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Covid Scientific American reported researchers at MIT are developing cheap, fast and easy to use diagnostics for Covid-19 which can deliver results in minutes. The test would be based on saliva. This could lead the way toward adequate testing to keep things under control. With so many unvaccinated, the virus is not going to disappear, […]
How Can We Get a Look at the Beginning of Time?
Image credit: ESA Written: December 30, 2021 The space industry has had a great 2021. A few highlights include amazing feats on the surface of Mars, the blooming of space tourism, and SpaceX’s one-hundredth recovery of Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage boosters. Even more spectacular may turn out to be what took place early on […]
Can You Print More Than Snowmen?
3-D printing of Thanksgiving and Christmas pumpkins and snowmen has taught me new skills. Some of the objects are complex, especially the ornaments. Notice the tip of the red one. The gold bell has a working clapper inside. The big snowman (8 ” tall) required printing 18 separate parts with five different filament colors and […]
How Do We Stop the Hackers?
Written: December 16, 2021 Major information technology (IT) breaches are becoming a daily occurrence. The news coverage has centered on hacking and hackers. The bigger story, in my opinion, is the failure of government and business leaders to prevent the hacking. The news coverage at times makes it sound like the problem is the […]
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Vaccine The WHO has a dashboard which shows what is going on country by country. Globally, as of December 17, 2021, there have been 272 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5.3 deaths, reported to WHO. A total of 8.3 million vaccine doses have been administered. Studies continue to show more than 30% of the population […]
