World’s climate targets aren’t bad, but they’re still a far cry from 1.5C warming
亡き母のデジタル音声が、いまもわたしの健康を支えてくれている
亡き母の生前の楽しい会話をスマートフォンで録音していたことを思い出し、日々の睡眠と食事のコントロールのためのアラーム音代わりにそのデジタル音声を使ったことで、自身のモチヴェーションを保つための強力なツールになったという体験からは、愛する故人のデジタル情報と人々のセルフケアやウェルビーイングとの新たな関係性や可能性が見えてくる。
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A year later, 45% of COVID patients in Wuhan still have symptoms
Fatigue, sweating, chest tightness, anxiety and myalgia were most common.
Liquid metal encased in hydrogel makes a promising energy-harvesting device
Any mechanical motion deforms the device, such as squishing, stretching, twisting.
Flu and Covid jabs safe to be given at same time, study finds
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‘You can’t sue your way to the moon’: Elon Musk intensifies Bezos space feud
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Blue Origin has a toxic culture, former and current employees say
“Professional dissent at Blue Origin is actively stifled.”
Intel launches its next-generation neuromorphic processor—so, what’s that again?
Intel’s Loihi processors have electronics that behave a lot like neurons.
Geoengineering by Gernot Wagner review – a stark warning
Spraying aerosols into the atmosphere may be fraught with risk, but to dismiss it out of hand is irresponsible, a climate scientist arguesGernot Wagner has spent a large part of his life thinking about solar geoengineering, and even he thinks it is “nu…
CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly Restores Vision In Legally Blind Patients
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Carlene Knight’s vision was so bad that she couldn’t even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. But that’s changed as a result of volunteering for a landmark medical experiment. He…