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Postby Tomas » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:19 am

89-year old ( :scared: ) Michael Atiyah (who won the Math "Nobel Prize" in 1966) just announced that he found the solution of Riemann Hypothesis (https://www.claymath.org/millennium-pro ... hypothesis) - one of the currently unsolved "Millenium Problems":

https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... ypothesis/

If you are in Heidelberg on September 24 - the presentation of the proof starts at 9:45 AM CET! :)

https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/event_2018/

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Postby Tomas » Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:11 pm

89-year old ( :scared: ) Michael Atiyah (who won the Math "Nobel Prize" in 1966) just announced that he found the solution of Riemann Hypothesis (https://www.claymath.org/millennium-pro ... hypothesis) - one of the currently unsolved "Millenium Problems":

https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... ypothesis/

If you are in Heidelberg on September 24 - the presentation of the proof starts at 9:45 AM CET! :)

https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/event_2018/
He failed...! :lol:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... med-proof/

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Postby Tomas » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:08 am

Today, I got this email:
You were recently invited to review the above manuscript, but we have not yet received your reply. Because of production and time restrictions, we must now proceed with evaluating this manuscript without your input.

I hope that we may have the privilege of using your services in the future when the timing is more convenient.

Yours sincerely,

XXXXX Ph.D.
Guest Editor
Journal of {Something}
And, I received the actual invitation to review 2 WHOLE MINUTES BEFORE getting this pissy email! :lol:

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Postby grunthy » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:12 am

Sounds like someone trying to save their ass bc they forgot to send it before.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:12 am

Well don't go pissing away 2 good minutes. You could have EASILY gotten that all done.

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Postby dodint » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:12 am

Don't lie, you were only going to skim the abstract anyway.

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:41 am

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/health/c ... index.html
Researchers have rendered a population of mosquitoes in a lab sterile using the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 by homing in on a specific target in insect DNA -- the doublesex gene -- raising the possibility of eradicating disease-carrying species of the insect entirely, according to a new study published Monday in Nature Biotechnology.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:43 am

Now all we have to do is find a way to eradicate all mosquitoes in general.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:47 am

My thought as well.

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Postby dodint » Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:42 am

What do they do that we would miss?

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:45 pm

What do they do that we would miss?
Pretty much the only defense of their place in this world is their role in the Food Web. So, in other words, nothing. Bats can find other things to eat.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:03 am

I received an e-mail today that appeared to come from myself (header obviously proved otherwise), but it was rather clever. Whoever sent it clearly downloaded that massive e-mail/password database from the Exploit.In exploit back in 2016, because they included my old e-mail password. They demand bitcoin in return for not erasing all of my data. :lol:

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:38 am

This is the kind of sh*t that drives me nuts:

https://interestingengineering.com/firs ... ntial-cure

Potential cure... no. Stop. You're giving people hope that this is an actual cure when this is no different than other drugs on the market that currently treat HIV. There are a few "one a day" drugs out there that reduce viral loads down to undetectable levels, but that's still not a "cure". A "cure" implies that it's gone.

Also:

http://www.aidsmap.com/Gammora-does-not ... e/3363143/
The study has not been presented at a scientific conference, published in a peer-reviewed journal or registered with a regulatory agency. In their press release, Zion Medical describe the mode of action as follows. “Gammora is a synthetic peptide compound derived from the HIV enzyme integrase, which is responsible for inserting the virus's genetic material into the DNA of the infected cell. Gammora stimulates the integration of multiple HIV DNA fragments into the host cell's genomic DNA, to an extent that triggers the self-destruction of the infected cell, called apoptosis.”

The drug appears to be a broad-spectrum disrupter of viral replication (like ribavirin, a drug previously used in hepatitis C treatment). It might work to limit viral proliferation in established infection and the infection of further cells (as other antiretroviral drugs do).

However, there is no reason it would be active against the reservoir of latently infected cells (which already contain integrated HIV DNA). If it could cure, it would need to be active against the latent reservoir.

“The HIV world has seen quackery in different forms for decades – sadly this smacks of more of it,” Professor Francois Venter of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa commented.

“I looked at the press report and the unsophisticated company website, and even if you believe their claims, they are many years away from testing them,” he said. “This gives science and scientists a bad name.”

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Postby CBear3 » Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:53 am

Just like Harvard "researchers" saying an alien probe might have passed us last year.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:02 am

Just like Harvard "researchers" saying an alien probe might have passed us last year.
That's not a big deal to me... it doesn't really have any impact on everyday lives. There aren't a significant portion of the population out there that are anxiously waiting to get their hands on said alien probe like they are for a cure for HIV.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:50 am

Just like Harvard "researchers" saying an alien probe might have passed us last year.
That's not a big deal to me... it doesn't really have any impact on everyday lives. There aren't a significant portion of the population out there that are anxiously waiting to get their hands on said alien probe like they are for a cure for HIV.
This sht is on Reddit all the time. Dozens and dozens of stories about "potential cures", but the minute you read into the actual science, it's apparent it isn't.

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Postby dodint » Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:17 pm

Dat karma tho.

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Postby Silentom » Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:32 pm

The recent one about shooting lasers into space was impressively dumb.

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Postby Willie Kool » Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:56 pm

New hybrid bird discovered near Altoona is like breeding a dog with a wolf and a fox: "This shouldn't happen"
The unusual cross-breed has the plumage of two warbler species, sings like another and has been named after its discoverer.

Lowell Burket, a Pittsburgh attorney, is credited with finding the previously unknown three-species hybrid believed to be the result of a complicated genetic mix that ornithologists had never seen and didn’t think was possible.
http://www.post-gazette.com/life/outdoo ... 1811160023

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:33 pm

New hybrid bird discovered near Altoona is like breeding a dog with a wolf and a fox: "This shouldn't happen"
The unusual cross-breed has the plumage of two warbler species, sings like another and has been named after its discoverer.

Lowell Burket, a Pittsburgh attorney, is credited with finding the previously unknown three-species hybrid believed to be the result of a complicated genetic mix that ornithologists had never seen and didn’t think was possible.
http://www.post-gazette.com/life/outdoo ... 1811160023
WTF is going on with Altoona this week?

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Postby AuthorTony » Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:53 pm

The next time someone complains about "The world today," I'm going to say, "At least it isn't 536.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11 ... r-be-alive
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.

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Postby Viva la Ben » Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:52 pm

Scientists have been stumped by a 20-minute rumble of a mysterious seismic wave felt across the world 🤔
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1068 ... 31552?s=21

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:54 pm

Might have been Trump's head exploding...

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:57 pm

Hot air doesn't explode.

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