Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
If India Chokes Less, It Will Fry More
South Asia has warmed far more slowly than the rest of the world over the past four decades with temperatures rising just 0.09C per decade compared to 0.30C elsewhere on land. Scientists believe this “warming hole” results from two factors that have masked the true impact of global warming: heavy Read more…
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Trump Quietly Throws Out Biden’s Cyber Policies
President Trump quietly took a red pen to much of the Biden administration’s cyber legacy in a little-noticed move late Friday. Under an executive order signed just before the weekend, Trump is tossing out some of the major touchstones of Biden’s cyber policy legacy — while keeping a few others. Read more…
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Bitcoin Baby Soon To Be a Teenager
Twelve years ago, a baby was born after someone used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF. In February 2012 — almost two years after Laszlo’s pizzas — a fertility doctor named C. Terence Lee set about a personal and professional quest to onboard his patients to Bitcoin by Read more…
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A Mathematician Calculated The Size of a Giant Meatball Made of Every Human
A mathematician on Reddit calculated that if all 8.2 billion humans were blended into a uniform goo, the resulting meatball would form a sphere just under 1 kilometer wide — small enough to fit inside Central Park. “If you blended all 7.88 billion people on Earth into a fine goo Read more…
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FDA To Use AI In Drug Approvals To Radically Increase Efficiency
The FDA plans to use AI to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, drawing on lessons from Operation Warp Speed to reduce review times to weeks. The plan was laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA. Another initiative involves a review of Read more…