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Juan Williams — Emmy Award Winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, Newspaper Columnist

Posted by Ira S. Pastor in life extension

May 1
2021

Emmy award winning television commentator, radio personality, and newspaper columnist, juan williams, talking about inter-generational dynamics, ageism, and aging in america.

Progress, Potential, And Possibilities has the honor of being joined today by Emmy Award winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, and Newspaper Columnist, Mr. Juan Williams.

Mr. Williams has been a Fox News Contributor since 1997 (including being a member of the nightly, current issue discussion show known as The Five), writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time.

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Once a Covid hotspot, Italian village now intrigues researchers with ‘super-immune’ cases

Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in futurism

May 1
2021

Very close to Vicenza.

Covid “super-immune” people seem to be in a high concentration in Vo’. Researchers want to know why.

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Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light

Posted by Genevieve Klien in cosmology

May 1
2021

Some are blasted out of galaxies by interactions with black holes; others, which orbit supermassive black holes, can smash together in titanic explosions.

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New Brain-Like Computing Device With Electrochemical “Synaptic Transistors” Simulates Human Learning

Posted by Genevieve Klien in chemistry, computing, food, neuroscience

May 1
2021

Researchers have developed a brain-like computing device that is capable of learning by association.

Similar to how famed physiologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned dogs to associate a bell with food, researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Hong Kong successfully conditioned their circuit to associate light with pressure.

The research will be published today (April 30, 2021) in the journal Nature Communications.

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Images: 10 incredible volcanoes in our solar system

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space

May 1
2021

These violent openings are windows into the inner workings and origins of our neighboring planets and their moons.

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Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Helps Unravel the Physics Underlying Quantum Systems

Posted by Genevieve Klien in information science, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI | 1 Comment on Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Helps Unravel the Physics Underlying Quantum Systems

May 1
2021

Protocol to reverse engineer Hamiltonian models advances automation of quantum devices.

Scientists from the University of Bristol ’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) have developed an algorithm that provides valuable insights into the physics underlying quantum systems — paving the way for significant advances in quantum computation and sensing, and potentially turning a new page in scientific investigation.

In physics, systems of particles and their evolution are described by mathematical models, requiring the successful interplay of theoretical arguments and experimental verification. Even more complex is the description of systems of particles interacting with each other at the quantum mechanical level, which is often done using a Hamiltonian model. The process of formulating Hamiltonian models from observations is made even harder by the nature of quantum states, which collapse when attempts are made to inspect them.

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Oshkosh takes victory lap over Postal Service delivery truck contract

Posted by Genevieve Klien in sustainability, transportation

May 1
2021

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Oshkosh can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, likely dashing Workhorse’s hopes of reigniting the competition.

Oshkosh Truck Corp. (NYSE: OSK) can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, undercutting an assertion by Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) that its being passed over for the contract dooms the mail service to remaining a source of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

Not so, Oshkosh President and CEO John Pfeifer told analysts on the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call Wednesday.

“We can do 100% electric vehicles from Day One,” Pfeiffer said. “If the U.S. Postal Service came to us tomorrow and said, ‘We’ve got the funding to do 100% electric from 2023,’ we can do it.”

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Kleos Space develops tool for in-space manufacturing of large structures

Posted by Genevieve Klien in robotics/AI, satellites

May 1
2021

SAN FRANCISCO — Kleos Space is conducting a six-month test of technology for in-space manufacturing of large 3D carbon fiber structures that could be used to construct solar arrays, star shades and interferometry antennas.

The company with operations in Luxembourg, the United States and United Kingdom is best known for radio frequency reconnaissance satellites. In the background, however, Kleos has been designing and developing in-space manufacturing technology called Futrism to robotically produce a carbon-fiber I-beam with embedded fiber-optic cables that is more than 100 meters long.

“It’s something that we have linked to our roadmap for RF, because it’s something that could deploy very large antennas for RF reconnaissance,” Kleos CEO Andy Bowyer told SpaceNews. “However, it’s useful for a whole range of other applications as well that we are very keen to work with partners on. We firmly believe that manufacturing in space is the future.”

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