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Of course tea fixes everything: Can a Cup of Tea Keep COVID Away? Study Finds 99.9% Virus Reduction
https://scitechdaily.com/can-a-cup-of-tea-keep-covid-away-study-finds-99-9-virus-reduction/

Can a Cup of Tea Keep COVID Away? Study Finds 99.9% Virus Reduction
New research from the University of Georgia suggests that something as simple as a cup of tea can help in the fight against COVID-19. Tea has been renowned globally for its many health benefits, and Malak Esseili, a virologist with the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in the College o

TL;DR: maybe.
Does COVID vaccine protect against symptoms of new 'FLiRT' variants?
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4653747-will-your-last-covid-vaccine-work-against-new-flirt-var…

Will your last COVID vaccine work against new ‘FLiRT’ variants?
There are two new COVID-19 variants circulating, posing a threat to a summer surge. Is your last vaccine dose still protecting you?

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or #COPA, on Tuesday released ♦️body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of #Dexter #Reed by Chicago police officers ♦️during a March 21 traffic stop in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Stre…

4 Chicago Police Officers Fired at Dexter Reed 96 Times in 41 Seconds After He Shot Officer in Arm: COPA
COPA in a statement said preliminary evidence "appears to confirm" that Reed fired first before officers responded by firing 96 shots in a matter 41 seconds and the agency has recommended to CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling that four of the officers involved be relieved of their police powers during the pendency of this investigation.

covid research - viral fragments
This is an interesting paper. Looks at what happens to the bits of covid virus after your immune system's successfully chopped it up.
Unlike with an ordinary cold virus, the left-over bits "look like" part of your immune system, & carry on provoking immune over-reactions.
"Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes"
#covid #LongCovid #xenoAMP

Patch Tuesday Diffing: CVE-2024–20696 — Windows Libarchive RCE https://medium.com/@clearbluejar/patch-tuesday-diffing-cve-2024-20696-windows-libarchive-rce-8788407cbe7d

Hoy cumple años el querido Fito Pšez. Nacido el 13 de marzo del '63, estš celebrando sus 61 años.
#FitoPaez #CumpleañosRockero

Bundestag: Rückbau der Atomkraftwerke wird nicht gestoppt
Die drei zuletzt abgeschalteten AKW sollten nicht rückgebaut werden, bevor eine neue Regierung gewählt ist. Gegen diesen Antrag der Union stimmte der Bundestag.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06048 has been replaced.
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Regularized Weyl double copy
We propose a regularization procedure in the sourced Weyl double copy, a spinorial version of the classical double copy, such that it matches much more general results in the Kerr-Schild version. In the regularized Weyl double copy, the anti-de Sitter (AdS) and the Lifshitz black holes, which form the basis of the study of strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature through the AdS/CFT correspondence and its non-relativistic generalization, become treatable. We believe that this might…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05870 has been replaced.
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CoBT: Collaborative Programming of Behaviour Trees from One Demonstration for Robot Manipulation
Mass customization and shorter manufacturing cycles are becoming more important among small and medium-sized companies. However, classical industrial robots struggle to cope with product variation and dynamic environments. In this paper, we present CoBT, a collaborative programming by demonstration framework for generating reactive and modular behavior trees. CoBT relies on a single demonstration and a combination of data-driven machine learning methods with logic-based declarative learning to …

covid research - viral fragments - quote
"we examine the inflammatory capacity of fragmented viral components from the perspective of supramolecular self-organization in the infected host environment. Interestingly, a machine learning analysis to SARS-CoV-2 proteome reveals sequence motifs that mimic host antimicrobial peptides (xenoAMPs), especially highly cationic human cathelicidin LL-37 capable of augmenting inflammation."