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Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The whole book of Ecclesiastes

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Saudi Arabia set to host 2034 World Cup (bbc.in)
 

Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.

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Got a Mouse in Your Apartment? These Scientists Will Take It. (www.nytimes.com)
 

A research study is examining how mice that live in cities, close to humans, may have evolved differently from their country cousins.

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Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why (www.nature.com)
 

‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low.

For the first time, scientists have deliberately infected people with Zika virus to learn whether such a strategy could help to test vaccines against the pathogen.

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New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
 

An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people from Africa and combine their DNA and medical data into a biobank for health studies.

Ghost Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vNaYr

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New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
 

New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.

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Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia (www.chemistryworld.com)
 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Belgium v Sweden abandoned after Brussels shooting (bbc.in)
 

Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden is abandoned at half-time for security reasons after two Swedish people are shot dead in Brussels.

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Indigenous Voice: Australians reject historic Indigenous referendum - BBC News (bbc.in)
 

Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

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Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study finds (www.psu.edu)
 

An American born in 2019 will spend a larger share of their lifetime taking prescription drugs than being married or receiving an education, according to new research by Jessica Ho, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State. She reported the findings this week (article date: Oct 6) in the journal Demography.

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Cancer drug shortage eases slightly, but it’s still 'living from paycheck to paycheck’ (www.statnews.com)
 

The shortage of cancer drugs is not going away, but it may be easing slightly, a new national survey suggests. Based on questions posed to 29 of its 33 member hospitals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network said Thursday that 86% of those cancer centers are experiencing a shortage of at least one type of generic chemotherapy drug, down from 90% in May.

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The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record (www.popsci.com)
 

The Parker Solar Probe's new top speed could get you from NYC to LA in just 20 seconds. It's not done yet.

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Astronomy society revises harassment policy after outcry (www.nature.com)
 

The International Astronomical Union clarified changes to its code of conduct after researchers voiced concern that it protected harassers.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Togo.

We are still waiting for at least an alternance at the top of the country with the governance of a family for more than 50 years. Since 2020 and the last elections, life has getting more and more difficult for the population and you can feel the frustration in people. Opposition parties are not credible anymore and can't really lead the fight anymore. Just a minority is keeping the money of the country; it's not my words but the president's ones but he can't do anything about it because he is also a pawn in the system and can't do nothing again those who put him there.
Just tired. I can talk about a lot of things but I don't have energy for that. Seems like we are waiting for something, some are talking about revolution. It can happen when the population will say enough is enough but togolese people are too much patient and don't want to die in vain about politics. Also, the last time things got serious, it was with a lot of deaths but it brings a sort of democracy, at least some rights but now we are getting back in every right we got. We were close to changes in 2017 but the opposition parties didn't handle it well and here we are now. The system has weakened them also. They even shut the mouth of university movements and associations that fought for changes for us students.
For the future, only God knows!

Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can read the session "Reception" of the related Wikipedia page : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

One of America’s First Women’s Colleges Is Accused of Paying Men More in c/[email protected]
Search engines compared in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For instance, Qwant relies on ad services from Microsoft for revenue. Consequently, Qwant needs to collect and transmit the IP addresses and search terms of its users to Microsoft. Microsoft, as some of us may know, isn't exactly a role model in privacy.

However, Qwant claims that it doesn't transmit IP addresses and search terms as a pair. Instead, search terms and IP addresses are transmitted differently using different services to make it hard for the parties involved to tie search terms to IP addresses. In other words, they make it hard for third-party services to build a profile on you. Nonetheless, some would argue that the mere fact that Qwant collects this kind of data is a potential privacy

loophole.

Qwant shares some of the data it collects with advertising partners like Microsoft. Your search keywords, IP address data, and geographical location are shared with Microsoft and are stored for at least 18 months following Microsoft privacy policies. Although Qwant tries to anonymize the data it shares, its methods aren't exactly

foolproof.

And then there's the issue of being asked to turn over a user's data by law enforcement. Like any other company, even privacy-focused search engines service would have to comply with a court-ordered request for data. Consequently, this means your data can somehow fall into the hands of a third-party.

From https://www.makeuseof.com/qwant-vs-duckduckgo-which-search-engine-most-private/

Qwant privacy policy : https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

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