Chemical engineering has been a laborious process: marking up the whiteboard to lay out a hypothesis, then putting on the lab coat, grabbing the test tubes, and hitting the workbench for long sessions of “wet chemistry” to test the idea. Now artificial intelligence can do most of that wet work instead. IBM’s new RoboRXN chemistry...
Tag: dec 8 2020
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“NUTRITIONAL TRANSITION” THREATENS HEALTH, LAND, WATER
As China, India, and other countries develop their economies, their food preferences change: instead of starchy plant foods such as rice and yams, consumers gravitate to meat and processed foods laden with sugar and unhealthy fats, according to new research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Using a computer model that projected development...
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PROTESTS BREAK OUT IN FRANCE OVER MACRON’S SECURITY LAW
Violent protests broke out last weekend in French cities including Paris, Lyon, and Marseille over President Emmanuel Macron’s draft security law that has been blasted by critics as a major crackdown in the country on civil liberties. The protest targeted a bill Macron’s government proposed last month that would ban publishing images of police officers,...
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INDIAN FARMERS PROTEST CONTINUE
As we have been reporting, protests have broken out in New Delhi, India, which are comprised of farmers voicing their concerns over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for deregulations they fear will sink them deeper into poverty. With their economy sinking for several consecutive quarters before the COVID War broke out, India’s GDP is estimated to have...
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U.N. CALLS FOR YEMEN CEASEFIRE
It is the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth, but barely reported and hardly discussed: the 2015 war launched against Yemen by Saudi Arabia with the support of the United States. (See our 29 September 2017 article, “MIDDLE EAST WAR DRUMS ARE BEATING.”) Last week, the U.N. announced that the war in Yemen has resulted in...
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TRUMP: PULL TROOPS FROM SOMALIA
President Trump reportedly ordered his military leaders to pull out the approximately 700 U.S. troops stationed in Somalia who mainly have been training forces in the country to be prepared to defend themselves against al-Shabaab fighters. Rather than bringing the troops home, it is reported they will be repositioned in Kenya. Unreported in the mainstream...