Colombia University’s Earth Institute in New York and host Andrew Revkin bring you a Sunday morning online session featuring musicians and experts in human sustainability on planet Earth. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/join-andrew-revkins-unbroken-circle-song-and-story-swap…
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What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly
How the coronavirus infects and how it makes people sick. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/what-covid19-coronavirus-does-to-body-that-makes-it-deadly…
NYT Investigates America’s ‘Lost Month’ for Coronavirus Testing
The New York Times interviewed over 50 current and former U.S. health officials, senior scientists, company executives, and administration officials to investigate America’s “lost month” without widespread coronavirus testing, “when the world’s richest country — armed with some of the most highly trained scientists and infectious disease specialists — squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread.”
With capacity so limited,…
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public. From a report: One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery store chain, was having dinner at Cipriani, an upscale Italian restaurant in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, when his daughter, Andrea,…
What Happens After 550 Times the Usual Dose of LSD?
“From the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs comes three case studies on people who benefited from LSD overdoses including one woman who took a dose of 55 milligrams of pure powdered LSD,” writes clovis (Slashdot reader #4,684). CNN reports:
The 49-year-old woman, known as CB, had contracted Lyme disease in her early 20s, which damaged her feet and ankles and…
Petnet’s Smart Pet Feeder Goes Offline For a Week, Can’t Answer Customers At All
The app-driven, cloud-connected “smart” pet feeder from Petnet recently suffered an outage that knocked units offline for a week, leaving pets hungry and customers angry. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from Ars Technica: Petnet began posting messages on Twitter on February 14 advising customers that some of its SmartFeeders “will appear offline,” although they still would nominally work to dispense…
Online-only Platforms Are Going Offline With Permanent Spaces
An anonymous reader shares a report: The retailpocalypse started in 2010. It followed the 2008 global recession, with the parallel birth and rise of social media adding fuel to the growth of online shopping. Suburban and rural malls sat empty, underutilized or poorly maintained as the most affected brands lost their customer base in the squeezed middle class. Meanwhile, online retailers…
Ancient ‘outlaw temple’ discovered in Israel
According to the Jewish Bible, there was just one temple in the ancient Kingdom of Judah: the First Temple, which sat in Jerusalem. However, a new discovery just upended that perception. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-jewish-temple-judah-kingdom.html
‘I Tried Listening To Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain’
‘Podfasters’ listen to their favorite pods at 1.5x, even 2x speed. But how fast is too fast? From a report: Bumping the speed up to 1.5x was initially jarring. People were talking so quickly that I had to stop what I was doing and focus on the audio to keep it from falling into background chatter. After about 20 minutes of…
Earth closest to sun on January 4-5
We reach our closest point to the sun for 2020 on January 4 or 5, depending on your time zone. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/earth-comes-closest-to-sun-every-year-in-early-january…