April 22, 2026

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‘Woke culture’ has made its way into the French presidential election – WUNC

From www.wunc.org
2022-04-12 09:14:00

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French President Emmanuel Macron is set to face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff later this month. That’s the result of a vote over the weekend. The presidential campaign has been dominated in part by a battle against woke culture that’s seen as an import from the United States. Candidates of all stripes have shared a rare consensus in denouncing le wokism. And I asked French journalist, commentator and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo what that says about race, identity and extremism in France.

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Artificial Intelligence might one day be able to prompt you that a heart attack might be looming.  It might even give you instructions (recommendations if you don’t want to be controlled) on what to do to nip that looming heart attack in the bud.  The findings come out of Johns Hopkins University from a team of biomedical engineers led by Natalia Trayanova.

AI predicts if and when you might have a fatal heart attack

From www.futurity.org
2022-04-11 13:57:24
Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins
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A new artificial intelligence-based approach can predict if and when a patient could die of a heart attack.

The technology, built on raw images of patient’s diseased hearts and patient backgrounds, significantly improves on doctor’s predictions and stands to revolutionize clinical decision making and increase survival from sudden and lethal cardiac arrhythmias, one of medicine’s deadliest and most puzzling conditions.

“Sudden cardiac death caused by arrhythmia accounts for as many as 20% of all deaths worldwide and we know little about why it’s happening or how to tell who’s at risk,” says senior author Natalia Trayanova, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

“There are patients who may be at low risk of sudden cardiac death getting defibrillators that they might not need and then there are high-risk patients that aren’t getting the treatment they need and could die in the prime of their life. What our algorithm can do is determine who is at risk for cardiac death and when it will occur, allowing doctors to decide exactly what needs to be done.”

 

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Pakistani lawmakers elect Shahbaz Sharif as new premier

From abcnews.go.com
2022-04-11 13:57:00

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Shahbaz Sharif was elected with 174 votes in his favor after more than 100 lawmakers from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Pakistan Justice Party, staged a walkout of the National Assembly in protest.

“Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif is declared to be the prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” announced the acting speaker, Asad Sadiq.

The former opposition will now run a truncated house with a small majority of 174 lawmakers, which is enough to pass laws in the 342-seat assembly. However, if Khan’s followers take to the…

 

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Crystals Could Reduce Processor Power Demand by 30 Percent

A new breakthrough could lead to a new way to create transistors using crystals that would lower the power demand of processors, while at the same time making them more efficient. The crystal could lower the amount of required voltage to run a processor by 30 percent. The crystal is constructed from one layer of hafnium oxide and one layer of zirconium oxide stacked on top of it.
The find could lower the overall power requirements of processors by nearly 1/3, a leap in efficiency that would certainly make cryptocurrency mining more efficient, less resource-demanding as well.

New crystal could help transistors run on less power

From cosmosmagazine.com
2022-04-10 15:30:00
Imma Perfetto
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When we use our computers and phones, we usually aren’t thinking about the amount of energy they’re using. But as computers continue to grow smaller and more powerful, they require more and more energy to operate.

Now, a major breakthrough in the design of a transistor component – the tiny electrical switches that form the building blocks of computer chips – could significantly reduce their energy consumption without sacrificing speed, size, or performance.

A new study has shown that an engineered crystal – composed of a layered stack of hafnium oxide and zirconium oxide – can lower by approximately 30% the amount of voltage required to control transistors, and as a result the amount of energy a computer consumes.

The engineered crystal is used in a component of transistors known as a gate oxide – a thin layer of material that converts the applied voltage into an electric charge, which then switches the transistor on…

 

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French President Macron managed to beat all comers in the recent Presidential election, but failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote, hitting just 28 percent in voter support, with his next-closest rival, Marine Le Pen finishing at 23 percent.  The two will now face off in a winner-take-all runoff election.

French presidential election: Macron projected to finish ahead of Le Pen in first round

From www.washingtonpost.com
2022-04-10 19:23:39
Rick Noack
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PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron was projected to finish in the top spot in the French presidential election on Sunday, for the moment holding off a far-right challenge that would shake global politics. But far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s gains and second-place finish set up a competitive runoff election on April 24.

As polls closed and votes were being counted on Sunday, a projection by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France’s public broadcaster showed Macron ahead with 29 percent of the vote share and Le Pen at 24 percent. Far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon was projected to come in at 20 percent — higher than expected, but not enough to make the runoff.

Macron, a centrist running for a second five-year term, faces far tougher race than when he trounced Le Pen by more than 30 percentage points in the 2017 presidential runoff. The latest polls of voter intention suggest he would now win by only four to six percentage points in a second round against her — reflecting…

 

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The Biiden administration will be sending ‘strong overtures’ to India’s PM Modi that any effort to aid the Russians against the Ukrainians, any effort to not follow the sanction plan targeting Russia will be viewed most unfavorably by Washington.  President Biden is expected to share these warnings directly with Modi in his next meeting scheduled for today, Monday, April 11th, 2022.

Biden set to speak with Modi as U.S. warns India on importing Russian energy – National

From globalnews.ca
2022-04-10 16:00:17

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President Joe Biden will meet virtually with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it does not want to see an uptick in Russian energy imports by India.

“President Biden will continue our close consultations on the consequences of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and mitigating its destabilizing impact on global food supply and commodity markets,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Sunday.

Daleep Singh, U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics, who visited India recently, said the United States will not set any “red line” for India on its energy imports from Russia but does not want to see a “rapid acceleration” in purchases.

Lured by steep discounts following Western sanctions on Russian entities, India has bought at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude oil since the country invaded Ukraine in late February. That compared with some 16 million barrels for the whole of last year, data compiled by Reuters shows.

This meeting will precede the “U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial” meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, India External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and India Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the White House said.

Biden, who last spoke to Modi in March, recently said that only India among the Quad group of countries was “somewhat shaky” in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

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Growing Faster, More Environmentally Friendly Food with Cold Fusion

Researchers from Lithuania and Japan are partnering up to figure out how Cold Fusion seems to be able to speed up plant growth and make fertilizer both more effective and more environmentally friendly.  Studies have already shown that cold fusion has these effects, but no one knows why.  If researchers can learn why cold fusion benefits farming in the way that it does, they can then develop more efficient methods of applying cold fusion in the first place.

The Future of Sustainable Farming Could Be Cold Plasma

From www.sciencefriday.com
2022-04-08 04:08:50

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Plasma is a fascinating medium. It’s considered the fourth state of matter—alongside solid, liquid and gas—and it’s everywhere. In fact, more than 99.9 percent of all matter in the universe is assumed to be in plasma form.

You may be most familiar with plasma as the material inside those glowing novelty lamps found in museum gift shops, but it’s naturally found in the sun, lightning, and the northern lights. Research into plasma and how it intersects with various industries has been increasing, especially in the area of agriculture.

Cold plasma specifically is being tested as a way to speed up plant growth and make fertilizer that’s better for the environment. And it works: Lots of research has shown that exposure to cold plasma makes seeds germinate faster. While this sounds like a sci-fi concept, farmers have seen for decades that plants grown on the site of lightning strikes grow faster. 

The strangest part? Scientists don’t know why this works, only that it…

 

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Emmanuel Macron faces still resistance to his bid to retain his Prime Minister position in France thanks largely to his own inability to come across as authentic and non-creepy when addressing the public.  As the election ears, polls are showing Macron’s once 32-point-lead over the far right candidate Marine Le Pen has been reduced to 5 to 6 points.

Macron Lack of Likeability Could Mean Le Pen Wins France’s Presidential Election

From foreignpolicy.com
2022-04-07 19:22:24

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Five years ago, when I was in France on the eve of the presidential election, I found a country in the grip of the momentous. Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old Napoleon in a navy suit, had come from out of nowhere with his message of national renewal through liberal reform. His chief adversary, Marine Le Pen of the extreme-right National Front, seemed to pose a direct threat to France’s principles of secularism and tolerance. Right-wing populism, storming across the West, had already registered shocking victories in the form of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. Millions of French citizens who did not believe in Macron’s market-based politics, including my own social democratic friends, nevertheless voted for him in order to save French democracy. Macron’s thumping victory over Le Pen, by 32 percentage points, felt like an almost heroic reaffirmation of French republicanism.

I was in Paris again last month, and with the first-round vote approaching April 10 the mood was distinctly anti-climactic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Macron’s showy if hollow efforts to mediate the crisis, had pushed the generally unpopular president’s approval ratings up to the low 40s, and his new challenger on the far-right, the flamboyantly xenophobic and Russophile Éric Zemmour, had flatlined. No serious challenger had emerged to Macron’s left. The president appeared to be coasting to victory without even bothering to campaign. Macron’s reelection would confirm hopes that the worst was over—at least in Western Europe. The election of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as German chancellor, as well as the continued popularity of the technocrat economist Mario Draghi in Italy, seems to argue that the tide of illiberal populism that began with the 2015 refugee crisis has crested.

That’s if Macron wins. Just in the last week, the mood has shifted yet again. Macron’s lead over a suddenly resurgent Le Pen has shrunk to 5 or 6 percentage…

 

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