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Whatever the origin of the
coronavirus, it is and has become a bioweapon. Way before Bill Gates warned us in 2015 about biological pandemics, biological
warfare an emerging threat in the 21st century was the topic of the article above in 2001.
We also have to realise that four years ago Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said at the Council on Foreign Relations that “
advances in genome editing pose a threat to national security and may be used to create biological weapons .
Nowhere are the stakes higher for our national security than in the field of biotechnology, Brennan stated.
Recent advances in genome editing that offer great potential for breakthroughs in public health are also a cause for concern because the same methods can be used to create genetically engineered biological warfare agents.”
Study finds short-term exposure to air pollution may impede cognition; NSAIDs could help
Exposure to air pollution, even over the course of just a few weeks, can impede mental performance, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. However, these adverse effects were lessened in people taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin.
The study is among the first to explore short-term air pollution exposures and the use of NSAIDs to mitigate their effects. The results are published in the journal
Nature Aging.
Examples of events that would increase someone’s exposure to air pollution over the short term could include forest fires, smog, second-hand cigarette smoke, charcoal grills, and gridlock traffic.
Researchers develop algorithms for early detection of mild cognitive impairment and dementia using naturalistic driving data
Using naturalistic driving data and machine learning techniques, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed highly accurate algorithms for detecting mild cognitive impairment and dementia in older drivers.
Naturalistic driving data refer to data captured through in-vehicle recording devices or other technologies in the real-world setting. These data could be processed to measure driving exposure, space and performance in great detail. The open-access findings are published in the journal
Written by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2011â²s âContagionâ hit No. 10 on the iTunes movie rental chart a year ago in January. In those early moths of the pandemic, audiences were suddenly seeking out a nearly decade-old thriller depicting a fictional pandemic bearing a resemblance the COVID-19 outbreak of the past year.
I actively avoided it. The fictional on-screen calamity mirrored our own unstable reality in ways that hit too close to all my anxiety receptors. A year-plus later with uncertain light at the end of the tunnel in the U.S., I found myself drawn to the movie in order to think through, with the benefit of some hindsight, what it anticipated as well as what it missed: