Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – 'S Make It
#jazz #vinyl #NowPlaying
"In 1976, Stamatis Moraitis was given six months to live ... he left America to spend his last days on earth on the Greek island of Ikaria.
Months became years. And as time passed, his health did not worsen. In fact, it improved."
#ecopsychology
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/10/28/the-man-who-forgot-to-die/
Floods in Spain. In some places "a year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours"
#climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175804/spain-floods-climate-change
Anodyne article on Finland embracing geothermal energy. Momentum building in Europe.
#renewableenergy #geothermal
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/finland-geothermal-energy-innovations/7777/
Many years later and still something about this song...
"Climate Change Is Killing Buildings in Slow Motion. It’s not just storms and floods..."
#climatechange
“Synapses store information, but they also help compute. For certain computations, such as deep neural network inference, co-locating compute and memory in PCM ... overcomes the von Neumann bottleneck...”
#AI #neuromorphiccomputing #analogcomputing
https://research.ibm.com/blog/what-is-neuromorphic-or-brain-inspired-computing
More tech level view........
https://nattothoughts.substack.com/p/chinas-quantum-tunneling-breakthrough
Thanks for posting
"Barbara Belvisi, la jardinière de l'espace"
Space Gardener
#scifi #gardening
https://www.parismatch.com/actu/sciences/barbara-belvisi-la-jardiniere-de-lespace-242775
Shor's specter still looms...
I was thinking just in terms of normal internet security. Hadn't thought about blockchain.
"In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption"
I hope this is BS
"Following almost relentless cold, damp weather, it’s been announced that England suffered its second worst harvest on record in 2024."
#climatechange
"The drought-plagued state was just drenched by two wet seasons and atmospheric rivers, but its infrastructure failed to adequately store that excess water."
California proposes to expand water storage capacity to capture water during rainy seasons.
#climatechange
I'm not so sure. "Using biological tissue obtained from a hunter who killed a wild sheep in Kyrgyzstan belonging to the world’s largest species of the animals – Marco Polo argali sheep – Schubarth procured cloned embryos of the animal from a lab, according to court documents."
The section you quote: "Semen from Montana Mountain King was used to artificially impregnate other ewes." The Ewes weren't cloned but the Montana Mountain King itself looks to have involved at least a cloned embyro