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Bacteria and Viruses

With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive (Quanta)

Quanta Magazine title: With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive Quanta subtitle: “Virovores” — organisms that survive and multiply by eating viruses — might influence the flow of energy through ecosystems. By: Yasemin Saplakoglu Date: 21 February 2023 "Viruses are notorious as scourges of cellular life, destroying as ruthlessly as any predator. Yet...

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China: from zero to max Covid?

Late 2022, China confirmed two corona fatalities after abandoning its zero-Covid policy (WSJ). If true, this would indeed support its policy shift. The new official total in China amounts to 5,241 deaths on a population of almost 1.5 billion. Hence, 0.000360% in China versus 0,0835% globally. On 14 December 2022, the WHO published a new estimate for global corona...

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Is stupidity at the Left feeding conspiracies at the Right?

Last week, I had an epiphany: what do (alleged) conspiracies (eg, Covid-19, EU, Trump, WEF) at the conservative-right have in common? Those all followed policies embraced by the liberal-left. In my view, the conservative-right overestimates the "intelligence" of the liberal-left. In my view, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a left-liberal joke. The idea that those...

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Eurasia in Crisis (GPF)

GeoPolitical Futures title: Eurasia in Crisis By: George Friedman Date: 29 November 2022 “Demonstrations against Beijing’s zero-COVID policy have surged in the past week, with people voicing their frustration at not only the lockdown measures but also the government and President Xi Jinping himself. This kind of unrest is nearly unprecedented in the modern Chinese...

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The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life (Phys)

Phys title: The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life By: University of California - San Diego Date: 6 October 2022 "Facing starvation and stress conditions, some bacteria enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Shutting down into a deep dormancy allows these cells, called spores, to withstand punishing extremes of heat,...

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Rethinking the Origins of Inflammatory Diseases (WSJ)

Wall Street Journal title: Rethinking the Origins of Inflammatory Diseases WSJ subtitle: Research on how the immune system can go wrong is changing the way medicine thinks about everything from Covid-19 to heart diseaseBy: Shilpa RavellaDate: 6 October 2022 "When the Covid pandemic took hold in late 2019, an urgent question soon emerged: Why did some individuals...

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