Elon Musk explains his baby’s name, selling his houses, and more on Joe Rogan’s podcast
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made another guest appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, this time around attempting to explain some of his recent headscratchers and more bizarre moves of late.
- Those include the strange baby name he and partner Grimes gave to their new son, as well as Elon’s recent tweet that he’s selling almost all of his possessions and “will own no house.”
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If you were among those of us wondering what was going through Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s mind when he tweeted out that he’s in the process of selling most of his possessions three days before becoming a father again as his partner Grimes gave birth to a son, he went on the Joe Rogan podcast Thursday to explain himself.
He has plenty to explain regarding this as well as a number of other headscratchers from the billionaire businessman in recent weeks, which have included his rather vocal criticism of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic (including Musk’s belief that the virus’ real mortality rate is lower than what’s been reported).
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Scientists mapped an entire mouse brain, and the results are mesmerizing
- A three-year project to create a detailed 3D ‘atlas’ of the brain of a lab mouse is now finished.
- The resulting model will help scientists better understand the effects of treatments and testing conducted using the rodents.
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You probably don’t think about mice all that often. If you have a few of them running around your house or apartment, that’s another story, but the modern mouse plays a larger role in your life than you may know. Mice are the test subjects of the scientific world, and whether they (or we) like it or not, countless drugs and treatments eventually made it to store shelves and pharmacy counters thanks to early testing conducted on tiny little mice.
Lab mice are bred specifically for the purpose of testing, and they are often the first animals to feel the effects of drugs used to treat everything from Alzheimer’s to back pain and everything in between. With that in mind, it makes sense that researchers would want to know as much about mouse brains as possible, and a three-year project just resulted in the most complete atlas of a mouse brain ever created.
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This site tries to answer all of your questions about the coronavirus
- COVID Explained is a website from researchers and students at Brown, MIT, Harvard, Mass General, and other institutions with answers to common questions about SARS-CoV-2.
- COVID Explained features a Q&A, a glossary of terms, and explainers for testing, immunity, and more.
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There are countless horrifying realities that we have to face on a daily basis due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but one of the most frustrating elements of this crisis is how little we know. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused much of the world to shut down, had never been encountered before the outbreak began in China last year, and so, we are learning more about it every day. In fact, we are often told things about the virus that are entirely contrary to what we thought we knew the day before. Everything is in flux, and it can be exhausting.
There are valuable resources that you should be checking for guidance from health experts, such as the coronavirus hubs of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but neither are really as comprehensive as one might expect. If you just want useful answers to basic questions, a new site from “a team of researchers and students at Brown, MIT, Harvard, Mass General, and elsewhere” might be your best bet.
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How the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app works
- Britain’s National Health Service has released the coronavirus contact-tracing app that it built without the Apple-Google API.
- The NHS tracing app is currently in testing in the Isle of Wight before being deployed more widely.
- The app has been criticized for requesting location data, and might not always work as intended.
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Aggressive testing and strict contact tracing are two things every country should do to limit the spread of an infectious disease like the novel coronavirus. Some of them proved how well that can work, including countries like Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, and South Korea. Others, like America, Italy, France, Spain, and the UK, failed to do it, which explains the high number of cases and death rates in those regions. Germany’s aggressive testing also showed a major COVID-19 caseload, but the country was able to keep the death toll much lower than other European countries.
Consistent testing and contact tracing have to continue once social distancing measures are loosened, and economies start opening up. That’s the only way to prevent future outbreaks, catch new cases early, and reduce the number of deaths by treating patients sooner. Apple and Google have created a standard API that would allow countries to build tracing apps that work on iPhone and Android while protecting the privacy of the user. But countries like France and the UK have their own plans for tracing COVID-19 patients. Now Britain’s NHS has released its app, which is available on iPhone and Android.
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How the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app works originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 7 May 2020 at 19:05:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Uh oh: China reports ‘anomaly’ during cargo capsule launch test
- China’s cargo capsule test flight suffered an anomaly during its return to Earth.
- The Chinese space agency launched its most powerful rocket this week, called the Long March 5B.
- Eventually, China wants both a manned space station and trips to and from the Moon for its astronauts.
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It’s been a busy week for China’s space agency. The group finally got the chance to launch its Long March 5B rocket, which is the most powerful rocket the country has ever built. Early indications are that the launch itself was a success, which is great news for China especially in light of recent launch failures.
Still, the week hasn’t gone exactly as Chinese officials would have liked, as the country’s space authority reported what is being described as an “anomaly” with a cargo capsule that made its own trip skyward.
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Uber Eats just made sending food to friends and family much simpler
- Uber announced a new feature for Uber Eats this week that will allow users to share the status of a food delivery they have made for someone else.
- Uber users will receive a link they can share with others that will have real-time tracking of the delivery driver so they can see how far away their delivery is.
- This is one of several changes Uber has made in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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While some states have slowly begun to reopen parts of their economy, not everyone is comfortable with the idea of going about their day as if nothing has changed. Restaurants are even starting to reopen in some cities (with a set of impossible rules), but many of us are going to continue avoiding public spaces for the foreseeable future. Therefore, delivery is a vital alternative, and Uber just introduced a new feature to improve food delivery.
This week, Uber announced a brand new global feature in the Uber Eats app that allows users to send a delivery to someone else and then easily share the status of that delivery with the recipient. Once you place an order for a friend or family member, you will receive a tracking link that you can send to them so they can see how far away the driver is from their home. It’s a real-time tracking system too, so you only need to send the link once.
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New policy could extend $600 a week unemployment benefit indefinitely
- In addition to the coronavirus stimulus payments that millions of Americans are still waiting to receive from the IRS, a group of congressmen has proposed a new stimulus kind of economic benefit as a result of the pandemic.
- The benefit would extend the already extra $600 per week that the unemployed can access indefinitely, for the remainder of the coronavirus crisis.
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As massive as the $2.2 trillion stimulus legislation that Congress passed at the end of March was — partly because it needed to include billions of dollars to support direct cash payments to Americans to help them deal with the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic — pretty much everyone is in agreement. It’s only scratched the surface of what needs to be done legislatively, which should tell you a lot about the mind-boggling size of the catastrophe facing the country right now because of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The pandemic has wrecked the lives of individuals, businesses, cities, and states, and among its many consequences, another 3.2 million Americans filed for unemployment last week.
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New policy could extend $600 a week unemployment benefit indefinitely originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 7 May 2020 at 17:01:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Raptors didn’t hunt in packs, despite what ‘Jurassic Park’ tells us
- Raptors were likely not pack hunters as depicted in movies like Jurassic Park, a new study suggests.
- Evidence to support the notion that raptors hunted in groups is thin, and modern dinosaur relatives aren’t known for hunting in packs.
- It’s likely, the researchers argue, that raptors fended for themselves.
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Jurassic Park is a fantastic film. Its sequels are a mixed bag, but the original is just about as close to perfect as a movie gets and I will not entertain any other opinions. But a movie being good doesn’t necessarily mean it’s realistic, and that’s doubly true for a movie about dinosaurs being brought back to life.
A new study out of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh suggests that one creative liberty taken by the film (and the book on which it was based) was likely pure fiction. The notion that raptors hunted in packs is a big part of the Jurassic Park story, but new evidence fails to support that idea.
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Doctors may have found a way to reduce the risk of death in severe coronavirus cases
- An increasing number of reports have observed strange symptoms in patients infected with the novel coronavirus, including blood clotting.
- Clotting can lead to strokes and heart attacks, and a new study says that blood-thinning drugs may reduce the risk of death in patients experiencing severe respiratory problems.
- More research is required, but these early conclusions seem to be promising and could lead to new life-saving therapies for COVID-19 patients.
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After more than four months fighting the novel coronavirus, the world has gathered plenty of data about the pathogen which is already being used to improve treatments and develop new therapies that can hopefully reduce the lethality of the virus or even eradicate it. And while finding a vaccine is the priority, other drugs could speed up recovery and prevent the onset of life-threatening complications, and remdesivir may be one of them.
The medicine was created for Ebola and then adapted for SARS-CoV-2 therapy. Remdesivir can speed up recovery significantly, a major US study showed, but it doesn’t reduce mortality. Dr. Anthony Fauci said when describing the potential of remdesivir that future studies will be required in which the drug is combined with something else to deliver better results. It’s too early to say what other drugs could work in tandem with remdesivir, but some researchers think they’ve found a way to reduce the risk of death in severe COVID-19 cases that involves the use of more common drugs.
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YouTube TV gets Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, and more
- YouTube TV is finally getting Viacom channels this summer, such as Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, CMT, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1.
- Viacom and CBS merged late last year, and CBS was already partnered with YouTube TV.
- 14 new channels will be added to YouTube TV in all, but no price changes have been announced yet.
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YouTube TV wasn’t the first over-the-top internet television service, but it quickly became one of the top contenders after it launched in early 2017. YouTube TV had a clean, user-friendly interface and unlimited cloud DVR storage, but it lacked several major channels that could be found on other services, most notably Viacom’s lineup, which included Nickelodeon, MTV, and Comedy Central. But now that Viacom and CBS have re-merged after splitting up years ago, YouTube TV subscribers will finally get access to the channels they’ve been missing all this time.
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