15-minute city residents FINED 70 euros for going into other neighborhoods The International Idiocy of the 15-Minute City Planners and politicians from Saudi Arabia to Scotland want to transform interconnected cities into isolated "urban villages" no one ever needs to leave. The promise of cities is that they have a lot more stuff to do, things …
Optogenetics
Researchers from the George Washington University, US, have developed a portable and low-cost macroscopic mapping system for all-optical cardiac electrophysiology. Their work was published recently in the Journal of Biomedical Optics. Previous scientists adopted human-induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) as a model of the human heart. Such lab-on-a-chip human hearts can be used to study the disruption in …
Streetlights Are Turning Cities Purple
The sky over the city of Vancouver was the color of a television tuned to a Prince concert. OK, maybe not the whole sky. But enough of it that people noticed. A bunch of streetlights — a few hundred out of thousands — had suddenly changed. What had been moonshine white was now blue, or purple, or even …
WARNING: Biodigital convergence – VIDEO
Biodigital convergence is the interactive combination, sometimes to the point of merging, of digital and biological technologies and systems. Policy Horizons is examining three ways in which this convergence is happening. 1 Full physical integration of biological and digital entities Digital technology can be embedded in organisms, and biological components can exist as parts of digital …
Bill Gates: Next pandemic could be man-made and far more brutal than Covid-19 | Daily Mail
The Microsoft founder is currently down under after attending a meeting with Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia. The two met at the PM's residence at Kirribilli House to discuss climate change, energy and health issues. Gates is visiting the country with the Gates Foundation and representatives from his Breakthrough Energy company, which drives …
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