So yes, I am angry, and I will not disguise my frustration with comfortable or polite language.
In the last three months, several super-variants have emerged that are 30 to 70 per cent more infectious than the original Wuhan strain.
The old COVID-19 doubled its numbers every 40 days under a particular set of restrictions; under the same conditions, the variants double every 10 days. That means they can outrun any vaccination campaign.
That means if you haven’t eliminated or almost eliminated cases in your region, you are going to learn the meaning of grief.
These highly-contagious variants have emerged in jurisdictions with high infection rates: the U.K., Brazil, South Africa and California. They became global tourists months ago, before you read about them.
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Of minds and machines Filed on December 21, 2020
The deployment of Artificial Intelligence is necessary for a more secure future, experts urge at Gitex 2020
Dubai, the global capital where East meets the West, has been the epicentre of business and leisure events for decades. But this year was different. Since March, all that resonated in Dubai was the silence of empty halls that usually play host to the biggest who s who in the world.
However, this month brought two hopes to the world - the Covid-19 vaccine and the first in-person event post-pandemic, the Gitex Technology Week. The 40th edition saw the artificial intelligence and cybersecurity take centrestage. And rightly so.
The Download: Only 3 percent of living biomass in 1900, man-made materials such as steel, plastic, and concrete now outweigh animals, plants, and microorganisms, according to a new study by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. The total mass has grown from less than 0.1 teratonnes to 1 teratonne (1 trillion tonnes) as the scale of roads, buildings, structures, and other objects has increased beginning in the 1950s postwar construction boom, known as the “Great Acceleration,” and doubling every 20 years ever since. The amount of new stuff being produced every week is equivalent to the average body weight of all 7.7 billion people.
Why It Matters: Since the first agricultural revolution, plant biomass has been halved by humans primarily due to deforestation while the amount of artificial objects has grown. It offers more evidence that we’ve entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age where humanity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Plastics no
Better make room: Man-made stuff now outweighs all other living things on Earth
It s a symbolic study that suggests we re building too many things and disregarding nature.
Since the Industrial Revolution kicked off, we’ve built a lot of stuff. That’s just part of humanity most would probably say, from roads and homes to all sorts of vehicles, we need things. But we may have gone a bit over the lin here.
According to a new study, human-made objects now weigh about as much as all of the living beings on Earth and could even exceed it this year.