According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the world spent 2.113 trillion US dollars on armaments in 2021. Of this almost incomprehensible amount of money, the United States spent almost half the total , $801 billion.Perhaps one reason for the disproportionately large US arms spending is that in the United States, the arms industry has been privatized, which is not the case in China or Russia. In the US, selling weapons and death is a business. It is a business, on which capitalist investors can make enormous profits, selling weapons and selling war.Selling...

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When you hear the term "smart city" your mind usually jumps to autonomous flying vehicles or drone-based pizza deliveries. But emerging technologies aren't only being deployed ...

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Globalism is a thin identity, but it’s an honest one

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Elon Musk's public missteps highlight the challenge of making good decisions in the public eye. It's essential to recognize that making good choices is a skill that requires regular exercise, taking decision-making seriously, and being principled when making decisions.

Whereas the shortest way between two points is a straight connection, it might not be the most efficient path to follow. Complex currents often affect the motion of microswimmers and make it difficult for them to reach their destination. At the same time, making use of these currents to navigate as fast as possible is a certain evolutionary advantage.

"Nobody talks about Jesus' miracle of having 12 close friends in his 30s."

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No VR headset is required to dive into this $10 multimedia explosion.

Back in December, I asked how hard it would be to make a vaccine for oneself. Several people pointed to radvac. It was a best-case scenario an open-source vaccine design, made for self-experimenters, dead simple to make with readily-available materials, well-explained reasoning about the design, and with the name of one of the world’s more competent biologists (who I already knew of beforehand) stamped on the whitepaper. My girlfriend and I made a batch a week ago and took our first booster yesterday. This post talks a bit about the process, a bit about our plan, and a bit about motivations. Bear in mind that we may have made mistakes - if something seems off, leave a comment. THE PROCESS All of the materials and equipment to make the vaccine cost us about $1000. We did not need any special licenses or anything like that. I do have a little wetlab experience from my undergrad days, but the skills required were pretty minimal. One vial of custom peptide - that little pile of white powder at the bottom.The large majority of the cost (about $850) was the peptides. These are the main active ingredients of the vaccine short segments of proteins from the COVID virus. They’re all <25 amino acids, so far too small to have any likely function as proteins (for comparison, COVID’s spike protein has 1273 amino acids). They’re just meant to be recognized by the immune system the immune system learns to recognize these sequences, and that’s what provides immunity. Each of six peptides came in two vials of 4.5 mg each. These are the half we haven't dissolved; we keep them in the freezer as backups.The peptides were custom synthesized. There are companies which synthesize any (short) peptide sequence you want - you can find dozens of them online. The cheapest options suffice for the vaccine - the peptides don’t need to be “purified” (this just means removing partial sequences), they don’t need any special modifications, and very small amounts suffice. The minimum order size

Former England captain Michael Vaughan says he was named in Yorkshire's Azeem Rafiq report but "totally denies any allegation of racism".

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Conversation is always an act of creativity. In an excerpt from his new book, designer Fred Dust explains how to shape a conversation for maximum impact.

Since overconfidence and confirmation often work hand in hand, there are four key strategies managers can employ to overcome these two biases.   The post Conquering unconscious decision-making biases  appeared first on Central Penn Business Journal.

Samsung has had a firm grip on several niches in the automotive components industry for some years now. With its own digital cockpit, its proprietary automotive processor, and various ...

It will take a community-wide effort to ensure Toronto schools are safe for teachers and students.

Autistic people’s capacity to determine our own fates is only as good as the choices that are given to us by policy decisions and culture.

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Lingerie brand HommeMystere is making lacy underwear specially for 'people with packages'

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Technological innovations related to the field of robotics seem to have reached a fever pitch. Since the turn of the 21st century, the world has witnessed the introduction of robots in many forms. And people have become increasingly comfortable with their presence. Just look at the success of the Roomba line of self-propelled vacuum cleaners, […]The post 5 Ways Robotics Are Making Life Safer appeared first on ReadWrite.

While achieving the United Nations (UN) ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global water quality, severe water quality issues would continue to persist in some world regions. So conclude researchers at Utrecht University. They have developed a new water quality model to further elucidate the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. The paper was published on 6 October in Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

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Today's your last day dealing with tangled necklaces.

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Conservatives love to toy with the idea that businesses, such as Facebook, should respect their "Free Speech." But what would that really mean?

Marcello Lippi believes Gennaro Gattuso is ‘becoming a top coach’ and that he has already made Napoli his own team.

Australia's unemployment rate hit a 50-year low of 3.4 per cent in July, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics reporting there are now more vacancies to be filled in the economy than there are unemployed people.

NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent has confirmed the competition committee will discuss making roughing the passer penalties reviewable this coming offseason. 

Sunday WorldUnsafe dams a catastrophe in the makingSouth Africa is sitting on the precipice of a disaster with hundreds of dams across the country not compliant with safety regulations, precipitated by the lack of capacity in the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). Data from the department shows that only 1% on the list of the top 20 largest dams owned by […]The post Unsafe dams a catastrophe in the making appeared first on Sunday World.

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The story of how People Can Fly built new IP Outriders in four years, after having split from Epic Games.

The traditional Bhutanese practice of making Ngeshing Jorma Tea using lye in Bhutan is on the verge of vanishing with evolving modern technologies and the scarce availability of the plant, according to a study by foresters. 

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Researchers at James Cook University who paired a revolutionary method for detecting fish with freely available ecological data believe the technique could transform environmental science.

“There's a difference between making the game easier and making the game easier to play.”

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The Verge Science video team joins a scientist to record a neuron and create an original song. Experience the sounds of synapses in our latest video.

Making cycling safer (Second Thread)

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Researchers at James Cook University who paired a revolutionary method for detecting fish with freely available ecological data believe the technique could transform environmental science.

Soft magnetic materials, i.e., materials that can be easily magnetized and demagnetized, play an essential role in transformers, generators, and motors. The ability of a magnetic material to resist an external magnetic field without changing its magnetization is known as "coercivity," a property closely linked to the energy loss. In applications such as electric cars, low-coercivity materials are highly desirable to achieve higher energy efficiency.

Debutant Ollie Hill wins Britain's first Paralympic snowboard medal with bronze in the banked slalom LL2 event.

Exercise is extremely important for people of all ages. This is true. But there is no doubt that exercise is much more difficult to sustain. As everyone knows the solution to the problem of obesity but the issue is that the solution is very boring and very energy-demanding. What we can do then? This surely […]The post The Power of Making Exercise a Habit appeared first on NewsReports.

Chesea's improvements are going under the radar as Frank Lampard's side shape up at the back, writes Phil McNulty.

Traditional MapReduce is a "batch" processing framework, but what if we could adapt MapReduce to real time data processing?

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