Innovative Food Safety Interventions: The Fundamentals of Bacteriophage Technology and their practical application explained in the upcoming Xtalks webinar.
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The global food industry has been increasingly utilizing bacteriophage as a way to kill pathogens on food and in the production environment. Please join this free session to learn more about the basic principles of phage science and to gain a clearer understanding of its use in a wide variety of meat, poultry, dairy and produce products.
Professor Martin Loessner of ETH, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, will guide us through the fundamentals of phage science, in particular against Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli.
Interview: Uttarakhand flood is a tragic reminder of the dangers Himalayas face from climate change
Pema Gyamtsho, an expert on the fragile ecology of the Hindu Kush Himalayas, talks about the challenges that the region is facing. Rescue teams in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. | PTI
Pema Gyamtsho, the director general of the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, is one of the world’s leading experts on protection of the fragile ecology of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, a United Nations-supported inter-governmental organisation, has eight regional member countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. A prominent Bhutanese politician, he was his country’s first minister of agriculture and forest. He has a PhD from the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Silicon Valley s safe space
Cade Metz, New York Times
Feb. 13, 2021
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FILE Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT
The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex.
It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himself Scott Alexander (a near anagram of Slate Star Codex). It was also the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists, a group that aimed to reexamine the world through cold and careful thought.
Ignazio Cassis concludes his African tour in Senegal and The Gambia Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Bern, 13.02.2021 - Following his visit to Algeria and Mali, the head of the FDFA, Ignazio Cassis, travelled to Senegal on 11 February 2021 for a two-day visit. In Dakar he met Senegalese President Macky Sall and Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall. At the centre of discussions were the priorities of Switzerland s new Sub-Saharan Africa Strategy 2021–24 and Swiss engagement in Senegal regarding vocational education and training and digitalisation. Mr Cassis then travelled to The Gambia, where various official meetings and visits were on the programme.
Prosperity and sustainability lie at the heart of Switzerland s new Sub-Saharan Africa Strategy 2021–24. During his meeting with President Macky Sall, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis acknowledged the great economic potential of Senegal, which belongs to the region of the economic lionesses : A s
February 12, 2021
The Dyatlov Pass incident has intrigued people for generations, but a new theory pointing to a slab avalanche as the culprit does a thorough job of explaining how the 9 Russian trekkers died. A new video and more here.
For more than 60 years, the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass incident – in which nine hikers in Russia met a mysterious end in February 1959 – has gone unsolved. How did the nine trekkers die on the snowy slopes of Russia’s Kholat Saykhl, a name that translates to
Dead Mountain? Avalanche researchers, with some help from the movie
Frozen, think they know the answer.