Students Break Acceleration World Record
October 13th, 2022Via: University of Stuttgart:
In 1.461 seconds from 0 to 100[km/h]: This is the new best time for the fastest accelerating electric vehicle and a new world record. On Friday September 23, 2022, the record was broken by 20 students from the University of Stuttgart with their self-built electric racing car, on a racetrack at the Bosch site in Renningen in the district of Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg.
Microsoft’s Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test
October 13th, 2022Via: Bloomberg:
US soldiers using Microsoft Corp.’s new goggles in their latest field test suffered “mission-affecting physical impairments” including headaches, eyestrain and nausea, according to a summary of the exercise compiled by the Pentagon’s testing office.
More than 80% of those who experienced discomfort had symptoms after less than three hours using the customized version of Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles, Nickolas Guertin, director of Operation Test and Evaluation, said in a summary for Army and Defense Department officials. He said the system also is still experiencing too many failures of essential functions.
Scientists Grow Human Brain Cells in Rats to Study Diseases
October 13th, 2022Via: AP:
Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.
It’s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery.
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To make the brain organoids, Stanford University scientists transformed human skin cells into stem cells and then coaxed them to become several types of brain cells. Those cells then multiplied to form organoids resembling the cerebral cortex, the human brain’s outermost layer, which plays a key role in things like memory, thinking, learning, reasoning and emotions.
Scientists transplanted those organoids into rat pups 2 to 3 days old, a stage when brain connections are still forming. The organoids grew so that they eventually occupied a third of the hemisphere of the rat’s brain where they were implanted. Neurons from the organoids formed working connections with circuits in the brain.
Human neurons have been transplanted in rodents before, but generally in adult animals, usually mice. Pasca, a psychiatry professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, said this is the first time these organoids have been placed into early rat brains, creating “the most advanced human brain circuitry ever built from human skin cells and a demonstration that implanted human neurons can influence an animal’s behavior.”
PayPal Decides Fining People $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’ Wasn’t a Great Idea
October 13th, 2022Via: The Register:
PayPal has backed away from fining its own customers up to $2,500 for promoting whatever it determines is “misinformation.”
The punishment showed up in its updated acceptable use policy, captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine on September 27, which was due to take effect on November 3. But the revision was deleted by the online payments giant around 2100 GMT on October 8. The biz’s current AUP was drafted September 20 last year and remains in effect.
PayPal has reportedly repudiated its planned AUP revision and characterized the snafu as an error.
“The Biggest Purveyor of Online Mal-, Mis- and Dis-Information Is the U.S. Government”
October 12th, 2022Via: Corbett Report:
By their actions, governments and intelligence agencies the world over have revealed that they are truly afraid of the free flow of information online.
Sweden Refuses to Share Results of Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Investigation With Russia
October 12th, 2022haha Shocker.
Via: Summit News:
Sweden is refusing to share the preliminary results of its official investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline explosions with Russia, asserting that the information is “confidential.”
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that the outcome of the inquiry into what severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in late September would not be revealed to Moscow.
“In Sweden, our preliminary investigations are confidential, and that, of course, also applies in this case,” Andersson told reporters.
The investigation found that the blasts were an act of sabotage, although the culprit has not been named.
Pfizer Exec Concedes COVID-19 Vaccine Was Not Tested on Preventing Transmission Before Release
October 12th, 2022Time to stop all of these. They lied. They keep lying. Governments need to stop this game. We will hold you accountable for your corruption. https://t.co/oqjsRZgFHY
— ryancolemd (@drcole12) October 11, 2022
This was misinformation.pic.twitter.com/tLI3Emduq3
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 12, 2022
Via: Epoch Times:
A Pfizer executive said Monday that neither she nor other Pfizer officials knew whether its COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission before entering the market last year.
Member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, asked during a session: “Was the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market? Did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market?”
Pfizer’s Janine Small, president of international developed markets, said in response: “No … You know, we had to … really move at the speed of science to know what is taking place in the market.”
Roos, of the Netherlands, argued in a Twitter video Monday that following Small’s comments to him, millions of people around the world were duped by pharmaceutical companies and governments.
“Millions of people worldwide felt forced to get vaccinated because of the myth that ‘you do it for others,’” Roos said. “Now, this turned out to be a cheap lie” and “should be exposed,” he added.
“UK Pension Schemes Are Racing to Raise Hundreds of Billions of Pounds to Shore up Derivatives Positions”
October 12th, 2022Via: Reuters:
UK pension schemes are racing to raise hundreds of billions of pounds to shore up derivatives positions before the Bank of England calls time on support aimed at keeping them afloat.
Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday that the BoE would stop buying bonds as planned on Oct. 14, which would leave pension schemes scrambling after a surge in yields to meet a collective cash call estimated to be at least 320 billion pounds ($355 billion) without a buyer of last resort.The central bank had on Tuesday made its fifth attempt in just over two weeks to restore order in markets.
With pension schemes calling for a deadline extension, the Financial Times on Wednesday reported the BoE had earlier signalled to lenders it might continue the emergency programme beyond Friday if market conditions demanded it, stoking confusion.
Russia Strikes Cities Across Ukraine in Retaliation for Bridge Bombing
October 10th, 2022Via: Daily Mail:
Vladimir Putin has vowed a ‘severe’ response to attacks on Russia after firing dozens of missiles at Ukraine this morning, blowing up power networks and killing civilians in retaliation for the Crimean bridge blast at the weekend.
At least 83 rockets were fired, Ukraine’s military said, with half shot down but half slamming into cities across the country. At least 11 people were killed and 60 wounded, Ukraine said, with eight of those deaths and 24 injuries in Kyiv alone. Rockets also hit the German consulate, but the building was empty.
A mixture of missiles and Iranian-made suicide drones were used to strike the cities of Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, northern Kharkiv and Sumy, central Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia, and even far-western Ternopil and Lviv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Some of these cities have not been hit in months.
Last Video Message from Geert Vanden Bossche
October 9th, 2022Via: Voice For Science and Solidarity:
So what I’m saying in this first slide is that it is five past twelve. In fact, we are already too late to intervene in a way that could prevent humanitarian crisis. It is really my last and desperate call for action as Omicron is now causing a fast and large-scale immune escape in vaccines. So, this is simply accelerating. Immune escape is accelerating.
