Technology

Pentagon COVID Microchips: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 16, 2021 I looked up “irony” in the dictionary the other day and found a video of a contemporary human being declaring: “I’ll put up with health passports to get my freedoms back.” (insert sad trombone here) I wonder if they’d also put up with having a microchip — “embedded in a tissue-like gel” — under their skin in exchange for even more “liberty.” Microchip. ...

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The Algorithm is Gonna Get You — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 12, 2021 "This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the o ...

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Reversible CRISPR Method Controls Gene Expression Leaving DNA Sequence Unchanged | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence -- and then reverse the changes. Credit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead ...

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7 Reasons Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 5, 2021 Take a look at the screenshot above. It is Facebook’s manipulative method of shutting down dissent on Covid-19 vaccines. But re-read it carefully. We’re bei ...

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Gene Expression And Neurological Disease Heritability | Ingrid Fadelli

Photo credit: Penn State March 17, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- The expression of genes in response to neuronal activity can significantly influence the human brain's development over time. While many neu ...

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Strange Days Dawning | John Michael Greer

Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...

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Computer Model Shows If You'll Die From COVID-19 | University of Copenhagen

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 5, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Artificial intelligence is able to predict who is most likely to die from the coronavirus. In doing so, it can also help decide who should be ...

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Ramanujan Machine Creates Mathematical Conjectures | Israel Institute of Technology

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 5, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Using AI and computer automation, researchers have developed a "conjecture generator" that creates mathematical conjectures, which are considered ...

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The Last Years of Progress | John Michael Greer

Feb. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- No, I’m not going to put much time here into discussing the last few weeks of political gyrations in the United States. I grant that it was highly entertaining to watch po ...

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Trump, Bernie, and the Cult of Personality — Mickey Z.

(collage by Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 31, 2021 “I sell the things you need to be I'm the smiling face on your T.V. I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes ...

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Smartphone-based COVID-19 test delivers results in 10 minutes | University of Arizona

UArizona researchers image a sample using a smartphone microscope. Credit: UArizona Biosensors Lab Jan. 29, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 ...

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