Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’
Low rattling: A predictive principle for self-organization in active collectives | Science
January 29, 2021When a Virus Is the Cure | The New Yorker
January 26, 2021https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/when-a-virus-is-the-cure
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To make matters worse, fears of antibiotic resistance have, in recent decades, created a perverse incentive in medical research: new antibiotics, to remain effective, must be used sparingly, as so-called antibiotics of last resort. As a result, it is almost impossible to recoup the cost of developing them.
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Great article!… But I don’t see how phages will solve the economic conundrum: the “perverse incentive [that]…new antibiotics, to remain effective, must be used sparingly…As a result, it is almost impossible to recoup the cost of developing them.”
Is running or walking better for you? Here’s what the science says | New Scientist
January 22, 2021I liked the quantitative answer in the article: running expends 6 – 12 METs; walking, 3 – 6. 1 MET = 1 cal/hr / each kg of body mass, which for an 80 kg person is 2000 cal/day.
How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
January 21, 2021.@ElieDolgin’s great feature on the development of new mRNA vaccines highlights how important breakthroughs in lipid nanoparticles were. Interesting that a lot of the key research appears to be funded by @Darpa.
Lost passwords
January 21, 2021$220M if one can find a quantum computer to crack the encryption on an IronKey!
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html
Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men | New Scientist
January 17, 2021Interesting implications for wound healing & immune response.
https://twitter.com/FreddyBrown1984/status/1296843869418594304 QT:{{”
Never realised tissues become skewed towards advantageous X
chromosomes (not just 50:50 from parents); capitalising on women’s doubled genetic resources
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Nasal probiotics – The nose, it seems, is protected by bacterial guards | Science & technology | The Economist
January 16, 2021https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/06/11/the-nose-it-seems-is-protected-by-bacterial-guards
I wonder if eating the lactobacillus in yogurt provides some of this protective effect to the sinuses — from bits of chewed food that get from the mouth to the nose
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