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Dec 26, 2022

A recruiting revolution: why did NYC delay its landmark AI bias law?

Posted by in categories: employment, law, robotics/AI

A new law in NYC will come into effect on April 15, 2023, requiring companies using automated employment decision tools to pass an audit for bias. AI ethicist Merve Hickok explains everything about it here.

Dec 26, 2022

Energy Myths Are Triggering a New Dark Age in Europe

Posted by in category: energy

Europe has an energy crisis. Factories are halting operations in the face of soaring energy prices; families are paying 50% more for heating (or opting to freeze in their homes), and Europe as a whole continues to destabilize its political position by making itself more dependent on Russia for natural gas.

Dec 26, 2022

An Antibody Successfully Treats Over 70% of Multiple Myeloma Patients in Trial

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Almost every patient who gets myeloma and is treated with a standard therapy also experiences relapse. But researchers have developed an antibody therapy that triggers the immune system to destroy these cancer cells. The bispecific antibody can bind to T cells and multiple myeloma cells at once, to kill the cancer. This immunotherapy, called talquetamab, was astonishingly effective, and worked in about 73 percent of patients who were treated with the drug in two clinical trials. The treatment even helped for a patient who had a cancer that resisted all therapies that have been approved for multiple myeloma.

Talquetamab takes advantage of a receptor on myeloma cells called GPRC5D, and CD3, a complex and co-receptor on the surface of T cells. Anti-CD3 antibodies have long been known to cause the activation of T cells. Mouse studies showed that talquetamab can recruit and activate CD3-positive T-cells, which inhibits the formation and growth of tumors.

Dec 26, 2022

Flux Capacitors and the Origin of Inertia

Posted by in categories: electronics, energy

The explanation of inertia based on “Mach’s principle” is briefly revisited and an experiment whereby the gravitational origin of inertia can be tested is described. The test consists of detecting a small stationary force with a sensitive force sensor. The force is presumably induced when a periodic transient Mach effect mass fluctuation is driven in high voltage, high energy density capacitors that are subjected to 50 kHz, 1.3 kV amplitude voltage signal, and threaded by an alternating magnetic flux of the same frequency. An effect of the sort predicted is shown to be present in the device tested. It has the expected magnitude and depends on the relative phase of the Mach effect mass fluctuation and the alternating magnetic flux as expected. The observed effect also displays scaling behaviors that are unique to Mach effects.

Dec 26, 2022

Transcendent Man By Ray Kurzweil Scientist and Futurist

Posted by in categories: futurism, Ray Kurzweil

Dec 26, 2022

Classifying aging as a disease could speed FDA drug approvals

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers aging to be a natural process. This makes it difficult to get FDA approval for drugs that seek to slow or reverse the biological process of aging. Instead, drugs intended to target aging must target a disease that often results from the aging process in order to demonstrate efficacy and gain approval.

But there is growing consensus and effort among scientists to convince the FDA that aging itself should be classified as a disease and an appropriate target for drug development.

Dec 26, 2022

HOW CELLS WORK — Dr. Bruce Lipton, PHd

Posted by in categories: biological, food

Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD Explains how cells work, and how important cell voltage, vibration, and frequency is…

Speaker: Bruce Lipton PhD https://www.brucelipton.com.
Bruce is the author of “The Biology of Belief” https://amzn.to/2IG4CsL

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Dec 26, 2022

Is human hibernation the key to a manned mission to Mars? Newly discovered fossils suggest early man may have ‘slept’ through winter

Posted by in category: space travel

This is the — dark, cold — time of year when hibernating memes start flying around social media. ‘Wake me up in spring!’ being a classic example. It’s natural for humans to sleep a bit more in winter. Reduced light exposure tells the body to produce melatonin, a hormone that makes us sleepier.

Dec 26, 2022

How to Diagnose Your Cough

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

What is your cough trying to tell you? Our expert, family medicine specialist Alex Gusler, M.D., weighs in.

Dec 26, 2022

See A Movie Completely Written And Directed By The World’s Most Popular AI

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

A small enterprising team of filmmakers used ChatGPT to write and direct a short movie augmented by other AI programs.