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2021 Cryonics Institute Annual General Meeting SUNDAY — SEPT 12 2021.

ZOOM Virtual Meeting CI will be live-streaming the meeting on Zoom.

Registration is free:

ON-SITE MEETING

AGM Location: Infinity Hall & Sidebar 16,650 E 14 Mile Road Fraser, MI 48,026 phone: 586−879−6157 website: infinityhallsidebar.com.

2021 AGM Details Sunday, September 12 2021 Event start time: 3:00 pm Event end time: 6:30 pm Facility Tours Tours of the Main and new Ancillary Facilities will be conducted from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 24,355 Sorrentino Court, Clinton Township, MI. Doors open at approximately 12:30 pm. Note the facility is not open to guests prior to this time, so please do not arrive early to visit with staff as we will be preparing for the tours and the meeting.

Night Before Dinner For those who come a day early, a get-together will be held at 6 pm on Saturday evening at Sajo’s Restaurant. 36,470 Moravian, Clinton Twp., MI 48035. Phone: (586) 792‑7256. www.Sajos.net.

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Nobody is exempt from misunderstanding scientific concepts and/or applying them incorrectly. Statistics from the National Science Board show that Americans scored an average of 5.6 over 9 true-or-false and multiple-choice science-related questions in 2016. Because of the low number of questions, the study is better at differentiating low and medium levels of knowledge than those with higher levels of knowledge. However, the results weren’t much different in previous studies, suggesting that Americans generally have had the same basic levels of science literacy since the beginning of the century.

In this context, we’d like to clear up and emphasize the distinctions between scientific hypothesis, theory, and law, and why you shouldn’t use these terms interchangeably.

Hypothesis: the core of the scientific method

The scientific method is an empirical procedure that consists of systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. It’s a process that’s meant to ensure that the collection of evidence, results, and conclusions are not biased by subjective views and can be repeated consistently by others.

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Antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic treatments developed in the past century have improved survival outcomes, even in high-mortality conditions such as sepsis, a condition that is mostly caused by bacteria but can also be due to other infections. In the 21st century, of all therapies that have improved the outcomes of patients with sepsis, the appropriate and early administration of antibiotics has been shown to be the most effective therapy to save lives.… See More.

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Ali Agha, Caltech Project Lead, JPL Nebula Autonomy and AI, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks testing Boston Dynamics’ Spot AI robot for Mars mission.

Video Transcript

- Welcome back to Yahoo Finance Live. Deeper space exploration missions come with their own set of challenges. Not only are instruments farther away, which make the delay in reacting to certain things difficult, but tricky terrain on the Martian surface has made wheel travel less ideal, as well. And that has researchers turning the Boston Dynamics dog-like robot— you may remember that one from a lot of viral videos— SPOT, as it’s called, for potential solutions.

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There are eight known planets in the Solar System (ever since Pluto was booted from the club), but for a while, there has been some evidence that there might be one more.

A hypothetical Planet 9 lurking on the outer edge of our Solar System. So far this world has eluded discovery, but a new study has pinned down where it should be. The evidence for Planet 9 comes from its gravitational pull on other bodies. If the planet exists, its gravity will affect the orbits of other planets.

So if something seems to be tugging on a planet, just do a bit of math to find the source. This is how Neptune was discovered when John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier noticed independently that Uranus seemed to be tugged by an unseen planet.

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International research team isolates DNA

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).

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That’s teleportation for Qubits, not for humans, sadly.

AMD has proposed a patent for ‘teleportation,’ meaning things could be about to get much more efficient around here. With the incredible technological feats humanity achieves on a daily basis, and Nvidia’s Jensen going off on one last year about GeForce holodecks and time machines, it’s easy for us to slip into a headspace that lets us believe genuine human teleportation is just around the corner.

“Finally,” you sigh, mouthing the headline to yourself. “Goodbye work commute, hello popping to Japan for an authentic Ramen on my lunch break.”

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