A “world that Bert built” but perhaps LaMDA is disassembling.
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Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down – Scientific American
August 7, 2022These spacecraft have traveled nearly 1M miles almost every day of my life. Incredible!
And don’t forget their look back at the pale blue dot of earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#:~:text=Pale%20Blue%20Dot%20is%20a,images%20of%20the%20Solar%20System.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-voyager-spacecraft-begin-to-power-down/
How Scientists Are Reviving Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs – The New York Times
August 3, 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/science/pigs-organs-death.html Amazing work by the Sestan Lab
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Opinion | Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal – The New York Times
July 31, 2022QT:{{”
If Bedford is correct — and that steady state means 100,000 annual Covid deaths going forward, for at least the next several years — the two facts may be a bit hard to square in your mind. (Especially if you remember both the initial state of emergency the pandemic called into being and the more recent hope that it could at some point “be over.”) A hundred thousand deaths is more than the annual toll of any other infectious disease and would make Covid-19 a top-10 cause of death in the country — a major and novel cause of widespread death clouding the American horizon with another dark layer of morbidity we had never known before. It’s a few multiples of a typical flu season and more than die each year from diabetes, pneumonia or kidney disease. …
Mina compares the building of immunity to the learning of a language. “It’s a fact of the biology of immunity that it’s really hard to build a brand-new memory and keep it if you’re old,” he says. “And so I do think that for quite a while our elderly population is going to keep having really big problems because they just can’t retain these new memories.” People exposed today, who will become 80 years old in 25 years or so, won’t have the same problem, Mina says, because they will have built their immune memory at a younger age.
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Really liked the comparison of building immunity to the learning of a language. In a sense, the immune system learns things like the brain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/opinion/covid-19-deaths-vaccines-endemic.html
Why is the human brain so difficult to understand? We asked 4 neuroscientists.
July 31, 2022QT:{{”
Nearly 100 years ago, physicist Emerson Pugh famously said, “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
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Liked the quote: “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
Ealing’s Local Web site
July 31, 2022http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=eagertrudelevitt001.htm
My condolences. Your mother was an amazing woman. Very impressed by the MA at 92!
A tale of two antiviral targets — and the COVID-19 drugs that bind them
July 30, 2022Found it interesting that while Paxlovid has had greater success against #COVID19, Molnupiravir (& Remdesivir) might have more promise for future pandemics
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Not all RdRp inhibitors work the same way. In most cases, including with remdesivir, viruses incorporate the drug into the elongating RNA, and this brings the elongation process to a halt. Molnupiravir’s mechanism is different: elongation doesn’t stop when the enzyme incorporates the drug into viral RNA. Instead, the virus reuses molnupiravir-containing RNAs as template strands, and incorporates the wrong bases into new viral RNA when it re-encounters molnupiravir. Mutations accumulate over cycles, leading to ‘error catastrophe’ and viral death.
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The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World | The New Yorker
July 6, 2022Thought the premise of this story might be useful one day when we confront an extraterrestrial alien.
When Shipping Containers Sink in the Drink | The New Yorker
July 2, 2022Great article. Amazing that you can use lost containers of sneakers to study ocean currents.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/when-shipping-containers-sink-in-the-drink legos lost at sea
Cloud labs: where robots do the research
June 26, 2022Might be a boon for bioinformatics!
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