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Apr 24, 2020

White House hot mic hears someone say We’ve all been vaccinated here

Posted by in category: humor

‘Everyone’s been vaccinated around here anyway’ joke…


Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd.

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Apr 24, 2020

The Vatican: Human Progress and High Tech Healthcare Innovation

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, media & arts, treaties

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.

IdeaXme does not advocate for or support any religion in favour of another.

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Apr 24, 2020

Covid-19 could detonate a ‘hunger pandemic.’ With millions at risk, the world must act

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

This is the truth of the looming “hunger pandemic,” which has the potential to engulf over a quarter of a billion people whose lives and livelihoods will be plunged into immediate danger, unless urgent and effective action is taken to keep commercial and humanitarian goods flowing, support communities with humanitarian assistance and provide governments with the additional health interventions required to control the spread of the virus.


If we can’t reach these people — if we can’t give them the lifesaving assistance they need because our funding has been cut or borders where we move our food have been closed — WFP’s analysis shows that 300,000 could starve to death every single day for the next three months.

When you consider that already, despite our best efforts, 21,000 people die of hunger every single day, the scale of the potential death toll is heart-rending. We could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries. In 10 countries, we have more than a million people who are on the verge of starvation as we speak.

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Apr 23, 2020

The US is spending hundreds of millions to make experimental coronavirus vaccines

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The BARDA investments could go to waste, but ramping up Covid-19 vaccine production will help avoid delivery delays if a vaccine is approved.

Apr 23, 2020

Work on Goodenough’s breakthrough solid-state EV battery moves forward

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

Goodenought’s breakthrough on a solid-state battery could mean the end of internal-combustion cars. The job of commercializing it goes to Hydro-Québec.

Apr 23, 2020

IMMORTALISTS MAGAZINE’s 4th PUBLICATION!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, evolution, life extension

Dinorah Delphin has unveiled another magnificent issue of the Immortalists Magazine. She has clearly focused her contributing authors on the world pandemic, with impressive results.

One of the outstanding articles is from our pal, the Chairman of the USTP, Gennady Stolyarov. Gennady levels an eviscerating attack on the American health care system.

I can see that Gennady has a visceral reaction to mass death. There is passionate, broiling anger in the lines of his article. He seems to be mounting a crusade, and I’m going to confess that I’m considering arming myself for battle.

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Apr 23, 2020

Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils brain microchip to let humans ‘merge with computers’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel

Elon Musk has unveiled plans to implant computer chips in people’s brains that the US billionaire says will treat brain diseases and enable superhuman intelligence.

Neuralink, a secretive company set up by Mr Musk two years ago, has said it plans to begin tests of its “brain-computer interface” technology on humans in the next year.

Mr Musk, 48, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, said the technology will help “solve brain disorders of all kinds” and allow humans to merge with artificial intelligence.

Apr 23, 2020

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Nature Medicine volume 26, pages 450 – 452 (2020) Cite this article.

Apr 23, 2020

Not just the lungs: Some COVID-19 patients show signs of neurological ailments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Strokes, seizures, loss of smell and taste and other neurological deficits are showing up in patients critically ill with the coronavirus.

Although the virus is classified as a respiratory disorder and primarily damages the lungs, clinicians are seeing patients with a wide array of symptoms, from seizures to hallucinations, brain inflammation, disorientation, delirium and loss of smell and taste.

“I had a patient, a young guy, 48, who attended a party in New Rochelle two weeks before and came in with hallucinations and confusion,” said Dr. Pooia Fattahi, regional chair of neurology for Trinity Health Of New England. The patient had no fever and only a slight cough. Still, aware some COVID-19 patients show up at hospitals with seizures, strokes and confusion, Fattahi suspected, correctly, that the patient had COVID-19. Three of those who attended the same New Rochelle party ultimately died of the virus.

Apr 23, 2020

Starbleed bug impacts FPGA chips used in data centers, IoT devices, industrial equipment

Posted by in category: computing

Xilinx 7-series and some 6-series FPGAs deemed vulnerable to new Starbleed vulnerability.