key antifungal drug, Amphotericin B. The new molecule has the drug's power w/out its toxicity phys.org/news/2023-11-antifu…
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I love this story of how this Californian reading group spent longer reading Finnegans Wake than James Joyce spent writing it. It's the only Joyce I've yet to read too.
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A train in Kyoto traveling through a breathtaking autumn foliage landscape with the onboard lights turned off.
In November, the trains from Ichihara and Ninose stations, will slow down allowing passengers to enjoy the natural show.
[📹 Taras Grescoe]
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The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity
[📹 Never Enough Architecture]
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Research on first impressions suggests that people’s behaviour can trump any biased assumptions we might make about them bit.ly/3MCIQqe