It blows up probably half a dozen or maybe even a dozen major um media myths about covid um and uh I don’t know I I thought it was an amazing story because I you know when you get down to it it essentially people like Anthony Fauci and some of the senior health officials and Francis Collins and some other folks they basically steered the entire public away from um you know investigating the origins of a disaster that killed seven million.
Journalists should be skeptical of all sources —including scientists
It’s slightly amusing that The Times fired their Pulitzer Prize-winning coronavirus reporter in middle of the pandemic — a reporter who saw the lab leak theory as credible — and replaced him with another reporter who dismissed discussion of the lab leak as “racist”.
What was Fauci hiding?
What Tony Fauci is saying it’s not a very good one but it’s it’s one that he was clinging to which is that there are various definitions of gain of function and he specific definition in the U.S funding issue is that you improve a human virus not an animal virus to make it more infectious to humans right that was that’s the the angel on the head of the pin that he’s that he’s dancing on but um as you say then why was he using the phrase gain of function to describe this work months earlier uh in that email
AI: Yes, Hollywood, You Should Be Afraid
the ability of artificial intelligence to use vast amounts of data to generate new works of text, audio or visual output — has genuinely impressed me. Unlike some other trends, AI seems like a disruptive force for many industries, especially Hollywood.
Try Greater Manchester’s new 200-mile walking trail (well, bits of it)
The trail is split into four main sections, covering the north, south, east and west of the city region, with each section split into five stages, featuring walks of varying difficulty. Andrew Read, the ringway’s project lead, said:
Letters from an American: July 20, 2023
After much speculation about whether he would attend the summit while he pressured South African president Cyril Ramaphosa to agree not to arrest him, yesterday Putin announced that by “mutual agreement” with Ramaphosa, he will not attend and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will go in his place. Alexandra Sharp of Foreign Policy noted that his inability to attend the summit shows how his position as an accused war criminal has isolated Putin and “highlights just how much the Russian leader’s global standing has changed thanks to his war on Ukraine.”
What’s the maximum I am legally allowed to invest?
Through Regulation Crowdfunding everyone can invest at least $2,200. How much you’re able to invest above that depends on your net income and net worth. You can see how much you’re allowed to invest by entering those two numbers under “Investor Limits” here (once you’ve created and logged in to a Wefunder account).
A slacker was 20 minutes late and received two math problems… His solutions shocked his professor.
I heard an inspiring story about a math student who solved a world-famous math problem because he was late for class and thought the problems were the homework assignment whose explanation he had missed when he arrived late: even the most venerable scientists simply struggled however George simply did not know that they were unsolvable because of a stupid turn of events he didn’t hear the part of the lecture where the professor said that nobody in the whole world was able to solve them that’s how after
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive Says Economist Jayati Ghosh
The global food system is broken. Largely dominated by multinational corporations, it enables and encourages unsustainable and unhealthy production and consumption patterns and generates enormous waste across all stages of production and distribution.
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
the Wagner group attempted coup or potential coup or theorized coup began
last week so sax you kind of sent out a text saying the show is already stale because you know kind of missed that uh