Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Prominent sociopath, fraud, and bigot Elon Musk succeeds in shutting down the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, making the world less safe in the face of an onslaught of lies and disinformation from Musk's site X. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/technology/elon-musk-x-advertisers-boycott.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.rEt4.gqvdfhrYvbQ6&smid=url-share

Elon’s your dimwitted right-wing uncle who falls for any nonsense that crosses his FB page, but with billions of dollars and his own private social media company.

It’s amazing and sad that he’s convinced so many people that he’s some visionary genius.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-share-fake-news-uk-rioters-detainment-camp/

#elonmusk #fascism #disinformation

The world’s poorest nations need to triple power production by 2050 to prosper and will become the biggest emitters of climate-warming gases unless they are given assistance to build renewable energy facilities, the Rockefeller Foundation said in a new report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/08/08/energy/climate-green-power-poor-rockefeller/ #environment #energy #energy #environment #rockefellerfoundation #sustainability #developingnations #africa #renewableenergy

A readable summary of the latest findings on #CoralBleaching in the #GreatBarrierReef is also in the latest issue of @Nature

Worth a read through - if you can bear it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02329-1?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20240808&sap-outbound-id=B88306D76D18FBB17887652E05D02D0FF0487041

Scientists are starting to uncover how neighborhood can affect the biology of cancer.

From @STAT: "The worse outcomes for people from poorer, more stress-filled neighborhoods suggest that our physical and social spaces are somehow influencing our biology."

https://flip.it/eoF0mn

#Health #Cancer #PublicHealth #Disease #Epidemiology #Science #Biology

A Virgin advert for the world's first transatlantic flight to be 100% powered by so-called 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF) has been banned, after the UK Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) said it was misleading https://buff.ly/3SHOdYl

'A future pandemic — one caused by H5N1 or a different pathogen — could also arise in a far different legal environment than Covid-19 did. Over the past few years, many states have rushed to restrain health officials’ authority, thereby limiting their ability to respond to public health emergencies'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2406427

'With most of the original French army captured, killed, deserted or otherwise neutered, the Free French forces comprised two-thirds colonial troops (...) But needs must. Where necessary, Black soldiers were confined to barracks and replaced with white counterparts drafted in from other units.'

https://www.ft.com/content/610e59d8-8aea-41da-856d-29ed31681305

Seems like a reasonable hypothesis:
"In this editorial, I argue that making raw data openly available is not only important for reuse and data mining but also for simply confirming that the results presented in the paper are truly based on actual data. With such concept, the data sharing policy of Molecular Brain has been changed and I introduce this update."
https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13041-020-0552-2

'De acordo com os dados do Inquérito aos Doutorados 2023, as ciências exactas e naturais são aquelas que absorvem mais doutorados (28%), logo seguidas pelas ciências sociais (25%), pelas ciências da engenharia e tecnologias (19%) e só depois pelas ciências médicas e da saúde (12%). As áreas que menos atraem doutorados são as ciências agrárias e veterinárias.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/08/03/sociedade/noticia/decada-numero-doutorados-portugal-cresceu-73-ultrapassou-43-mil-2099710

'I have no memory of being impressed or even detained much by the opening paragraph of Go Tell It on the Mountain. I just read it. I wonder if it was designed for that purpose: to be read without noticing the style. The sixty-one words in this opening paragraph include forty-two words with only one syllable:

"Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. It had been said so often that John, without ever thinking about it, had come to believe it himself. Not until the morning of his fourteenth birthday did he really begin to think about it, and by then it was already too late."'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/08/02/the-pitch-of-passion-james-baldwin/

'Novo Nordisk now has more than 45,000 people in ongoing or planned trials for semaglutide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster drugs, and CagriSema, a next-generation version of the treatment that combines semaglutide with another compound, a Financial Times analysis of clinical trial data shows.'

https://www.ft.com/content/2ea93480-f6dc-4714-aeaa-036427eafe53

'The basement performance, for a small crowd of Broadway insiders, investors and friends, was the first private reading of a new musical with a story by Mr. Hwang, and music and lyrics by Bear McCreary and Zoe Sarnak. The show recounts one of the biggest events in physics this century: the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and the people behind it.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/science/higgs-boson-musical.html

'Countries like the United States, China and Russia are spending trillions of dollars to modernize their stockpiles. Many of the safeguards that once lowered nuclear risk are unraveling, and the diplomacy needed to restore them is not happening. The threat of another blast can’t be relegated to history.'
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/06/opinion/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-bombing.html

'A 2012 longitudinal study of about 5 million women from 1961 to 2007 found that immigrant women and women with a low level of education actually had a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were highly educated and born in Sweden. And yet, from 2000 onwards, the mortality rate was significantly higher among the first group. One reason is likely to be because only 60% of women born outside Sweden go for their mammogram appointments compared to 80% of those born in the country'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/sweden-breast-cancer-europe-immigrant-women-screening

'Despite Flatiron struggling to make money, one benefit of the acquisition is that its data has helped to improve cancer drug development at Roche, which is currently testing about 60 oncology drugs in clinical trials.'
https://www.ft.com/content/3f87d26c-c98d-42f4-b460-5011e255aa95

'This was neither an entirely grassroots phenomenon nor a campaign orchestrated by foreign powers (though it wouldn’t be surprising if Russian propagandists were trying to make hay with the disorder). Rather, it is an integral part of the way far-right activists now operate.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/august/this-time-it-s-worse