15 August 2024

What do you do when you're a small emergency department, and suddenly there's been a large mass shooting? This is what you do. Hats off to these guys.

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Urban birds, not rural birds, spread multi-drug resistant bacteria around.
Urban-dwelling species such as ducks, crows, gulls and geese had up to three times as many genetic markers associated with drug resistance as their avian counterparts from more remote places, researchers said.
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The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation, and several prioritizing scientific cooperation with what it calls “minority-serving institutions.” A section called “Opportunity and Inclusion” instructs the Department of Commerce to work with minority-owned businesses and make sure chipmakers “increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce.”

requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons.
WTF? Democrats screw up everything, don't they?

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MIT prepared a list of ways AI could cause harm. There are already too many ways.

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Interesting that of all the stones in Stonehenge, the altar stone is uniquely different. It was brought to Salisbury plains from northeast Scotland. Why from there? What was so special?

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Nice article on how focused ultrasound is changing neurosurgery. It may be the way to treat bad essential tremor, instead of masking the symptom with benzodiazepines, which themselves may cause long-term harm.

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As incentives to further mine bitcoin decrease, people may stop holding it, abandoning it for something else. And when that happens, its value will plummet, as with all other fiat currency. It's only worth something if people believe that there is value to it.

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Microsoft AI can be an automatic phishing machine.  Many use Microsoft's CoPilot as a coding assistant tool. But hackers can use it gain access to your files and code.  Microsoft seems to be frequently having problems with security issues.  Yet so many companies trust them with mission critical operations. 

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The complicated history of how the next Dalai Lama is chosen.  Tenzin Gyatso, the current and 14th Dalai Lama is 89 years old. Time to make plans, and that's what's happening.

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Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement. Hey, maybe Roger Penrose was right. Maybe the origin of conscioueness involves processes at the quantum level.

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