But, they could evaluate excess weekly deaths by age, state, county, and party affiliation. They found that the gap in excess deaths was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates, suggesting that lack of vaccination among Republican voters may partly explain the higher death rates.
Isn't it weird how knee replacement surgery has a dissatisfactory rate 100x that of gender transition surgery but Fox News doesn't write any articles about the millions of people that are dissatisfied with their new knees?
Geothermal energy production involves the extraction of hot water or steam from underground reservoirs. This water or steam is then used to drive turbines that generate electricity. No oil is extracted, just hot water or steam.
For a natural geothermal system to produce electricity, it needs a combination of heat, fluid and rock permeability, as Bloomberg notes. In many areas, the rock has the required levels of heat, but not enough permeability for fluid to flow through it.
An EGS creates this permeability artificially by drilling deep underground and injecting fluid to create fractures in the rock. That approach can vastly increase the number of potential sites for a geothermal power plant.
Basically, they are creating extra cracks to assist with waterflow.
Snakeheads are from Asia and were brought to the U.S. as part of the aquarium trade and aquaculture. "They're considered to be good table fare," Bourgeois says. "The biologist up in Arkansas said he prefers them to catfish."
Officials have also tried saying this about Silver Jumping Carp and Nutria. It did not catch on...not sure it will with snakeheads.
This was the perfect article to help me finally understand how it all worked. I'm now convinced that tired light isn't a real phenomenon - thanks for sharing!
Is this related to the recent articles about how the "speed of the passing of time" has actually changed over time? Not sure if I understood all that correctly but I remember wondering if it was going to mess with carbon dating and estimates of the age of the universe
Stefan Milo published a video not too long ago where he interviewed Andrés Moreno-Estrada (mentioned in the article) and Alexander Ioannidis on this topic. It’s a good easy to follow along video covering the topic.
So, taking the average bicep volume as 1000cm3, this muscle could: exert 1 tonne of force, contact 8% (1.6cm for a 20cm long bicep), and require 400kV and must be above 29 degrees Celcius.
Maybe someone with access to the paper can double check the math and get the conversion efficiency from electrical to mechanical.
I expect there's a good trade-off to be made to lower the force but increase the contraction and lower the voltage. Possibly some kind of ratcheting mechanism with tiny cells could be used to overcome the crazy high voltage requirement.
This is definitely interesting... However I would caveat this with the fact that in the past, Nature & Science have both previously published more than their fair share of studies that would later be retracted for lack of reproducibility.
Most of this is due to the fact that when you're a publication on the bleeding edge and there's a lot of mid-term name and career recognition that comes with being published there, there's also a higher level of academic fraud that can happen to get there.
I would keep a cautious eye out for retractions as well as labs that attempt to reproduce results... I also want to dig deeper and see if the mouse studies done had replication attempts by different labs as well and I won't have a ton of time to do that today, but regardless it's certainly a potentially a large breakthrough in cognition if it holds up.
Definitely. I just found the whole thing odd tbh... First of all, Nature is extremely rigorous with their review (because they only publish highly novel/interesting findings and is very thus susceptible to fraudulent stuff). Yet this paper passed for a Nature-branded journal (albeit a newer one, I think Nature Aging is only like 1yr old or sth) with doing only one experiment (a monkey trial), and they don't even know what this "klotho" thing is... My suspicion is that the aging field is just too small so Nature Aging is lowering their standards? They've accepted less than stellar works before too.
The results seem fine to me & I really hope this is something real since I'm also studying aging, but as someone with some medicinal chemistry training... Nothing is confirmed until you get a positive phase 2 clinical trial result, otherwise we'd have cured all cancer and Alzheimer's a long time ago lol... I'm not putting my eggs in this basket just yet
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