Isiah 1:17- Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
The race keeps getting told as Washington versus Beijing.
Max Tegmark told Bill O’Reilly it is not only that.
There is a third superpower rising, he said. Not China. Not the United States. The machines themselves.
That is the line that lands.
O’Reilly’s long sit-down is We’ll Do It LIVE!, posted September 24. Tegmark is the MIT physicist. It sits next to the Sherman hour from last week.
Watch it here: [VIDEO]
[VIDEO] Perhaps you might be wondering about deep sea dives including the tragic dive of the OceanGate Titan where the five explorers perished when their submersible had been crushed due to the underwater pressure of the ocean and disintegrated.
This video was published seven years ago and shows how the body responds to being on a deep sea dive. Being under the surface of the ocean is a different environment than being on land for sure. Then again going to higher elevation has it's own effects also.
I'm seeing more recent comments to this video as others probably arrived there thanks to the algorithm which seems focused on this news of the day. And even one very graphic explanation of why there are hardly any human remains to recover from the Titan. What happened to them was said to be very quick and they probably never knew what hit them!
[VIDEO] From the cultural war, how can infants be LGBTQ? And a further discussion with the cast from Timcast IRL podcast. The ongoing issue by the fringe to further sexualize and "transition" young people. When watching this discussion please use discretion, some of this will sound very uncomfortable. And for those going through it, it should be uncomfortable anyway!
[VIDEO] In this John Stossel vid we look at how left-wing progressive activism has infected the publishing of academic articles. In some examples we see how people were able to prank certain academic journals into publishing their non-sensical gibberish articles. And unfortunately sometimes some journals will post articles that they know isn't up to very strict standards to insure credibility. And even as demonstrated in this video they still might enjoy some prestige in Washington, DC even now!
[VIDEO] Depending upon your favorite Democrat politician from the Mayor of Chicago to the Governor of Illinois or even your local public health official you may have heard the whole follow the science line. Every mitigation from masks to social distancing to lockdowns to vax mandates they all are supposed to follow the science. However as Dave Rubin discusses with Brian Keating what if all these mitigation efforts weren't following the science, so what science are they following?
We don't just have the United Kingdom variant that we've heard so much about. Now there's a South African variant, this virus is mutating though as with the UK variant it's only more contagious. The virus is very contagious though seemingly not entirely lethal save for age and other pre-existing conditions.
Here's more from Scientific America:
Researchers were only partly right. The virus is indeed bad—but it is not so stable after all. SARS-CoV-2 has been acquiring minor random mutations ever since it jumped from animals to humans. These mutations can take the form of single-letter typos in the viral genetic code or deletions or insertions of longer stretches. When they occur, most mutations either kill the virus or cause no change in its structure or behavior.
But in recent months, several new variants of the original virus (also called the wild type) have been spotted that appear to cause major changes in the way the pathogen acts, including alterations to its contagiousness. These viral versions have seemingly popped up in rapid succession in different geographical regions, such as the U.K and South Africa and Brazil, and in some cases have outcompeted the existing variants. Although improved surveillance and sequencing efforts might partly explain why these variants are appearing now, some repetition in their patterns suggest the mutations are not random.“What we’re seeing is similar mutations arising in multiple places,” says Adam Lauring, a virologist at the University of Michigan. “That’s pretty suggestive that these mutations are doing something.”
Specifically, they appear to help the virus transmit more readily and evade the immune system. This month researchers reported, for the first time, that antibodies from individuals with COVID did not completely neutralize a variant first identified in South Africa. A few people who recovered from the disease also appear to have been reinfected with the mutant virus.
Thus far, vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer seem to work against the new variants, although Moderna has begun developing a booster shot specific to new variants. Because these two vaccines are more than 90 percent effective, a slight drop in effectiveness would still make them worth using, experts say.
I suppose we have to continue some of these measures a bit longer. Social distancing, wash hands, wear a face covering of some sort. I was impatient thinking we can just beat this thing, however, it does as nature does it replicates and creates new versions of the same bug...
You know when a few states were ending their lockdowns or stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to mitigate the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19 - remember to flatten the curve which should've taken two weeks and instead kept getting extended. Anyway what was my point.
Well ending the lockdowns in places like Chicago and others bled into the unrest over the death of George Floyd. I was dismayed at the riots and looting and it became clear to me by my own eyes that perhaps authorities tried to keep people at home for too long. And I would think as the weather gets warmer people would start to get restless.
And then I consider the economic damage. There are a few businesses suffering damage to their businesses both big and small. And some were affected by ongoing unrest - and no not all of those businesses save the larger ones have insurance. Indeed you may have lost a lot of product or equipment to looting, however, insurance may not compensate for all losses.
And now I hear there is a mutated version of this virus. Something else to get the public worked up over. In Great Britain they're locking down again because of it. They wanted to get back to normal for Christmas, nope we can't go forward says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
What is this mutation we're talking about:
On 8 December, during a regular Tuesday meeting about the spread of the pandemic coronavirus in the United Kingdom, scientists and public health experts saw a diagram that made them sit up straight. Kent, in southeastern England, was experiencing a surge in cases, and a phylogenetic tree showing viral sequences from the county looked very strange, says Nick Loman, a microbial genomicist at the University of Birmingham. Not only were half the cases caused by one specific variant of SARS-CoV-2, but that variant was sitting on a branch of the tree that literally stuck out from the rest of the data. “I’ve not seen a part of the tree that looks like this before,” Loman says.
Less than 2 weeks later, that variant is causing mayhem in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Yesterday, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced stricter lockdown measures, saying the strain, which goes by the name B.1.1.7, appears to be better at spreading between people. The news led many Londoners to leave the city today, before the new rules take effect, causing overcrowded railway stations. The Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy announced they were temporarily halting passenger flights from the United Kingdom. The Eurostar train between Brussels and London will stop running tonight at midnight, for at least 24 hours.Scientists, meanwhile, are hard at work trying to figure out whether B.1.1.7 is really more adept at human-to-human transmission—not everyone is convinced yet—and if so, why. They’re also wondering how it evolved so fast. B.1.1.7 has acquired 17 mutations all at once, a feat never seen before. “There’s now a frantic push to try and characterize some of these mutations in the lab,” says Andrew Rambaut, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh.
And now some of these same Governors who locked down their states especially Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) are looking into this and sounding the alarm. Like I said another thing to get the public worked up over although let's not fret too much New York restaurants have banned Cuomo for life ha!
It seems we may have another crisis, but I very much hope I'm wrong on this. Hopefully this vaccine will help bring things back to some semblance of normal as I had been hoping for most of this year. I hoped only to see this thing come back with a vengeance!
And the media was sounding the alarm about them even before the summer's unrest amidst the pandemic lockdowns.
Well it's amazing that in a link via Instapundit wildlife officials actually caught one live. I still wonder if anyone was worried about it.
Was hoping to find a video to embed since Instapundit link went to a Weather Channel video about the subject, however, I found this interesting. A praying mantis defeats a murder hornet in a fight, well I'm being nice here. Let's just say nature takes its course as far as what really happens. [VIDEO]
Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever hunt for the condition in mummies.Still with this finding, it's advisable to continue living a healthy lifestyle. That is don't smoke and eat healthy!
Researchers say that suggests heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.
CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined, including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles. Atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes. More than half of the mummies were from Egypt while the rest were from Peru, southwest America and the Aleutian islands in Alaska. The mummies were from about 3800 B.C. to 1900 A.D.
"Heart disease has been stalking mankind for over 4,000 years all over the globe," said Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City and the paper's lead author.
Boys in the United States are beginning to see the first signs of puberty from six months to two years earlier than previously observed, according to a new study published Saturday in Pediatrics. The study is the first to look at the onset of puberty for U.S. boys in 25 years and seems to mirror similar findings that have already been well documented in girls, points out the Wall Street Journal. The difference appears most pronounced in African-American boys, who are starting to see the first signs of puberty at 9.1 years. The average for Hispanic boys is 10 and 10.1 years for white boys, compared with the average age of 11.5 in previous studies.Hat-tip Instapundit!
The study has been a long time coming and is widely considered to be the most comprehensive attempt to measure puberty in U.S. boys. Still, experts cautioned that since previous studies were smaller or approached the issue through a different light, it might not be so easy to pinpoint how much earlier boys are developing, points out the New York Times.
Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became first to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11, has died. He was 82 years old.
Armstrong had heart surgery several weeks ago, and a statement from his family said he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
"Neil Armstrong was also a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job," his family said. "He served his Nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut. ... He remained an advocate of aviation and exploration throughout his life and never lost his boyhood wonder of these pursuits."
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people -- a sixth of the world's population at the time -- watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon's surface, and said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists.
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
His book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern - in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer's Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria.
Much like the experience of Wehr's subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep.
