Lunch at the Labs

Whey, the liquid byproduct of cheese making, was once considered waste. Now it is a key ingredient in the protein powders that Ozempic users and weight lifters are downing in ever-greater amounts.

New book finds lousy COVID decisions everywhere, with experts basing assertions about the coronavirus virulence on flawed models.

In New York City, just seven out of more than 14,000 deaths at the time (2020) were reported in people under 18.
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The media perseverated on the effectiveness of remedies like masking, social distancing and isolation, Zweig finds, despite thin evidence that any of them made a difference.
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By May 2020, schools in The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and more than a dozen other nations had reopened, with evidence mounting that COVID wasn't even a modest risk to children.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain cells and fuels Parkinson's disease. In mouse models, restoring the protein's function with a targeted copper supplement dramatically rescued movement, hinting at a future therapy that could slow or halt the disease in people

The Synthetic Human Genome project (SynHG) will involve building long strands of human genetic code to be inserted into living cells.

Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.

An analysis of how various tissues age is the latest to suggest that ageing does not march to a steady beat.

How robots can learn new skills by challenging each other.

We are exploring paradigms where two robotic agents playing against each other can achieve a greater degree of autonomous self-improvement, moving beyond systems that are merely preprogrammed with fixed or narrowly adaptive ML models toward agents that can learn a broad range of skills on the job. Building on our previous work in ML with systems like AlphaGo and AlphaFold, we turned our attention to the demanding sport of table tennis as a testbed.

Anthropic

Just tell Claude what you want, and watch it appear right before your eyes.

After reading this guide, you'll know when to use artifacts to illustrate ideas, and how to create, customize, and share them right from your Claude app.

The world's most private search engine.

A safer way to search and browse online without personal data collection, tracking or targeting.

It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

Andreessen has made no secret of the fact that he feels he and his tech oligarch peers have been betrayed by elite institutions and the Democratic party. But the reality is that they are the ones who have betrayed not only their country, but the very system which made their fortune and status possible.