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COVID-19, AMR and India
Maybe it’s not a coincidence that India is today the site of the world’s largest COVID-19 outbreak and the world’s most prominent source of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens, a.k.a. ‘superbugs’. The former fiasco is the product of failures on multiple … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged antimicrobial resistance, broad-spectrum antibiotics, COVID-19, emergent properties, novel coronavirus, One Health, pathogens, public health, superbugs
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Christopher Nolan’s explosion
In May, Total Film reported that the production team of Tenet, led by director Christopher Nolan, found that using a second-hand Boeing 747 was better than recreating a scene involving an exploding plane with miniatures and CGI. I’m not clear … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Scicomm
Tagged AMD, AMD FirePro, carbon credits, carbon emissions, CGI, Christopher Nolan, climate change, Furmark benchmark, fx, GPU, graphics processing units, Interstellar, negative externalities, Nvidia, Nvidia Quadro, One Health, special effects, Tenet
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