Leben (Life aka misc)
Why the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist
Theoretical physicist Sankar Das Sarma wrote a thought-provoking essay for New Scientist magazine’s Lost in Space-Time newsletter: I was recently reading an old article by string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf in Quanta Magazine entitled “There are no laws of physics”. You might think it a bit odd for a physicist to Read more…
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Teenager’s Incurable Cancer Cleared With Revolutionary DNA-Editing Technique
“A teenage girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body,” reports the BBC, “in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine….” Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used “base editing” to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug. Six months Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Can a ‘Virtual’ Manual Transmission Bring the Stick Shift to Electric Cars?
Lexus is apparently working on a “virtual” manual transmission, reports the Verge, “to find out if the stick shift can survive the electric revolution…” British car enthusiast publication Evo reported this week that Lexus, which now leads Toyota’s high-performance EV efforts, is developing a kind of shifting system that mimics Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
‘The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022’
This week the Atlantic published its list of “the 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022.” “We didn’t just get one ‘unheard-of’ cancer breakthrough; we got several in one year….” Is death reversible? It was this year for several pigs (or, at least, for their organs). By pumping an experimental Read more…
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News Flash
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. – Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
Leben (Life aka misc)
Silly Rabbit, Kings are for fools
Fini le serment au roi au Québec. Glad to see this during my lifetime.