NYT: Peter Marshall, Longtime Host of ‘The Hollywood Squares,’ Dies at 98
He played straight man to all manner of celebrities, asking questions on what was for many years the most popular game show on television.
NewsNation: Pesticides cannot be removed by washing fruit: Study
According to a new study, merely washing fruit is not sufficient to remove residual pesticides and toxic chemicals.
“Cleaning operations cannot wholly remove pesticides,” the study published this month in American Chemical Society’s journal Nano Letters said.
The research revealed that pesticides penetrated the apple peel and pulp layers, thus outlining that washing is inadequate.
Although, once the peel and initial pulp layer were removed; pesticides decreased significantly.
ScienceAlert: Surprise Alzheimer’s Finding: Brain’s Support Cells May Be Fueling Disease
Max Planck neurogeneticist Andrew Octavian Sasmita and colleagues demonstrated the involvement of neuron support cells, oligodendrocytes, in abnormal brain plaque formation by removing their ability to create amyloid beta.
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They did this by knocking out the gene behind beta-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1). As its name suggests, BACE cleaves amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), which is involved in producing amyloid beta.
“Oligodendrocytes lacking BACE1 developed about 30 percent fewer plaques,” explains Max Planck neurogeneticist Constanze Depp.
While inhibiting BACE1 generally has a far greater reduction in plaque formation (over 95 percent) in mice, BACE inhibition appears to cause other debilitating problems including worsening memory and brain volume declines in human clinical trials.
Manton Reece: Micro.blog server names for 2024
I like having a theme for naming computers. For the last dozen years, all of my personal computers and hard drives have been named for characters in Hayao Miyazaki films. For servers, I’ve used Disney train-related names. …
I enjoyed this little diversion.
Globe: Canadian, U.K. tech entrepreneur among six missing after luxury superyacht sinks off coast of Sicily
One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday.
The British-flagged “Bayesian”, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat, was carrying 22 people and was anchored just off shore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by ferocious weather, the Italian coast guard said in a statement.
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“We managed to keep the ship in position and after the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone,” Karsten Borner told journalists. The other boat “went flat on the water, and then down,” he added.
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Rescuers later recovered the body of the ship’s cook, who was born in Canada and lived in Antigua.
CNN: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will put four private citizens in the vacuum of space
While prior missions to space that were funded by wealthy businesspeople may have conjured images of self-indulgent joy rides, Polaris Dawn is a test mission designed to push boundaries.
Isaacman, Menon, Gillis and Poteet will spend five days aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will soar to altitudes higher than any human has traveled since NASA’s Apollo program ended in the 1970s. Their orbital path will extend high enough to plunge the vehicle and crew into a radiation belt, adding another element of peril to the already treacherous experience of spaceflight.
This crew of private citizens will also open the hatch of their spacecraft and expose themselves to the vacuum of space, marking the first time such a feat has been attempted by non-government astronauts. During this endeavor, the astronauts will be protected solely by brand-new Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) suits, which SpaceX designed and developed in just two and a half years.
Trying to overlook the overly-exuberant writing style.
Inside the cultural shift that seeded a money laundering crisis, succession woes and a leadership exodus.
Globe: Tories delete Canadian dream video featuring what Liberals say are Russian jets
“They’re doing a training mission in the sky, getting ready to defend our home and native land,” Poilievre said.
The two jets that appeared in the video as Poilievre delivered that line were Russian Su-17 and Su-27 jets, according to Defence Minister Bill Blair’s spokesman.
*CBC: Doug Ford shifts direction on wind power in Ontario
One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built.
Fast forward to today, and Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.
Ontario has laid out plans to procure an additional 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2034. By comparison: the capacity of all wind power projects currently installed across the province plans about 4,900 megawatts.
Six lost years.
Oh, and refurbishing Pickering is not “renewable power”, even though it’s carbon emission free (but extremely slow and financially risky to build and expensive).
How to Geek: Why You Should Install Python Apps With pipx (and How to Get Started)
- Installing Python apps can be challenging due to potential conflicts with system packages, but pipx makes it easy by creating virtual environments and managing dependencies for you.
- Pipx is a user-friendly alternative to pip that installs apps system-wide without requiring sudo privileges, and it helps you add, upgrade, or remove Python apps effortlessly.
- With pipx, you can install Python CLI apps, run them just like standard Linux commands, and even uninstall them easily. It’s a convenient tool for managing and expanding your app library.
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I strongly discourage installing software at a system level with sudo pip install because this can cause conflicts with your system’s package manager and result in broken functionality, or in the worst case situation, a non-booting system. I’m not alone in this, either, as RealPython and the virtualenv documentation recommend this, and even the official Python docs call out the issue.
CBC: Trump posts image of fake Taylor Swift endorsement
Former U.S. president Donald Trump has posted a fake social media image of pop superstar Taylor Swift asking people to vote for him in the November election.
A Sunday entry by the Republican candidate on Truth Social showed Swift dressed in red, white and blue with a caption that said, “Taylor Swift Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump.”
“I accept!” Trump wrote.
Do most Americans want this man as their president?
Last Updated: 19.Aug.2024 23:23 EDT
