Ascension Genesys doctor: Coronavirus pandemic is starting to ease in Mid-Michigan – ABC 12 News

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GENESEE COUNTY (WJRT) (5/5/2020) - An emergency room doctor says the fight against the coronavirus continues, but there are positive signs.

Despite the progress against stopping the spread of COVID-19, he said it's important that everyone take precautions to avoid getting the virus.

The doctor at Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township said fewer patients are coming to hospitals, but health officials will get a better feel for the progress in stopping the spread of coronavirus when businesses reopen.

"This is all new to us. I have to admit that, luckily we have never seen anything like this before," said Dr. Muhammad Aboudan, who is the medical director of intensive care units at Ascension Genesys Hospital.

He said the grip of the coronavirus is starting to loosen a bit.

"It's going much better. I honestly think we are now the number of patients decreasing, we are definitely beyond plateauing and flattening the curve," Aboudan said.

Genesee County ranks fifth in the state for the number of positive coronavirus cases and the fourth highest death toll of all the counties.

"Luckily we have less people coming to the hospital positive with COVID which is just great. It's good to see the epidemic is getting under control to be honest with you," Aboudan said.

But just because the number of cases the hospital seeing is going down, he said social distancing, hand washing and staying at home when possible should continue.

Aboudan said COVID-19 is much more contagious than the flu.

"Everybody should take this disease serious. It is affecting young people, elderly, women, children and men, and everyone should be very careful," he said.

He believes the real test will come soon, as Michigan prepares to reopen parts of its economy in the coming days and weeks.

"People start going back to work, partially, this is something to keep an eye on and continue to monitor as people become a little more active," Aboudan said.

He said the development of a vaccine will be key in returning to some sense of normalcy.

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Arn Anderson Says Vince McMahon Had Announcers Bury The Ascension – TheSportster

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Arn Anderston claims The Ascension were victims of Vince McMahon's intentions to see them buried.

Former WWE producer Arn Anderson has spoken about Vince McMahon's treatment of The Ascension, claiming the WWE chairman tried burying the tag team after they were promoted to the main roster.

The former NXT Tag Team Champions won 11 consecutive matches after their Raw debut in late 2014, a streak which saw them beat the New Age Outlaws at the Royal Rumble in 2015.

Previously:Wrestlers React & Bid Farewell To Released WWE Superstars

The good times were short-lived, however, as they would be embarrassed by three legendary teams including nWo, Farooq & Bradshaw and Road Dogg & Billy Gunn during an episode of Raw that same year.

Anderson, who was at WWE at the time, said the tag just wasn't going to have that great of a gimmick as announcers were instructed to bury them and compare them to The Road Warriors.

Why would you take any character that is on our show that the company professes to being the number one wrestling company, or the number one sports entertainment company in the entire world, and put them on our TV show with valuable TV time and bury them, have the announcers bury them? Anderson said on his ARN podcast recently (H/T Sportskeeda.com).

Asked specifically if McMahon would have been the one to make that decision, Anderson said the promotion's owner is always the one who has the final say when it comes to characters and their gimmicks.

Sure. Everything character-wise passes by the big chair," he said. "If its the last place they go, it goes by the big chair for approval. Make no mistake, characters, angles, you name it.

The tag team was eventually released by WWE, with their final match taking place last April. They were let go in December after eight months of inactivity.

They would join the independent circuit shortly after.

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Physicists Criticize Stephen Wolfram’s ‘Theory of Everything’ – Scientific American

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Stephen Wolfram blames himself for not changing the face of physics sooner.

I do fault myself for not having done this 20 years ago, the physicist turned software entrepreneur says. To be fair, I also fault some people in the physics community for trying to prevent it happening 20 years ago. They were successful. Back in 2002, after years of labor, Wolfram self-published A New Kind of Science, a 1,200-page magnum opus detailing the general idea that nature runs on ultrasimple computational rules. The book was an instant best seller and received glowing reviews: the New York Times called it a first-class intellectual thrill. But Wolframs arguments found few converts among scientists. Their work carried on, and he went back to running his software company Wolfram Research. And that is where things remaineduntil last month, when, accompanied by breathless press coverage (and a 448-page preprint paper), Wolfram announced a possible path to the fundamental theory of physics based on his unconventional ideas. Once again, physicists are unconvincedin no small part, they say, because existing theories do a better job than his model.

At its heart, Wolframs new approach is a computational picture of the cosmosone where the fundamental rules that the universe obeys resemble lines of computer code. This code acts on a graph, a network of points with connections between them, that grows and changes as the digital logic of the code clicks forward, one step at a time. According to Wolfram, this graph is the fundamental stuff of the universe. From the humble beginning of a small graph and a short set of rules, fabulously complex structures can rapidly appear. Even when the underlying rules for a system are extremely simple, the behavior of the system as a whole can be essentially arbitrarily rich and complex, he wrote in a blog post summarizing the idea. And this got me thinking: Could the universe work this way? Wolfram and his collaborator Jonathan Gorard, a physics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and a consultant at Wolfram Research, found that this kind of model could reproduce some of the aspects of quantum theory and Einsteins general theory of relativity, the two fundamental pillars of modern physics.

But Wolframs models ability to incorporate currently accepted physics is not necessarily that impressive. Its this sort of infinitely flexible philosophy where, regardless of what anyone said was true about physics, they could then assert, Oh, yeah, you could graft something like that onto our model, says Scott Aaronson, a quantum computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin.

When asked about such criticisms, Gorard agreesto a point. Were just kind of fitting things, he says. But we're only doing that so we can actually go and do a systematized search for specific rules that fit those of our universe.

Wolfram and Gorard have not yet found any computational rules meeting those requirements, however. And without those rules, they cannot make any definite, concrete new predictions that could be experimentally tested. Indeed, according to critics, Wolframs model has yet to even reproduce the most basic quantitative predictions of conventional physics. The experimental predictions of [quantum physics and general relativity] have been confirmed to many decimal placesin some cases, to a precision of one part in [10 billion], says Daniel Harlow, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So far I see no indication that this could be done using the simple kinds of [computational rules] advocated by Wolfram. The successes he claims are, at best, qualitative. Further, even that qualitative success is limited: There are crucial features of modern physics missing from the model. And the parts of physics that it can qualitatively reproduce are mostly there because Wolfram and his colleagues put them in to begin with. This arrangement is akin to announcing, If we suppose that a rabbit was coming out of the hat, then remarkably, this rabbit would be coming out of the hat, Aaronson says. And then [going] on and on about how remarkable it is.

Unsurprisingly, Wolfram disagrees. He claims that his model has replicated most of fundamental physics already. From an extremely simple model, were able to reproduce special relativity, general relativity and the core results of quantum mechanics, he says, which, of course, are what have led to so many precise quantitative predictions of physics over the past century.

Even Wolframs critics acknowledge he is right about at least one thing: it is genuinely interesting that simple computational rules can lead to such complex phenomena. But, they hasten to add, that is hardly an original discovery. The idea goes back long before Wolfram, Harlow says. He cites the work of computing pioneers Alan Turing in the 1930s and John von Neumann in the 1950s, as well as that of mathematician John Conway in the early 1970s. (Conway, a professor at Princeton University, died of COVID-19 last month.) To the contrary, Wolfram insists that he was the first to discover that virtually boundless complexity could arise from simple rules in the 1980s. John von Neumann, he absolutely didnt see this, Wolfram says. John Conway, same thing.

Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was a child prodigy who studied at Eton College and the University of Oxford before earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1979at the age of 20. After his Ph.D., Caltech promptly hired Wolfram to work alongside his mentors, including physicist Richard Feynman. I dont know of any others in this field that have the wide range of understanding of Dr. Wolfram, Feynman wrote in a letter recommending him for the first ever round of MacArthur genius grants in 1981. He seems to have worked on everything and has some original or careful judgement on any topic. Wolfram won the grantat age 21, making him among the youngest ever to receive the awardand became a faculty member at Caltech and then a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. While at the latter, he became interested in simple computational systems and then moved to the University of Illinois in 1986 to start a research center to study the emergence of complex phenomena. In 1987 he founded Wolfram Research, and shortly after he left academia altogether. The software companys flagship product, Mathematica, is a powerful and impressive piece of mathematics software that has sold millions of copies and is today nearly ubiquitous in physics and mathematics departments worldwide.

Then, in the 1990s, Wolfram decided to go back to scientific researchbut without the support and input provided by a traditional research environment. By his own account, he sequestered himself for about a decade, putting together what would eventually become A New Kind of Science with the assistance of a small army of his employees.

Upon the release of the book, the media was ensorcelled by the romantic image of the heroic outsider returning from the wilderness to single-handedly change all of science. Wired dubbed Wolfram the man who cracked the code to everything on its cover. Wolfram has earned some bragging rights, the New York Times proclaimed. No one has contributed more seminally to this new way of thinking about the world. Yet then, as now, researchers largely ignored and derided his work. Theres a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories, the late physicist Freeman Dyson told Newsweek back in 2002. Wolfram is unusual in that hes doing this in his 40s.

Wolframs story is exactly the sort that many people want to hear, because it matches the familiar beats of dramatic tales from science history that they already know: the lone genius (usually white and male), laboring in obscurity and rejected by the establishment, emerges from isolation, triumphantly grasping a piece of the Truth. But that is rarelyif everhow scientific discovery actually unfolds. There are examples from the history of science that superficially fit this image: Think of Albert Einstein toiling away on relativity as an obscure Swiss patent clerk at the turn of the 20th century. Or, for a more recent example, consider mathematician Andrew Wiles working in his attic for years to prove Fermats last theorem before finally announcing his success in 1995. But portraying those discoveries as the work of a solo genius, romantic as it is, belies the real working process of science. Science is a group effort. Einstein was in close contact with researchers of his day, and Wiless work followed a path laid out by other mathematicians just a few years before he got started. Both of them were active, regular participants in the wider scientific community. And even so, they remain exceptions to the rule. Most major scientific breakthroughs are far more collaborativequantum physics, for example, was developed slowly over a quarter-century by dozens of physicists around the world.

I think the popular notion that physicists are all in search of the eureka moment in which they will discover the theory of everything is an unfortunate one, says Katie Mack, a cosmologist at North Carolina State University. We do want to find better, more complete theories. But the way we go about that is to test and refine our models, look for inconsistencies and incrementally work our way toward better, more complete models.

Most scientists would readily tell you that their discipline isand always has beena collaborative, communal process. Nobody can revolutionize a scientific field without first getting the critical appraisal and eventual validation of their peers. Today this requirement is performed through peer reviewa process Wolframs critics say he has circumvented with his announcement. Certainly theres no reason that Wolfram and his colleagues should be able to bypass formal peer review, Mack says. And they definitely have a much better chance of getting useful feedback from the physics community if they publish their results in a format we actually have the tools to deal with.

Mack is not alone in her concerns. Its hard to expect physicists to comb through hundreds of pages of a new theory out of the blue, with no buildup in the form of papers, seminars and conference presentations, says Sean Carroll, a physicist at Caltech. Personally, I feel it would be more effective to write short papers addressing specific problems with this kind of approach rather than proclaiming a breakthrough without much vetting.

So why did Wolfram announce his ideas this way? Why not go the traditional route? I don't really believe in anonymous peer review, he says. I think its corrupt. Its all a giant story of somewhat corrupt gaming, I would say. I think its sort of inevitable that happens with these very large systems. Its a pity.

So what are Wolframs goals? He says he wants the attention and feedback of the physics community. But his unconventional approachsoliciting public comments on an exceedingly long paperalmost ensures it shall remain obscure. Wolfram says he wants physicists respect. The ones consulted for this story said gaining it would require him to recognize and engage with the prior work of others in the scientific community.

And when provided with some of the responses from other physicists regarding his work, Wolfram is singularly unenthused. Im disappointed by the naivete of the questions that youre communicating, he grumbles. I deserve better.

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Recent Research Answers the Future of Quantum Machine Learning on COVID-19 – Analytics Insight

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We have all seen movies or read books about an apocalyptic world where humankind is fighting against a deadly pathogen, and researchers are in a race against time to find a cure for the same. But COVID-19 is not a fictional chapter, it is real, and scientists all over the world are frantically looking for patterns in data by employing powerful supercomputers with the hopes of finding a speedier breakthrough in vaccine discovery for the COVID-19.

A team of researchers from Penn State University has recently unearthed a solution that has the potential to expedite the process of discovering a novel coronavirus treatment that is by employing an innovative hybrid branch of research known as quantum machine learning. Quantum Machine Learning is the latest field that combines both machine learning and quantum physics. The team is led by Swaroop Ghosh, Joseph R., and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.

In cases where a computer science-driven approach is implemented to identify a cure, most methodologies leverage machine learning to focus on screening different compounds one at a time to see if they can find a bond with the virus main protease, or protein. And the quantum machine learning method could yield quicker results and is more economical than any current methods used for drug discovery.

According to Prof. Ghosh, discovering any new drug that can cure a disease is like finding a needle in a haystack. Further, it is an incredibly expensive, laborious, and time-consuming solution. Using the current conventional pipeline for discovering new drugs can take between five and ten years from the concept stage to being released to the market and could cost billions in the process.

He further adds, High-performance computing such as supercomputers and artificial intelligence canhelp accelerate this process by screeningbillions of chemical compounds quicklyto findrelevant drugcandidates.

This approach works when enough chemical compounds are available in the pipeline, but unfortunately, this is not true for COVID-19. This project will explorequantum machine learning to unlock new capabilities in drug discovery by generating complex compounds quickly, he explains.

The funding from the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, coordinated through the Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences as part of their rapid-response seed funding for research across the University to address COVID-19, is supporting this work.

Ghosh and his electrical engineering doctoral students Mahabubul Alam and Abdullah Ash Saki and computer science and engineering postgraduate students Junde Li and Ling Qiu have earlier worked on developing a toolset for solving particular types of problems known as combinatorial optimization problems, using quantum computing. Drug discovery too comes under a similar category. And hence their experience in this sector has made it possible for the researchers to explore in the search for a COVID-19 treatment while using the same toolset that they had already developed.

Ghosh considers the usage of Artificial intelligence fordrug discovery to be a very new area. The biggest challenge is finding an unknown solution to the problem by using technologies thatare still evolving that is, quantum computing and quantum machine learning.Weare excited about the prospects of quantum computing in addressinga current critical issue and contributing our bit in resolving this grave challenge. he elaborates.

Based on a report by McKinsey & Partner, the field of quantum computing technology is expected to have a global market value of US$1 trillion by 2035. This exciting scope of quantum machine learning can further boost the economic value while helping the healthcare industry in defeating the COVID-19.

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Is string theory worth it? – Space.com

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Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

String theory has had a long and venerable career. Starting in the 1960s as an attempt to explain the strong nuclear force, it has now grown to become a candidate theory of everything: a single unifying framework for understanding just about all the things in and about the universe. Quantum gravity? String theory. Electron mass? String theory. Strength of the forces? String theory. Dark energy? String theory. Speed of light? String theory.

It's such a tempting, beautiful idea. But it's also been 60 years without a result, without a final theory and without predictions to test against experiment in the real universe. Should we keep hanging on to the idea?

Related: Putting string theory to the test

There's a reason that string theory has held onto the hearts and minds of so many physicists and mathematicians over the decades, and that has to do with gravity. Folding gravity into our understanding of quantum mechanics has proven fiendishly difficult not even Albert Einstein himself could figure it out. But despite all our attempts, we have not been able to craft a successful quantum description of gravity. Every time we try, the mathematics just gets tangled in knots of infinities, rending predictions impossible.

But in the 1970s, theorists discovered something remarkable. Buried inside the mathematics of string theory was a generic prediction for something called a graviton, which is the force carrier of gravity. And since string theory is, by its very construction, a quantum theory, it means that it automatically provides a quantum theory of gravity.

This is indeed quite tantalizing. It's the only theory of fundamental physics that simply includes gravity and the original string theory wasn't even trying!

And yet, decades later, nobody has been able to come up with a complete description of string theory. All we have are various approximations that we hope describe the ultimate theory (and hints of an overarching framework known as "M-theory"), but none of these approximations are capable of delivering actual predictions for what we might see in our collider experiments or out there in the universe.

Even after all these decades, and the lure of a unified theory of all of physics, string theory isn't "done."

One of the many challenges of string theory is that it predicts the existence of extra dimensions in our universe that are all knotted and curled up on themselves at extremely small scales. Suffice it to say, there are a lot of ways that these dimensions can interfold somewhere in the ballpark of 10100,000. And since the particular arrangement of the extra dimensions determines how the strings of string theory vibrate, and the way that the strings vibrate determines how they behave (leading to the variety of forces and particles in the world), only one of those almost uncountable arrangements of extra dimensions can correspond to our universe.

But which one?

Right now it's impossible to say through string theory itself we lack the sophistication and understanding to pick one of the arrangements, determine how the strings vibrate and hence the flavor of the universe corresponding to that arrangement.

Since it looks like string theory can't tell us which universe it prefers, lately some theorists have argued that maybe string theory prefers all universes, appealing to something called the landscape.

The landscape is a multiverse, representing all the 10100,000 possible arrangements of microscopic dimensions, and hence all the 10100,000 arrangements of physical reality. This is to say, universes. And we're just one amongst that almost-countless number.

So how did we end up with this one, and not one of the others? The argument from here follows something called the Anthropic Principle, reasoning that our universe is the way it is because if it were any different (with, say, a different speed of light or more mass on the electron) then life at least as we understand it would be impossible, and we wouldn't be here to be asking these big important questions.

If that seems to you as filling but unsatisfying as eating an entire bag of chips, you're not alone. An appeal to a philosophical argument as the ultimate, hard-won result of decades of work into string theory leaves many physicists feeling hollow.

Related: The history and structure of the universe (infographic)

The truth is, by and large most string theorists aren't working on the whole unification thing anymore. Instead, what's captured the interest of the community is an intriguing connection called the AdS/CFT correspondence. No, it's not a new accounting technique, but a proposed relationship between a version of string theory living in a 5-dimensional universe with a negative cosmological constant, and a 4-dimensional conformal field theory on the boundary of that universe.

The end result of all that mass of jargon is that some thorny problems in physics can be treated with the mathematics developed in the decades of investigating string theory. So while this doesn't solve any string theory problems itself, it does at least put all that machinery to useful work, lending a helping hand to investigate many problems from the riddle of black hole information to the exotic physics of quark-gluon plasmas.

And that's certainly something, assuming that the correspondence can be proven and the results based on string theory bear fruit.

But if that's all we get approximations to what we hope is out there, a landscape of universes, and a toolset to solve a few problems after decades of work on string theory, is it time to work on something else?

Learn more by listening to the episode "Is String Theory Worth It? (Part 6: We Should Probably Test This)" on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the Web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Thanks to John C., Zachary H., @edit_room, Matthew Y., Christopher L., Krizna W., Sayan P., Neha S., Zachary H., Joyce S., Mauricio M., @shrenicshah, Panos T., Dhruv R., Maria A., Ter B., oiSnowy, Evan T., Dan M., Jon T., @twblanchard, Aurie, Christopher M., @unplugged_wire, Giacomo S., Gully F. for the questions that led to this piece! Ask your own question on Twitter using #AskASpaceman or by following Paul @PaulMattSutter and facebook.com/PaulMattSutter.

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Physicist Brian Greene on learning to focus on the here and now – KCRW

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The coronavirus pandemic is a reminder that things can change fast and unexpectedly. As much as we look for stability, things come and go, and we live and die. Theoretical physicist and mathematician Brian Greene explains why understanding the science behind the impermanence in our world can lead to a more fulfilling life.

He explains his theories with KCRWs Jonathan Bastian. This interview has been abbreviated and edited for clarity.

In your most recent book, you write about the concept of impermanence. When did that idea become apparent to you?

Brian Greene: I think at various levels of conscious awareness, we know that we are impermanent. And it hits us in different ways at different times, depending upon where we are mentally, spiritually and what's happening in the world around us.

When I was in college and seriously thinking about what I wanted to do, I had a conversation with a mentor of mine who told me he does mathematics because once you prove a theorem in mathematics, it's true forever, it will never not be true.

That just hit me. It was a powerful moment when I recognized that you can't say that about many things in the world. And that's when I started to really think about whats available in this life that does transcend our own impermanence.

How do you then arrive at the concept of impermanence?

There is this sensibility that if you can uncover the deep laws of the universe, you are touching something that was always true. One of the things I do in the book is explore the degree to which that is actually true. Does a law of physics, does quantum mechanics have any meaning or value or purpose in the absence of human beings, or in the absence of another life form that can contemplate it? What does a deep equation mean if there isn't any conscious awareness to contemplate it?

In the far future, as I argue in the book, it's quite likely there won't be any life forms. And without lifeforms to contemplate Einsteins equations, his theory of relativity, it's hard for me to see that they have any standing in terms of the permanence that we as living creatures aspire to.

How did you come to grips with this? Did you have some kind of existential awakening?

I definitely went through a dark stance from immersing myself in the idea that you are transcending human impermanence, whether it's quantum mechanics or relativity or what have you. That was how I lived my life for many decades. And then to recognize that that perspective is probably not right, that was a shift.

But then I had this other moment in, of all places, a Starbucks. A shift that happened inside of me, where I felt like a change in perspective from grasping for an ephemeral future to just focusing on the here and now.

...Do what we've heard from mindfulness teachers and sages and philosophers across the ages to focus on the here and now, as that is the only place in which value and meaning can actually have an anchor.

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Finding the right quantum materials – MIT News

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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded MIT Associate Professor of Physics Joseph G. Checkelsky a $1.7 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative grant to pursue his search for new crystalline materials, known as quantum materials, capable of hosting exotic new quantum phenomena.

Quantum materials have the potential to transform current technologies by supporting new types of electronic and magnetic behavior, including dissipationless transmission of electricity and topological protection of information. Designing and synthesizing robust quantum materials is a key goal of modern-day physics, chemistry, and materials science.

However, this task does not have a straightforward recipe, particularly as many of the most exciting quantum systems are also the most complex. The starting point can be viewed as the periodic table of the elements and the geometrically allowed ways to arrange them in a solid. The path from there to a new quantum material can be circuitous, to say the least, Checkelsky says.

In our group we are trying to come up with new methods to find our way to these new quantum systems, he says. This usually requires a fresh perspective on crystalline motifs.

One example of these unique electronic structures is the kagome crystal lattice formed when atoms of iron (Fe) and tin (Sn) combine into a pattern that looks like a Japanese kagome basket, with a repeating pattern of corner-sharing triangles. Checkelsky, together with Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics Riccardo Comin, graduate students Linda Ye and Min Gu Kang, and their colleagues reported in 2018 that a compound with a 3-to-2 ratio of iron to tin (Fe3Sn2) generates Dirac fermions a special kind of electronic state supporting exotic electronic behavior protected by the topology, or geometric structure, of atoms within the material.

More recently, the MIT team and colleagues elsewherereportedinNature Materials that, in a 1-to-1 iron-tin compound, the symmetry of the kagome lattice is special, simultaneously hosting both infinitely light massless particles (the Dirac fermions) and infinitely heavy particles (which manifest experimentally as flat bands in the electronic structure of the material). These unique electronic structures in iron-tin compounds could be the basis for new topological phases and spintronic devices.

For many years, the idea that a metal with atoms arranged in a kagome lattice of corner-sharing triangles could support unusual electronic states, such as combining both massless and infinitely massive electrons, remained a textbook problem something that could be solved with equations but had not been experimentally shown in a real material. It was, Checkelsky notes, thought of as a toy model, something so simplified that it might seem unrealistic that a real lattice would do that. But something about it being so simple helps you cut to the heart of the most interesting physics, he says. By doing our best to force this into an actual crystal, we managed to bridge that gap from the abstract to the real in a quantum material.

To try to find new quantum materials is a challenge, Checkelsky says. Typically for our group, we think about different kinds of lattices that might support these interesting states. The generous support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will help us pursue new methods to stabilize these materials beyond conventional approaches giving us a chance to find exciting new materials.

It is also an opportunity to train people how to find new quantum materials, he says. This is a process that takes time, but is an important skill in the field of quantum materials and one to which I hope we can contribute.

Last year, Checkelsky led an international team to discover a new type of magnetically driven electrical response in a crystal composed of cerium, aluminum, germanium, and silicon. The researchers call this responsesingular angular magnetoresistance(SAMR).

Like an old-fashioned clock that chimes at 12 oclock and at no other position of the hands, the newly discovered magnetoresistance only occurs when the direction, or vector, of the magnetic field is pointed straight in line with the high-symmetry axis in the materials crystal structure. Turn the magnetic field more than a degree away from that axis and the resistance drops precipitously. Theseresultswere reported in the journalScience.

This unique effect, which can be attributed to the ordering of the cerium atoms magnetic moments, occurs at temperatures below 5.6 kelvins (-449.6 degrees Fahrenheit). It differs strongly from the response of typical electronic materials, in which electrical resistance and voltage usually vary smoothly as an applied magnetic field is rotated across the material.

In July 2019, Checkelsky won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

TheGordon and Betty Moore Foundationfosters pathbreaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient-care improvements, and preservation of the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. Checkelskys Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative Grant No. GBMF9070 is administered by the Materials Research Laboratory. The Materials Research Laboratory serves interdisciplinary groups of MIT faculty, staff, and students supported by industry, foundations, and government agencies to carry out fundamental engineering research on materials. Research topics include energy conversion and storage, quantum materials, spintronics, photonics, metals, integrated microsystems, materials sustainability, solid-state ionics, complex oxide electronic properties, biogels, and functional fibers.

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet with one of Googles quantum computers. Source: AFP PHOTO / GOOGLE/HANDOUT

Scientific researchers are hard at work around the planet, feverishly crunching data using the worlds most powerful supercomputers in the hopes of a speedier breakthrough in finding a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.

Researchers at Penn State University think that they have hit upon a solution that could greatly accelerate the process of discovering a COVID-19 treatment, employing an innovative hybrid branch of research known as quantum machine learning.

When it comes to a computer science-driven approach to identifying a cure, most methodologies harness machine learning to screen different compounds one at a time to see if they might bond with the virus main protease, or protein.

This process is arduous and time-consuming, despite the fact that the most powerful computers were actually condensing years (maybe decades) of drug testing into less than two years time. Discovering any new drug that can cure a disease is like finding a needle in a haystack, said lead researcher Swaroop Ghosh, the Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State.

It is also incredibly expensive. Ghosh says the current pipeline for discovering new drugs can take between five and ten years from the concept stage to being released to the market, and could cost billions in the process.

High-performance computing such as supercomputers and artificial intelligence (AI) canhelp accelerate this process by screeningbillions of chemical compounds quicklyto findrelevant drugcandidates, he elaborated.

This approach works when enough chemical compounds are available in the pipeline, but unfortunately this is not true for COVID-19. This project will explorequantum machine learning to unlock new capabilities in drug discovery by generating complex compounds quickly.

Quantum machine learning is an emerging field that combines elements of machine learning with quantum physics. Ghosh and his doctoral students had in the past developed a toolset for solving a specific set of problems known as combinatorial optimization problems, using quantum computing.

Drug discovery computation aligns with combinatorial optimization problems, allowing the researchers to tap the same toolset in the hopes of speeding up the process of discovering a cure, in a more cost-effective fashion.

Artificial intelligence for drug discovery is a very new area, Ghosh said. The biggest challenge is finding an unknown solution to the problem by using technologies that are still evolving that is, quantum computing and quantum machine learning. We are excited about the prospects of quantum computing in addressing a current critical issue and contributing our bit in resolving this grave challenge.

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May 9, 2020

CLIFFORD GOLDSTEIN

For decades I have been reading popularized books on quantum physics, relativity (special and general), and cosmology by young men brilliant enough to get doctoral degrees in mathematical physics or theoretical physics or theoretical mathematical physics or whatever, and also to write accessible books that sell in numbers I drool over.

However, as the years roll by (or whatever their physics teaches that time does), its finally dawning on these wunderkinds what the philosophical premises of their science mean for them, their families, their lifes work. After all, according to these premises, the universe that they have so deeply studied is (depending on the math in their equations) either going to tear apart, collapse in on itself, or just flat out burn out.

Enough to make even these demigods wonder, Whats it all about? Or if its about anything at all? Or is it all just as meaningless as their premises imply?

Take, for example, Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and renowned for groundbreaking discoveries in string theory. Greene has also authored such bestsellers as The Elegant Universe (1999) The Fabric of the Cosmos (2004), The Hidden Reality (2011), and his latest, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (2020).

A plug for Until the End of Time says that through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of realityfrom quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holesGreene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer understanding of where we are headed.

Really?

Sure, Brian Greene has his conjectures, his speculations, some no doubt greatly influenced by his unchallenged expertise in mathematical physics. But thats all that they are, speculations and conjectures, which are also (Im afraid) exceedingly limited by his unproven philosophical claim that without intent or design, without forethought or judgment, without planning or deliberation, the cosmos yields meticulously ordered configurations of particles from atoms to stars to life.

How this happened, of course, is the big question; what it all means, the bigger one. Nevertheless, he claims that entropy and gravity together are at the heart of how a universe heading toward ever-greater disorder can nevertheless yield and support ordered structures like stars, planets, and people. He writes that by the grace of random chance, funneled through natures laws, that is, through gravity and entropythe universe, life, human consciousness all came into existence. (Gracethats the word he used!)

Everyones familiar with gravity, and with entropy, too, though it needs a bit of explaining. Entropy is a statistical principle that describes why cars rust, why our bodies fall apart, and why all things, if left alone, move toward disorder. (Dont put thought or energy into keeping up your abode, and see what happens to it.) Entropy (also known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is the measure of that disorder: low entropy, order; high entropy, disorder, and our universe is moving, inexorably, toward higher entropy, higher disorder.

To use an image that Greene uses, imagine 100 pennies all heads up on a table. By comparison he writes, if we consider even a slightly different outcome, say in which we have a single tail (and the other 99 pennies are still all heads), there are a hundred different ways this can happen: the lone tail could be the first coin, or it could be the second coin, or the third, and so on up to the hundredth coin. Getting 99 heads is thus a hundred times easiera hundred times more likelythan getting all heads.

If you keep going, the ways of getting more tails amid heads keep rising. There are 4,950 ways to get two tails; 161,700 ways to three tails; 4,000,004 ways for four tails, and so forth until the numbers peak at 50 heads and 50 tails. Green writes that at this point, there are about a hundred billion billion billion possible combinations (well, 100, 891, 344, 545, 564, 193, 334, 812, 497, 256 combinations).

Now, lets move from coins to atoms, the stuff of existence (at least as stuff appears to us when we look at it). A bunch of random atoms are much more likely to remain a bunch of random atoms than to form, say, a cat or a copy of The Iliad, just as 100 random coins on a table are more likely to be in disarray than to be all heads (or tails) up, or even to get real close to either configuration. Things go from order to disorder simply because there are a whole lot more ways to be disordered than ordered.

Fine, but how does this law-like tendency for all things toward disorder, toward higher entropy, lead to all the ordered and organized structures that exist, everything from stars to human consciousness? Greene answers: its gravity. When theres enough gravityenough sufficiently concentrated stuffordered structures can form, he claims, then he spends a hunk of his book explaining how it happened.

How successfully Greene make his case, readers of Until the End of Time can decide for themselves. I want, instead, to look at something he wrote about entropy that, I humbly suggest, presents a major flaw in his thinking. Its whats known as The Past Hypothesis.

Lets go back to the 100 coins on the table, but now in a high entropy state, a state of high disorder. Suppose, as you were studying why the coins were like that, you developed a theory which required that at first these coins were in a low entropy state, all heads up, say. Fine. But this leaves open the simple question: How did they get that way? The answers obvious: some intelligence deliberately arranged the coins into that low-entropy state. How else?

But suppose that an unproven philosophical premise behind the science investigating the coins is that their existence, however it began, did so without intent or design, without forethought or judgment, without planning or deliberation. You, therefore, would need another explanation for this hypothetical low-entropy, highly ordered state of 100 heads up coins as an initial condition. (In fact, you probably would have never theorized an intelligence behind it because your philosophical presupposition, from the start, forbade it.)

Lets again move from coins to atoms, the atoms in our universe, which are in a high entropy state, and getting higher. The problem comes from The Past Hypothesis, which teaches that the universe started out in a state of low entropy.

A hundred pennies with all heads, writes Greene, has low entropy and yet admits an immediate explanationinstead of dumping the coins on the table, someone carefully arranged them. But what or who arranged the special low-entropy configuration of the early universe? Without a complete theory of cosmic origins, science cant provide an answer.

Who (perhaps a Freudian slip of the computer keys?) or what arranged the special low-entropy configuration of the universe? If 100 coins heads up, a fairly simple configuration no matter how unlikely, needed someone to arrange them, then what about the early conditions of our universe, which must have been much more complex than a mere 100 heads up coins? To paraphrase Greene, Who or what arranged it that way?

In a line from his book (the line that prompted this column), Greene just shrugged his shoulders at this question and said: For now, we will simply assume that one way or another, the early universe transitioned into this low-entropy, highly ordered configuration, sparking the bang and allowing us to declare that the rest is history.

One way or another the early universe just happened to be highly ordered? If, in seeking to understand the origins and nature of the 100 coins on the table, you just shrugged off their low-entropy beginnings with, Well, lets just assume that, somehow, the 100 coins all got heads up, youd be sneered at. Yet Greene does that with something astronomically more complicated than 100 heads up coins, the low-entropy state of the early universe.

Too bad Greene, echoing Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, cant say something like: Look, I am a scientist. I study only natural phenomena, which means that even though, obviously, some intelligence must have created the low-entropy state of the early universe, I dont deal with that but only with what comes after, or the like. Of course, even if inclined to say that, he would be derided, ridiculed, and tarred-and-feathered as the intellectual equivalent of a flat-earther or Holocaust-denier.

Theres a tragic irony, however, in not acknowledging the obvious. Until the End of Time reflects Greenes attempt to come to terms with the fact that, according to his science, every memory of him and of everything that he accomplished, along with the memory of everyone else and of everything that they accomplished, are all going to vanish into eternal oblivion as if never existing or happening to begin with. Yet he wrote about how, in a Starbucks, it hit him that when you realize the universe will be bereft of stars and planets and things that think, your regard for our era can appreciate toward reverence.

It can? For most people, every conscious moment in our era is overshadowed by the certainty thatbecause they unfold in a universe that one day will be bereft of stars and planets and things that thinkthese moments ultimately mean nothing. So how much reverence does nothing deserve? The Hebrew Scripture says that God has put olam (eternity) in our hearts (Eccl. 3:11), and as long as we can envision an olam that steamrolls every memory of us into the dirt as it moves on without us, we are left to flail about in a search for meaning amid a universe that, according to Greenes unproven presuppositions, offers none.

Its painful, because the low entropy state of the early cosmos points to the only logical past hypothesisa Creator. This Creator and His gracenot the grace of random chance, funneled through natures laws, which, after supposedly creating us, destroy us (some grace)His grace promises, for those who accept it, eternal life (John 17:3) in the same olam that the Creator has, yes, put in our hearts.

Clifford Goldstein is editor of the Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide. His latest book, Baptizing the Devil: Evolution and the Seduction of Christianity, is available from Pacific Press.

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With his signature guitar built by our columnist at the ready, Japanese artist Jinmo publicly celebrates each time he completes a deadline with a different pipe and the words, Banzai! Im free!

Its hard to believe, but this is my100th column for Premier Guitar. So, this month, Id like to allow myself to get a bit more personal and talk a little about what it means to be on this side of the desk. When I first started writing this column, it had a huge impact on my workflow by adding two additional deadlines to my already busy monthly schedule: an early one to decide on the topic for the month, and the submission deadline for PG. Im sure every colleague at PG knows the feeling of panic when searching for a subject and then collecting all the needed information with a deadline looming. I was certain I couldnt manage it for more than six months before needing a break. Well, here we are approaching nine years.

Its no secret that Im not an expert when it comes to vintage stuff, but often, historical contexts play an important role in why things have developed in a specific direction. The amount of information out there is vast, and its easy to overlook or misinterpret certain details when researching decades of developments and products. I feel pretty safe when it comes to physics, but Im also aware of the massive amount of collective expertise among PG readers regarding many topics. Luckily, I havent causedor dont know ofany remarkable shit storms so far!

Were all learning. Autodidacticism is self-learningself-taught education without the guidance of masters such as teachers and professors, or institutions like schools and universities. Interestingly, the number of autodidacts among musicians and luthiers is huge. But what does this mean for our expertise and skills?

Luckily, making and hearing music has such a high emotional value that a relatively small amount of self-taught playing skills can create rock-star fame. Similarly, simply knowing how to work with wood can result in a good instrument, but, in both cases, its more by accident than on purpose.

Its worth reminding self-learners about the dangers of knowledge gaps and the resulting risk of failing to correctly connect the dots.

Some argue that self-teaching is the ideal and only way of keeping a free mind, and that it often results in outsider art. However, self-learning can easily turn into cherry picking while quietly skipping all the difficult, unpleasant, and toilsome parts. Its worth reminding self-learners about the dangers of knowledge gaps and the resulting risk of failing to correctly connect the dots.

Its like a friend who wants to study quantum mechanics, but insists on skipping all classic physics. (As if there is any sort of real understanding in quantum mechanics anyway!) Or the one who likes to study astrophysics without the basic ballistics and equations of motion in gravity fields. Its pretty obvious that this kind of learning will end in dilettantism. As applicable to music, this is exactly what created the outsider genre, synonymous with self-taught, untrained, naive, and primitive.

Somehow, we are all doing self-teaching in certain areas of our lives, but there is a line before it becomes involuntarily comical due to a lack of self-awareness, incompetence to judge your own standing, and a lack of communication. Communicating with others is like getting your knowledge tested. A good example would be a luthier and marketing expert talking about physics and the acoustical outcome of their instruments, or me writing columns about vintage instruments.

Nobody can reach an expert level in all areas, so at least be aware of that, especially once you have professional ambitions as a musician or a luthier. Otherwise, proclamations like we use roasted maple for the neck, as the resonances are hardened in a marketing video, or there is no F# on a bass by a self-taught bassist can easily backfire.

Im here in hopes of helping to raise your knowledge about all things bass, and I look forward to continuing to do so. Thank you for your continued reading and commenting!

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This diagram shows researchers how electrical energy exists in a sample of Fe3Ga. Credit: 2020 Sakai et al

A thin, iron-based generator uses waste heat to provide small amounts of power.

Researchers have found a way to convert heat energy into electricity with a nontoxic material. The material is mostly iron which is extremely cheap given its relative abundance. A generator based on this material could power small devices such as remote sensors or wearable devices. The material can be thin so it could be shaped into various forms.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, or free energy. But if your energy demands are low enough, say for example in the case of a small sensor of some kind, then there is a way to harness heat energy to supply your power without wires or batteries. Research Associate Akito Sakai and group members from his laboratory at the University of Tokyo Institute for Solid State Physics and Department of Physics, led by Professor Satoru Nakatsuji, and from the Department of Applied Physics, led by Professor Ryotaro Arita, have taken steps towards this goal with their innovative iron-based thermoelectric material.

Thermoelectric devices based on the anomalous Nernst effect (left) and the Seebeck effect (right). (V) represents the direction of current, (T) the temperature gradient and (M) the magnetic field. Credit: 2020 Sakai et al

So far, all the study on thermoelectric generation has focused on the established but limited Seebeck effect, said Nakatsuji. In contrast, we focused on a relatively less familiar phenomenon called the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE).

ANE produces a voltage perpendicular to the direction of a temperature gradient across the surface of a suitable material. The phenomenon could help simplify the design of thermoelectric generators and enhance their conversion efficiency if the right materials become more readily available.

A diagram to show the nodal web structure responsible for the anomalous Nernst effect. Credit: 2020 Sakai et al

We made a material that is 75 percent iron and 25 percent aluminum (Fe3Al) or gallium (Fe3Ga) by a process called doping, said Sakai. This significantly boosted ANE. We saw a twentyfold jump in voltage compared to undoped samples, which was exciting to see.

This is not the first time the team has demonstrated ANE, but previous experiments used materials less readily available and more expensive than iron. The attraction of this device is partly its low-cost and nontoxic constituents, but also the fact that it can be made in a thin-film form so that it can be molded to suit various applications.

The thin and flexible structures we can now create could harvest energy more efficiently than generators based on the Seebeck effect, explained Sakai. I hope our discovery can lead to thermoelectric technologies to power wearable devices, remote sensors in inaccessible places where batteries are impractical, and more.

Before recent times this kind of development in materials science would mainly come about from repeated iterations and refinements in experiments which were both time-consuming and expensive. But the team relied heavily on computational methods for numerical calculations effectively reducing time between the initial idea and proof of success.

Numerical calculations contributed greatly to our discovery; for example, high-speed automatic calculations helped us find suitable materials to test, said Nakatsuji. And first principles calculations based on quantum mechanics shortcut the process of analyzing electronic structures we call nodal webs which are crucial for our experiments.

Up until now this kind of numerical calculation was prohibitively difficult, said Arita. So we hope that not only our materials, but our computational techniques can be useful tools for others as well. We are all keen to one day see devices based on our discovery.

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Reference: Iron-based binary ferromagnets for transverse thermoelectric conversion by Akito Sakai, Susumu Minami, Takashi Koretsune, Taishi Chen, Tomoya Higo, Yangming Wang, Takuya Nomoto, Motoaki Hirayama, Shinji Miwa, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Fumiyuki Ishii, Ryotaro Arita and Satoru Nakatsuji, 27 April 2020, Nature.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2230-z

This work is partially supported by CREST (JPMJCR18T3), PRESTO (JPMJPR15N5), Japan Science and Technology Agency, by Grants-in-Aids for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (JP15H05882 and JP15H05883) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, and by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JP16H02209, JP16H06345, JP19H00650) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The work for first-principles calculation was supported in part by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (JP18H04481 and JP19H05825) and by MEXT as a social and scientific priority issue (Creation of new functional devices and high-performance materials to support next-generation industries) to be tackled by using post-K computer (hp180206 and hp190169).

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Humans are intensely social creatures. We all need company and social contact. But for many of us, being at home for long periods with a small group of people even those we love best can become frustrating.

One key to understanding why constant contact with our family feels so unusual comes from looking at how social groups work in other primate species.

Normally, a primates interaction with others is very well balanced. Neither our ancestors before Homo sapiens nor our close relatives like chimpanzees and bonobos would usually live in fixed, unchanging social settings. Instead, their natural social groups are flexible, which gives them space and time to change their interactions over short time periods.

These kinds of groups, which are more complex than those of many mammals, are called multi-level or fission-fusion societies. They consist of an overarching group that splits up and then comes back together on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.

Subgroups can vary in composition, with individuals coming and going. The distance that they travel away from one another can vary, as does the length of time subgroups stay together. Some, like mother-offspring groups, can last for years. Others are much shorter-lived and reflect rapidly shifting alliances, fallings out, and friendships.

This is similar to human friendship groups, some of which last for lifetimes and others for only the brief duration of a holiday.

Zoos need to understand the importance of providing animals in captivity with appropriate social environments for them to thrive in. In monkeys and apes, disturbing behavior patterns resulting in psychotic behavior have been a topic of research for over 30 years. From this, it seems clear that the need for personal space and a desire to have control over the intensity and frequency of our contact with our families is not exclusive to humans.

Living in social groups is a fundamental survival strategy for primates and is one of the reasons why its so difficult to provide great apes with good homes in captivity.

Modern humans, meanwhile, often have the freedom to split their homes into multiple rooms and use other spaces for work and leisure. This helps us (under normal circumstances) to have a mixture of privacy, companionship, and family time. In a lockdown, of course, we have much less freedom. Social relationships that are normally maintained through a combination of intense interaction and periods of separation while children attend school and adults go to work now exist in close, long-term proximity.

Humans also have the most flexible and variable social networks of any primate species. Our social groups of roughly 150 individuals include circles of predictable sizes of successively closer people. And unlike chimpanzees, we have no firm boundaries for our groups.

A human social network is not a clear cut unit where any individual is either in or out. Instead, the boundaries are fluid, and at the edges, new people come in as others leave. Bonobos have a similar approach.

Each of our social networks also overlaps to differing degrees with others. A friend who is definitely part of my network will have their own network that overlaps with mine to a greater degree than a distant acquaintance.

For human hunter-gatherers, this sort of network structure with close ties and distant ones, and non-overlapping connections among members of the same tribe is vital to survival. At times of extreme stress, like a serious drought, having one or two contacts a long way away gives you somewhere to go if you cant stay at home.

A homegroup may fission (split) for a season, with each family heading off to their distant friends, and come back together when conditions improve. The group can do this without losing their overall identity. This can also help at times of social conflict, allowing much needed time to cool off.

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In essence, while we have evolved to be very sociable, we are nevertheless accustomed (culturally and evolutionarily) to flexible social networks that give us personal space to manage our lives and relationships. Both isolation and too much-enforced proximity to the same people can be detrimental to our mental health.

There is hope, however. Humans are resilient creatures who will find strategies to achieve some sense of personal space during lockdown, whether its through modern technology or a simple solitary stroll.

Negotiating ways for each individual in a household to control their natural need for personal space, at least some of the time, is key. Knowing that your personal time will be respected can help to ease the strain of enforced sociability.

This article is republished from The ConversationbyVivien Shaw, Lecturer in Anatomy, Bangor University and Isabelle Catherine Winder, Lecturer in Zoology, Bangor Universityunder a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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As the lock down measures are wound back and we are nowconsidering life after COVID19 in Australia, the question is, howdo we recover?

It appears accepted that some businesses simply won'tre-open. That position probably reflects businesses that werealready struggling, or a business has now become marginal orterminal in the wake of the market dislocation created by theCOVID19 crisis.

By the time the Australia-wide lock down ceases, the bulk of thecountry would have spent several months within the confines oftheir own house. We know that there will be significant debts thatneed repayment and a recession, that has already been foreshadowed,to navigate through. It is likely that the real financial pain isyet to come.

Ideally, we would like to see Job Keeper kept going for at least30 days post lock down, this will ease the burden of transition andin reality, the Commonwealth and State undertakings designed tokeep the economy alive will need to be amended to get it growingagain.

Just as "all bets were off" when this process started,the same attitude may be needed to make for a smooth, seamlesstransition, rather than an abrupt shock to the system where youeither survive or don't.

The next period of time is an important stage of businessevolution, your desire and financial ability to implement change isgoing to be your biggest hurdle.

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There are a number of lenses worth looking through when the NFL releases the regular season schedule each year. One of them is which top rookies Seattle will face. The Seahawks 2020 schedule is loaded with first-year talent, especially within the NFC West.

Heres a glance at who theyll have to deal with this season and when.

Week 1 at Atlanta Falcons

Notable picks: CB A.J. Terrell, DL Marlon Davidson

It will be interesting to see whether or not Atlanta chooses to play Davidson as a defensive tackle or a defensive end. Regardless, he could be a Day 1 difference maker on Dan Quinns defense.

Week 2 vs. New England Patriots (SNF)

Notable picks: S Kyle Dugger, LB Josh Uche

The Patriots took Dugger, a Division II star our of Lenoir-Rhyne, at the top of the second round. Hes got elite size and athleticism that Bill Belichick is surely eager to see at the back end of his defense. Uche is a raw pass rusher out of Michigan that many Seahawks fans had on their draft wish list. New England feels like a great fit that should allow him to maximize his unrefined tools and traits.

Week 3 vs. Dallas Cowboys

Notable picks: WR CeeDee Lamb, CB Trevon Diggs, DE Bradlee Anae

Cowboys fans are still celebrating Lamb falling to them with the 17th-overall pick. Lamb put up 1,327 yards and 14 touchdowns for Oklahoma in 2019. The trio of Lamb, Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup is arguably the best in the NFL. Diggs was thought to have first-round potential, but Dallas nabbed him in the second. Anae offers supreme value in the fifth round given he racked up 13.0 sacks for Utah last season.

Week 4 at Miami Dolphins

Notable picks: QB Tua Tagovailoa, T Austin Jackson

Seattle will be one of the first teams to see Tagovailoa on an NFL stage, assuming he's able to win the job immediately. The Dolphins chose the Alabama product over Oregons Justin Herbert. Miami taking Jackson to protect his blindside was a wise choice in the back half of the first round.

Week 5 vs Minnesota Vikings (SNF)

Notable picks: WR Justin Jefferson, CB Jeff Gladney, T Ezra Cleveland

The Eagles picking Jalen Reagor over Jefferson was a bit of a surprise, but I doubt Minnesota is arguing. Jefferson was Joe Burrows top receiving threat and put up video game numbers in 2019: 111 receptions, 1,540 yards and 18 touchdowns. Cleveland was a nice get in the second round when many draft analysts thought hed be off the board in the first.

Week 6 BYE

Week 7 at Arizona Cardinals

Notable picks: LB Isaiah Simmons, T Josh Jones

Arizona has had a fantastic offseason beginning in free agency, stealing DeAndre Hopkins via trade from the Texans and retooling one of the leagues worst defenses last season. Now theyve added one of this years the most exciting defensive prospects in Simmons, who offers similar versatility to Chargers star defensive back Derwin James. Theres a ton of potential there, and it will be interesting to see how Arizona deploys him.

Jones was seen as a potential first-round pick but somehow slid all the way to the third round. He should serve as one of Arizonas tackles of the future.

Week 8 vs. San Francisco 49ers

Notable picks: DT Javon Kinlaw, WR Brandon Aiyuk

The 49ers were masterful on draft weekend, landing a pair of first-round picks as well as acquiring star left tackle Trent Williams in a trade with the Redskins. San Francisco will have the luxury of transitioning seamlessly from Joe Staley to Williams and DeForest Buckner to Kinlaw.

The selection of Kinlaw ensures that the 49ers will continue to have one of, if not the best defensive line in all of football. Kyle Shanahan said Aiyuk was his favorite receiver in what was considered an all-time great class of wideouts. You can decide whether or not you believe him, but its hard to argue that the reigning NFC West champs arent at least as good as they were in 2019, if not a tick better.

Week 9 at Buffalo Bills

Notable picks: DE A.J. Epenesa, RB Zach Moss, WR Isaiah Hodgins

A number of Seahawks fans were hoping Seattle would land Epenesa as an edge rusher of the future. Hodgins was a nice value pick at the end of the sixth round. The Oregon State wideout put up 1,171 yards and 13 touchdowns for the Beavers in 2019.

Week 10 at Los Angeles Rams

Notable picks: RB Cam Akers, WR Van Jefferson

Akers will be the Rams long-term replacement for Todd Gurley. He posted two separate 1,000-yard seasons at Florida state as well as 34 total touchdowns. Jefferson was a player who many draft experts liked as a potential fit with the Seahawks. Hes coming off of a foot injury, but he was seen as maybe the purest route runner in this years class.

The Seahawks have had trouble dealing with Sean McVays offense in previous seasons. Stopping them in 2020 should be just as challenging.

Week 11 vs. Arizona Cardinals (TNF)

Week 12 at Philadelphia Eagles (MNF)

Notable picks: WR Jalen Reagor, QB Jalen Hurts

I expected the Eagles to go with LSUs Justin Jefferson, but everyone knew Philadelphia was going to go receiver in the first round so it still Reagor still makes sense. How will the Eagles utilize Hurts? What does that pick mean for the future of Carson Wentz. Hurts might be a special player, but it was a head-scratching pick all the same.

Week 13 vs. New York Giants

Notable picks: T Andrew Thomas, S Xavier McKinney

The Giants landed one of the Big Four tackles in this years class as well as arguably this years top safety prospect in McKinney, who slipped out of the first round to the Giants benefit.

Week 14 vs. New York Jets

Notable picks: T Mekhi Becton, WR Denzel Mims

Both New York teams grabbed a Big Four tackle. Mims, an athlete build like DK Metcalf, had a similar Metcalf-like fall in the draft to the bottom of the second round. He ran a 4.38 40-yard dash and posted 1,020 yards and 12 touchdowns for Baylor in 2019. This could turn out to be one of the steals of the draft.

Week 15 at Washington Redskins

Notable picks: DE Chase Young, WR Antonio Gibson, WR Antonio Gandy-Golden

Young is expected to have a Nick Bosa-like immediate impact as a rookie. Seattle already sees Bosa twice a year. Young will surely be a handful as well. Gandy-Golden was a prospect many analysts like as a fit in Seattle on Day 3. Theyll have to face him in 2020 instead.

Week 16 vs. Los Angeles Rams

Week 17 at. San Francisco 49ers

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President Nixon declared the "War on Cancer" with the National Cancer Act of 1971, and in the decades since then cancer researchers have delivered new targeted therapies and immunotherapies that radically improved treatment. Even as more weapons are added to the medical arsenal, however, cancer cells find new ways to resist them.

In a provocative new book, Athena Aktipis director of the interdisciplinary cooperation initiative at Arizona State University who studies conflict and cooperation, in a whole range of systems from human societies to cancer cells argues that humanity may need to rethink our war on cancer by focusing not on eliminating it, but on transforming cancer from a set of deadly, acute diseases to chronic, manageable ones. She writes: "Cancer evolves, but we have the ability to anticipate that evolution and strategically plan our response. We can trick it, send it down a blind alley, sucker it into vulnerability, and shape it into something we can live with."

Aktipiss book, The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer, came out earlier this spring and she tells Smithsonian how taking an ecological and evolutionary approach to cancer has led to novel treatment strategiesand why cancer is a lot like the mafia.

What was the impetus for writing this book?

There was a need for a book that would explain the origins of cancer. Why is cancer something that we face as humans, and why do other organisms get cancer? People think cancer is just a modern phenomenon, but it has been around since the beginning of multicellularity. I wanted to tell the story of how evolution operates within our bodiesamong our cells over the course of our lifetimeto give rise to cancer.

Cancer treatment traditionally uses high doses of toxic drugs to wipe out cancer cells. But some oncologists have started taking a different approach, inspired by integrated pest management, that seeks to control rather than eliminate. Tell us more about this approach to cancer treatment.

Imagine you have a field and youre trying to grow crops, but there are pests. If you use high doses of chemical pesticides, then you end up selecting for the pests that can survive despite the pesticide. In cancer treatment, the approach has been to use the highest dose that can be tolerated by the patient.

With integrated pest management, by contrast, you limit the use of pesticides to try to avoid selecting for resistance. You may not get rid of the pests completely, but you can keep their population under control so they do limited harm to the crops. Adaptive cancer therapy is based on the idea that resistance is going to evolve unless we manage the evolution of the resistance itself.

Adaptive therapy is an approach pioneered by Bob Gatenby at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, who was inspired by integrated pest management approaches. The idea of it is to try to keep the tumor a manageable size and to maintain the ability to treat it with the therapy that's being used. This is very different from hitting it with the highest dose that the patient can tolerate to make it go away, which is the traditional approach. With adaptive therapy, you're just trying to keep the tumor at a stable size and not use so much chemotherapy that you get the evolution of resistance. It is taking a long-term time perspective and thinking about not just what's the immediate effect of the treatment, but what's the long-term effect on the ability to keep the tumor under control.

There are some cancers that we know are curable with high-dose therapy, and so for those, we should continue doing what works. But when it comes to advanced metastatic cancer, that is cancer that has spread from the primary tumor to other organs in the body, it is often the case that you can't eradicate the cancer. You can't achieve a full cure at that point. So it makes sense to change the strategy in those cases to thinking about how the patient can most effectively live with the tumor and how we can keep it from becoming more aggressive. These are important approaches as we truly integrate this evolutionary and ecological cooperation theory for cancer biology.

You call cancer cells cheaters because they take advantage of healthy cells without offering any benefit to the body. Why do these harmful cellular cheaters exist across the tree of life?

There's an epic struggle between the way that evolution works on populations of organisms to help suppress cancer and then how evolution works within our bodies. In a population of organisms, the individuals that are the best at resisting cancer are favored. But within an individual body, the cells that are best at replicating and monopolizing resourcesand therefore more prone to cancerous behaviorare the ones that are selected. So you have two evolutionary processes in conflict.

A complicating factor is that there can be trade-offs between suppressing cancer and other traits that might enhance your fitness, like having more rapid reproduction and growth. Wound healing is a great example. It is very clear how the same cellular characteristics can both help you heal a wound quickly and lead to susceptibility to cancer. When a wound occurs, the nearby cells need to replicate and migrate to heal the wound. In that environment, the cells in the neighborhood are temporarily more tolerant of cells that replicate and move.

That creates a vulnerability to cancer. You have this possibility that cells will replicate more quickly and move, and that they also create the signaling environment that calls off the immune system. One of the oldest ways to refer to a cancer is actually the wound that will not heal.

What tricks have other species evolved to resist cancer that we might be able to use to treat cancer in people?

Cancer is extremely widespread across the tree of life. Some factors seem to predict having more cancer suppression mechanisms. For example, we can think of the cancer suppression gene TP53 as the cheater detector of the genome. It is part of this large network that takes in information that could indicate a cell has gone rogue. If the combination of signals is not right, then TP53 triggers a response such as stopping the cell cycle to repair DNA. If that doesnt work, it triggers cell suicide.

This gene is really important for cancer suppression in a lot of species. Elephants have 22 copies of this gene, while humans only have two. Its not clear if all the copies in elephants are functional, but elephant cells do have more cell death in response to radiation. The more copies of TP53 your cells have, the more likely they are to undergo programmed cell suicide if they are exposed to a carcinogenic situation. The fact that elephants have more copies of TP53 is an interesting example of how large size can select for having more cancer suppression mechanisms.

In addition to cheating healthy cells, cancer cells cooperate. How can cancer treatments take advantage of this?

Cooperation is not always good. The mafia is an amazing example of cooperation to cheat. There are many parallels in cancer with the way that organized crime uses cooperation within the organization to exploit a broader system. For example, during the 1920s, members of the mafia worked together to take advantage of prohibition and began procuring and selling illegal alcohol. The fortunes that factions made doing this allowed them to dominate organized crime in their cities.

There are several potential approaches involving cell cooperation that we should be exploring more in cancer treatment. Rather than trying to just kill the cancer cells, we can try to disrupt their communication and their adhesion to one another. Those are good targets for intervening in the processes that seem to require cell cooperation, like invasion and metastasis, which are the processes by which cancer cells leave the tumor of origin, circulate in the bloodstream, then invade the tissue of a distant organ. Those invasion events are the seeds of metastases: the spread of cancer throughout the body.

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My beautiful brood.

Mothers Day is a Hallmark holiday. Motherhood is a condition we never recover from.

Yes, I know the historical roots of how we got here from ancient Greek goddesses and Mothering Sunday in the UK to Anna Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe, who campaigned for mothers around the world to lobby for world peace women who sacrificed their sons in wartime knew that there had to be a better way to solve the worlds problems.

One way or another, its a day that forces us to confront our mothers. And think about our children.

When Jacques Florist delivery guy Craig left my spectacular Mothers Day bouquet on my front porch Saturday morning, I began thinking in earnest of what this day means to me.

The enclosed card came from three of my four offspring and read, simply: Though we cant be here, these flowers should make it al little bit better. Thanks for showing us how to grow. We love and miss you!! hope to see you sooner than later. Bill, Jules and Neil.

Thanks for showing us how to grow was, of course, the line that got caught in my throat and made me cry. Sort of happy tears, but to be honest, its a mix of emotion at this stage. They are fully-fledged at 25, 28 and 40.

My oldest child, Aime, has separated herself from the family, and that is a tough one. But Im still her mom. And so it hits me, every year, that motherhood is a difficult place to dwell. There are many joyful memories I carry with me, and there are what feel like failures along the way. Thats just the reality of being a mom.

Becoming a mother is something women always consider at some phase of life. It is our birthright.

Once I entered that sacred place I did my best to protect and love my children. I taught them everything I could think of that would prepare them for life in this big world. In the animal kingdom, there are mothers that have various instinctive duties. Some, like orangutans and elephants, make sure their little ones are cared for until they are really ready for surviving on their own. Others, like rabbits and seals, do the bare minimum and then they get back to being whoever they were before the babies came along.

We humans do our best. But there are wildly differing degrees of success, and success is ultimately defined by our kids.

Ive made peace with my own mother and our relationship. She is gone 15 years and, for all our ups and downs, there is nothing I wouldnt give for one more day to tell her that I love her and that I know she did her best by me.

Im at that phase in life where I hope my children understand that motherhood is a bit of a sacrifice. We women abandon some part of ourselves to be there for our children, putting their wellbeing and happiness before our own. Its not something that stops when they leave the nest. Only when I became a mother did I understand my own mothers struggles with her station in life as a mom.

But over time I have become philosophical about it all. I did the best I could, and I have plenty of regrets, but I cant go back in time.

Tonight my husband and I decided to celebrate Mothers Day with a date night. After all, without each other, there would be no children, and therefore, no Mothers Day.

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Our first stop was the liquor store. We picked up bourbon, vermouth and bitters, to recreate our favorite date-night indulgence, Giorgios Manhattans.

Then we stopped by Stark Brewing to fill our old-school growler with some hefeweizen and picked up a pizza. From there we stopped at Kelsen Brewing in Derry for another pizza and a four-pack of porter. Then we parked at the Derryfield and feasted on pizza and beer waiting for a spectacular sunset that didnt quite materialize. Once home we shook up some Manhattans and listened to R&B.

If that doesnt sound like a traditional Mothers Day celebration, well, I guess it depends on how you break it down.

But from where Im sitting right now, my kids are living their lives. All of them are amazing people. Whatever I contributed to that, I am grateful for the opportunity to have loved them and raise them and impart some of my own wisdom to them. And for whatever time I have left on this earth, Im going to enjoy the ride.

Jim and I soul-search regularly. Parenting is on the back burner. We are contemplating the end years and wondering how to make the most of life as our careers wind down and our golden years become reality.

But being a mother has meant everything to me. Motherhood has made me who I am and, if I did anything right, it has made my children who they are strong, independent, capable, loving, and generous.

Happy Mothers Day to all of you to the moms out there with kids at home, be present knowing that this is a limited run; to those who, like me, have arrived on the other side of active duty, make peace with your kids. Love them for who they are and accept that for all your imperfection, you are loved and cherished even if a little misunderstood. In the end, you did the best you could

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PART III

VALDOSTA While Valdosta State led Alabama-Huntsville by as many as 14 points early on, they were unable to cool off the Chargers losing 91-82 on March 8.

Mike Chason has yet to cover a Gulf South Conference Championship win by the Blazers. The feat remains elusive, as the Blazers are 0-6 all-time in GSC Championship game, but Chason still relishes the Blazers' current status as a perennial powerhouse.

A love affair that started when Chason was only 10 years old has carried him into over four decades of radio broadcasting.

While a student at Valdosta State, Chason remembers the team playing at the old Rebel Fieldhouse. The gym only seated about 1,000 people, but students would pack out the building every night the Rebels took the floor.

Every home game, Chason sat in the front row. Even after graduating, Chason took in a golden era of Valdosta State basketball from the best seat in the house teams loaded with Hall of Fame players including the school's all-time leading scorer, Eddie Brown, who poured in 2,502 points for the Blazers from 1977-81.

Chason not only saw Valdosta State College become Valdosta State University. He saw the team become the Blazers after the 1971-72 season and move from the Rebel Fieldhouse into The Complex in 1983.

"When I was a student, all four years I was on the front row for every game," Chason said. "Seeing great players like Eddie Brown, the all-time leading scorer; Tim Dominey, Willie Oxford, Don Reason those were just some fantastic players and great basketball there right in front of us. And then we moved to The Complex...that was a different story. We hadn't packed out The Complex too many times for basketball, but watching the games there, it just raises it to another level.

"I just think we have one of the most first-class facilities in the Gulf South Conference and I've been to all of them and seen what they look like. No reflection on anybody else, but I think it does shine a light on us that we have a first-class facility, a professional atmosphere and to be able to go there and get courtside every night, I tell my wife often, 'When you get there, it just changes everything.'"

The atmosphere on The Complex has become a staple as the Blazers' home court advantage is almost unparalleled in Division II. In the last 15 seasons all under head coach Mike Helfer the Blazers have gone 186-41 at home.

From the introduction of the starting lineups traditionally done by former PA announcer and current assistant athletic director Matt Malone to the elaborate light show, smoke machines and music, a Valdosta state home game is the closest thing to an NBA arena experience a fan can get in South Georgia.

"I love the starting lineups, I love the way PA announcer calls it out and I love the fireworks and the lights out and the whole thing," Chason said. "That's come a long way since we started playing at The Complex. Of course, when we were at the old Fieldhouse, it was exciting with Red Cross announcing. He did a fantastic job for a long time as the PA announcer, but seeing Matt Malone and hearing all the PA announcers there now, it's just a fantastic atmosphere for college basketball. I tell you, I've been to a lot of college basketball places. Not everybody has that, so it's really something special."

According to Chason, nothing would be possible with his faith in God and his wife, Kris.

Chason met Kris in Dr. Trent Bush's English class at Valdosta State in 1973. In fact, the couple had their first date on Chason's birthday that year. On March 15, 1975, Mike and Kris were married.

This March 15th, Mike and Kris celebrated 45 years of marriage 41 of which, Mike has been on the radio.

"Her support has been very important," Chason said. "I told her early on, 'It's fun, but it's also an opportunity to do something that I really like and really love. She listens to every game, at least part of every game any way, and she's very supportive. Without her support, I never could've done it these 30 years.

"We've had a great life together. She occasionally comes to a game or two, but mostly, she'd rather be at home listening on the radio."

The couple has been all over the world, whether for travel or for work. Chason recalls having to fly to North Dakota to cover Valdosta State football. The two boarded a charter plane from Valdosta, stopping in New Orleans before landing and watching the Blazers play in North Dakota that night and then flew back after the game. Chason called the trip "slightly incredible."

Chason admits his wife's support has gotten him out of some engagements that he would've otherwise missed games for.

"Her support is very important. It's gotten me out of some things though because I had the standard line, 'I'd love to, but I have a game,'" Chason said solemnly. "Whether that was doing something around the house or going to some engagement, 'I'd love to, but I have a game.' I've missed some birthdays and not too many anniversaries."

The past few seasons, the Blazers have not played deep into the NCAA Tournament. The Blazers were set to face Palm Beach Atlantic in the first round of the NCAA South Region Tournament on March 14.

However, this season came close to jeopardizing Chason's wedding anniversary until COVID-19 forced an abrupt end to the season on March 12, three days before the milestone.

Chason briefly glanced out of the seventh floor window onto bustling downtown Birmingham before turning his attention back to the interview,"She's been very supportive the entire way and without her, I certainly wouldn't be in Birmingham this weekend."

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