This entire article is a great read, but I came across something below I had not heard before. From Bloomberg: Pfizer executives found a partial fix to their supply problem in the vaccine vials themselves. They just needed authorization to change the labels to say the vials contained six doses instead of five. It’s standard …
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From Mother Jones: As more municipalities have moved to phase gas lines out of new buildings to cut down on methane emissions, gas utilities have gone on the defensive, launching anti-electrification campaigns across the country. Is it because “cooking with gas” is somehow better? But the tables seem to be turning. In November, the powerful …
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From The Verge: There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of us unique. Each gene is given a name and alphanumeric code, known as a symbol, which scientists use to coordinate research. …
From Popular Info: But then, without explanation, the fact-check was removed. If a Facebook user attempts to share the article today, there is no warning and no link to the fact-check. Shellenberger’s piece, on The Daily Wire and elsewhere, has now been shared over 65,000 times on Facebook. What happened? Internal Facebook documents obtained by …
1) In 2008 a salmon (yes the fish) was put through an MRI scanner. The salmon was shown a series of photographs of humans in social situations, and asked to determine the emotion of the person in the photo (yes, really). — Per Axbom (@axbom) December 7, 2019
We can also follow Dorian’s wind field evolution on a map using the ARCHER satellite derived track. Notice how Dorian remains small in size until it stalls over the Grand Bahama island, with a long duration of hurricane force wind & increase in radius. pic.twitter.com/VnLuzHBMsU — Tomer Burg (@burgwx) September 4, 2019
First I thought “is the black hole photo really a ‘photo’? Or is it some collected wave frequency data interpreted into a color image” then I realized that’s every photo — Colleen (@collnsmith) April 10, 2019
All the bearings are moving in a straight line. https://t.co/EFaQsyjW3h pic.twitter.com/Z8otKCf1I9 — Cliff Pickover (@pickover) March 30, 2019