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Shock waves, landslides may have caused ‘rare’ volcano tsunami: experts

A rare volcano-triggered tsunami sparked by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga could have been caused by shock waves or shifting underwater land, experts said Monday.

“A volcanic-source tsunami event is rare but not unprecedented,” a post on the website for New Zealand’s geological hazard monitoring system GNS said Monday.

GNS Tsunami Duty Officer Jonathan Hanson said it probably occurred in part thanks to a previous eruption of the same volcano one day earlier.

The Future of Medicine: CRISPR, Drug Prices & Gene Therapy

01:55 Future of Medicine.
14:06 Future of healing.
27:14 Future of Diagnosis.
38:08 Future of Babies.
49:36 Future of Drugs.

What Happens Next examines the future as we confront massive technological transformations in central aspects of daily life. In this episode, we focus on water, food, work, driving, meat, and fact.

What Happens Next is a production by RetroReport: https://www.retroreport.org/

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Why the Metaverse is Impossible according to INTEL

According to Intel the Meta’s vision of the Metaverse is impossible with the current Hardware limitations. But Intel said that they plan on increasing the performance of their CPU’s and GPU’s by close to 1,000 times in the hopes of reaching petaflop performance on regular consumer hardware to allow for photorealistic simulations inside the Metaverse.

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00:00 Is the Metaverse the future?
02:36 What the Metaverse needs to work.
04:56 Privacy issues in the Metaverse.
07:42 Last Words.

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Japanese university uses iPS cells in first treatment of spinal cord injury

About 2 million cells are transplanted into each patient in the treatment. They were created from iPS cells stored at Kyoto University in western Japan, according to Keio University.

In the future, the university plans to increase the number of cells to be transplanted in order to enhance the effectiveness of the treatment.

Some 5,000 people sustain spinal cord injuries every year in Japan and the number of people living with spinal cord injuries is said to exceed 150,000.

Clip of Michael Greve on Longevity & Rejuvenation (January 2022) (S/T en Español)

At present time, these two are bold statements made by Michael Greve, Founder and CEO at Forever Healthy Foundation. I whish him full success in contributing to make them practical ones in the not so distant future:

* “First thing that you have to consider is what means healthy and healthy does not only means rejuvenation because you can be 25 and still be in bad place…”

* “Health is more than just taking people from old age to young age”

LEGO DeLorean is a stunning replica of the classic with glowing lights and opening gullwing doors!

Designed and built by LEGO creator Mr. Platinum using 2,800 LEGO Technic pieces, this absolutely delightful mini replica of the DMC DeLorean from Back To The Future comes complete with a detailed exterior as well as interior, functioning doors, glowing lights, and a Bluetooth controller that lets you remotely drive the little car around!

The video above is a mashup of scenes from the original Back To The Future movie showing the DeLorean’s reveal, combined with video snippets of Mr. Platinum’s highly detailed build. The LEGO DeLorean is a stunning MOC (My Own Creation) that boasts of functioning headlights and taillights, glowing pipes around the car’s periphery as well as on the inside, motorized doors that open on command to reveal the detailed interiors, and for good measure, repositionable tires that become horizontal to resemble the car flying through space and time. If there ever was a near-perfect LEGO DeLorean build, this 2800-brick masterpiece is clearly it.

Designer: Mr. Platinum

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