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Scientists Warn of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused by Climate Change – Futurism

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Okay, that's pretty grim.Mass Extinction

A new climate modeling studyis offering an ominous glimpse into the future of pretty much every species on the planet, ScienceAlert reports.

Scientists believe life on Earth's has been shaken by several mass extinction events over the last half a billion years or so. These events have most often followed sweeping periods of climate change, which has historically been triggered by a number of natural factors including asteroids and volcanoes.

Over the course of each climate catastrophe, various species of plants and animals have had to adapt to survive or risk disappearing forever.

But according toa new study by Tohoku University climate scientist Kunio Kaiho, which was published in the journal Biogeosciences last month, the human-made climate change we're dealing with today will likely take place over a much smaller period of time than previous extinctionevents leaving species everywhere with far less time to adapt.

The greatest known mass extinction occurred over the course of about 60,000 years. According to Kaiho's worst-case prediction, the Earth could reach a roughly 16-degree Fahrenheit increase in just a few hundred years enough to trigger another event, but substantially less time for evolution to catch up.

Upon examining the severity of each mass extinction event, Kaiho found a linear relationship between the degree of temperature change and the plight of plants and animals. Essentially, the more extreme the planetary heating or cooling, the harder it was for species to survive.

While these changes will take place over several hundred years, humans, plants, and animals are already facing climate change-induced catastrophes.

All the more reason not to leave all of the cleanup to our descendants that is, if humans will still be around by then.

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Someone Asked an AI to Show the "Last Selfie Ever Taken" and Um – Futurism

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Is heaven filled with... ghoulish grim reapers?Spooky Selfie

If you've ever wondered how a selfie at the end of the world, or possibly some sort of hellish purgatory, might come out... well, frankly, neither have we. But somebody wanted to know, and at the behest of an AI image generator,a picture of such a thing hath been revealed.

Behold: a series of ghoul-filled "selfies" that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one of which even captures itself mugging in the mirror via smartphone.

The TikTok video of the requested imagery was posted to an account called what else @robotoverloards, which has a bio touting "daily disturbing AI generated images" as its mission. Happy summer!

The video's creator didn't say which text-to-image AI system was responsible for the image generation. One commenter insisted that they were made with Midjourney, a self-described "small self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI," however @robotoverlords included references to both Midjourney and DALLE-E 2, the Elon Musk-founded OpenAI's newly revamped platform, in the hashtags.

Oddly, though the undead figures are indeed quite ghoulish, each one is set against heavenly backgrounds. One holds a handful of flowers, while all of the figures are seen in front of fluffy, sunshine-filled clouds.

"Interesting that it gave a bouquet to the first person," wrote an inquisitive TikTokker.

Maybe angels have a different look than we all thought? Perhaps hell is a cloud-filled, sun-soaked nightmare? Or, more likely, the the AI image-maker responsible provided us with a portrait of the afterlife that took multiple human descriptions of what life after death looks like, and gave us a AI-generated mashup of the two.

Either way, it was nice to see some positivity in the comments. As one user remarked: "I'm okay with this."

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This Is the Boba Fett Gear Every Fan Needs in Their Life – Futurism

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Though The Book of Boba Fett may have ended (and the possibility of a season two is still in the hints and whispers stage), our love for the cloned bounty hunter remains as eternal as a sarlaccs digestive process. Sharp enough for your wardrobe and deserving of a spot on your shelf, this is the Boba Fett swag that marks you as a true fan of Mos Espas new resident Rancor rider.

Key Selling Point: A stealthy bounty hunter design on a basic heathered tee.

If you prefer Boba Fett back in his more fearsome pre-sarlacc days, grab this heathered tee. Fetts signature EE-3 carbine blaster is crossed below his helmet and just above his Mandalorian sigil, in a design thats subtle and understated as any good bounty hunter should be.

Key Selling Point: Cool enough to show off and challenging enough to absorb you for an hour or two.

There was a time when displaying either LEGO or Star Wars paraphernalia could be deemed unprofessional. Now if senior management doesnt have a bit of whimsy behind them on their Zoom screens, theyre probably too rigid to work with. This office-caliber LEGO kit is all grown up, with 625 pieces that form an 8.5-inch tall Boba Fett helmet, complete with a museum-style name plate.

Key Selling Point: A palm-sized speaker with big sound and a wicked Fett paint job.

Bitty Boomers have managed to do two things remarkably well: give boring speaker casings a pop-culture makeover, and crank out room-filling sound from a two-inch package. This Boba Fett speaker fits in the palm of your hand, connects via Bluetooth to your phone, and runs for four hours on one charge. Pair it with a Mando Bitty Boomer for Beskar-clad stereo sound.

Key Selling Point: The classic, big-headed POP treatment comes to the iconic Book of Boba Fett scene.

Naturally youve already got the POP Boba Fett vinyl figure. So now you need this. With the unfathomably badass Fennec Shand by his side, this POP Moments scene commemorates Boba Fett taking the throne at Mos Espa. These guys look ready to take all comers, from Hutts to spice traffickers, and will look even better on your shelf.

Key Selling Point: A steely gray mythosaur skull to salute all warriors from Mandalore.

Is Boba Fett a Mandalorian? His father was a foundling just like Din Djarin, whos arguably the most famous of the Mandalorians with his eponymous show and all. Plus Bobas got that hard-won, nigh-on-indestructible Mandalorian armor. So we say yes. This gray-on-black mythosaur skull is the sigil emblazoned on Fetts armor throughout The Book of Boba Fett.

Key Selling Point: The classic board game with an immersive Star Wars skin.

With the same game-play as Monopoly, the Boba Fett version of the classic game swaps out properties like Marvin Gardens and Baltic Avenue for characters like Lando Calrissian and Han Solo. Skull and wheat sigils replace houses and hotels, and instead of a thimble or a race car, player tokens are four different Boba Fetts.

Key Selling Point: Get it? Boba? Like the tea? Strictly for Fett fans with a sense of humor.

What if you like both Boba Fett and boba tea? Then you are a person of good taste who should be rewarded with an enamel pin for your many-points-of-flair jean vest. This one is made by collectible pin maker, Yesterdays, and measures 1.25 inches tall.

Even before we found out this dude survived a freaking sarlacc pit, we knew Boba Fett was a star. With just four lines in the original trilogy, the masked bounty hunter was better than fifty Bib Fortunas something he demonstrated handily when he was finally given his own show. Forget the days when the best gift you could hand a Boba Fett fan was a cracked action figure off eBay this stuff is worthy of the baddest bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away.

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Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies – Big Think

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Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish, darkly humorous, and yet endearingly sincere. For a small group of fervent futurists, it is their lottery ticket to immortality. What are the chances that these bodies will be reanimated? Will baseball legend Ted Williams frozen head be awakened to coach fighter pilots or fused to a robot body to hit .400 again?

Cryonics attempting to cryopreserve the human body is widely considered a pseudoscience. Cryopreservation is a legitimate scientific endeavor in which cells, organs, or in rare cases entire organisms may be cooled to extremely low temperatures and revived somewhat intact. It occurs in nature, but only in limited cases.

Humans are particularly difficult to preserve because of the delicate structure in (most of) our heads. Deprived of oxygen at room temperature, the brain dies within minutes. While the body may be reanimated, the person who lives is often in a permanent vegetative state. Cooling the body may give the brain a bit more time. During brain or heart surgery, circulation may be stopped for up to an hour with the body cooled to 20 C (68 F). A procedure to cool the body to 10 C (50 F) without oxygen for additional hours is still at the experimental research stage.

After a while, he let the bodies thaw out inside the capsule and left the whole thing festering in his vault.

When a cryonic patient dies, a race begins to prepare and cool the body before it decays and then to place it inside a Dewar: a thermos bottle full of liquid nitrogen (LN). The inner vessel of the Dewar contains a body, or bodies, wrapped in several layers of insulating material, attached to a stretcher, and suspended in LN. The head is oriented downward to keep the brain the coldest and most stable.

This vessel lies within a second outer vessel, separated by a vacuum to avoid heat transfer from the outer room-temperature vessel wall to the cold inner vessel wall. Heat gradually transfers across anyway and boils away the LN, which must be periodically refilled. Bodies were originally, and may still be in some cases, cooled and frozen in whatever condition they were in at death, with better or worse preservation, as we shall see.

The early years of cryonics were grisly. All but one of the first frozen futurists failed in their quest for immortality.

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Small freezing operations began in the late 1960s. While the practice of storing bodies has become more sophisticated over the past 50 years, in the early days, technicians cooled and prepared corpses with haste on dry ice before eventually cramming them into Dewar capsules. By in large, these preservations did not achieve preservation. They were nightmarish, gruesome failures. Their stories were researched and documented by people within the field, who published thorough and frank records.

The largest operation was run out of a cemetery in Chatsworth, California by a man named Robert Nelson. Four of his first clients were not initially frozen in LN but placed on a bed of dry ice in a mortuary. One of these bodies was a woman whose son decided to take her body back. He hauled (his dead mother) around in a truck on dry ice for some time before burying her.

The bodies in the container partially thawed, moved, and then froze again stuck to the capsule like a childs tongue to a cold lamp post.

Eventually, the mortician was not pleased with the other bodies sitting around on beds of ice, so a LN Dewar capsule was secured for the remaining three. Another man was already frozen and sealed inside the capsule, so it was opened, and he was removed. Nelson and the mortician then spent the entire night figuring out how to jam four people who may or may not have suffered thaw damage into the capsule. The arrangement of bodies in different orientations was described as a puzzle. After finding an arrangement that worked, the resealed capsule was lowered into an underground vault at the cemetery. Nelson claimed to have refilled it sporadically for about a year before he stopped receiving money from the relatives. After a while, he let the bodies thaw out inside the capsule and left the whole thing festering in his vault.

Another group of three, including an eight-year-old girl, was packed into a second capsule in the Chatsworth vault. The LN system of this capsule subsequently failed without Nelson noticing. Upon checking one day, he saw that everyone inside had long thawed out. The fate of these ruined bodies is unclear, but they might have been refrozen for several more years.

Nelson froze a six-year-old boy in 1974. The capsule itself was well maintained by the boys father, but when it was opened, the boys body was found to be cracked. The cracking could have occurred if the body was frozen too quickly by the LN. The boy was then thawed, embalmed, and buried. Now that there was a vacancy, a different man was placed into the leftover capsule, but ten months had elapsed between his death and freezing, so his body was in rotten shape no pun intended from the get-go and was eventually thawed.

Every cryonic client put into the vault at Chatsworth and looked after by Nelson eventually failed. The bodies inside the Dewar capsules were simply left to rot. Reporters visited the crypt where these failed operations had taken place and reported a horrifying stench. The proprietor admitted to failure, bad decisions, and going broke. He further pointed out, Who can guarantee that youre going to be suspended for 10 or 15 years?

The worst fates of all occurred at a similar underground vault that stored bodies at a cemetery in Butler, New Jersey. The storage Dewar was poorly designed, with uninsulated pipes. This led to a series of incidents, at least one of which was failure of the vacuum jacket insulating the inside. The bodies in the container partially thawed, moved, and then froze again stuck to the capsule like a childs tongue to a cold lamp post. Eventually the bodies had to be entirely thawed to unstick, then re-frozen and put back in. A year later, the Dewar failed again, and the bodies decomposed into a plug of fluids in the bottom of the capsule. The decision was finally made to thaw the entire contraption, scrape out the remains, and bury them. The men who performed this unfortunate task had to wear a breathing apparatus.

Out of all those frozen prior to 1973, one body remains preserved. Robert Bedford was sealed into a Dewar in 1967. Instead of leaving the body to meet a horrific fate under Nelsons care, Bedfords family took custody of the capsule, meticulously caring for it at their own expense. The body was handed off between professional cryonics operations, occupying multiple frozen tanks and facilities for 15 years or so. Eventually it ended up in the hands of the founders of Alcor a modern cryonics outfit one of whom wrote a heartfelt, slightly creepy piece about the body.

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Alcor is the leading example of the current state of cryonics. While the ugly events above suggest that your remains might well end up as tissue sludge scraped out of a can, the professionalism of companies like Alcor may offer an increased chance for long-term preservation. This 501(c)(3) organization hosts researchers who work on methods to improve the freezing process, possibly increasing whatever slight odds exist that human popsicles will ever be brought back to life. At a more fundamental level, it appears to be stable and to have deep pockets, so there is a better chance that your corpse will be around long enough for some distant future doctor to recoil in horror at it.

The U.S. industry has consolidated around two main organizations. If not Alcor, your other choice is the Cryonics Institute, which has more than 200 bodies stored in giant tanks and accepts dozens more each year. Apparently, ten years ago, head storage alone at Alcor cost $80,000, while full body storage at the Cryonics Institute was only $30,000. There are international options as well. A Russian cryogenics company stores not only people but pets, including one entry under rodents, a deceased chinchilla named Button.

Modern cryonic preparations at Alcor employ a multistep process to prepare the body for storage. First, they begin to cool the body while anti-clotting agents and organ preservation solutions are injected into the bloodstream and circulated under CPR. The body is then transported to the companys main facility, where the original fluid is replaced with chemicals that vitrify turn to glass the bodys organs. This offers some hope for cutting down on structural damage during the subsequent cooling and storage. Then the body is entombed in its Dewar capsule.

That all sounds scientific and careful. But is it really science or just applying scientific tools to a fantasy proposition? Is it possible to freeze the human body and revive it decades later? Currently, its not remotely plausible. Will it ever be? Thats probably an open question. As it stands now, cryonics is a bizarre intersection of scientific thinking and wishful thinking.

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While cryonic preparation is now more advanced, the laws of physics demand that the structure of the body will break down rapidly after death, catastrophically upon freezing, and gradually over time, even while frozen. Think of how badly frozen food ages in your freezer. If the medical technology of the future becomes advanced enough, perhaps these corpses can be revived. But thats a big if. Lets say your body remains frozen until the 25th century. Then, lets say that future doctors are interested in reviving you. How much work will they have to do to fix you once youre thawed? The answer lies in the condition of the bodies once theyre thawed. Strangely enough, we know something about this.

In 1983, Alcor needed to lighten three cryonauts, reducing them from bodies to simply heads. (In one transhumanist conception of the future, medical science will be able to revive the brain and then simply make a new body or robot to which to attach it. Neuropreservation is cheaper and easier too.) The three corpses were removed from their Dewar capsules so that the heads could be cut off still frozen, so requiring a chainsaw and stored separately. Once the heads were sawed off and put away, Alcor employees got to work medically examining the state of the bodies. They wrote up their findings in great detail.

At first, things looked reasonably good. While the bodies were still frozen, their skin was only moderately cracked in a few places. But once the bodies thawed, things started to go downhill.

The organs were badly cracked or severed. The spinal cord was snapped into three pieces and the heart was fractured.

Cracks appeared in the warming bodies, cutting through the skin and subcutaneous fat, all the way down to the body wall or muscle surface beneath. One patient displayed red traces across the skin following the paths of blood vessels that ruptured. Two of the patients had massive cutaneous ruptures over the pubis. The soft skin in these areas was apparently quite susceptible to cracking.

While the external damage was extensive, the internal damage was worse. Nearly every organ system inside the bodies was fractured. In one patient, every major blood vessel had broken near the heart, the lungs and spleen were almost bisected, and the intestines fractured extensively. Only the liver and kidneys werent completely destroyed.

The third body, which had been thawed very slowly, was in better condition externally, with only a few skin fractures and no obvious exploded blood vessels. However, the inside was even more annihilated than the others. The organs were badly cracked or severed. The spinal cord was snapped into three pieces and the heart was fractured. The examiners injected dye into an artery in the arm. Rather than flow through blood vessels and into muscles, most of it pooled under the surface in pockets and leaked out of skin fractures.

The medical examiners extensively detailed the content of the blood, the texture of the muscles, and the extent of the damage. They included pictures. And they earnestly stated their conclusion up front: The tremendous tissue deterioration will require incredibly advanced medical technology to fix. Worse, the probable destruction at the cellular level may require rebuilding the body at the molecular level. Perhaps future medicine might be able to inject swarms of nanobots into your body to repair every bit of tissue, but dont bet on it happening any time soon.

Modern cryonics practices may ward off the horrific failures of the past. And we cant entirely rule out future medicine somehow finding fixes for the terrific damage incurred by the body in freezing, sitting, and thawing. But theres one more hurdle for the future revivification of your frozen form, the last great danger to your immortality: your crazy relatives. Several cases demonstrate the problem.

The family of a man frozen in 1978 eventually got tired of paying for him. The facility offered to cut off his head and store it for free, but the family turned them down. Instead, the body was thawed, submerged in a vat of formaldehyde like a laboratory specimen, and buried in that condition. Two further men were stored by their sons, one of whom had his father thawed, removed, and buried. The other son eventually buried his dads capsule in its entirety with the remains still inside.

Relatives can also go to court and battle over what happens to your corpse. Richard Orvilles family buried him against his wishes and was eventually forced by an Iowa court to dig up his body for preservation. A Colorado womans family went to court to fight Alcor for their mothers head. Alcor eventually got the head, to preserve as best they could. Conversely, another womans will stated that she did not want to be frozen. Her husband froze her anyway, and after a four-year court battle, the State of California ordered that she be thawed and buried.

One particularly well-known family affair is the story of a frozen Norwegian man who was initially stored at a California facility that worked with Alcor. He was removed by his daughter, who stored him in an ice shed behind her house in Colorado. The body was discovered when she was evicted from the property. The small town of Nederland, Colorado now has a Frozen Dead Guy Days celebration every year.

While the chances of immortality may be slim, dozens of people still commit their bodies or brains to cryonics each year. If their remains arent mismanaged or allowed to disintegrate, and if their relatives dont go to court over the body, there is now a good chance that they will remain frozen for decades. Unfortunately, they will come out of the process cracked into a million pieces, and the prospect of putting them back together again is purely science fiction for the foreseeable future. Its a grim practice with ghoulish results; at least it makes for some fascinating stories and a bit of dark humor.

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Review: Create Your Own Miniatures with the Anycubic Photon M3 3D Printer – Futurism

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Whether youre an artistic type, an analytical problem solver, or in a dynamic field that requires a refined touch, youre likely to find numerous benefits in 3D printing. 3D printers have been on the market for a long time, and somehow people are still finding new uses for them.

Created back in the '80s with the intention to advance prototypes in manufacturing, 3D printing has since made an incredible impact on countless other industries; be it in dentistry, medicine, education, automotive, and really everything in between. By layering materials (such as plastic, metal, carbon fiber, resins, and many others) over each other and fusing them together with methodical precision, a 3D printer can easily create your desired pieces while you sit back, relax, and brainstorm about what youll print next.

I began my 3D printing journey several years ago when I bought a Monoprice open-frame printer. Since then, Ive been able to use 3D printing as an artistic release, as well as engineer things that have had a direct benefit to my life and others. Early on, as I was getting out of my car, I noticed a small plastic piece of my door handle had fallen off. I didnt know what it was, or how to even search for a replacement online. After taking some measurements, I was able to replicate this piece with my 3D printer and in a matter of hours, had replaced it with ease something I would have never been able to do by hand.

Whether Im creating bag tags for the youth soccer team I coach to create a sense of unity, prototyping useful tools with friends, or experimenting with new designs, having a 3D printer has paid for itself many times over. Lately, Ive been testing out the Anycubic Photon M3 3D printer, and have been thoroughly impressed by the speed, silent printing, and incredible detail its capable of. Having tried out several models and builds, I can say without a doubt that this is a 3D printer seasoned professionals would appreciate, and newcomers to the resin-printing field could happily take a crack at.

Specs: Dimensions: 10.6 inches L x 10.1 inches W x 16.7 inches H Weight: 15.4 pounds Compatible Materials: Resin Print Volume: 6.4 inches L x 4 inches W x 7.1 inches H Print Speed: Up to 50mm/h

Anycubic has made a name for itself among the 3D printing community as one of the leading manufacturers for DIY printing. Though theyve been around since only 2015, theyve become known for developing top-of-the-line 3D printers for home use and for regularly improving their users experience.

The Photon M3 comes equipped with just about everything youll need to get started, however Id suggest adding on the resin itself to your order. In addition to the printer, Anycubic included gloves and a mask for safety purposes, a scraper, a screen protector for the LCD monochrome screen, a resin vat, tool kit, USB memory stick (as this printer doesnt have WiFi compatibility), a user manual, and a funnel so you can pour your material back into the bottle when youre finished with it. In terms of what you get for the price, the box was surprisingly full.

The 3D printer itself came together in a breeze. In fact, it took me longer to remove the packaging and initially check out all of the items than it did to assemble the printer, needing only four hex bolts and three thumb screws. Just a few minutes later, Id finished setting up the leveling and Z-offset wizard, and was ready to take it for a whirl.

The Photon M3 is the first resin 3D printer Ive tested, and it differs greatly from any fused deposition modeling (FDM) printer out there. While filament, used in FDM 3D printers, is a solid material that often comes wrapped around a spool, the Photon M3 uses resin. Resin is a liquid solution that solidifies after photocuring with UV light.

Comparatively, the Photon M3 can do far more in terms of pristine, unrivaled detail than any FDM printer could. 3D printers that use filament often build from the bottom up, melting and depositing layers of whats essentially plastic strings of material. This method, though popular, often doesnt produce the high-quality detail that resin does, and can lead to stringing (when artifacts and small strings are left on your printed piece, even after cleaning it up).

How the Photon M3 differs from this is, firstly, that it builds itself upside down (from the top up). The resin, like filament, goes on one layer at a time, but is cured between every layer for optimum efficiency and quality. I have never been able to create a realistic LEGO brick with an FDM printer, but with the Photon M3, I was able to print several compatible pieces that could seamlessly clip on to my other LEGO, despite a little bit of elephant foot. No matter the level of detail or difficulty, with every piece I threw at the Photon M3, the end result was always a clean, smooth, and slick structure. It truly seems like theres nothing it cant print.

Not only is the 3D printer amazingly speedy and quiet, but I was honestly astounded by the level of detail the Photon M3 was capable of. Having tested it out with some Settlers of Catan tile models and comparing them to the same file printed with an FDM printer, the comparison was mind-blowing. Not only is the Photon M3s finished product clean and smooth, the tiniest details were visible which was especially impressive on a tinier model.

Something to note is that your builds will be a little smaller than you may be used to, with a maximum build size of 6.4 inches L x 4 inches W x 7.1 inches H. For comparably priced filament printers, you would expect at least a couple extra inches to work with, but this is easily made up by the level of detail your models will showcase.

The way the Photon M3 accomplishes these near-exact masterpieces is down to the cleverly crafted screen, plate, high-functioning software, and of course, the use of resin. The build plate dips into the resin vat at your current build level, then the screen projects what one layer will look like. After completing this layer and setting it with UV light, it lifts up and goes back down to do another layer; this process repeats until the build is finished.

Something that sets this 3D printer apart is its LCD monochrome screen. Where other resin printers often employ a laser projection, the screen mounted on the bottom of the Photon M3 exposes each layer and then prints them on in succession. This feature, incorporated with the user-friendly software, led to a higher-quality surface finish and enabled impeccable detailing.

The included screen protector is such an important component here, as it keeps your LCD screen scratch-free and allows for a longer lifespan. The LCD is so essential to the entire operation that you want to ensure its protected. If your screen protector becomes damaged, you can easily strip it off and put another one on whereas the screen itself would be a bit trickier to replace.

The front LCD screen and fully compatible Slicer software are also a very nice touch and I found it super easy to use. Once youve inserted the USB drive and you select your file to print, the screen shows you a preview of what the build will look like something Ive not experienced with any 3D printer before. This is especially helpful for those of us who have a poor file-naming convention. Even though the Slicing software wasnt the typical Cura that I was used to, it was easy to navigate.

Laser-Etched Print Bed: Anycubic put a lot of thought into every aspect of this 3D printer, down to its special design of the print bed. This crucial piece of the Photon M3 is laser-etched to create a strong adhesion and keeps your builds from falling off as theyre printing. This is especially handy for heavier models that are more likely to lean or fall out of place, however it is very difficult to remove smaller items from the print bed if theres a large surface area in contact with it.

Printing Capabilities: At 50mm/h, the Photon M3 is wicked fast. At this pace, it only takes two and a half hours to print a 12-centimeter-tall model, which is significantly faster than other leading 3D printers. And for its unbelievable speed and accuracy, the volume at which it operates is incredibly quiet. This may be partially due to the fact that there are very few moving parts in this printer compared to others. Theres only one screw that moves the plate up and down, whereas with a typical filament printer, there would be more armature, and youd need to maintain the belts and ensure everything is lubricated properly. With this in mind, the Photon M3 requires very little maintenance and gives you more time to focus on your creations.

Something thats undeniable about this 3D printer is that it stinks. Literally. Because of the fumes, you wont want to be in the same room while its running unless you have an air purifier, so its important to place it in a well-ventilated space that youre able to walk away from for some time. Thankfully, you can place the hood on it while it runs to keep in some of the smell, as well as to protect your prints from outside UV lights.

Another drawback thats specific to using a resin 3D printer is that youre stuck with a solid build volume. Filament printers can be specified so that your infill is only 10 to 20 percent for example, so youre able to make a hollow shape and save your materials for purely visible and structural aspects. Because of the way a resin print needs to be supported, you cant make any hollow pieces this would also lead to trapped, uncured liquid inside. This makes resin printing more costly, as youll go through more material. Although its less economical, youll always end up with a flawless, durable model.

Finally, resin printing is messy. When you pull your piece out of the printer, its steeped in a liquid that you will need to clean off in a water rinser. To make this step easier, you can get water-rinse resin or high concentrated isopropyl alcohol. Once your item is clean, it needs to be cured in the same machine. Its very easy to wipe off, but youll be messier than if you were to use a filament, and will want to ensure youre working in an area that can get a little dirty. For the print quality though, this is a fair tradeoff.

While the Anycubic 3D printer is extremely efficient and capable of replicating some of the most complex designs, you may want to consider adding on a few more products to make your experience the best it can be.

AirPure Air Purifier Water-Wash Resin Extra Screen Protectors

Overall, my experience testing the Photon M3 3D printer was great. Id wholeheartedly recommend it to those looking to add resin to their arsenal or newbies in the resin field, but its not necessarily the best pick if youre completely new to 3D printing. This is an excellent choice for making toys, figures, or models for Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop games.

Anycubic is really ahead of the game. I didnt feel like I was really giving anything up, and for such high speed, precision, and low cost, Im blown away.

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NASA Finally Figured Out What That Weird Spaghetti It Found on Mars Was – Futurism

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It's definitely not edible.Spooky Spaghetti

Last month, NASAs Perseverance rover spotted an mysterious noodle-like object on Mars.

Appearing to be some sort of messy bundle of string, the object was first captured by the Mars rovers camera on July 12 before mysteriously vanishing just four days later.

NASA was adamant that the stringy object was terrestrial in origin and not some Martians spilt ramen, speculating that its likely "a piece of cord from the parachute or from the landing system that lowers the [Perseverance] rover to the ground."

And now, as it turns out, the space agency wasnt that far off. In a statement on Monday, NASA declared that the unknown object is nothing but a piece of Dacron netting, putting this Mars mystery to bed.

Dacron is a polyester fiber used as netting in thermal blankets, and while it may look unrecognizable now, thats because it "appears to have undergone significant unraveling/shredding, suggesting that it was subjected to strong forces," according to NASA.

When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February of last year, its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware flew off to crash a safe distance away. The EDL's impact scattered debris across the Martian surface, and thats where the Dacron netting came from.

Considering that it crashed some 1.4 miles away from the rover, the material has traveled impressively far, likely due to wind, NASA said.

For the most part, a bundle of polyester string blowing around Mars is pretty harmless and amusing, but NASA isnt messing around: team members are investigating photos of the material as it "may pose as a potential contamination source for the sample tubes" in the area where it was found, the space agency said but fortunately, there arent any "immediate concerns."

Theres also a risk of the shredded material becoming entangled with the Perseverance rover itself, but NASA engineers deemed the risk to be "low."

In short, NASA doesn't see the Martian spaghetti as too much of a threat. After all, space debris being discarded on the Martian surface is quickly becoming a pretty common occurrence.

More on Mars: NASA Says It's Sending Two More Ingenuity-Class Helicopters to Mars

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Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals – Futurism

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"Were species agnostic."Kingdom Come

A group of researchers are looking to use machine learning to translate animal "languages" into something humans can understand and they want to apply it to the whole animal kingdom, a highly ambitious plan to say the least.

AsThe Guardian reports, California-based nonprofit Earth Species Project (ESP) which was founded in 2017 with the help of Silicon Valley investorslike LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman plans to first decode animal communication via machine learning, and then make its findings available to all.

ESP co-founder and president Aza Raskin says that the group, which published its first paper in December 2021, doesn't discriminate and is looking to help humans communicate with, or at least understand, as many species as possible.

"Were species agnostic," Raskin told The Guardian, adding that the translation algorithms the ESP is developing are designed to "work across all of biology, from worms to whales.

In the interview, Raskin likened the group's ambitions to "going to the Moon," especially given that, like humans, animals also have various forms of non-verbal communication, like bees doing a special "wiggle dance" to indicate to each other that they should land on a specific flower.

Despite the seemingly insurmountable challenges the group is facing, the project has made at least some progress, including an experimental algorithm that can purportedly detect which individual in a noisy group of animals is "speaking."

A second algorithm reportedly can generate mimicked animal calls to "talk" directly to them.

"It is having the AI speak the language," Raskin told The Guardian, "even though we dont know what it means yet."

While there are certainly exciting implications to this kind of research, particularly when it comes to conservation and convincing skeptics that animals are worth saving, Raskin admits that AI likely won't be the only answer to saving them.

"These are the tools that let us take off the human glasses," he concluded, "and understand entire communication systems."

READ MORE:Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? [The Guardian]

More on animal AI:Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

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Review: NIU KQi3 Pro Scooter is the Future of Transportation – Futurism

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On a dark desert highway, dim Connecticut side street, cool wind in my hair over my helmet; Warm smell of colitas the shoreline, rising up through the air

I may have been on the other side of America, but The Eagles timeless take on California living drifted through my mind throughout my experience with NIUs KQi3 Pro scooter, a gadget that toes the line between wish fulfillment and the future of short-range transportation. As a 6'2" man, zipping through a beach town on an electric scooter was undeniably fun and attention-getting. But is the KQi3 Pro the future of transportation? Read my full review below.

Specs:

Dimensions: 20 x 9 x 42 inches Weight: 44.75 pounds Battery: 486.7Wh lithium battery Max Speed: 20 mph

Any 90s kid will feel instantly familiar with the KQi3 Pro, which looks like a tricked-out Razor scooter once it's fully assembled. The KQi3 Pro was the first electric scooter Ive tested, though it feels like Im late to the party. Electric scooters have become extremely popular in both urban and suburban locales. Even colleges have begun adopting scooters as a means of getting groggy students from one side of campus to the other without getting worn down. The popularity of electric scooters is due, in part at least, to the rising cost of gas and cars both new and used. Why should you circle parking lots or pay for space in a garage when you can zip from place to place?

I was pleasantly surprised with how efficiently this scooter was packed. The box, which measured about five feet tall, was light enough for one person to move around. The KQi3 was packaged compactly enough that I was able to open its box on my kitchen floor (no small feat considering I live in New York City), though this fits in with the eco-friendly nature of an electric scooter.

I was similarly pleased by how easy it was to set the KQi3 Pro up. NIU includes a set of printed instructions with the KQi3, which spell out each step of the installation process with clean images and easy-to-understand language. If youve never set up a scooter (like me), you wont have any issues. The entire procedure boiled down to sticking the top piece (containing the handlebars and steering column) into the bottom part (which houses the battery, other electronics, platform, and wheels). It's possible to assemble the KQi3 Pro alone, but asking a second person for help simplifies the process. Once the two pieces are connected, you attach them permanently by using a few screws provided in the box.

Setting up the KQi3 Pro's software was similarly simple. NIU's app walks you through the process of pairing your scooter with your phone over Bluetooth. Once the two are synced up, you can view information like your longest ride and the scooter's battery percentage on your phone. The latter is also represented on the KQi3 Pro's screen, but more on that a little later.

The NIU's most important features are its ability to lock your scooter (helpful when you leave it locked up in a public place), and downloading firmware updates. NIU constantly updated the KQi3 Pro's software over the course of my time with the scooter, which I appreciate greatly. This is a device I trust with my life (literally), so any tweaks to how it works are fine by me. It took about a half hour to assemble the KQi3 Pro, download the app, create an account, and finally get ready to ride. If I had to set one up a second time, that figure would probably be cut in half.

My first ride revealed my favorite feature of the KQi3 Pro: It requires you to be moving at a rate of 4kmh (2.4 mph) before you can engage its electric motor. This cuts down on the possibility of accidentally engaging it while moving the scooter around as you get ready to ride. A single push is enough to break through that low threshold, so you can start riding the scooter almost immediately. The chances of accidents are further reduced by the fact that you have to turn the scooter on before using it. This is accomplished by pushing the large power button on a small console built into the middle of the handlebars. It's the only button you'll see, so it's impossible to miss. Pressing it for a couple of seconds elicits a pleasant chime, and the screen immediately pops on.

The KQi3 Pro's display shows your current speed and a basic battery gauge that shows between one and five squares. I'd have preferred to get an actual battery percentage on the screen, but understand that NIU chose this system to avoid having multiple numbers on the screen at once. The display was easy to glance at briefly during rides, but never distracting. Mission accomplished.

While I live in New York City, I dont feel comfortable using any form of transportation besides walking, driving, and taking the subway, so my test rides were exclusively conducted in Connecticut. This has nothing to do with the safety features of the NIU KQi3 Pro or any other electric scooter, for that matter but rather my incredulity at the citizenry of the city that never sleeps. Electric scooters are commonplace here, and the KQi3s safety features would make it a great choice for riding in an urban environment, but where you ride comes down to your personal comfort level.

So, how does it feel to actually ride on the NIU KQi3 Pro? Incredible. The scooter is so fun to use that you'll almost forget you're using a form of transportation instead of a toy, but you'll need to resist that urge. After a quick, care-free ride down the block, I began my testing in earnest on roads full of beach-bound cars and people of all ages. I took my first rides just after dawn to get my sea (scooter) legs, and highly recommend riding around desolate areas while familiarizing yourself with the scooter. In my case, the KQi3 Pro's accelerator took some getting used to. There's a fine line between a smooth ride, and herky-jerky one full of mini stops and starts. You control the KQi3 Pro's motor by pushing an accelerator located below the right handlebar with your thumb, and finding the right amount of pressure took about an hour. It's not that the KQi3 Pro is hard to use, it's that everybody's hand strength is a little different, and it's easy to try punching it on your first couple of rides only to find yourself accelerating at a rapid pace.

It's worth noting that I never felt unsafe on the KQi3 Pro, even when I was going at full speed 30kmh (18.6 mph). That's due in large part to the effectiveness of the KQi3 Pro's handbrakes, located above the right and left handlebars. Again, it'll take a few rides to know how hard you have to squeeze to come to a full stop at different speeds, but the learning curve of trying a new electric vehicle. My biggest issue was with learning how to successfully make turns, which had nothing to do with the scooter, and everything to do with negotiating the physics of moving my tall frame in the appropriate directions. Knowing how hard to lean into a turn, and how much to twist the handlebar took about a day. I quickly learned to trust the KQi3 Pro, and took to the streets for multi-mile rides.

Riding an electric scooter is incredibly fun, but it's important to remember you need to respect the rules of the road. That means wearing a helmet, stopping at stop signs, clearly telegraphing your turns before you make them, and respecting the flow of traffic. Taking all of these things into account does take some of the fun out of riding an electric scooter, and I had to make several decisions about how to get around obstacles be they potholes or people as they came into my view. The KQi3 Pro's relatively slow speed means car drivers may make moves around you, and the scooter's lack of side mirrors means keeping your ears open if someone tries to overtake you. I never found myself in dangerous situations, but you should be mindful of where you plan on riding this scooter and make note of potential nuisances accordingly.

One of the KQi3s underrated safety features is its large wheels, which allowed me to drive over cracks in the road, small potholes, and a garden hose without causing the scooter to feel unstable. You should avoid large, deep potholes, which the scooters wheels could fall fully into, but the same is true when youre riding a car. If youre living in a place with bumpy roads gravel, unpaved streets, dirt the KQi3 is up to the task. In my limited experience driving off road, I never encountered any problems.

Thats important because you need to trust that the scooter youre riding isnt going to betray you the moment you move from one type of terrain to another. I mentioned earlier that I felt uncomfortable riding the KQi3 Pro in New York City but I need to reiterate again that my feelings had nothing to do with the scooter.

As a mode of transportation for short-distance errands, the KQi3 Pro was hard to beat. Traveling three miles (my longest ride) took about 11 minutes. I never tried to artificially cut down my times by going as quickly as possible, and always balanced speed and safety. I learned how much to accelerate when going up hills, and how hard to squeeze the brake when going downhill. By the end of my tests, there wasn't a tight turn I couldn't handle. If you're thinking about getting a KQi3 Pro for quickly running errands around town, its mix of speed, ease of use, and portability makes it preferable to riding e-bike, bicycle, and walking. As a purely recreational tool, the scooter gets full marks for the same reason. I found myself asking "can I take the KQi3 Pro?" every time I wanted to spend time outdoors. I typically mixed it in with walks to get my steps in, but the scooter could easily become your primary form of transportation if you live in a suburban area.

One aspect of riding an electric scooter I hadn't considered before my time with the KQi3 Pro is the reaction from other people. Older folks who saw me riding gave me quizzical looks. Some middle-aged people seemed interested in what I was doing, while others were apathetic. Teenage girls laughed at me the way they would at a dad who pulled an iPhone with a home button out of his pants in front of their friends (the horror)! You have to accept that you'll become a point of interest to other people while riding an electric scooter because they're currently considered a novelty by the general population. The attention could also have been the optics of a tall man in shorts, high socks, helmet, and sunglasses whizzing by. Your mileage may vary here, but be prepared for some kind of reaction.

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5 Tasty Condiments That Aren’t Pink Sauce – Futurism

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Pink Sauce: the condiment thats trending for all the wrong reasons. Its a lesson in TikTok hype, hive mind kayfabe, and perhaps most of all, the importance of the FDA. And at the end of the day, its just bad mayonnaise with just enough pink dye to look like Pepto Bismol. Instead of hitting this horrible sauce, we recommend five condiments that are worthy of going viral. Viral in a good way, not the painful stomach bug way.

Key Selling Point: Get in on the next big condiment craze before everyone else does.

Are you familiar with chili crunch? The popular Asian condiment is having a bit of a moment right now, and its about to go big time. You know, the way Sriracha took over the hot sauce world around the early 00s. Its a blend of sesame seeds, chilis, shallots, garlic, and a bunch of other tasty stuff steeped in oil which makes for a bright red sauce thats fiery and flavorful without being too spicy. Its great on noodles, rice, and the best thing you could ever dip takeout gyoza into. This ones recipe was crafted by Chef David Chang, so you can pretty much guarantee that its going to be tasty as hell.

Key Selling Point: Taco-truck tastiness in a charming squeeze bottle.

Its so very difficult to find a bottle of salsa on a store shelf that hits quite as good as one made by your friendly neighborhood abuelita. For those of us who arent within driving distance of a taco truck, theres the Herdez Taqueria Sauce Verde. Like any great green taco sauce, its made from charred poblano and jalapeno peppers and comes in an easy squeeze bottle. Its great on tacos, nachos, and a plate of huevos rancheros, but it would work equally well as a marinade or even salad dressing. Its not as good as homemade, but its pretty darn close.

Key Selling Point: A flavor profile from Washington D.C. ready to make a 50-state sweep.

When salty meets sweet, some of the tastiest matches are made, from chocolate-dipped pretzels to the ever-reliable peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Capital City Mumbo Sauce is sweet, salty, and even packs a good bit of heat, for a condiment thats not just delicious, but damn near universal. While it is primarily a sauce intended for wings, its great as a finishing glaze, marinade, and anything and everything bound for the grill. Its also totally vegan, without an ounce of high fructose corn syrup.

Key Selling Point: An unnecessary, but deliciously innovative way to enjoy your next burger.

Have you ever stared at a burger and thought, I need to make this unhealthy meal downright hedonistic? The Heinz Dip and Crunch Burger Dip is a little extra, but not an altogether terrible idea. While you do need to supply your own burger, this package not only comes with a dip to dunk your sandwich in but a small pile of crushed potato chips. You know, for texture. Its not just a dipping sauce, its an experience. And it may just change the way you eat burgers forever.

Key Selling Point: Why choose between drinks and dessert when you can have both?

Fruit and wine go together like beer and cheese. Separately, they compliment each other, but together, some seriously tasty alchemy happens. These Wine-Infused Dessert Sauces are crafted in small batches, with an ingredients list you can actually read. Wine, fruit, sugar, and little else, so the flavor profiles within these sauces can truly shine. Available in three tantalizing flavors including Blackberry Merlot, Dark Cherry Zinfandel, and Mango Pinot Grigio, which are great one ice cream, yogurt, sourdough toast, or simply eaten with a spoon at 2 am in front of your fridge. No judgment.

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DAVID HOULE: Desperately seeking new ideas, visions, plans, and goals – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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David Houle| Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Columns here over the past few months have dealt with all the changes to Sarasota and Bradenton and that many of them are causing concern. Concern that paradise is no longer. Much of this change is the perpetuation of the way things have always been done.

Frequent readers of this column know the term I use for this is legacy thinking." Thoughts from the past. Meaning doing today what was done yesterday. Therefore today is never new but just a continuation of yesterday. New visions never get developed as the old ones are perpetuated.

That is why the climate crisis is such a good metaphor for how we should look ahead to the future we want.

The climate crisis, simply put, is something that has never happened since homo sapiens have been alive on Earth. The rate of CO2increase in the atmosphere occurring today has not happened for 50 million years. This means that we have no history or experience with what is going on. This provides the cover for both the people who used to be called deniers and all climate scientists. Neither group had any background for what was ahead.

The deniers, at least up to 2000, could be granted a partial pass as something that has never happened is hard to believe will happen. The scientists underestimated the rapidity of global warming, and the consequences as there has never been something that has happened so quickly.

The deniers couldnt understand something that had never happened, and the scientists were winging it on the speed that it would happen. We now know that global warming is incredibly and dangerously real, life-threatening, incredibly costly and that it is happening much much faster that even the top scientists had predicted.

Simply stated, what has happened to the Gulf Coast the past 100 years will not be what will happen this century. Actually, relative to Sea Level Rise, the amount that has occurred on the Gulf Coast since 1900 will be doubled by 2050.This means that new ideas, visions, plans, investments, initiatives and goals need to be new, for this new future.

The climate crisis was not something that had to be factored into future plans last century but is essential for the decades ahead. Whatever the reasons for denial, resistance, and the lack of initiative to face what is clearly ahead, must be set aside.

Unfortunately, people like to be led rather than think independently. For some reason, hard to fathom, the climate crisis has become a political issue.The climate crisis is about everything. Literally everything. There is not a species or a place that will not be affected. Yet so much of what could be done is not occurring, simply due to politics. At this time in our countrys history that is a disaster!

I have spoken about global warming all around the world for decades, mostly in the U.S. I have written a column for this newspaper for the better part of 10 years. Back in 2015, when I published the first of two books on climate and co-founded a Sarasota-based nonprofit to create crew consciousness, I started to write more columns in this space about climate, clean energy, sea level rise and what might be ahead. I received numerous emails from readers, the vast majority positive.

Yet I knew, and know, that anytime I write about some climate-related topic, I will get some highly negative comments that simply doubt both the reality of crisis and malign me personally. None that set forth any intellectual or scientific arguments. I have received a number of emails from readers stating that the only explanation of my comments was thatI was an ultra-liberal, a socialist, and one man called me a communist.

The point here is that communism and democracy have nothing to do with global warming, yet people still think that it does. We have to stop this politicization of what is simply the biggest challenge facing our species.

If we want Sarasota, Bradenton and the Gulf Coast communities near usto thrive, adapt, and continue to be places where we want to live, we must let go of what is clearly dated and replace with new visions that adapt to the new realities coming our way in the 2020s, 2030s and 2040s.

As I referenced in recent columns, will it not be better to accept that all barrier island beaches may be gone in the 2040s and plan for a redefined economy, than to simply do nothing and then panic, react and move when this becomes a reality?

To think that the next 30 years in Sarasota will be like the last 30 yearsis insanity. Do we want insane thinking to guide us? So far the answer seems to be yes.

Do we want our children, our grandchildren and all those yet unborn to look at us with disgust that we sleepwalked when we could have mobilized to create our paradise in the future? I dont think so.

Sarasota resident David Houle is a globally recognized futurist. He has given speeches on six continents, written 13 books and is futurist in residence at Ringling College of Art andDesign. His websites aredavidhoule.comand the2020sdecade.com. Email him at david@davidhoule.com.

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expert reaction to paper suggesting that cellular and tissue function can be restored in pigs after death – Science Media Centre

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August 3, 2022

A paper published in Nature suggests cellular recovery can occur in pigs after death.

Prof Martin Monti, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), said:

Biological death is more like a cascade of dominoes, with one event triggering the next, than an instantaneous transition. What is ground-breaking about this technology is that this cascade can be halted in some organs if only the right cellular environment and metabolic parameters can be restored. The potential implications, if this will ever be successfully translated to humans, are huge: how many more lives could be saved through transplantation each year thanks to greater organ viability?

What this technology did not do, however, was restore any form of brain network activity and any associated function. Whether this is due to brain tissues having a faster death cascade than other organs or other factors remains unclear.

What is clear, however, is that this technology is not about magically reviving dead tissue. It is about expanding the window for restoring organ function by interrupting the death cascade.

Dr Anders Sandberg, Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, said:

When blood circulation stops, cells begin to die due to lack of oxygen, and chemical changes begin that harm tissues and organ function. At normal temperature, irreversible changes set in after a few minutes. What this paper shows is that significant improvements are possible in how long after death preservation methods to keep organs alive can be started (up to an hour), and that some of the cellular damage can be partially reversed.

While the experiment was done on pigs, helping humans is an obvious goal, and the most obvious impact is on organ donation. Currently, most organ donation happens after brain death: the brainstem has permanently ceased functioning, but the body is otherwise functional. These cases are rarer than circulatory death where the heart has irreversibly ceased functioning. However, in these cases, there will be a period of no circulation before artificial circulation can be instituted and organs are likely to be damaged. The system in the paper may help overcome this problem, making more transplants possible.

Ethically, this seems to beunproblematic good news. However, further in the future this kind of method may also make treatment directly after a stroke or major trauma more effective: by saving patients that would otherwise have died, it might reduce the number of available transplants. This may still be good news, but there is a risk that it mainly preventspeople from dying rather than making them recover. There is a challenging ethical issue in determiningwhen radical life support is just futile, and as technology advances we may find more ways of keeping bodies alive despite being unable to revive the person we actually careabout. Much work remainsto find criteria for when further treatment is futile, and alsoin how to get people back from the brink.

Right now, the ethically important aspect of this paper is that it shows that the changes happening after stopped circulation can be slowed or reversed with the right treatment: there is more hope for patients in this state. Death is not an instantaneous event but rather agradual process, and we have gained a further tool to nudge it. Once, lack of breathing was regarded as a sign of permanent death, until artificial breathing merely made it a dangerous state to be in. Later, other technologies have pushed back the point of no return, first to cardiac arrest, and later to brain death. OrganExshows that there is more medical wiggle room in cases with no circulation to fix things than previously looked possible: related methods may make new forms of surgery possible. Paradoxically, this makes the futility debate harder since there is a bit more hope. However, it is better to have more options to save lives than fewer, even if hard moral choices have tobe made.

Doubtless some readers will bring up cryonics, the practice of cooling down bodies to extremely low temperatures after death hasbeen declared in the hope that future medicine will be able to revive them and repair the damage from both the terminal cause and the suspension process. This is not what OrganExis about, but the technology will doubtless be of great interest to cryonics organisations as a way of reducing the damage while temperature is lowered. One of the largest practical hurdles is the often excessivetime between circulation stopping and damage-reducing suspension procedures starting: this technique may buy valuable time. The big question about whether future revival is going to be possible remains, but at least one can improve the present practice to boost the chances.

Dr Sam Parnia MD PhD, Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Director of Critical Care and Resuscitation Research, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, said:

The press release is accurate but if anything underestimates the significance of these discoveries.

This is a truly remarkable and incredibly significant study. It demonstrates that after death, cells in mammalian organs (including humans) such as the brain do not die for many hours. This is well into the post-mortem period.

Consequently, by developing this system of organ preservation (using organ Ex in humans, which is entirely feasible), in the near future doctors will be able to provide novel treatments to preserve the organs post-mortem. This will enable access to many more organs for transplantation, which will lead to 1000s of lives saved every year.

Perhaps, as important is the fact that the OrganEx method can be used to preserve organs in people who have died, but in whom the underlying cause of death remains treatable. Today, this would include athletes who die suddenly from a heart defect, people who die from drowning, heart attacks or massive bleeding after trauma (such as car accidents). The OrganEx system can preserve such peoples organs and prevent brain damage for hours in people after death. This will provide time for doctors to fix the underlying condition (such as a blocked blood vessel in the heart that had led to a massive heart attack and death, or repair a torn blood vessel that had led to death from massive bleeding after trauma), restore organ function and bring such people back to life many hours after death. As such otherwise healthy people, including athletes who die, but in whom the cause of death is treatable at any given time can potentially be brought back to life, and if the cause of death is not treatable, then their organs can be preserved to give life to thousands of people every year.

Finally, this study demonstrates that our social convention regarding death, ie. as an absolute black and white end is not scientifically valid. By contrast, scientifically, death is a biological process that remains treatable and reversible for hours after it has occurred.

For decades millions of people have reported lucid consciousness and a detailed reevaluation of all their own actions, thoughts and intentions throughout life, when on the brink of death, or after crossing the threshold of death. These recalled experiences surrounding death or so called near death experiences were often been dismissed. However, this study and others suggest consciousness may not be annihilated at the time of death. This further reinforces the need to study consciousness and recalled experiences surrounding death in an unbiased scientific manner. Scientists can study what happens to the human mind and consciousness after death and provide answers to the age old question of what happens to us all after we die through the prism of science.

Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body by David Andrijevic et al. was published in Nature at 16:00 UK time on Wednesday 3rd August 2022.

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05016-1

Declared interests

Prof Martin Monti: No conflict of interest.

Dr Sam Parnia: I donthave any conflicts. However, I do conduct other research into methods to preserve the brain after cardiac arrest.

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David Suzuki: Gaia theorist James Lovelock was always ahead of the times – The Georgia Straight

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Although most of the world knew James Lovelock as an independent scientist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis, he had a slightly different take. Im not a scientist really. Im an inventor or a mechanic. Its a different thing. The Gaia theory is just engineering written very large indeed, hetold theGuardianin 2020.

Regardless of labels, theres no denying the significant influence of Lovelock, whodied July 26on his 103rdbirthday. Although many of his discoveries and ideason subjects ranging from cryonics to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and climate to nuclear powerwere controversial, most gained acceptance as the world caught up.

Named for the Greek Earth goddess, hisGaia theorydeveloped with evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis during the 1960s when he was working for NASAs moon and Mars programssaw the world with its natural cycles as a living, self-regulating organism. When one cycle is knocked out of equilibrium, others work to restore balance.

At the time, many prominent scientists ridiculed the hypothesis, but it has continued to gain acceptance because it helps to explain the chemical and physical balances in air, land, and water that make life possible. It underpins much of climate science. The idea isnt that Earth is conscious of these processes; just that the cycles work together to keep the planet healthy and able to support life.

Its similar to the ways in which many Indigenous Peoples worldwide view the living Earth. Everything is interconnected. He understood that human activities that destroy rainforests and reduce biodiversity, for example, hinder Gaias ability to minimize the impacts of runaway greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Lovelock wasnt afraid to change his views in the face of evolving evidence, but he also refused to ever soften his message, something I learned from interviewing him several times.

His research revealed the effects of CFCs on the ozone layer, and he warned that burning fossil fuels was changing the climate before these issues were on most peoples radar. His electron-capture device, invented in the late 1960s, detected rising CFC levels in the atmosphereas well as pollutants like PCBs in air, soil, and waterand led to the discovery that this was causing ozone depletion. That eventually resulted in theMontreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, adopted in 1987 by all countries, thus helping the ozone layer to recover and preventing millions of cases of skin and other cancers and eye cataracts.

Like many who clearly see the environmental predicaments weve created, Lovelock wasnt always optimistic, despite his knowledge of the many available and emerging solutions. I would say the biosphere and I are both in the last one percent or our lives, he told theGuardiantwo years ago.

Lovelock, who started out in medicine, even thought pandemics such as COVID-19 could be related to planetary self-regulation: I could easily make you a model and demonstrate that as the human population on the planet grew larger and larger, the probability of a virus evolving that would cut back the population is quite marked.

He said opposition to the Gaia hypothesis surprised him: Im wondering to what extent you can put that down to the coal and oil industries who fought against any kind of message that would be bad for them.

As for solutions to the climate crisis, he advocated for technologies that havent always been popular, including nuclear energy and Edward Tellers suggestion of a sunshade in a heliocentric orbit that would diffuse a few percent of sunlight from the Earth.

However, he cautioned, I dont think we should start messing about with the Gaia system until we know a hell of a lot more about it. It is beginning to look as if renewable energywind and solarif properly used, may be the answer to the energy problems of humanity.

James Lovelock continued to work, write, and speak until his final days. My main reason for not relaxing into contented retirement is that like most of you I am deeply concerned about the probability of massively harmful climate change and the need to do something about it now, he said.

Lovelock may have left Gaia, but the knowledge he left endures and is essential to understanding our place, predicament, and future.

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Does Life on Earth Have a Purpose to Ancient Ghost Tracks of the West (Planet Earth Report) – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

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Todays stories range from NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs to The Origins of the Universe may be Hidden in the Voids of Space, and much more. The Planet Earth Report connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species.

Does life on Earth have a purpose? The answer is both disappointing and exciting, reports Marcelo Gleiser for Big Think. Is the incredible diversity of species a random accident? Or does life on Earth follow a plan of becoming ever more complex? Those who think there is such a plan believe the apex of this process would, of course, be us. The answer is both disappointing and exciting, given that we are the ones asking the question.

Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient Ghost Tracks May Cover the WestThe set of 88 prints is about 12,000 years old, scientists say, and was found in the militarys Utah Test and Training Range, reports The New York Times.

Why We Need to Study Nothing -The origins of the universe may be hidden in the voids of space, reports Paul Sutter for Nautil.us.

Chinese and US scientists build bridges with cutting-edge Hale telescope project, reports South China MOrning Post. Work to build an advanced spectrograph which will help explore distant corners of the universe is a rare example of cooperation between the two countries

With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs Although modest in scope, a NASA research project reflects shifting attitudes toward the formerly taboo subject of UFOs, reports Scientific American.

When Will the Next Supernova in Our Galaxy Occur? -Scientists have new tools at their disposal to detect and study the dramatic explosion of a star, reports The Smithsonian. Its been a long wait418 years since weve seen a star explode in our galaxy. So are we overdue for a bright, nearby supernova?

Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day ever, reports CBS News. Since 2016 the Earth started to accelerate, said Leonid Zotov, who works at works for Lomonosov Moscow State University and recently published a study on what might cause the changes in Earths rotation. This year it rotates quicker than in 2021 and 2020.

Gigantic jet lightning is a mystery. These researchers are solving it--The extreme electrical discharges can tower 50 miles above a thunderstorm, reports the Washington Post.

This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How Its Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years, reports The Smithsonian. The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present.

A China-Taiwan conflict could lead to a catastrophic semiconductor shortage in the world Taiwan manufactures roughly 50 percent of all the worlds semiconductors, reports Interesting Engineering.

Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortalityFor decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death, reports Big Think.

How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI--Much of the worlds first writing, carved into clay tablets, remains undeciphered. Now AI is helping us piece together this ancient Mesopotamian script, revealing the incredible stories of men, women and children at the dawn of history, reports New Scientist.

Hubbles Future in the Webb Era -We believe that we can keep Hubble doing the ground-breaking science it is known for through the latter part of this decade and possibly into the next, says public affairs officer Claire Andreoli (NASA Goddard).

Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society, reports BBC Future. Are you a subject, a consumer or a citizen? The authors Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad argue that our societies need a new narrative, and it starts by ditching the stories sold by authoritarianism and consumerism.

The Crypto Market Crashed. Theyre Still Buying Bitcoin Hard-core Bitcoin evangelists are making the case that Bitcoin differs from the unstable crypto projects that sent the market into a tailspin, reports The New York Times. Cory Klippsten started issuing warnings about the cryptocurrency market in March. The digital coin Luna, Mr. Klippsten tweeted, was a scam, run by an entrepreneur with major Elizabeth Holmes vibes. The newfangled crypto bank Celsius Network was a massive blowup risk, he said.

Semiotics of dogs In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles, reports Aeon. After millennia of domestication, we gave our pets family trees, and named them as breeds. They acquired an identity reflecting human projection, and symbolized our own increased focus on lineage and breeding. Lady is purebred, Tramp is a mutt.

New algorithm aces university math course questions Researchers use machine learning to automatically solve, explain, and generate university-level math problems at a human level, reports MIT News. a multidisciplinary team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere, led by Iddo Drori, a lecturer in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has used a neural network model to solve university-level math problems in a few seconds at a human level.

North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail, reports Ars Technica. SHARPEXT has slurped up thousands of emails in the past year and keeps getting better.

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Buried Treasure: There’s a new record shop in the basement of the Arlington – Arkansas Times

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On Monday around lunchtime, a Facebook post circulated among musicians and vinyl collectors noting the arrival of a new record shop in the basement of the Arlington Hotel Resort Hotel & Spa, a hulk of a structure in downtown Hot Springs that opened its arms in 1875 to the upper crust who came for the towns healing thermal spring waters and libertine charms Babe Ruth and Al Capone among them. The hotels basement is a sort of precursor to the shopping mall, with a handful of ventures (Mamoos Creamery, for one) doing business among the vestiges of the bathhouse districts heyday vintage mosaic tile, an antique barbershop swivel chair.

The newest of those underground storefront enterprises is the Downtown Record & CD Emporium, a 4-day-old vinyl record shop owned by vinyl lifer Tom Coleman. Buy, sell, trade, or just come in and look around. 78s, 45s, cassettes, CDs. The shop will do a soft opening this month and a grand opening on Friday, Sept. 2, in conjunction with Hot Springs monthly First Friday Gallery Walk.

Coleman is not new to the line of work; Downtown Record is his fifth record shop since he started selling vinyl in 1981. I actually thought I was out of the business, Coleman told me, but it kept dragging me back. Hes been hooked on vinyl for decades now. He bought his first record as a kid for $4.98 at Roses Drug Store in Lubbock, Texas The Beatles 1964 release Something New. Hes a devotee to the analog medium, and listens to music at home on a McIntosh tube amp system.

His first shop Play It Again Records in Chattanooga, Tennessee was more like a High Fidelity store, he said. We were a bunch of music snobs and anybody who was listening to Madonna or anything like that at the time, we were totally against. These days, though, Coleman seems anything but narrow-minded about music. Before I and Arkansas Times photographer Brian Chilson left the building, the three of us, plus Colemans partner Beau Baize, had covered territory that ranged from The Clash to The Church to the glories of Paul Cauthen to Colemans studies of the Ars nova, a medieval treatise that rocked the music world in 14th-century France.

Nor is Coleman stranger to the vinyl shops elsewhere in the area. Hes a big fan of Bill Eginton and the Arkansas Record & CD Exchange, and spoke highly about Control Records and Been Around. Little Rock is blessed, he said. Ive been in large cities that didnt have that many good record stores.

Over the years, Coleman ran record and vinyl memorabilia shops in Knoxville and Laguna Beach, California. When Katrina hit, his mother was living in Waveland, Mississippi ground zero for the hurricanes devastation. She watched as her home and belongings washed away into the sea, and when Coleman broached the subject of where she might relocate, she said she thought Hot Springs might be nice. Hed intended to get her settled and move elsewhere, but when she got ill, he decided to stick around.

Coleman bought CDs For Less, a music shop on Hot Springs Albert Pike Road, eventually upended around 2010 when Popeyes Chicken bought the land. And Coleman went back to being a collector again. Until about a month and a half ago, that is, when the owners of Benton-based record shop Retro Rose put their Arlington storefront then a small-scale record shop called The Loud Library on the market, and Coleman grabbed it up.

The shelves in the front room of Downtown Record & CD Exchange are full a small country music shelf, loads of Rolling Stones and 70s rock and a section labeled Vapors, inspired by Hot Springs famous nightclub. By the time the grand opening rolls around in September, the back room will be stocked, too. And whats there is a fraction of of Colemans and Baizes collection, the upper echelon of which leans toward rare Rolling Stones records, white label promos for The Kinks records, and sought-after stuff from The Dickies, New Order, Joy Division. Some of Colemans collection came from his connections to the creators of Hits Magazine, one of whom decided to liquidate a choice vinyl collection during the CD era and gave Coleman first dibs. It was like walking into Tuts tomb, he said. Still, he said, he really doesnt collect anything for the sake of rarity, or by bands hes not a fan of. Im more inclined toward the things that just make me happy, he said.

All told, I left there with some Odetta, T-Rex, a copy of The Andrews Sisters greatest hits (signed by Maxene!) and a saucy-looking cabaret comedy collection from Downtown Records Sleazy Listening shelf, recorded by an English actress named Elsa Lanchester, who sang songs like If You Peek in My Gazebo, Please Sell No More Drink to My Father and Lolas Saucepan. I never even saw the CDs and cassettes he had on hand, but theyll be the first thing I look at when I get back underneath the Arlington.

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Far Northwest Side Teacher Alexandria Lialios Remembered With Honorary Street Title – Block Club Chicago

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IRVING WOODS For decades, the halls of Canty Elementary School twinkled with sparkly animal prints and glittery paper stars made by students in Alexandria Lialios classroom.

The Far Northwest Side school at 3740 N. Panama Ave. was Lialios second home for 38 years, where she taught first grade, Greek and specialized in early childhood development. The teacher died unexpectedly in February from lung cancer, her family said. She was 61.

In early June, on the last day of school before summer vacation, an honorary street designation for Lialios was posted across from the school at North Paris Avenue between West Waveland Avenue and West Grace Street. All of the students and staff joined in to celebrate the teacher and share memories.

Honorary Alexandria Lialios Way remembers the teacher and mother who impacted the school community and touched generations of students, said Canty Principal Jennifer Rath.

She was one of the longest-standing teachers here at the school, said Rath, who has been principal since 2019. One of the things that I learned initially was I have a teacher in the building who had [Lialios] as a first-grade teacher.

Lialios, a first-generation Greek American, grew up on the Northwest Side and lived in Arlington Heights. She devoted her life to teaching and always put others before herself, said her brother, Chris Lialios. She joined Cantys staff in 1984.

She loved teaching. She loved being around children, Chris Lialios said. She started teaching at a very young age, whether it was at our church, parish or Sunday school. She was fluent in both English and Greek, so she loved [teaching] that, as well.

Known for her polished look, Lialios always wore patterned animal outfits and was decked out with sequined jewelry, dresses and high heels. She was always dressed for work, and her makeup was perfect Rath only saw her in tennis shoes once, she said.

In Lialios decades at Canty, she created traditions at the school that will continue, Rath said. During the winter holidays, Lialios and her students would make large, white paper glittery star ornaments to wear while singing Do You Hear What I Hear? for the winter concert she organized.

Lialios also loved reading Corduroy, a classic 1968childrens bookwritten and illustrated byDon Freeman, to all of her students, and she tried her best to make sure no student fell behind, Rath said.

She understood the value of a neighborhood school that it should be the heart of a community, she said. That she dedicated her entire teaching to Canty really says a lot about her.

When Lialios wasnt in the classroom, she enjoyed spending time with her two children and caring for her elaborate flower garden, her family said. Neighbors would stop to admire the plants and shed often talk with them about her favorite flowers, relatives said.

Lialios was at Canty in late January when she didnt feel well and fainted, said her son, Demetri Verros. She was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Verros said Lialios told the family her news, and her instinct was to comfort everyone else, he said.

When we got the diagnosis, we were all sitting there crying and she was looking at me trying to make me smile, Verros said. She had just received the worst news of her life probably and she was trying to comfort me.

Lialios died three weeks later, Verros said. It all happened so fast that Lialios never got a chance to say goodbye to her school community. With remote teaching because of the pandemic, there were students she never saw again and families with whom she lost touch.

With the honorary street designation, its almost as if she came back for a final adieu, her family said. Canty families came out in droves for her wake and the street dedication, and they reached out to the Lialios family to remind them of her impact on their lives, Chris Lialios said.

She never really got to say goodbye to all of the people she touched here so the street sign, I think, is her way and a blessing of saying, I love you guys. I was not able to say goodbye, but dont forget me,' he said.

That makes the street designation even more important, Chris Lialios said. The family is grateful to Ald. Nick Sposato (38th), who pushed the designation through City Council to make it in time before the school year ended.

Although Sposato never met the first-grade teacher, he said it was important to honor her.

She was loved by many. It was a very a nice thing for the family, said Sposato, who attended the unveiling ceremony.

After Lialios death, Canty created a committee to determine other ways to remember the teacher, Rath said. The committee, along with the family, has raised almost $10,000 in Lialios honor. The money will be used to build two benches near the schools playground that will be installed in September, the principal said.

The school also hosted a Ms. Lialios Spirit Day after she died, where all of the students and teachers dressed in sparkly animal prints and some received cheetah keychains as gifts.

Inside the school, a copy of the street sign hangs below Lialios picture, framed with sequins to match her style, the principal and the Lialios family said. The school also gifted the family with a sequined and framed photo.

The brown street signs, which border the back of the school on both sides of North Paris Avenue, can remind people of how deeply an educator can influence a community, Rath said.

Sometimes people dont think about the power of a first-grade teacher, she said. How wonderful that we have a street named after a teacher.

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Waveland police officers took a break from catching bad guys this weekend to go fishing with kids at Buccaneer State Park.

A pole and bait was all it took for the officers to come together to create lasting memories with children and their families on Saturday morning.

Fishing with the Fuzz hosted 62 kids who got a free fishing pole for a fishing experience along with lunch.

Officers and lieutenants helped and watched as kids reeled in fish off their poles. Everyone got a free t-shirt regardless if they caught anything or not. Lt. Chad Dorn said, When they all started showing up this morning it really. Its a real thing. and just seeing the kids smile. They are already catching fish. They are having a good time. Its a joy to see that happening. Meeting and greeting with them while they are out there fishing and stuff. Kinda the same thing while were doing our meal and stuff. We will get to know the kids and they will get to know us.

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FACTSHEET: Imposing Additional Costs on Russia for Its Continued War Against Ukraine – US Embassy and Consulate in Poland

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FACT SHEET

OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON

AUGUST 2, 2022

The United States is committed to working alongside our allies and partners to further impose severe consequences on President Putin and his enablers for Russias unconscionable war against Ukraine.

VISA RESTRICTIONS

The Department of State is announcing a series of actions to promote accountability for actions by Russian Federation officials and others that implicate violations of Ukraines sovereignty to include:

DESIGNATION OF PUTIN ENABLERS

The Department of State is designating oligarchsDMITRIY PUMPYANSKIY,ANDREY MELNICHENKO, andALEXANDER PONOMARENKO.

The Department of State is designating four individuals and one entity that are or are enabling illegitimate, political leaders installed by Russia or its proxy forces to undermine political stability in Ukraine in support of Russias further invasion of Ukraine. The four individuals and the entity are being designated pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii)(F) of E.O. 14024, for being responsible for or complicit in, or having directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, activities that undermine the peace, security, political stability, or territorial integrity of the United States, its allies, or its partners, for or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation.

Pursuant to Section 1(a)(vii) of E.O. 14024, the Department of State is designatingJOINT STOCK COMPANY STATE TRANSPORTATION LEASING COMPANY (JSC GTLK)for being owned, controlled by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation. JSC GTLK is a Russian state-owned enterprise that the Russian Ministry of Transportation oversees. It is the largest transportation leasing company in Russia. JSC GTLK is an important part of Russias transportation networks due to its leases of railroad cars, vessels, and aircraft on favorable terms to support Russias development strategy. JSC GTLK has been previously designated by the U.K. and E.U.

Pursuant to Section 1(a)(vii) of E.O. 14024, the Department of State is designating the following four JSC GTLK subsidiaries for being owned or controlled by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, JSC GTLK. These companies leased JSC GTLKs transportation equipment outside of Russia and /or enabled JSC GTLK to access capital from western financial markets to fund its activities.

DESIGNATION OF DEFENSE AND HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTITIES

Under the leadership of U.S.-designated Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation has systematically focused on exploiting high-technology research and innovations to advance Russias defense capabilities. Putin has also repeatedly underscored his concerns about Russias access to microelectronics. Advanced technologies such as microelectronics are used in numerous weapon systems used by Russias military. Today, the Department of State is imposing sanctions on numerous Russian high-technology entities as a part of the United States efforts to impose additional costs on Russias war machine.

The Department of State is designating theFEDERAL STATE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY (MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY) (MIPT)pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the defense and related materiel sector of the Russian Federation economy. MIPT has developed drones for Russias military that are intended to be used in direct contact with enemy forces, has won an award from Russias Ministry of Defense for developing technologies in the interests of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and promotes that it focuses on conducting innovative research and development in the defense and security fields. MIPT has worked with a leading Russian fighter aircraft developer to design a visualization system related to fighter aircraft and has a laboratory that supports Russias military space sector. MIPT is also part of a consortium of Russian institutions involved in training specialists for Russias defense-industrial complex and has collaborated on research projects with a Russian defense research organization.

The Department of State is designating theSKOLKOVO FOUNDATIONpursuant to E.O. Section 1(a)(i) of 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy. The Skolkovo Foundation was established by a Russian Federation law in 2010 to manage the Skolkovo Innovation Center, which consists of the Technopark Skolkovo Limited Liability Company and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), which are also being designated as part of this action. Since its founding, the Skolkovo Foundation has focused on supporting the development of technologies to contribute to technology sectors prioritized by the Russian Federation government including strategic computer technologies, technologies for maintaining Russias defense capabilities including with regard to advanced and sophisticated weapons, and space technologies related to Russias national security. As additional information, the Skolkovo Innovation Center has hosted U.S.-designated Rosoboronexport, Russias state-controlled arms export agency, as a part of Rosoboronexports efforts to export weapons to foreign clients.

The Department of State is designating theSKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SKOLTECH)pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy. Skoltech is a pioneer in cutting-edge technologies and seeks to foster new technologies to address critical issues facing the Russian Federation. As additional information, for nearly a decade, Skoltech has had a close relationship with Russias defense sector. Contributors to Skoltechs endowment include numerous sanctioned Russian weapon development entities including JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation, Uralvagonzavod (which makes Russian tanks), JSC MIC Mashinostroyenia (which manufactures Russian missiles), JSC United Aircraft Corporation (which manufactures Russias combat aircraft), JSC Concern Sozvezdie (which produces electronic warfare systems for the Russian military), JSC Almaz-Antey (which manufactures Russias surface-to-air missiles systems), and JSC Corporation Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (which manufactures Russian missiles). Over the course of the last decade, Skoltech has had partnerships with numerous Russian defense enterprises including Uralvagonzavod, United Engine Corporation, and United Aircraft Corporation which have focused on developing composite materials for tanks, engines for ships, specialized materials for aircraft wings, and innovations for defense-related helicopters. Skoltech has also presented advanced robotics at the Russian Ministry of Defenses premier defense exhibition.

The Department of State is designatingTECHNOPARK SKOLKOVO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYpursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy. Technopark Skolkovo Limited Liability Company is one of the largest technology development parks in Eurasia and hosts events related to technology.

The Department of State is designating numerous additional Russian high-technology entities as a part of our effort to isolate Russias technology sector in order to limit its contributions to Russias war machine.

Specifically, the Department of State is designating the following entities pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy:

The Department of State is designating the following entities pursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the electronics sector of the Russian Federation economy:

The Department of State is designatingFEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY CENTERpursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the technology sector and the electronics sector of the Russian Federation economy. Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Research and Production Complex Technology Center develops and produces integrated circuits including application specific-integrated circuits, which are a type of high-technology electronic component, and also is involved in Russias semiconductor industry.

The Department of State is designatingJSC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE SUBMICRONpursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the aerospace sector of the Russian Federation economy. JSC Scientific Research Institute Submicron specializes in the design and development of components for computer systems for aviation and space control systems, as well as the development of other digital and data systems for aviation and space systems. As additional information, the main customers of JSC Scientific Research Institute Submicron are Russias Ministry of Defense and Air Force.

The Department of State is designatingACADEMICIAN A.L. MINTS RADIOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE JOINT STOCK COMPANYpursuant to Section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the defense and related materiel sector of the Russian Federation economy. Academician A.L. Mints Radiotechnical Institute Joint Stock Company is involved in developing technologies and systems for Russian military air defense systems.

SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS

As a result of todays action, all property and interests in property of the individuals above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. All transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or blocked persons are prohibited unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt. These prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any blocked person and the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

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Ultra Precision Machine Tools Market Executive Summary and Analysis by Top Players 2022-2028: Fives, Moore Nanotechnology Systems, Hardinge, Inc …

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Ditching the toothbrush for hydrogels to get whiter teeth, fewer cavities (w/video) – Nanowerk

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Aug 03, 2022(Nanowerk News) The first thing people notice when they meet you is your smile. To be more confident when giving wide-mouthed, eye-crinkling smiles, people want healthy, pearly white teeth. But toothpastes only remove surface stains, and whitening treatments can harm enamel, leading to cavities and discoloration.Now, researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ("Fast cross-linked hydrogel as a green light-activated photocatalyst for localized biofilm disruption and brush-free tooth whitening") report a new hydrogel treatment that breaks apart cavity-forming biofilms and whitens teeth without damaging them.Daily toothbrushing and flossing are good ways to prevent cavities from forming, according to the American Dental Association. However, these methods dont effectively whiten teeth. For better whitening, consumers often turn to over-the-counter or professional treatments that combine hydrogen peroxide-containing gels and blue light, producing a chemical reaction that removes stains. This combination removes most of the discoloration, but generates reactive oxygen species that can break down enamel.Previously, Xiaolei Wang, Lan Liao and colleagues modified titanium dioxide nanoparticles for a less destructive tooth-whitening treatment. This method still required high-intensity blue light, which can damage nearby skin and eyes. So, the team wanted to find a material that would be activated by green light a safer alternative to both whiten teeth and prevent cavities.The researchers combined bismuth oxychloride nanoparticles, copper oxide nanoparticles and sodium alginate into a thick mixture. Then, they evenly coated the mixture onto the surface of teeth stuck to a slide and sprayed the concoction with a calcium chloride solution, forming a strongly adhering hydrogel.Next, the team tested the material on teeth that were stained with coffee, tea, blueberry juice and soy sauce and placed in a lab dish. Following treatment with the hydrogel and green light, the teeth got brighter over time, and there was no damage to the enamel.In another set of experiments, the team showed that the treatment killed 94% of bacteria in biofilms. To demonstrate that the treatment could work on teeth in vivo, the team used the new method on mice whose mouths were inoculated with cavity-forming bacteria.The green-light activated hydrogel effectively prevented moderate and deep cavities from forming on the surface of the animals teeth. The researchers say their safe, brush-free treatment both effectively prevents cavities and whitens teeth.

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