Geography
A new type of sonar promises better oceanic cartography
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N ALIEN SEEKING a name for the third planet from the sun might reasonably plump for “Sea” or “Ocean”, rather than “Earth”. Two-thirds of its surface is covered by salt water, and its predominant colour, viewed from far away in space, is blue. What underlies all this brine, though, remains surprisingly mysterious to the planet’s ape-descended inhabitants. As recently as 2019, for example, researchers found several thousand new underwater mountains, known as seamounts, by measuring the effects of their gravity on the ocean’s surface. More such discoveries almost certainly await.
Dec 30, 2020
Testing for the novel coronavirus this past week at Muskogee County/City Detention Facility turned up 95 inmates with positive tests.
Sheriff Terry Freeman said testing was undertaken as a precautionary measure, one of many implemented by his office since the first COVID-19 case in Oklahoma was reported March 6. Those proactive measures, he said, kept coronavirus outside the jail until September, when a smaller outbreak was limited to 23 positive cases. We re going to keep doing what we do, Freeman said Wednesday after results arrived for the tests that remained pending a day before. We are very proactive about monitoring inmates even before they test positive â if we even suspect somebody might be infected, we monitor them and any symptoms they might have.
Reopening college campuses could initiate COVID-19 superspreading
Researchers at Stanford University in the United States have conducted a study showing that college campuses have an extremely high incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and that reopening them could initiate superspreading into neighboring communities.
The team’s modeling of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics across 30 campuses and their home counties revealed a high number of campus outbreaks during the first two weeks of class. These outbreaks tended to then spread into neighboring communities.
Of the 30 institutions studied, 14 saw infections spike, with peak seven-day incidence an order of magnitude larger than the nation-wide peaks that occurred during the first and second pandemic waves.
Preparing for the Next Pandemic
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December 24, 2020
On a large scale, humanity is constantly struggling against bacteria and disease as well as non-communicable diseases. Today our focus is on primary prevention. In the near future, we will treat age as a disease that not only can be cured but can be prevented.
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n a large scale, humanity is constantly struggling against bacteria and disease as well as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Today our focus is on primary prevention (intervening before a disease is developed) or secondary prevention (preventing progression of a disease when you are already sick). In the near future, we will be solving for “primordial prevention,” looking at the prevention of the risk factors in the first place, and we will treat age as a disease that not only can be “cured” but can be prevented. Here, we’ll track the research that is transforming our understanding of the human body and, ultimately, saving lives.
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Why women s sex drive dips at Christmas then spikes at New Year, according researchers who studied half a million women
Why women s sex drive dips at Christmas then spikes at New Year, according researchers who studied half a million women
Canela LópezDec 23, 2020, 00:33 IST
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sex is reported in the three days leading up to
Christmas than average.
People tend to bounce back sexually for
New Year s Day, however, as more sex was reported after midnight on December 31 than on average.
Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, but when it comes to our sex drives, it s not so exciting.