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Voor iedereen die dacht dat covid voorbij was ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization

Quite an editorial roster for the September 1991 edition of Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1991/09-01/

Scientific American Volume 265, Issue 3 | Scientific American
"Communications, Computers and Networks", "Networks", "Networked Computing in the 1990s" and more

How would the sun look like from Pluto?
Different than I thought.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/under-plutos-sunny-skies-youd-have-to-wear-shades/

Under Pluto's Sunny Skies, You'd Have to Wear Shades
Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is

In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills
https://scitechdaily.com/in-a-scientific-first-mice-engineered-with-rat-neurons-show-advanced-sensory-skills/

In a Scientific First, Mice Engineered With Rat Neurons Show Advanced Sensory Skills
Researchers at Columbia University have engineered mice with part-rat, part-mouse brains that allow them to smell as rats do. This breakthrough demonstrates the brain's capacity to integrate foreign cells and could advance our understanding of and ability to treat human brain diseases. If mice ev

The US adds internet censorship tech provider Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying equipment to the government of Egypt (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

US Blacklists Sandvine for Censorship, Web Monitoring in Egypt
The US Commerce Department is adding computer networking company Sandvine Inc. to a blacklist that will effectively ban it from obtaining US technology, according to a government disclosure.

Interesting piece that challenges the metaphors we use (usually unconsciously) to describe biology:
"What I wish to point out is the lack of other metaphors. Precisely because no metaphor is perfect, we should employ multiple metaphors, each explaining certain aspects of the cell. Unfortunately, the centralised and hierarchical metaphor, so pervasive in textbooks, is often the only one for the internal workings of the cell."
#ScientificWriting
#PhilosophyOfScience
https://aeon.co/essays/biology-is-not-as-hierarchical-as-most-textbooks-paint-it

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While ignoring most of the concerns that formed the #OpenAccess movement in the first place, Swissinfo does put a good framing over the issue of AI, misinformation and peer-review in today's article highlighting mismanagement at Frontiers

NL West Notes: Sandoval, Black, Grichuk, Dodgers
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