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"É para já um projecto-piloto, mas a correr bem poderá vir a ser uma solução para mitigar os efeitos da falta de água na agricultura, em concreto na viticultura, e tornar mais eficiente o uso de um bem tão escasso e precioso."

publico.pt/2023/09/25/terroir/

"Our offices were just a short walk apart, and after meeting to discuss our suspicions, we began what has so far been a nearly 20-year collaboration to determine if phenylephrine was effective at the dosage available to consumers over the counter, and later, when we discovered it wasn’t, to petition the Food and Drug Administration to remove it from shelves."

nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion

"Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, attacked Germany's center-left governing coalition for supporting migrants on Friday and boosted a call for the German people to support a far-right extremist party instead."

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

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"Natural proteins are composed of 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their post-translational modifications (PTMs). However, due to the lack of a suitable nanopore sensor that can simultaneously discriminate between all 20 amino acids and their PTMs, direct sequencing of protein with nanopores has not yet been realized."

nature.com/articles/s41592-023

El otro día la CEO de tuiter, Linda Yaccarino, dio una desastrosa entrevista en el evento Code 2023. Una entrevista de vergüenza ajena, con el público riéndose de ella cada vez que defendía a Musk. Pero entre tanto bochorno, Yaccarina dejó escapar un dato: Tuiter ha perdido más de 25 millones de usuarios activos desde que lo compró Musk:

mashable.com/article/twitter-x

If you went to grade school more than 20 years ago and you think America is the country they told you it was in grade school, get a load of this list of books that are currently banned in Texas - it will change your mind. It certainly changed mine.

dallasobserver.com/news/list-o

15 MSCA Cofund postdoctoral fellowships on cancer research in Spain

The Scientific Foundation of the Spanish Association Against Cancer

New open call AECCTalent MSCA COFUND postdoctoral programme coordinated by contracancerES for excellent cancer research in Spain. Visit aecctalent.com

See the full job descript...
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'For Small, who is now based at Canada’s McGill University, uncertainty is in itself grounds for caution. “We know enough to know that we don’t know enough,” she says. “And so I think that the feelings of safety around artificial sweeteners are not warranted.”

ft.com/content/7d40bdcc-34b5-4

Anyone who thinks fascism is something new in the US knows very little of the nation's history.

theguardian.com/books/2023/sep

She worked on the Agena rocket, so important to the Apollo moon mission (shown) & was an author of the NASA Flight Handbook Vol. III about flight to Mars & Venus.

After retiring in 1973, she devoted her time to recruiting & mentoring women & Indigenous people to engineering. At 96 she participated in the opening ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian & left the museum $400,000 upon her death.

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“Portrait of a Man in a Slouch Hat” (c1660) has no such grandeur; nevertheless the anonymous character, whose mischievous eyes and smile shine from under the curved sweep of a colossal floppy hat, mesmerises. Painted very broadly, white collar, cuff, strands of gold hair abbreviated in a few dashing strokes, the picture looks like a Manet.'

ft.com/content/d51f6dc5-fe6b-4

CNN:
More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit

The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.

Researchers and activists are trying to rescue surviving dolphins by transferring them from lagoons and ponds in the outskirts to the main body of the river where the water is cooler...
edition.cnn.com/2023/10/01/ame

#News #WorldNews #ClimateChange

"The Shasta county board of supervisors appointed Jon Knight, a hydroponics store owner and prominent figure in the local far-right movement, to serve on the board of the public health agency responsible for managing the insects, instead of the county’s former public health director, an epidemiologist."

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s

Please dont write sentences like this. 'An Italian university' has a name, just like Harvard.

"Dr. Gino was something of an academic late bloomer. After growing up in Tione di Trento, a small town in Italy, she earned a Ph.D. in economics and management from an Italian university in 2004, then did a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Business School."

nytimes.com/2023/09/30/busines

"New data released Thursday by the National Science Foundation show the exodus of young life scientists from the Ivory Tower to industry has reached the highest level in nearly three decades, deepening concerns about the future of academic science in the US"

statnews.com/2023/09/28/scient

@andrewplested Let me know if you can place it (I cant).

My first Theroux was when I read the Mosquito Coast as a teenager - and loved it.

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