The Electrical Blueprints that Orchestrate Life: Interview with Michael Levin FROM Ted Talk

Michael Levin: 

"So what we learned to do is to manipulate this electrical gradient, and the important thing is that we don't apply electricity. What we do instead was we turned on and off the little transistors -- they're actual ion channel proteins -- that every cell natively uses to set up this electrical state. So now we have ways to turn them on and off, and when you do this, one of the things you can do is you can shift that circuit to a state that says no, build two heads, or in fact, build no heads."

Xenobots 2.0: Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots by Tufts University FROM ScieTechDaily

“In a way, the Xenobots are constructed much like a traditional robot. Only we use cells and tissues rather than artificial components to build the shape and create predictable behavior.”

The 4 Industrial Revolutions FROM The iED Team

REVIEWS: ‘On the Fringe’ explores the thin line between science and pseudoscience FROM Science News

 

The World's Largest Fusion Reactor Now Has the World's Most Powerful Magnet by Caroline Delbert FROM Popular Mechanics

For context, the Central Solenoid is so powerful that its magnetic force "is strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier 2 meters (6 feet) into the air," ITER says in the statement.

Flawed scientific papers fueling COVID-19 misinformation by Manon Jacob FROM Medical Express

"Once the paper is published, the damage is irrevocable."

IDIOCRACY-- funny movie demonstrating the reversed Flynn effect FROM archive.org

With apologies, this FREE, vulgar movie is sure to offend mothers, men, low IQ people, video gamers, junk food addicts, lawyers, Starbucks, Costco, and last but not least, governments.

THE FRUIT, THE TREE, AND THE SERPENT WHY WE SEE SO WELL--BY the author, Lynne A. Isbell

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins by Katherine Eban FROM Vanity Faire

 "China obviously bears responsibility for stonewalling investigators. Whether it did so out of sheer authoritarian habit or because it had a lab leak to hide is, and may always be, unknown.

The United States deserves a healthy share of blame as well. Thanks to their unprecedented track record of mendacity and race-baiting, Trump and his allies had less than zero credibility. And the practice of funding risky research via cutouts like EcoHealth Alliance enmeshed leading virologists in conflicts of interest at the exact moment their expertise was most desperately needed."

Real life Iron Man 2: Is Tony back? - Guinness World Records Day 2019

 

World's 1st multinode quantum network is a breakthrough for the quantum internet By Ben Turner FROM Live Science

Defense expert says Floyd died from heart disease FROM Reuters

"The defense team brought in their own medical expert, who testified at trial today that George Floyd's heart disease and drugs led to his death, not Chauvin's knee on his neck."

 

 

Is medical research facing a replication crisis? by Matthias Havenaar FROM Castor

The sneaky way the coronavirus mutates to escape the immune system By Rachael Rettner FROM Live Science

Why America is ‘flying blind’ to the coronavirus mutations racing across the globe By William Wan and Ben Guarino FROM The Washington Post

Israel’s StoreDot unveils “5-minute charge” EV battery by Joshua S. Hill FROM The Driven

South Korea: Fusion reactor runs at 100 million degrees for 20 seconds by Jeff Parsons

Physicists create time reversed optical waves FROM The University of Queensland Australia

Want to Know More About mRNA Before Your COVID Jab? BY Kristina Fiore FROM MedPage Today

Lockdowns Not Linked With Lower COVID Death Rates, New Study Finds by Jon Miltimore FROM Foundation for Economic Education