Chinese Silk Could Save Hot Summers

Parker Davis November 9, 2021

The Chinese are developing a new type of fabric that can make humans feel 15 percent cooler when they put the clothes on in hot conditions. The technology is sure to be duplicable by others, and, hopefully, will be duplicated by those committed to open source technology that gives all of humanity the opportunity to develop and exploit this type of technology.

With China working hard to colonize Africa, one can see how a product such as this could be a billions of yuan winfall for the CCP-controlled corporations that produce such products. It would be better for Africa to develop their own engineered silk products and produce them in-continent than to pin such a dependence to such a totalitarian and supremacist state as China.

Fabric technology: Modified silk keeps skin 12°C cooler than cotton

From www.newscientist.com
2021-11-08 16:00:21

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Climate change is making summer days even hotter for some – but new clothing might helps us keep cool

A fabric made of engineered silk keeps skin about 12.5°C cooler than cotton clothing and provides relief from hot weather.

Approximately 15 per cent of global electricity goes towards keeping us cool. To reduce this energy demand, scientists have been searching for passive ways of cooling us that don’t require electricity.

Jia Zhu at Nanjing University in China and Shanhui Fan at Stanford University and their colleagues were inspired by silk, which feels cool against the skin because it reflects most of the sunlight that strikes it – mainly the infrared and visible wavelengths – and so readily radiates heat.

They were able to engineer silk to block even more sunlight – about 95 per cent – by embedding the fibres with aluminium oxide nanoparticles that reflect the ultraviolet wavelengths of sunlight.

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MIT Programmed AI Machines Outperform Humans in Teamplay Contest

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing more in cooperation with other Artificial intelligence than humans are, to the surprise of no one that understands human nature. MIT wanted to make sure they got that obvious fact documented, so they had human Hanabi players battle with AI players, and, yep, the AI players were better teammates than the human ones were, but the humans left the game as individuals and the AI AI players left the game with no sentience whatsoever.

Reinforcement learning frustrates humans in teamplay, MIT study finds

From lifeboat.com
2021-11-07 19:23:09
Dan Kummer
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A new study by MIT Lincoln Laboratory shows Hanabi players are frustrated when teamed up with top-performing reinforcement learning systems.

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Now Pakistan is Ready for Peace with Taliban in Pakistan

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

Pakistan announces 1-month cease-fire with Pakistani Taliban

From abcnews.go.com
2021-11-08 18:35:50

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Pakistani authorities Monday announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind numerous attacks on security forces and civilians over the last 14 years.

Government spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said on Twitter that the Taliban government in Afghanistan helped facilitate the cease-fire between the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.

In a statement, TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani confirmed the cease-fire beginning Nov. 9 will remain in place until Dec. 9, during which both sides will form a committee to continue talks. He said both sides will adhere to the cease-fire.

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No More Tariffs on EU Aluminum and Steel

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

It looks like the Biden administration is prepared to reduce the Trump tariffs on European aluminum and steel products after a settlement was reached between the Biden administration and the current EU administration.

U.S. and EU have reached a settlement regarding Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum products | Hogan Lovells

From www.jdsupra.com
2021-11-08 18:03:46

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The U.S. and the EU have announced a settlement regarding the U.S. Section 232 duties on European steel and aluminum products. As part of that settlement, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced that the 25 percent tariff on imports of steel and 10 percent tariff on imports of aluminum products from the EU will be replaced with a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system. In return, the EU will suspend the 25 percent retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. goods (e.g., bourbon, motorcycles and recreational boats, among other products) in response to the initial Section 232 measures. Both parties will also suspend the disputes they initiated before the World Trade Organization in relation to these measures. The U.S. and EU have also agreed to launch a global arrangement focused on addressing excess capacity and carbon objectives. The U.S. TRQ will become effective on January 1, 2022, and the EU’s retaliatory tariffs will be removed on the same day.

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Woman Takes Selfie from Handrail, then Falls 23 Feet to Her Death

Ivo Fysic November 9, 2021

Sadly, Cristina Valdeavalano Mansila ended her days attempting to take a stunning selfie by sitting on a handrail that prevented people from falling over a high precipice. Shortly after she successfully took the selfie, she slipped from the handrail and fell 23 feet straight down, resulting in her passing away. RIP Cristina. Let’s hope more people learn from this cautionary tale, don’t take selfies.

Woman falls to her death after taking selfie sat on handrail in front of sheer drop – World News

From www.mirror.co.uk
2021-11-08 15:14:20
[email protected] (Leigh Mcmanus)
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Cristina Valdeavellano Mansilla fell 23ft to her death at the Cerro de la Cruz observation deck in the city of Punta Arena, in Chile’s southernmost region

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A woman has fallen to her death at a popular city viewpoint while trying to take a selfie sitting on a handrail in front of a sheer drop.

Cristina Valdeavellano Mansilla, 33, fell seven metres to her death at the Cerro de la Cruz observation deck in the city of Punta Arenas, in Chile’s southernmost region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, on November 2.

She had been sitting on the handrail at the viewpoint, trying to take a selfie with the cityscape in the background, it was reported.

She then backwards and landed hard on her head, killing her instantly.

Local authorities are waiting for the results of an autopsy and currently suspect that the woman’s death was accidental, but the police said they are not ruling out…

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France Moves to Ban British Ships from Key Fishing Port

Parker Davis November 9, 2021

The heat between Brtitain and France over fishing rights in British waters is only getting hotter, with France now threatening UK ships with banishment from a key French port that British fishing currently goes through.

Brexit news: French brand UK ‘petty’ and say British ships will be BANNED from key port | World | News

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-11-07 20:26:00

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Jean-Marc Puissesseau is chairman and CEO of the Boulogne-Calais port said that, if negotiations between France and the UK fail, “ships will be banned from disembarking in the port of Boulogne”. This would be a major blow for them, as around 40,000 tonnes of fish from UK ships pass through it annually.

On top of this, existing checks on the produce – which are free under an agreement signed in 2003 – would end, Mr Puissesseau warned.

So even if the port continued allowing British ships to offload their cargo, they would be hit by extra costs and delays, he claimed.

Speaking to French publication Europe 1, he said in the agreements signed for Brexit, “it was expected that licenses would be granted to fishing masters who had to prove that in 2016, they are fishing in British waters”.

The Europe 1 report states: “Two types of boats cannot prove that they were at sea at that time.

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China and Russia Might Try Afghanistan Together

Mark Clouse November 8, 2021

In the not-too-distant future, you can expect the Chinese and the Russians to try their hand at exploiting Afghanistan without themselves being exploited, at least that’s the theory of some foreign policy experts, and, perhaps, there’s some intriguing possiblity of truth to what they suggest.

Prospects for Sino-Russian Coordination in Afghanistan

From warontherocks.com
2021-11-08 08:45:32
Elizabeth Wishnick
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The increasingly close bilateral relationship between China and Russia is one of the most interesting, consequential, and surprising geopolitical developments since the end of the Cold War. Beijing and Moscow — once bitter adversaries — now cooperate on military issues, cyber security, high technology, and in outer space, among other areas. While it falls short of an alliance, the deepening Sino-Russian partnership confounds U.S. strategists. Some have proposed driving a wedge between the two countries, but this seems unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Some have speculated that China and Russia might cooperate in Afghanistan to exploit the chaos left by the U.S. withdrawal. But is that true? Does the fall of Kabul to the Taliban pave the way for greater Sino-Russian coordination in Afghanistan?

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The Google Wants Drugs

Ivo Fysic November 8, 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is setting up a new DeepMind to try and find new and awesome wonder drugs the mega-corpo can use to expand its market share to include the drugs you buy at the pharmacy.

Remember, folks, Google is the same company adopting draconian police-state censporship of any voice that counters the preferred narratives of the Democrat Party and the Corporate Woketarian Moral code. Why would we trust a company such as this to be the maker of our drugs, let alone the holder of patents on drugs that might be life-saving for some?

What if Alphabet cancels you from drugs for dead-naming a transgendered woman on Twitter 8 years ago? Think it can’t happen? Think again. #Cancelalphabetpx

Alphabet Chases Wonder Drugs With DeepMind AI Spinoff Isomorphic Labs

From singularityhub.com
2021-11-07 15:00:49
Jason Dorrier
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AI research wunderkind, DeepMind, has long been all fun and games.

The London-based organization, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has used deep learning to train algorithms that can take down world champions at the ancient game of Go and top players of the popular strategy video game Starcraft.

Then last year, things got serious when DeepMind trounced the competition at a protein folding contest. Predicting the structure of proteins, the complex molecules underpinning all biology, is notoriously difficult. But DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 made a quantum leap in capability, producing results that matched experimental data down to a resolution of a few atoms.

In July, the company published a paper describing AlphaFold2, open-sourced the code, and dropped a library of 350,000 protein structures with a promise to add 100 million more.

This week, Alphabet announced it will build on DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 breakthrough by creating a new company, Isomorphic Labs, in an effort to apply AI to drug discovery.

“We are at an exciting moment in history now where these techniques and methods are becoming powerful and sophisticated enough to be applied to real-world problems including scientific discovery itself,” wrote Demis Hassabis, DeepMind founder and CEO, in a post announcing the company. “Now the time is right to push this forward at pace, and with the dedicated focus and resources that Isomorphic Labs will bring.”

Hassabis is Isomorphic’s founder and will serve as its CEO while the fledgling company gets its feet, setting the agenda and culture, building a team, and connecting the effort to DeepMind. The two companies will collaborate, but be largely independent.

“You can think of [Isomorphic] as a sort of sister company to DeepMind,” Hassabis told Stat. “The idea is to really forge ahead with the potential for computational AI methods to reimagine the whole drug discovery process.”

While AlphaFold2’s success sparked the effort,…

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Biden Jab or Job Mandate Crushed by 5th Circuit

Paul Collier November 8, 2021

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has just put a sudden halt to Biden’s dream of a jab for every arm or no job for you. Citing grave constitutional concerns, the court put an immediate suspension to the Biden administration’s edicts, giving hope to Americans that somewhere in our government there still resides Americans, respectors of the Constitutional Bill of Rights Democratic Republic that these United States are legally bound to be.

US Federal Appeals Court Freezes Biden’s Coercive Vaccine Mandate

From thefederalist.com
2021-11-06 20:29:38
Haley Strack
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A federal appeals court blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on Saturday, just two days after the administration issued the law through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The rule requires employees at companies with 100 or more workers to get the jab by Jan. 4 or be tested for the virus weekly to avoid getting fired or racking up massive fines.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, freezing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 mandate. The court’s decision came in response to a joint petition from entities in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah.

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— Liberty Justice Center (@LJCenter) November 6, 2021

“Yesterday, I sued the Biden Admin over its unlawful OSHA vax mandate,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted on…

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Is January the End of the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Freedomist Editor November 8, 2021

With both Pfizer and Merck now having released effective therapeutic treatment for Covid-19 that will render it significantly less than a threat than it is now, one Pfizer board member is predicting the end of the Covid-19 era come this January.

Pfizer Board Member Predicts COVID Pandemic Over in the U.S. by January

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-11-05 19:00:11
Leslie Eastman
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I find it fascinating that after the drubbing the COVID-restriction embracing Democrats received this week, a board member from one of the entities that have prospered during the pandemic is now willing to put a date on the end of the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic could be over in the U.S. by the time President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandates take effect in early January, Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday.

The vaccine requirements from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration take effect on Jan. 4 for any company with at least 100 employees. All affected workers must get either their second Moderna or Pfizer shot or one dose from Johnson & Johnson by that date or face regular testing for the virus.

“These mandates that are going to be put in place by Jan. 4 really are coming on the tail end of this pandemic,” said Gottlieb, who’s also a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. “By Jan. 4,…

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