Author: Chapman

I already said it Rudy rucker, mathematician and forerunner of Cyberpunk: “The only way to know in detail the weather that can be done tomorrow is to wait 24 hours and see what really happens.” Simultaneously, that we cannot know what will happen is not a sine quan non condition for events to be nothing more than a succession of causes and effects perfectly governed by inflexible laws. The only thing that happens is that we are not able to decipher all the laws (especially, also, because we are part of the system itself and we should recursively predict ourselves…

“Luke, I am your father” is considered by some to be the most memorable phrase in the history of cinema. At least most people remember the scene from The Empire Strikes Back. What is less known is that this narrative device has a name and was used for the first time by Aristotle in its Poetics. The name of the resource is anagnorisis, and is defined as “the discovery by a character of essential data about his identity, his loved ones or his environment, hidden from him until that moment.”

To detect wound complications as soon as they happen, a team of researchers led by John Ho of NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology, has invented a smart, battery-free suture that detects and transmits information wirelessly from deep surgical sites. Tracking surgical wounds after an operation is an important step in preventing infection, wound separation, and other complications.

Data on pre-eclampsia, a severe form of high blood pressure that can lead to fatal outcomes for both mother and fetus, was collected over a 28-year period as part of the Boston Birth Cohort study originally designed to investigate genetic and environmental factors associated with premature births. An analysis of the medical records of a racially diverse group of more than 6,000 women has contributed to evidence that some combination of biological, social and cultural factors, and not just race, is likely responsible for higher rates of preeclampsia among black women born in the United States compared to black women…

A group of Russian bioinformatics have proposed a new neural network architecture capable of evaluating how well a guide RNA has been chosen for a gene editing experiment. Their approach will facilitate more efficient DNA modification with the popular CRISPR / Cas method and thus help to develop new strategies. to create genetically modified organisms and find ways to treat serious inherited disorders.

A research team led by University College London neuroscientist Inga Usher has published a study in the BMJ where they try to clarify what kind of scientists are smarter. The researchers conducted online intelligence tests involving 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons. They compared and analyzed the respondents’ problem-solving skills, including planning and reasoning, working memory, attention, and emotion-processing skills.

People suffer from hangovers because they are suffering from alcohol withdrawal and because their body is trying to process a toxin called acetaldehyde that is produced when your body breaks down alcohol. Drunk people also tend to get a bad night’s sleep as their liver struggles to process alcohol and increases inflammation as your immune system responds to toxic levels of alcohol.

According to research designed to explore respondents’ bias and prejudice, 56 percent of people say that Arabic numerals should not be part of the curriculum of American students. Arabic numbers, by the way, are the numbers we use every day. The 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The system was first developed by Indian mathematicians before spreading across the Arab world to Europe and becoming popular all over the world, and therefore they are called thus, Arabic numerals.

New research led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that adult smokers who have no plans to quit smoking are more likely to quit traditional fuel cigarettes if they switch to vaping. The Roswell Park study, published in JAMA Network Open, used data collected from 2014 to 2019 as part of the Population Health and Tobacco Assessment Study (PATH), a long-term study of tobacco use and how it affects the health of young people. and adults in the United States.