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Mar 13, 2020
A design trends forecaster calls the coronavirus “an amazing grace for the planet”
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, health, sustainability
“I think we should be very grateful for the virus because it might be the reason we survive as a species.”
Dutch trends forecaster Li Edelkoort has a provocative outlook on Covid-19, the deadly coronavirus strain that has upended manufacturing cycles, travel plans, and conference schedules around the world. Speaking at Design Indaba, a conference in Cape Town last week, the celebrated 69-year old design industry advisor pictured Covid-19 as a sobering force that will temper our consumerist appetites and jet-setting habits.
Edelkoort, who in recent years has become a fashion sustainability crusader, believes we can emerge from the health crisis as more conscientious humans. “We need to find new values—values of simple experience, of friendship,” she told Quartz. “It might just turn the world around for the better.”
Mar 13, 2020
‘Smart’ wound-healing patch: DARPA awards $22 million grant
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, food
Jeff Falk Rice University 713−348−6775 [email protected]
Jade Boyd Rice University 713−348−6778 [email protected]
Erin Hare University of Pittsburgh 412−864−7194 [email protected]
Mar 13, 2020
Here are some happy websites to go to if you’re sick of reading articles about coronavirus
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, internet
Mar 13, 2020
CDC Posted Job Listings for Quarantine Advisors in 2019, Months Before Coronavirus Pandemic
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: biotech/medical
“The listing was posted on November 15, 2019”
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The job listing is for positions in Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Seattle, Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Honolulu, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and San Juan.
Mar 13, 2020
The Road to Reversing Epigenetic Aging
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: genetics, life extension
Lifespan.io
Today, we are going to take a look at the companies working on resetting cellular aging through a reprogramming approach that directly targets a core reason we age.
Mar 13, 2020
Japan Commissions First Soryu-Class Attack Sub Fitted With Lithium-Ion Batteries
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s latest diesel-electric attack submarine was commissioned on March 5.
By Franz-Stefan Gady for The Diplomat.
Mar 13, 2020
Physicist: Our Galaxy May Be Located Inside an Enormous Bubble
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
A mind-bending new paper suggests our entire Milky Way galaxy could be located inside an enormous bubble where matter is much less dense than everywhere else.
If research bears the theory out, it’d mean that our galactic neighborhood is very different from the rest of the universe — and it could potentially solve a huge problem looming over the astrophysics field.
Mar 13, 2020
Coronavirus: Scientists explain what we’re doing wrong in understanding its spread
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, internet
Mar 13, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demands the government distribute a universal basic income and implement ‘Medicare for all’ to fight the coronavirus
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, economics, food, government, health
The House is preparing to vote on Thursday on a coronavirus-relief bill that would provide Americans with paid sick leave, food assistance, free coronavirus testing, and more substantial unemployment benefits.
But Ocasio-Cortez pushed for a more sweeping response, including expanding Medicare or Medicaid to cover all Americans, a freeze on evictions, a universal basic income, ending work requirements for food-assistance programs, criminal-justice reform, and freezing student-debt collection.
“This is not the time for half measures,” she tweeted on Thursday. “We need to take dramatic action now to stave off the worst public health & economic affects. That includes making moves on paid leave, debt relief, waiving work req’s, guaranteeing healthcare, UBI, detention relief (pretrial, elderly, imm).”
