Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org
A Periodic Table of Swearing, Science Tidbits & Middle Class Picnic Chit Chat. Computing & Cybernetics. also: https://twitter.com/cain_rob
Joined Nov 2022
RT @SueSuezep
Why doesn't everyone understand what the Tories are doing to the NHS - IE. selling it off.
Why don't people understand that it is being privatised, all be it by stealth, why don't people understand what a money-maker healthcare is. What don't they get?
RT @TrikBek
How do you think about the “self”?
We take a cognitive neuroscience approach to the individual-self and collective-self.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.22.533659v1.full.pdf
Based on discussions between @DavidHuepe and @AgustinMIbanez that @canalesjohnson aptly pushed and made happen. I helped wrap.
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RT @ReutersScience
The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry - or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a "fuzzy orange donut." http://reut.rs/3mFvK1E
RT @mikegalsworthy
“Set up in 1845, the firm fought for 30 years against the global textile trend of moving to the Far East only to be brought down by Brexit.” https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/killed-off-by-our-own-side-companys-bitter-experience-of-brexit-goes-viral-346617/
RT @ReutersScience
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have created a prototype of an edible and rechargeable battery, made entirely from food products
RT @newscientist
An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton’s radius alters depending on whether you look at the particle's charge or mass https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366932-protons-seem-to-be-a-different-size-depending-on-how-you-look-at-them/#Echobox=1681410623
RT @insideclimate
California regulators rejected an application from a home solar company to build community microgrids that can isolate from the grid, a model that could have taken business from big utilities
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12042023/california-home-solar-micro-utility/
RT @ScienceMagazine
Science's first paper using observations from the #JWST telescope has revealed a gravitationally lensed galaxy, with strong nebular emission lines, at redshift 9.5—corresponding to 510 million years after the Big Bang.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/2eR
RT @RichardJMurphy
Sunak backs greater role for private sector in providing NHS care. So, we end up providing more profit to the private sector rather than more healthcare. Of course that makes total sense. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-tories-boris-johnson-prime-minister-politico-b2319218.html
RT @docrussjackson
🚨 A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s Government has finally found a spine & said what is blindingly obvious to all decent people in Britain & beyond, saying Suella Braverman is a “real racist bigot”.
RT @KangHexin
SCOOP for @FinancialTimes w/@cheng_leng_: The renminbi’s share of global trade finance has more than doubled since the invasion of Ukraine and could soon surpass the euro as Russia turns to China’s currency for help in dodging western sanctions http://on.ft.com/3mu74sU
RT @Oceanwire
#ClimateEmergency #ActOnClimate
Here it coooooomes - El Niño 😮
Climate models warn of possible ‘Super El Niño’ before end of year
RT @DavidBrin
Podcasts about AI? Here's a very recent one that's pretty good.
RT @officejjsmart
VIDEO OF THE DAY
British 🇬🇧 soldiers salute & bid farewell to the Ukrainian soldiers 🇺🇦 whom they had been training.
The Brits lined up, on their own initiative, to salute the Ukrainians who, on behalf of all mankind, are going home to stop the demonic horde of 🇷🇺 murderers.
RT @BiancaJagger
👉🏿@TheBJHRF denounces and condemns the arbitrary sentenced imposed on the Chinese human rights lawyers RT Outcry over lengthy jail terms handed to China human rights lawyers https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/outcry-over-lengthy-jail-terms-handed-to-china-human-rights-lawyers
RT @Kira_Yarmysh
1/4 The lawyer says that an ambulance was called for Alexey @navalny on the night of Friday to Saturday because of an acute stomach pain. No one is treating him and they are not even telling him the diagnosis. He has lost 8 kilos(!) in the last 15 days in the punishment cell.
RT @TheFitDr
Mysterious 'cryptic' molecules made by zombie cells may drive aging, scientists say | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-cryptic-molecules-made-by-zombie-cells-may-drive-aging-scientists-say
RT @NewsfromScience
A new kind of free-electron laser is planned to be dramatically smaller and cheaper than anything that has come before. https://scim.ag/2dh
RT @ScienceMagazine
A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/2di @NewsfromScience
RT @EricTopol
"We have isolated and characterized 2 human monoclonal antibodies which exhibited neutralizing activities against all #SARSCoV2 variants tested, including BQ.1. and XBB.1.5"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.08.536123v1
A Periodic Table of Swearing, Science Tidbits & Middle Class Picnic Chit Chat. Computing & Cybernetics. also: https://twitter.com/cain_rob
Joined Nov 2022
