Links for 2022-01-23
Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe: “In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-one-galaxy-ai-defines-a-whole-simulated-universe-20220120/
Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/20/antimicrobial-resistance-antibiotic-resistant-bacterial-infections-deaths-lancet-study
What causes Arctic Ocean warming? A new study suggests internal atmopsheric variability accounts for ~60% of accelerated warming since 2000. https://go.nature.com/3InMFeA
The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins — “They deliberated in secret. They used burner phones. They spoke only to their trusted colleagues. This went on for more than a month from late January 2020 to early March.” https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lab-leak-the-plots-and-schemes-of-jeremy-farrar-anthony-fauci-and-francis-collins/
The Mechanical Basis of Memory – the MeshCODE Theory https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2021.592951/full
Which Values Children Should Be Encouraged to Learn, By Country https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/which-values-children-should-learn-by-country/
The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries: "the quality of [medical] care in low-income countries as measured by what doctors know is very low,…compounded due to low effort -- doctors provide lower standards of care for their patients than they know how to provide." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.22.2.93
41 Inconvenient Truths on the "New Energy Economy" — Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He's right. https://fee.org/articles/41-inconvenient-truths-on-the-new-energy-economy/
The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots: Artificial intelligence is being taught to fly warplanes. Can the technology be trusted? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/the-rise-of-ai-fighter-pilots
“...a fission fragment reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates electricity by decelerating an ion beam of fission byproducts instead of using nuclear reactions to generate heat. By doing so, it bypasses the Carnot cycle and can achieve efficiencies of up to 90% instead of 40-45% attainable by efficient turbine-driven thermal reactors. The fission fragment ion beam would be passed through a magnetohydrodynamic generator to produce electricity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_fragment_reactor
The Secret Cambrian Bio Master Plan to Build Drugs to Treat Aging https://www.cambrianbio.com/news-and-publications/the-secret-cambrian-bio-master-plan-to-build-drugs-to-treat-aging-just-between-you-and-me
Lithuania is under pressure from German companies to back down in a dispute with China to end a blockade of the Baltic state https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-big-business-piles-pressure-lithuania-china-row-2022-01-21/