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Track is more avant-garde than singalong, but is futuristic, nevertheless. Words are quite a limited medium for communication, and I have adopted “Passing Human Knowledge” as a slogan for the Posthuman University because of the multiple ambiguities. Are we “passing on” knowledge; or passing as in superseding, overtaking, going past? Or are we reducing and ultimately finishing off human era thought, passing away? Or maybe ‘passing’ as in examination; passing or failing human academic and religious so-called knowledge? Detail from C19th Tibetan tsakli. I have updated the website https://posthuman-university.org
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Right now everyone is talking about mRNA vaccines, such as the Biontech-Pfizer or the Moderna vaccine — but what about DNA-vaccines? Will this be a vaccine type of the future?
Vaccines have saved millions of lives in the past century and for now, they’re the best way out of this crisis. There are exciting new prospects, waiting in the wings. The practice of vaccinating dates back thousands of years through rabbit spines, powdered cowpox and fearless scientists. Today, viral vectors and mRNA technology have been instrumental in fighting COVID-19. With DNA vaccines another technique is already been tested.
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The boundary layer between the upper and lower mantles of the Earth is known as the transition zone (TZ). It is located between 410 and 660 kilometers (between 255 and 410 miles) under the surface. The olive-green mineral olivine, commonly known as peridot, which makes up around 70% of the Earth’s upper mantle, changes its crystalline structure at the extreme pressure of up to 23,000 bar in the TZ. At a depth of around 410 kilometers (255 miles), at the upper edge of the transition zone, it changes into denser wadsleyite, and at a depth of 520 kilometers (323 miles), it transforms into even denser ringwoodite.
“These mineral transformations greatly hinder the movements of rock in the mantle,” explains Professor Frank Brenker from the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt. For example, mantle plumes – rising columns of hot rock from the deep mantle – sometimes stop directly below the transition zone. The movement of mass in the opposite direction also comes to standstill. Brenker says, “Subducting plates often have difficulty in breaking through the entire transition zone. So there is a whole graveyard of such plates in this zone underneath Europe.”
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With the rise of Snowflake and other cloud data warehouses, enterprises finally have a simple way to mobilize their data assets at scale. They can easily connect data from different sources and start driving efficiencies while keeping upfront investments (or CapEx) on the lower side.
The benefits of the solutions are unparalleled, but cloud data services also come with the challenge of high operating expenses. Essentially, due to constantly growing datasets, companies have to deal with high compute costs and query performance latencies. Without a solution, their teams have to give about 30–40% of their time to manually develop features that could optimize the warehouse for the required performance and budget constraints.
A man claiming to be a Russian astronaut in space allegedly scammed a Japanese woman into paying for his return trip to Earth, vowing to marry her once he landed.
The man found the 65-year-old unnamed victim on Instagram in June. On his profile, he uploaded random photos of space and said he worked at the International Space Station, where astronauts have limited access to cell service.
Their relationship quickly escalated. On LINE, a Japanese messaging app, he repeatedly said he loved her and proposed marriage. He sent her messages like “I want to start my life in Japan” and “Saying this 1,000 times won’t be enough, but I’ll keep saying it. I love you,” news outlet TV Asahi reported.
