What investors have invested in multiple aging/longevity companies? New table https://agingbiotech.info/investorsXcompanies/ summarizes for repeat aging investors and companies. https://twitter.com/KarlPfleger/status/1611446701373652992
“No one had seen scurvy in animals before. With a simple animal model for the disease in hand, it became a matter of running the correct experiments, and it was quickly established that scurvy was a deficiency disease after all. Very quickly the compound that prevents the disease was identified as a small molecule present in cabbage, lemon juice, and many other foods, and in 1932 Szent-Györgyi definitively isolated ascorbic acid.” https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
What are Diffusion Models? https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-07-11-diffusion-models/
Using deep learning to model the hierarchical structure and function of a cell https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5882547/
Stowing is a “Beautiful Problem” that Amazon is Solving with Robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-warehouse-robots-2659064182
Gene Therapy for Heart Attacks in Mice Just Got More Precise https://today.duke.edu/2022/12/gene-therapy-heart-attacks-mice-just-got-more-precise
“Why can some animals regenerate, while so many cannot? We collected planarians from around the world, quantified and mapped head regeneration onto a new phylogeny and explored potential selection mechanisms via our planarian zoo” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.520916v1
How could I prove that the principle of strong induction is equivalent to the principle of standard induction? https://qr.ae/prvMKe
In Greenland, scientists have found and sequenced 2 million year old DNA. The DNA comes from a number of different plants and animals (including mastodons), and gives a picture of what Greenland was like when it had a warmer climate. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/07/dna-from-2m-years-ago-reveals-lost-arctic-world
"As of now, roughly half the world’s population resides in countries with sub-replacement fertility. … in eastern Europe … 1992 [-] 2016 … lost about 18 million people, or about 6% of their total population. " https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-global-fertility-collapse
“Did the invention of Tinder result in an increase of casual sexual activity? Evidence from 1.3 million college students between 2012 and 2016.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1610642550305554433.html
A lithium battery with the energy density of gasoline? https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444527455001842
Good politics must clearly state what is reality: In major German cities we have a problem with certain young men with a migration background who despise our state, commit acts of violence, and are hardly reached with education and integration programs.
— Nancy Faeser, German Federal Minister of the Interior (Social Democratic Party)
Sadly, this isn't a new insight and won't change anything:
The photo shows a 1998 front page of Germany's biggest newspaper. It reads: “Additional immigration to Germany is not bearable.” These words had been uttered by Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
This wasn't an outlier. Here are similar statements by left-wing and centrist politicians:
The multicultural society is an illusion of intellectuals.
― Helmut Schmidt (German Social Democratic politician and former Chancellor of Germany), 2004
With a democratic society, the concept of multiculturalism is difficult to reconcile. Maybe in a very long term. But if you ask, where multicultural societies have so far worked, you can get very quickly to the conclusion that they only work there peacefully where there is a strong authoritarian state there. So, it was a mistake that we picked up at the beginning of the 60's guest workers from foreign cultures into the country.
― Helmut Schmidt (German Social Democratic politician and former Chancellor of Germany), 2004
At least since PISA [International Student Assessment] it is clear as day in Germany: before we can talk about fruther immigration we first need to improve the integration of the children of immigrants living here. [...] Here in Berlin-Kreuzberg, 40% of the immigrant youth have neither graduated nor any professional qualification.
― Angela Merkel, 2002
We will continue to demand the regulation and limitation of immigration.
― Angela Merkel, 2003
The approach to build a multicultural society and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other has failed, utterly failed.
We must accept that the number of crimes committed by migrant youth is especially high.
― Angela Merkel, 2011
We all know what happened after these words were uttered:
A nuclear power phase-out would be ridiculous.
― Angela Merkel, 2008
Does this mean Yoga should be outlawed? Of course not. But maybe that's also true for other things that have occasionally inspired crazy people to go on a rampage.
But Reddit told me Democrats are a center-right party!
I can't even imagine mainstream/moderate *Republicans* publicly saying something like Nancy Faeser did. That being said, immigrants to the U.S. usually integrate much better.