As more and more of the U.S. puts aside COVID-19 restrictions and everyday life returns to normalcy, the situation across Asia is quite different… fear of the Delta variant is spreading across the continents. Anyway, that’s the sales pitch in a major article in The New York Times last week. They reported that over the...
Tag: jun 22 2021
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DELTA VARIANT BLAMED FOR SPIKE IN CASES IN INDONESIA
The COVID-19 Delta variant—known as B.1.617.2—has been blamed for the increase in virus cases in Indonesia, forcing the government in Jakarta to hold off on easing restrictions. The Wall Street Journal reported that there is no specific number on how many cases are tied to the variant, but one epidemiologist told the paper that the country...
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U.K. CASES UP: DELTA COMING
The United Kingdom—which has said eight in ten adults have received at least one COVID-19 jab—or 47 percent of its adult population vaccinated, according to Our World in Data, the nation recorded more virus infections on Thursday since mid-February. And where did the infections come from? The government blamed the new Delta variant. There have...
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AUSTRALIA DESCRIBES DELTA VARIANT AS ‘NEAR AND PRESENT DANGER,’ WARNS ABOUT HOTELS
The health minister of New South Wales who warned Australians about the Delta COVID-19 variant, which is being sold as being 60 percent more infectious than the initial virus, raised concerns about hotel quarantines. The News Daily reported that Brad Hazzard, the health minister, declared the Delta variant is “capable of transmitting even when we have...
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BIDEN WARNS ABOUT DELTA VARIANT, WON’T RULE OUT MORE LOCKDOWNS
President Joe Biden on Friday warned unvaccinated Americans about the emerging COVID-19 Delta variant and said these individuals are even more vulnerable to infection as more cases emerge. “The Delta variant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated,” he said, according to The Wall Street Journal. Biden told reporters...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
EURO THREATS NOT STOPPING CRYPTO MOVES. Last week El Salvador became a crypto world trailblazer, adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. The International Money Fund and its central bank backers aren’t happy, to say the least. Over the weekend in The Financial Times, Fabio Panetta of the European Central Bank called Bitcoin “a dangerous animal”, and...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
BIDEN SICS INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ON U.S. NEWS OUTLETS AND AVERAGE AMERICANS. The Biden Administration took further steps to weaponize U.S. intelligence agencies against American citizens this past week. With the release of a report titled “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” the administration’s plans for smearing and even outlawing criticism of government abuses became clearer....
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CRISPR CREATOR SAYS GENE EDITING JUST GETTING STARTED
Don’t worry about humans gene-editing themselves and everything else. It will all turn out positive. That’s the view of one of the scientists who created the CRISPR technology being used to create genetically modified food － and now － people. Dr. Jennifer Doudna was quoted in an April article on the website Freethink proselytising for...
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THE ULTIMATE WAY TO STORE YOUR DIGITAL FILES
Flash memory is nice, but there’s a far superior place to store computer files. It’s a thousand times more dense than flash, it requires no energy to maintain, and it’s unusually stable. It’s DNA. Humans have piled up about 10 trillion gigabytes of computer files so far, and every day we add about 2.5 million...
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AHOY! NUCLEAR POWER MINI-PLANTS ARE FLOATING YOUR WAY
Denmark’s Seaborg Technologies, a start-up named for Danish-American chemist Glenn Seaborg who helped discover ten radioactive elements, is planning to make not just a new kind of nuclear power plant but also to deliver it in a whole new way. The company has designed nuclear plants the size of a shipping container and will float...