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A promising super-duper powerful bioreactor could aid in the assault against excess carbon in the air. A new bioreactor can do what whole forests might struggle to do, eat that carbon and clean that air.
This New Bioreactor Has The Ability To Capture As Much Carbon As An Acre Of Trees – Truth Theory
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In the bid to look for cleaner fuel alternatives, a tech company from Austin has come up with a unique solution. They have designed an ingenious bioreactor that utilizes algae to convert CO2 into oxygen. And not just any small amount. It can put out nearly 2 tons of oxygen each year- a feat achieved by 400 trees!
Hypergiant Industries used artificial intelligence to develop the Eos Bioreactor. The AI optimizes carbon capture, algae growth and output. Algae is 400x better than trees when it comes to sequestering carbon. -
Perhaps someday you will be able to have precious data stored in your very cells. If you want to hold on to an audio recording of a lost loved one, well, that data might be implanted in your cells, available at a moment’s notice of being scanned to recover the audio for play.
Storing data in everyday objects – Science Daily
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Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. That’s not the case with inanimate objects: anyone wishing to 3D print an object also requires a set of instructions. If they then choose to print that same object again years later, they need access to the original digital information. The object itself does not store the printing instructions.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now collaborated with an Israeli scientist to develop a means of storing extensive information in almost any object. “With this method, we can integrate 3D-printing instructions into an object, so that after decades or even centuries, it will be possible to obtain those instructions directly from the object itself,” explains Robert Grass, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences. The way of storing this information is the same as for living things: in DNA molecules. -
The paradigm of the current age’s social morality is finding it difficult to align its outer image and external enforcement of said morality with its own choices when it comes to money and whatnot. Google is union busting, and it’s terrible if you like Unions, but awesome if you like watching the moral supremacists of the age do battle among themselves.
Google’s Alleged Union Busting Is Now Under Federal Investigation – Vanity Fair
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Google’s apparent resistance to its employees’ unionization efforts came under scrutiny in November, as the tech giant generated headlines for firing four employees who were active in the burgeoning organizing movement. While Google insisted that the terminations were instead because the employees were “searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs,” employees have contended the firings were an act of retaliation. Now, it seems that the federal government could be inclined to agree. CNBC reported Monday that the U.S. National Labor Relations Board has officially opened an investigation into Google’s labor practices, after the fired ex-Google employees filed a complaint with the NLRB last week.
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Need follows the path to least resistance, but should the resistance increase, the divergent nature of the path will only become more pronounced. Case in point, as humans find it increasingly difficult to afford purchasing prescription drugs in the legal market, they will increasingly, by necessity, take on the risk of engaging in divergent paths, paths such as the dread black market. And thanks to the internets, that black market is a worldwide network. And I, for one, love it. Don’t you?
People Buy, Trade, Donate Medications on the Black Market – Here’s Why – Scitech Daily
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Results from the study were published online in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology on December 4, 2019.
An online survey of 159 people with diabetes and their caregivers showed the group had participated in different types of underground exchange activities, from donating (56%) to receiving donated goods (34%) to trading (24%), borrowing (22%) and purchasing (15%). Many had taken part in more than one kind of transaction.
When asked why they turned to underground exchange, lack of affordability and accessibility were frequently mentioned. These comments supported statistics showing that over half of participants in the study engaged in underground exchange activities out of financial necessity. People donated and traded with family, friends and strangers who could not get supplies themselves, despite most having health insurance. -
In Africa, one might find some significant challenges to growing forests, forests that can find a plethora of benefits to communities that could sustain them. Well, thanks to some Italian architects, Africa might have an unexpected solution. Many of you may have heard of vertical farming, but have you ever heard of vertical foresting? Well, in Africa, that is exactly what is happening.
Africa’s First Vertical Forest to Be Developed in Egypt – Truth Theory
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In August 2019, Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri unveiled plans for the first vertical forest in Africa. Three buildings will be designed, each 30 meters tall and 30 meters wide. The buildings will be cube-shaped and seven stories tall. They will also be covered with pollution-absorbing trees and plants to help reduce carbon emissions in the desert east of Cairo.
Stefano Boeri Architetti estimates the buildings will have planted terraces containing 350 trees and 14,000 shrubs. Over 100 species will help cleanse the air from impurities. One of the three buildings will be a hotel while the other two will house apartment units.
The project will be located in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital. As DeZeen reports, the vertical forest is intended to be the administrative capital of the country and will contain the government departments and foreign embassies.
Space Plans Christmas Present for Earth that Could End Life as We Know It
Space Plans Christmas Present for Earth that Could End Life as We Know It – a NewsPoem
Empire.
The long-flamed face.
In the breech of the night sky a body
Heaved in the flotsam, driving
Storey upon storey of imagined skyscraper overcome
Asteroid’s metaphorical clean slate.
A clean slate.
A state. The empire looms over the fire.
The metaphor overtakes the math.
“We are certain that such end at such time, and before Christmas on top of it,
is extremely unlikely.”
And I go back to sleep, my head
Stuck between floors on my way to the top
Of the Empire State Building, preparing
To destroy worlds. Again.
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Pentagon Concerned Russia Cultivating Sympathy Among U.S. Troops – Small Wars Journal
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The second annual Reagan National Defense Survey, completed in late October, found nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.
Overall, the survey found 28% of Americans identified Russia as an ally, up from 19% the previous year.
Generally, the pollsters found the positive views of Russia seemed to be “predominantly driven by Republicans who have responded to positive cues from [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump about Russia,” according to an executive summary accompanying the results.
While a majority, 71% of all Americans and 53% of military households, still views Russia as an enemy, the spike in pro-Russian sentiment has defense officials concerned. -
Piglets Born With Monkey Cells Are a World First – Real Clear Science
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Scientists in China created piglets whose organs contained some monkey cells. The piglets all died within a week, illustrating the challenges ahead as researchers work toward the goal of growing human organs inside other animals.
These pig-monkey chimeras are a scientific first, but to be clear, we’re not talking about some kind of dystopian half-pig, half-monkey. Rather, these animals were mostly pigs, but with a dash of monkey thrown in.
The experiment wasn’t some kind of frivolous Frankensteinian undertaking, either, as the Chinese scientists who led this study are doing some important stage-setting for something bigger: growing human organs inside other animals, pigs in particular. Donated organs are in short supply in China and around the world, so a biotechnology like this would do much to alleviate demand. -
Walmart Apologizes For “Let it Snow” Sweater Depicting Santa Doing Cocaine – Truth Theory
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The items in question were edgy versions of the popular “ugly” Christmas sweaters that are often worn ironically during the holiday season. Unfortunately, some Walmart customers couldn’t take a joke and complained about some of the shirts, prompting a response from the company. One of the sweaters featured a picture of Santa cutting out lines of cocaine with the caption “Let It Snow,” which is a reference to a slang term for cocaine.
The product description on the site for the sweater read, “We all know how snow works. It’s white, powdery and the best snow comes straight from South America. That’s bad news for jolly old St. Nick, who lives far away in the North Pole. That’s why Santa really likes to savour the moment when he gets his hands on some quality, grade A, Colombian snow. He packs it in perfect lines on his coffee table and then takes a big whiff to smell the high quality aroma of the snow.” -
Russia commences Power of Siberia pipeline gas supplies to China – NewEurope
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Russia started on 2 December Russian gas pipeline supplies to China via the ambitious Power of Siberia gas pipeline or so-called eastern route.
Taking part in a ceremonial event via conference call were Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Chairman Wang Yilin.
“Today, we are witnessing a historic event for Russia and China. The eastern route – Power of Siberia – is a global, strategically significant and mutually beneficial project,” Miller said. “A new scope of energy cooperation between the two countries with a prospect for further development. Clean energy today and tomorrow, for decades to come,” he added. -
‘Star Wars’ actress Daisy Ridley under fire for denying she has ‘privilege,’ comparing herself to co-star John Boyega – Yahoo News
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When asked if she’d found it “easier to be confident and navigate her celebrity because of the privilege in her life,” the 27-year-old actress responded, “The privilege I have — how? No, genuinely, how?”
The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker star, who was raised in London’s affluent Maida Vale neighborhood, insisted her experiences were not too different from co-star and fellow Londoner John Boyega, who grew up in Peckham as the son of Nigerian immigrant parents.
“John grew up on a council estate in Peckham and I think me and him are similar enough that … no,” she went on. -
Beijing Orders Removal of Foreign Tech in State Offices, FT Says – Yahoo News
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(Bloomberg) — The Chinese government has ordered state offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, the Financial Times reported.
The move is part of a broader effort to decrease China’s reliance on foreign technologies and boost its domestic industry. The goal is to substitute 30% of the technology next year, 50% in 2021 and 20% in 2022, the newspaper reported, citing estimates from analysts at the brokerage China Securities.
The government under President Xi Jinping has been trying for years to replace technologies from abroad,…
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