Science of Living Things(SLT) (fa22)

@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

The West could become totally infertile in 2045

In a recently published book, scientific duo Shanna H. Swan and Stacey Colino show that the number of sperm produced in Western countries fell 59% between 1973 and 2011. If the current trajectory con...

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@Ahmedkhan355 · 3 years ago

Building an energy efficient future

Despite the fact that we may will in general focus on the natural effect of the decisions that are made, actually there's additionally an effect here as far as accounts and the energy security of the...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

"Écotopia": welcome to the desirable future

Released in 1975, Ecotopia was quickly integrated by the American counter-culture, until it became a classic and a rare model of utopian science fiction. Ernest Callenbach's novel imagines the foun...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Putting the participative imagination at the service of positive futures

It is easier to anticipate a dark and frightening future than to imagine hopeful alternatives. In this column, Jean-Éric Aubert and Simon Luck, respectively President of the 2100 Foundation and Scient...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

" We dig our grave with our teeth. "

" We dig our grave with our teeth. " Benjamin Franklin - Founding Father of the United States (1706/1790) Challenging many received ideas arising from New Age education (vegetarian, vegan) such...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

The Game of Life

" wonderful gift, useless gift, life, for what purpose are you given to us? " Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin , Russian poet, playwright and novelist (1799/1837) Life is a game The card game To...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Mathematical symbolism

" Mathematics is the alphabet with which God wrote the universe. " Galileo - 17th century Italian mathematician, geometer, physicist and astronomer (1564/1642) Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes, Ga...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

"the technological dropout will translate into a much more intense pleasure in living"

From La Zone du Dehors in 1999 through La Horde du Contrevent and Les Furtifs (all republished in pocket by Folio , early 2021) to his latest short story Scarlet and Novak , releas...

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@Prince_iii · 3 years ago

Wisdom_Do animals have it?

Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to solve problems and avoid danger. For people, wisdom means using the power of discussion. Does this also apply to animals? For example, cats are known to open...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Exclusive: IMAX CEO And AI Founder Launch Company To Make Your TV Obsolete

It was supposed to have been a vacation. In February 2020, a few weeks before the Covid pandemic would wreak havoc on his global theatre empire, IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond flew to St. Barths to visit h...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Helped Save The World. Can He Save His Company’s Stock?

The one-year anniversary of the pandemic was a whirlwind for the chief executive officer who has become defined by it. Pfizer’s Albert Bourla conducted several media interviews on Thursday—everything...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

For some physicists, the simulation hypothesis would only be pseudoscience

In recent years, the simulation hypothesis has aroused some enthusiasm among the general public. This hypothesis, proposing that our universe is the fruit of a computer simulation generated by a hi...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Process to preserve - Principle of vegetable preservation

Process to preserve - Principle of vegetable preservation 2 Objective: to obtain stable, healthy and wholesome products. In this sense we seek to control the development of microorganisms pathoge...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Lacto-fermentation

Lacto-fermentation Lacto-fermentation is a preservation process in an aqueous medium which involves lactic acid bacteria. Acidification of the medium (ph between 3.5 and 4) prevents the proliferat...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Covid

Magazine EN ROUTE… towards the triumph of the Glorious Cross - Special issue infectious dies, it is not really a vaccine, but a gene therapy The principle is as follows: We injects into the...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Proposed California Law Would Legalize Magic Mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, And Other Psychedelic Drugs

A proposal that would allow the possession, cultivation, use, and “sharing” of most psychedelic drugs in California was formally introduced in the state Legislature on Thursday. SB 519, sponsored b...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

“How to (re) reconcile ethics and digital? "

Sans Tabou is a 6-episode debate series created by Usbek & Rica and Microsoft France. An honest dialogue, guaranteed without bullshit , social washing or quotes from General de Gaulle, to serio...

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@Prince_iii · 3 years ago

Our Mysterious Universe

A few years ago, astronomers believed that they fully understood the universe.Earth's physical laws seemed sufficient to explain distant phenomena. But today they are not so confident. We talk more an...

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@PrincessAria · 3 years ago

Toxic relationship and solutions

The reason for the breakdown of the relationship The consequences of a toxic relationship are never pleasant. He must be respected, no matter how short or long term. However, while showing respe...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Elon Musk wants future Tesla Roadsters to be able to 'float' above the ground

In recent years, Tesla has established itself as a leader in self-driving electric cars. Indeed, today, the autopilot system of the company represented by Elon Musk is extremely successful and equi...

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@Prince_iii · 3 years ago

Using the Sun’s Energy

Have you ever sat in a closed car and spent a lot of time in the scorching sun? The heat can be almost unbearable! Without a doubt, the sun is undoubtedly a great source of potential energy. Think ab...

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@Prince_iii · 3 years ago

A look at the mayors Turtle

WHAT do you know about Lord Mayor's Turtle? In fact, there are no officially named turtle species. In England, the Lord Mayor's banquet traditionally began with a bowl of green turtle soup, which is w...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

A computer virus hidden in a strand of DNA

DNA sequencers are a major security flaw for the biohackers of tomorrow who could take over machines via viruses encoded in DNA. Researchers have successfully hacked into a computer via a virus enco...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

"Transhumanism is based on infantile illusions"

Transhumanist beliefs and ideas echo deeply rooted desires in human beings. Why do these desires seem to find an unprecedented response through science and technology? What are the conscious and unc...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Video game: meeting in Seoul with feminist gamers

Meeting in Seoul with two members of famerz, an association of South Korean feminist gamers. Writer and curator specializing in digital arts, Isabelle Arvers began in June a world tour of the rela...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

In 2050, will Facebook look like Second Life?

With the programmed democratization of virtual reality, the number one in social networks could well follow in the footsteps of the famous 3D universe. With the programmed democratization of virtual...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

From Skyblogs to Metaverse: 30 Years of Internet History (and to Come)

During the first two decades of the third millennium, the Internet has constantly renewed itself, interfering more and more each year with our lives. As we have entered a new decade since January 1, 2...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Will the future be cyberpunk or Braudelian?

Behind this title holding a little oxymoron hides the fight (final?) Between the States and the giants of the tech. Because today, says Anthony Poncier , doctor in social and political history who b...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

California researchers create invisible human cells

Harry Potter, with his invisibility cloak, can go and get dressed. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have succeeded in cultivating human cells modified with a female squid protein...

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@JeremySagnes · 3 years ago

Are brands the future of man?

Brands are proliferating in the public space. Born from the commercial space, where they have developed with the advent of the consumer society, they are now reaching new sectors of society (culture,...

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