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The whole book of Ecclesiastes
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Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
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Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
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A research study is examining how mice that live in cities, close to humans, may have evolved differently from their country cousins.
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The major engineering scheme aims to interlink several Indian rivers to support irrigation. A gigantic plan to link several of India’s rivers and divert vast volumes of water for irrigation could result in reduced rainfall in already water-stressed regions, according to a paper1 published in Nature Communications last month. The water transfer could affect the climate systems driving the Indian monsoon and reduce September rainfall by as much as 12% in some of the country’s states, according to the study.
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‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low. For the first time, scientists have deliberately infected people with Zika virus to learn whether such a strategy could help to test vaccines against the pathogen.
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people from Africa and combine their DNA and medical data into a biobank for health studies. Ghost Archive: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vNaYr](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vNaYr)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people from Africa and combine their DNA and medical data into a biobank for health studies. Ghost Archive: [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vNaYr](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vNaYr)
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Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia
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Some scientists argue that finding new elements is not worth the money, especially when those atoms are inherently unstable and will disappear in a blink. "I personally don't find it exciting, as a scientist, just to produce more short-lived elements," says Witold Nazarewicz, a physicist who studies nuclear structure at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
But to element hunters, the payoff is compelling. The new elements would extend the table—now seven rows deep—to an eighth row, where some theories predict exotic traits will emerge. Elements in that row might even destroy the table's very periodicity because chemical and physical properties might not repeat at regular intervals anymore. Pushing further into the eighth row also could answer questions that scientists have wrestled with since Dmitri Mendeleev's day: How many elements exist? And how far does the table go?
Ghost Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VC6Z8
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New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
www.chemistryworld.com
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.
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Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden is abandoned at half-time for security reasons after two Swedish people are shot dead in Brussels.
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Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden is abandoned at half-time for security reasons after two Swedish people are shot dead in Brussels.
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The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
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Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.
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Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.
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An American born in 2019 will spend a larger share of their lifetime taking prescription drugs than being married or receiving an education, according to new research by Jessica Ho, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State. She reported the findings this week (*article date: Oct 6*) in the journal Demography.
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The shortage of cancer drugs is not going away, but it may be easing slightly, a new national survey suggests. Based on questions posed to 29 of its 33 member hospitals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network said Thursday that 86% of those cancer centers are experiencing a shortage of at least one type of generic chemotherapy drug, down from 90% in May.
www.popsci.com
The Parker Solar Probe's new top speed could get you from NYC to LA in just 20 seconds. It's not done yet.
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The space rock — possibly the exposed core of a planet that didn’t finish forming — could reveal details about the Solar System’s origins.
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The International Astronomical Union clarified changes to its code of conduct after researchers voiced concern that it protected harassers.
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Spécialiste de l’histoire du cosmos, le chercheur a su mettre la science à la portée de tous, multipliant livres et conférences. Il est mort à Paris le 13 octobre, à l’âge de 91 ans.
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Unethical chess pro tip
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Or a watch...
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A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
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A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
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Togo.
We are still waiting for at least an alternance at the top of the country with the governance of a family for more than 50 years. Since 2020 and the last elections, life has getting more and more difficult for the population and you can feel the frustration in people. Opposition parties are not credible anymore and can't really lead the fight anymore. Just a minority is keeping the money of the country; it's not my words but the president's ones but he can't do anything about it because he is also a pawn in the system and can't do nothing again those who put him there.
Just tired. I can talk about a lot of things but I don't have energy for that. Seems like we are waiting for something, some are talking about revolution. It can happen when the population will say enough is enough but togolese people are too much patient and don't want to die in vain about politics. Also, the last time things got serious, it was with a lot of deaths but it brings a sort of democracy, at least some rights but now we are getting back in every right we got. We were close to changes in 2017 but the opposition parties didn't handle it well and here we are now. The system has weakened them also. They even shut the mouth of university movements and associations that fought for changes for us students.
For the future, only God knows!
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Unnamed octogenarian may have survived a failed infanticide attempt by her parents. Doctors found an 80-year-old woman in Russia has lived her entire life with an inch-long needle in her brain. A local radiologist discovered a three-centimetre needle inside the octogenarian’s brain during an X-ray scan, said the Ministry of Health in Sakhalin in a Telegram post on Wednesday. The tiny needle was located in the parietal lobe of the unnamed woman’s brain, according to the ministry. While it did not disclose the exact date of discovery, it said the needle was found this year. The needle was lodged inside her brain since she was born. Doctors believe she had survived a failed infanticide attempt by her parents.
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Today, ESA's Gaia mission releases a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor surpasses its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identify over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpoint the positions of more than 150 000 asteroids within the Solar System.
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A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
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Traditional medical imaging works great for people with light skin but has trouble getting clear pictures from patients with darker skin. A Johns Hopkins University–led team found a way to deliver clear pictures of anyone's internal anatomy, no matter their skin tone. In experiments the new imaging technique produced significantly sharper images for all people—and excelled with darker skin tones. It produced much clearer images of arteries running through the forearms of all participants, compared to standard imaging methods where it was nearly impossible to distinguish the arteries in darker-skinned individuals.
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Point Nemo has become the final resting place for hundreds of spacecraft. What will future archaeologists make of it?
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As industry steps aside, scientists seek innovative ways to make sure expensive treatments can reach people who need them.
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An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October Ghost Archive : [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zuR0V](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zuR0V)
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Last year, lawmakers in the United States passed bipartisan legislation intended to maintain US competitiveness with countries such as China by boosting funding for science and innovation. But concerns are mounting that the US Congress will fail to deliver on its promises. The money allotted to a handful of major US science agencies that had been targeted for a budget boost is likely to fall short of the legislation’s goals by more than US$7 billion in 2024, according to a report. And overall funding for those agencies will continue to hover at a 25-year low
www.americansurveycenter.org
America is experiencing a crisis of expertise—one that has worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic and shows little sign of abating. A nationally representative survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life finds that a growing number of Americans are distrustful of scientific and medical experts. This phenomenon cuts across demographic lines but is most acute among Republicans and evangelical Christians. It has implications for a wide range of scientific and medical fields—including climate change, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI)—posing significant challenges to public decision-making and democratic debate.
www.theguardian.com
The class action will be decided by a single judge and could be a ‘genuine problem for Monsanto and Bayer if we’re successful’, lawyer says
www.publichealth.columbia.edu
In a study on the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its association with crash risk among older adult drivers, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that older adult drivers with ADHD are at a significantly elevated crash risk compared with their counterparts without ADHD. Outcomes included hard- braking events, and self-reported traffic ticket events, and vehicular crashes. Until now research on ADHD and driving safety was largely limited to children and young adults, and few studies assessed the association of ADHD with crash risk among older adults. The results are published online in JAMA Network Open.
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The novel class of optical modulators can make data transfer over optical fiber communication faster and more efficient. Whether you’re battling foes in a virtual arena or collaborating with colleagues across the globe, lag-induced disruptions can be a major hindrance to seamless communication and immersive experiences. That’s why researchers with UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) and the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed new technology to make data transfer over optical fiber communication faster and more efficient.
www.nature.com
The World Health Organization has recommended a shot called R21 to prevent the disease in children. The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a second malaria vaccine to protect children against the deadly disease, which killed 619,000 people in 2021. Researchers say that the vaccine, known as R21, is easier to make than the first-approved malaria vaccine, called RTS,S, and will be cheaper per dose.
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An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person.
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Large study found three genes strongly linked to vegetarianism. From Impossible Burger to “Meatless Mondays,” going meat-free is certainly in vogue. But a person’s genetic makeup plays a role in determining whether they can stick to a strict vegetarian diet, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found. The findings open the door to further studies that could have important implications regarding dietary recommendations and the production of meat substitutes.
www.quantamagazine.org
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons. To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light. Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz have shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in developing the ability to illuminate reality on almost inconceivably brief timescales.
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You can read the session "Reception" of the related Wikipedia page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
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How often do you read fiction and how do you manage to do it?
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Yeah to be disciplined about it. I need to install a routine to get it back. Thanks!
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How often do you read fiction and how do you manage to do it?
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I've never tried audiobooks. I think that I will look into it and see how it works for me. Thanks!
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I don't like that "resurrect extinct species" thing though. Even after reading about what could be its advantages, I don't see how great it could be for us. If that goal could be removed when making such studies, it would be fine imo.
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Asklemmy
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Yeah
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I have not seen myself closed enough until now. Just think that could be anytime and anywhere but nothing has really frightened me.
Privacy Guides
Search engines compared
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For instance, Qwant relies on ad services from Microsoft for revenue. Consequently, Qwant needs to collect and transmit the IP addresses and search terms of its users to Microsoft. Microsoft, as some of us may know, isn't exactly a role model in privacy.
However, Qwant claims that it doesn't transmit IP addresses and search terms as a pair. Instead, search terms and IP addresses are transmitted differently using different services to make it hard for the parties involved to tie search terms to IP addresses. In other words, they make it hard for third-party services to build a profile on you. Nonetheless, some would argue that the mere fact that Qwant collects this kind of data is a potential privacy
loophole.
Qwant shares some of the data it collects with advertising partners like Microsoft. Your search keywords, IP address data, and geographical location are shared with Microsoft and are stored for at least 18 months following Microsoft privacy policies. Although Qwant tries to anonymize the data it shares, its methods aren't exactly
foolproof.
And then there's the issue of being asked to turn over a user's data by law enforcement. Like any other company, even privacy-focused search engines service would have to comply with a court-ordered request for data. Consequently, this means your data can somehow fall into the hands of a third-party.
From https://www.makeuseof.com/qwant-vs-duckduckgo-which-search-engine-most-private/
Qwant privacy policy : https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/
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Can you recommend me a book?
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Perhaps that you've already read them but i recently enjoyed Martin Eden by Jack London and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy