May 26, 2021. One
of our graduates,
Dr. Sivarajasingam
Mahendran, had
the privilege of being
a guest speaker,
where he did a feature
presentation, in
a life skills training
organized by
Jamaica and Grenada which
lasted over 10 weeks of online
training in modules.
The life skills training’s
theme was: Transforming
leaders and creating
responsible
citizens. And the
feature speech
Dr. Siva gave was
“Leadership skills
in the 21st Century”
and it was
warmly received
by the host and
participants during
the half hour session.
Dr. Sivarajasingam Mahendran
completed a Doctorate
program in Education
at Atlantic International
University.
June 7, 2021. One of our
graduates, Cirilo Quintana Alvarado,
wrote the book, “The
Life of HEN” and it has been
published.
Summary: In chicken life
the reader will discover a
funny metaphor, which will
make him reflect on how we
carry out our existence day by
day. In this story, we can find
alternatives to improve, it will
allow us to make a stop along
the way and self-analysis. It
will also open the possibility
of awakening to a new reality,
which is available to all, and
that is happiness.
Finally, routines can be
transformed into habits. ...
Cirilo Quintana Alvarado
has completed a Doctorate
program in Education at AIU.
May 19,
2021. One
of our
graduates,
Garikayi
Mutongoreya,
has
recently
presented his Thesis Defense,
which was graded with an A.
His thesis defense was
titled, “Exploring Pro-growth
Corporate Social Responsibility
Strategies Of Firms In
Township Economies”.
In his PowerPoint
presentation Garikayi explained
that the philanthropic
concept of CSR is arguably
said to be deceptive as it
transfers wealth created by
others but does not transfer
the ability to create wealth in
township and that the detachment
of CSR concept from LED
has created an unnecessary
duplicity resulting in weak
township economies.
Garikayi Mutongoreya
completed a Doctorate program
with a major in Business
Administration at AIU.
June, 2021. These graduate students completed the majority of
the requirements to obtain honors, which included a 4.0 GPA,
published works, recommendation from their respective advisors,
patent a product, etc. Congratulations!
April 21, 2021. One of our
graduates, Ngala Solange
Mudih, recently presented
her thesis defense which was
graded with an A.
Her thesis was titled, “The
Association of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV) with
other Factors and Tuberculosis
(TB) Treatment Outcomes
Among Patients in the West
Region of Cameroon”.
The aim of her thesis was
to investigate the association
between HIV and other
factors affecting TB treatment
outcomes
in five
health facilities
of
the West
region of
Cameroon
from
2015-2019.
Ngala
Solange
Mudih
completed a Doctorate program
with a major in Public
Health at Atlantic International
University.
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ABSTRACT. Some countries
have proposed to introduce
a Covid-19 vaccine passport
in a bid to curb the spread
of Covid-19 and revive the travel industry and the global
economy. From a legal standpoint,
the term health passport
is controversial. Indeed, it is
necessary to differentiate the passport, which has a precise
legal meaning, and which certifies
the identity and nationality
of a citizen, from the concept of
a vaccination record. I. INTRODUCTION
The world pandemic is
currently facing is causing an
unprecedented human health
crisis. Travel restrictions and
then containment, put in place
by governments to stem it,
crippled global activity quickly
causing a socio-economic
crisis that is still struggling to
fully appreciate. The crisis has
also impacted Human Rights
in several ways.
First, because it mainly
affects those with political,
social, economic and cultural
rights, including women,
children, ethnic or religious
minorities, and people with
disabilities, refugees and
migrants.
Second, because the fight
against the pandemic serves
as a pretext for abuse by
regimes and governments
that are already reluctant to
respect Human Rights (David
Guyon, 2021). Far from reducing
international tensions, the
health crisis and its socio-economic
and legal repercussions
risk, on the contrary, having
a profound and lasting effect
on international relations,
contributing to more insecurity
and unrest on the whole
planet. The vaccine passport,
erected as a new sesame to
hope to travel freely within
a few months, explained this
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Ursula von der Leyen, President
of the European Commission.
What is the legality
of this passport? What will be
the situation of people who
refuse to be vaccinated and
who find themselves totally
excluded from community?
This passport does not constitute
the official establishment
of discrimination?
The historical method
(Cibuka 2010-2011) consists essentially
of historical events
which leads to the adoption
of the text of the provisions
prior to the text to be interpreted.
It is, in a way, to make
history of his genealogy. The
exegetical method, on the
other hand, will help us to
interpret the legal instruments
both national, regional
and international in order to
understand the scope of the
legality or illegality of the
vaccination passport. The legal approach (Mpongo,
2001) consists in analyzing
and exposing positive law but
also in confronting the facts
and the law and which aims to
solve a problem of “dogmatic”
and “casuistry”, allowed us to
'analyze the texts relating to
the question of the vaccination
passport.
II. DISCUSSIONS
Currently, is there a vaccination
passport, that is, such
a title based not on identity or
nationality, but on the immunization
status of the people?
Things are clear on this point:
the answer is no. No national
or international standard recognizes
the term “vaccination
passport” or “health passport”.
Historically, the concept
is also unknown, even if the
eighteenth century, marked
by epidemics, saw the birth
of “health tickets” making it
possible to establish the “good
health status of travelers”. This
document is certainly compulsory,
but quite distinct, legally
at least, from the passport.
The introduction of a “vaccine
passport”, that is to say
the requirement of the possession
of an official document
justifying the realization of a
vaccine in order to be able to
escape certain restrictions of
freedom, constitutes a dangerous
slope which could well
spell the death knell for the
democratic soul of our modern
and civilized community.
France is considered the
cradle of vaccination with
Louis Pasteur. Since their
inception, vaccines have eradicated
a large number of contagious
diseases, particularly
affecting children. A country’s
vaccination policy therefore
constitutes an essential component
of its health policy,
which constitutes one of the
triptychs of public order.
According to the World
Health Organization (WHO), a
vaccine is a preparation given
to induce immunity against
a disease by stimulating the
production of antibodies. Immunization
coverage is the
proportion of people vaccinated
in a population at a
given time.
The vaccine will not be
compulsory, but to move
around, access transport or
certain activities, it will be
necessary. In other words,
freedom, equality, if you are
vaccinated. It should be noted
immediately that the debate
will not focus on whether we
are for or against this vaccine
but whether our community
is ready to agree to legalize
discrimination on the basis of
health by agreeing to exclude
from social life those people
who refuse to submit to it.
The vaccination passport
would indeed undoubtedly
constitute an infringement
of several fundamental rights
and freedoms, such as the
freedom of coming and going,
bodily integrity, and even
privacy.
To be constitutional, it
would then be necessary for
the requirement of such a
document to be absolutely
“necessary and proportionate”,
according to the formula usually
adopted, but the content
of which is flexible to assess
(there is no precise definition).
This question raises legal
difficulties which need to be
analyzed. These are not the
only freedoms destroyed.
However, given their importance,
it seems necessary
to indicate how this vaccination
passport destroys the
principles founding our recent
Communities. Freedom is the
right to be able to do anything
that does not harm others.
The freedom is here reduced
in the hypothesis that the vaccine
is not carried out or not
justified by an official document.
Indirectly but surely,
unvaccinated citizens will find
themselves deprived of the
right to undertake, to work, of
the freedom to come and go,
and of the right to respect for
private and family life.
This will also have an impact
on the property rights of
some who may find themselves
deprived of it as a result
of this social exclusion (Art. 17
of the DDHC).
In terms of international
law, we will mention the provisions
of Article 8 of the European
Convention on Human Rights. This text protects the
right to private and family life.
As such, the European Court
of Human Rights has developed
case law that protects the
private sphere in particular,
including the right to selfdetermination
and health.
Indeed, under Article 8 of
the EHR Convention, it has
long been recognized that
there is a right to consent to
care. (Court EDH, Pretty v
United Kingdom, April 29,
2002, n ° 2346/02).
The principle of equality
finds its source in constitutional
law and permeates all
of our law.
On the one hand, it implies
that all people placed in an
identical situation are treated
in the same way, which in turn
allows different situations to
be treated differently; on the
other hand, that it be possible
to derogate from equality
when a reason of general
interest justifies it.
In these two situations, the
difference in treatment that
may result must be directly
related to the purpose of the
standard which establishes it
and must not be manifestly
disproportionate in relation to
the reasons likely to justify it.
In international law we
speak rather of the right to
non-discrimination which is
protected in article 14 of the
European Convention on Human
Rights. In the opposite
pattern, which constitutes the
current situation, where access
to the vaccine is conditioned
and complex, such a provision
would result in the intolerable
creation of discrimination at
national level, it is not certain
that the same is true at the
international level.
This could then result
in inequality between rich
countries, where the inhabitants
would be free to move
around, because they hold
such a passport, and poor
countries, where the vaccine
is not available, and where
the population would therefore
be isolated.
CONCLUSION
The vaccination passport
is a very controversial from a
legal point of view and which
raises many more questions
than it answers. Indeed, it is
necessary to differentiate the
passport, which has a precise
legal meaning, and which certifies
the identity and nationality
of a citizen, from the concept
of a vaccination record.
Several disadvantages that
may be caused by this vaccination
passport: Violation
of Human Rights; discrimination
against minority groups
and the unvaccinated people
as well as young people and
children; Inaccessibility
and inequality of access to
vaccines. In International
Law, the approach differs
and seeks more the right to
non-discrimination.
Following the implementation
of the vaccination passport,
an element of the health
of individuals would lead to
the social exclusion of some
of them. Vaccinated citizens
would then be distinguished
from citizens who have not
received their dose of vaccine.
In other words, the
principle of the vaccination
passport could be considered
a discriminatory legalization
on grounds of health.
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Culture is what human
beings have done. Culture
is our task that we have left to
future generations.
Culture is Science, Art, Religion,
Customs, that identify
human groups and that make
each of them a different set
of beings of the species called
homo sapiens.
The development of each
human group is made different
by the circumstances
that enter each formation
of the species. The climate,
the vision of life, the way of
appropriating the elements
of nature for existence, even
the elements that enter in the
way that life can develop.
A Culture is the
representation of the trajectory
of the human groups.
Each element of a culture
has its value: to say that only
the science that this group
does is valid and that the
dances that represent this
other indigenous group aren’t
culture is an error: these
dances have their meaning
in the development of those
beings. The work of human
groups is the legacy for subsequent
generations and it’s the
book of learning for the new
human lives.
We live in a world in which
we admire everything we do,
in any aspect, in this global
village, but everything that
exists, however extraordinary
it may seem, is the result of
the experience that is brought
as living beings.
This present world constitutes
what we call Civilization.
There are many who only
live in Civilization. There are
groups of human beings who
live with the thought that their
group is the best because they
did this and that.
History lets us see that
human groups that seem to
be better than others have
actors who determined that economic growth, and everything
that the economy can
bring, by the means of which
they appropriated to be left
with more resources.
Each human group, if they
had the same opportunities,
would surely have the same in
terms of benefits.
The vast majority think that
when it comes to Culture, it
refers to Art and Culture is all
human endeavor.
Civilization brings us
wonderful elements but at the
time we live there seems to be
a contradiction: the more science
and technology we have,
human beings seem not to
grow, from the human point of
view, in the same proportion:
a lot of technology but not a
lot of ethics.
It seems incredible that with
such a growth of science and technology we have towns
whose inhabitants move to
other regions that are not their
origin, looking for a way to
be able to exist: they lack the
minimum to be able to live.
In the times we live in;
regardless of the pandemic we
have, we already had problems
with migrations.
What happens to us as human
beings?
First of all, the sciences
dedicated to human life don’t
receive as many resources as
those that provide the power
of goods, for example, as the
sciences for war.
Where is the research in the
Human Sciences? We have a
lot of work ahead of us.
We see the way in which
food, health, education are
lacking for many human beings
while for others abundance
is an insult to others.
As for what we are leaving
as Culture to the following
generations, we should ask
ourselves the following question:
will it not be painful to
leave such an unequal world
to the following generations?
Living in this world of great
development of certain sciences
and technology, we witness
that everyone would like
a wonderful job that would
allow them to have a high
income to enjoy the extraordinary
life shown by the media.
Knowing for some is
making money. Knowledge
has as its first objective: to
know who we are, to know
where we are, to discover and
realize the skills we have and
through this: to achieve what
makes us happy.
There are many human
beings around the world who
think that they can skip some
stages of human development
and get a lot of money in the
job they want.
Yes, I go to a university
but I want my assessments
without reaching the necessary
knowledge.
I want the highest assessments
in this and in that, regardless
of what the teachers
tell me: knowledge is lacking
here; in this other also knowledge
is lacking.
There are many who think
that with a record full of “A” of
10 or 100 they will achieve the
success in their life.
There is something very
special: Knowledge is a Culture
and it’s built on thought.
Knowledge is building a
conception of life, happiness,
others, society and work.
Conceptions that have not
been forged in our brain can’t
be imaged.
When you arrive at a job
interview, just by being there
shows what you have in your
brain. When you start talking,
whatever it is, it also shows
what training that brain has.
Thinking that someone
with a scientific culture
is going to be deceived is a
mistake.
What hasn’t been worked
on in the brain isn’t achieved
in an instant.
What you have to do as a
student is, precisely, study
and when you don’t know
something: ask.
After leaving school you
have to continue studying for
all your life.
Studying for all your life
is no longer an obligation
because when you look for
a way to know during the
school stay, you always
want to know.
If you study, take advantage
of the opportunity that life
has given you.
We must learn
throughout life
to be happy which
was what we were
born for.
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26, 2017. El Banco Mundial advierte sobre una “Crisis del aprendizaje”
en la educación a nivel Mundial. http://www.bancomundial.org/es/news/
press-release/2017/09/26/world-bank-warns-of-learning-crisis-in-globaleducation
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Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), página oficial. Educación. http://unesdoc.
unesco.org/images/0024/002472/247234s.pdf
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to the children with special needs,
the conception of shadow teaching
has been implemented quite in recent
times. ... In 21st century teachinglearning
process, besides just training
academics, teachers facilitate children
to comprehend the rules of playing
by interacting socially with the help
of sharing and caring. Nevertheless,
talking about the special children, not
all children become skilled at the same
time as their peers, they may require
additional support in some areas.
That’s when the role of a shadow
teacher comes in, the one on one support
starts from here.
Ideally a shadow teacher is an
important person who helps the
special child by carrying out his/her
required program which is in place.
They are the ‘exclusive’ teachers, who
are keeping the child on an appropriate
track by managing any behavioural
program, etc. They are provided by
schools most of the time, they help in
the educational activities of the special
child by implementing the course
curriculum. The shadow teacher also
gives important feedback. They help
in preventing the child from facing
unwanted problems and decrease hyperactivity
to assist in educational activities.
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of Neanderthals set up camp
in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains,
overlooking a river valley where
bison, red deer, and wild horses roamed.
In the cave’s main gallery, a teenage
girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing
on bison that her father or his kin had
hunted in the sweeping grasslands.
Now, researchers have analyzed the
genomes of this father and daughter
and 12 of their relatives, many of
whom sheltered in the same cave over
less than 100 years. The new genomes
almost double the number of Neanderthal
genomes known and offer a
glimpse of the Neanderthal population
at the eastern end of their range, at a
time when they were headed toward
extinction. The genomes also offer the
first real clues to the social structure of
a group of Neanderthals. In addition
to identifying the first father-daughter
pair, the genetic evidence suggests
these males stayed in their family
groups as adults, like men in many
modern human societies, says geneticist
Laurits Skov of the Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
He presented the work in a virtual
talk at the ninth International Symposium
on Biomolecular Archaeology
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gape and dangling lure, are
among the most curious inhabitants of
the deep ocean. Scientists have hardly
ever seen them alive in their natural
environment. That’s why a new
video, captured in the waters around
Portugal’s Azores islands, has stunned
deep-sea biologists. It shows a fist-size
female anglerfish, resplendent with
bioluminescent lights and elongated
whiskerlike structures projecting outward
from her body. And if you look
closely, she’s got a mate: A dwarf male
is fused to her underside, essentially
acting as a permanent sperm provider.
“I’ve been studying these [animals]
for most of my life and I’ve never seen
anything like it,” says Ted Pietsch, a
deep-sea fish researcher at the University
of Washington in Seattle.
Most of what we know about
deep-sea anglerfish comes from dead
animals pulled up in nets. Scientists
have identified more than 160 species,
but only a handful of videos exist —and
this is the first to show a sexually united
pair. “So you can see how rare and
important this discovery is,” Pietsch
says. “It was really a shocker for me.”
The video was captured at a depth
of 800 meters by deep-sea explorers
Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen in a
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of plant-based food products with
a cruelty-free, animal-free “dairy”
product that acts and tastes as it had
come from a cow. On its website, Tel
Aviv-based food tech startup Imagindairy
describes its invention as a base
for “tasty, healthy and nutritious dairy
products that are environmentally
friendly and care for animal welfare at
affordable prices.” The vegan milk is
developed in a lab from “dairy proteinbased”
components via a special
fermentation process.
Through an artificial intelligenceassisted
technique called “precision
fermentation,” Imagindairy replicates
milk proteins “identical” to the whey
and casein proteins in a “cow’s mammary
cells,” CEO Eyal Afergan told
FoodNavigator. Fermentation takes
three to five days, and comes from
technology comprising 15 years of
research. Afergan said the protein
can be “easily harvested” in high volumes,
enough to mimic the amount
found in dairy milk. It is then purified
and dehydrated into a powder. At the
end of it, you get “animal-free dairy”
that matches cow’s milk in sensory
experiences while being suited for
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camped outside the Barrio
Obrero general hospital in Asunción
don’t need charts or datasets to confirm
what they can see with their own eyes.
As Paraguay records the world’s highest
daily proportion of Covid deaths,
the huddled families wait for news of
their loved ones —and for the sudden
requests for medicine and supplies that
the country’s chronically underfunded
health system cannot provide.
“There’s really so little support from
the government —it’s a disaster,” said
Jessica Ortigosa, whose father was
languishing in a chair instead of a bed.
“They should have prepared for all this
from the start of the pandemic.” ...
And as the US and Europe begin to
emerge from the pandemic, discard
their masks and ponder how best to
spend the recovery funds, the crisis
most evident in Paraguay is playing
out across much of South America.
India may have commanded much
of the world’s attention over recent
weeks, but Paraguay, Suriname,
Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil
and Peru are suffering —in that
order— a silent decimation by Covid
unlike that anywhere else in the world.
Even in seventh-placed Peru, the
number of deaths per million stands at
9.12 —more than three times the figure
in India. In the early months of the ...
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Could long Covid spell the end of
medical gaslighting? Let’s hope so.
Kathy Flaherty, a 53-year-old attorney...
got Covid-19 in March 2020 ... A
former marathon runner, [two weeks
later] she could only take a walk around
her backyard before she was exhausted.
To Flaherty’s surprise and dismay,
her doctor suggested that the problem
might be psychological rather than
physical. ... Now, a year later, Flaherty
is doing better, but is still struggling. ...
Wilhemina Jenkins, 73, has much
the same story. Like many Covid-19
long haulers, she found herself unable
to function after the initial symptoms
of her virus were resolved. She tried
to make herself do things, only to be
back in bed for days afterwards. ... “my
ability to think went out the window.”
The difference is that Jenkins, who
is African American, got sick in 1983.
Back then, the problem was dubbed
“chronic fatigue syndrome.” ... Jenkins
struggled to get a diagnosis because as
an African American she didn’t fit this
stereotype. It’s now known as myalgic
encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue
syndrome (ME/CFS). For decades,
most doctors treated it as psychiatric.
An entire pseudoscience grew up
around it, that combined cognitive
behavioral therapy with something
called “graded exercise therapy.” ...
Infinity Mirror Rooms show opening
at the Tate Modern, Mark Perkins
—executive pastry chef of the Rosewood
Hotel in London— has created
an afternoon tea menu richly inspired
by the work and depth of the Japanese
contemporary artist. The selection will
be served, quite aptly, at the hotel’s
own Mirror Room.
The cherries on top are three cakes
that closely mirror Kusama’s artworks.
There’s an All My Love for Tulips dessert
comprising a yuzu citrus mousse,
raspberry yuzu jelly, almond cake,
green tea cookie, raspberry cremeux
and chocolate petals ... and strawberry
crisps; and Dots Obsession–Soul of
Pumpkin constructed with a flourless
chocolate cake, passion fruit cremeux,
chocolate mousse, praline feuilletine,
passionfruit ganache, and chocolate
art. ...
Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen
has launched Aireal, an online
library showcasing materials that
can capture atmospheric carbon. The
fledgling library contains images and
descriptions of materials developed
by companies and institutes around
the world. Materials featured include
olivine, an abundant mineral that
can absorb its own mass of carbon
dioxide when crushed and scattered
on the ground.
The library also features materials —
from paper to fibre and food— that neutralise
atmospheric carbon dioxide by
absorbing the carbon and releasing the
oxygen. “Aireal is a growing material
library showing materials that capture
CO2 in their production process,” said
van Dongen. “The materials were
developed in the spirit of the circular
economy, where waste does not exist
and carbon dioxide is seen as a resource
for the creation of the products.”
Olivine, a green-coloured magnesium–
iron silicate, is one of the most
common minerals on earth, making
up between 60 and 80% of the earth’s
mantle. As part of its natural weathering
process, the surface of the mineral
reacts with CO2 contained in rainwater,
absorbing the carbon to create a
new carbonate mineral.
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After unveiling the first prototype
this spring, the University of
electric scooter. The aim is to create an
Tokyo is now presenting a new version
of its “poimo” concept (“POrtable and
Inflatable MObility”), an inflatable
easily transportable device for use as
and when needed.
The “poimo” project is the fruit of
a collaboration between researchers
from the University of Tokyo and the
research and development division
of the startup Mercari (Mercari R4D).
They’re working on developing something
called “soft mobility” solutions,
with soft, lightweight and inflatable
credentials to create easily portable
mobility devices, some of which can
even be carried in a backpack.
As well as saving space, the advantage
of the latest concept is that
it can theoretically be custom fit to
suit different body sizes. ...
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“Selenium is an essential trace
mineral. It is a powerful antioxidant
that affects many functions in
the body,” says Stephanie Middleberg.
Antioxidants help protect your cells
from damage-causing free radicals and
work to reduce chronic inflammation
in the body. Selenium key benefits:
1 Helps other antioxidants do their
job. Your body needs it in order to
reap the most benefits out of certain
antioxidants.
2 It helps your body metabolize
thyroid hormones. Consequently,
selenium can benefit your digestion
and overall mood.
3 It is also important for the reproductive
health of both men and women.
4 It is important in glutathione production,
which helps the body produce
more antioxidants and facilitates
cell growth. It also binds with heavy
metals and toxins and helps them
move to the stool to be eliminated.
5 It may have a protective effect
against cancer (like prostate, lung,
and stomach). This is linked to selenium’s
aforementioned ability to help
antioxidants work in the body.
Some selenium foods to incorporate
into your meals: Brazil nuts, fish and
shellfish, turkey and chicken, eggs, cottage
cheese, brown rice and barley. ...
I have aphantasia, a neurological
condition that leaves me with the
inability to mentally visualise my
thoughts. While most people are able to
‘see’ images associated with stories and
thoughts when their eyes are closed,
when I close my eyes, I experience only
darkness. I have no sensory experience.
Aphantasia has likely existed
throughout our evolution, but it wasn’t
documented until 1880, when Francis
Galton asked people to imagine
a breakfast table and, based on their
reports, noted that the vividness of the
scene in the mind’s eye occurred on a
spectrum. The term ‘aphantasia’ itself
was coined only recently, in 2015, by
Adam Zenman, professor of cognitive
and behavioural neurology at the
Aphantasia
University of Exeter. In his writings,
Zenman explains that voluntary imagery
is generated in fronto-parietal and
in posterior brain regions, ascribing
vividness to biological differences from
one person to the next. For most of us,
aphantasia is a congenital condition,
but others develop it following a brain
injury. ... The condition is estimated to
affect 2 per cent of people.
Many of us with aphantasia don’t
realise that we have this condition.
This lack of knowledge is largely rooted
in our use of language as a substitute.
When told to ‘imagine a beach’, we assume
that it merely means to imagine
the concept of a beach.
For months the waters around
Istanbul, Turkey, have been coated
with a gloopy film. Sometimes creamy,
sometimes khaki, it can appear slightly
dreamy or superlatively gross, depending
on the vantage. From overhead, it’s
almost romantic, like clouds glimpsed
from space, white squiggles marbling
Earth’s blue. Up close, the stuff is
much more phlegmy. The shore-hugging
substance is sometimes known
as “sea snot,” and it’s easy to see why.
It looks like the marine equivalent of a
big, wet sneeze.
Sea snot is more scientifically
known as “marine mucilage,” and it’s
an ecosystem of its own. In a 2009 paper
in the journal PLOS One, a team of
scientists led by Roberto Danovaro, a
marine biologist at Italy’s Polytechnic
University of Marche, described it as
a “gelatinous” stage of marine snow,
the jumble of organic material —such
as feces and fragments of dead plants
and animals— that drifts from the
surface to the ocean floor.
The snot is produced by a bunch of
microorganisms, one Turkish research
team explained in a UNESCO bulletin
called Harmful Algae News, especially
microalgae known as diatoms.
These petite algae are known to exude
polysaccharides, sugary carbohydrates
that can get quite sticky. Sampling sea
snot that clotted several locations in
the Sea of Marmara in 2007 and 2008,
the researchers also identified species
of dinoflagellates and more. ...
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Deforestation soared 67% in May
from the same month last year,
according to Brazil’s national space
research institute Inpe, with much of
the land targeted for cattle ranches,
farms and logging.
For the first five months of the year,
the data show deforestation was up
25% compared with a year earlier, with
2,548 square km destroyed —an area
more than three times the size of New
York City. Deforestation peaks during
the dry season from May to October,
when it is easier for illegal loggers to
access the forest.
Bolsonaro pledged at an Earth Day
summit in April to double funding for
environmental enforcement. The next
day, he signed the 2021 federal budget
that slashed environmental spending.
Environment Minister Ricardo Salles
immediately submitted a proposal
for the Economy Ministry to increase
environmental spending, but that
request that has gone unanswered for
more than a month.
Bolsonaro’s office did not respond
immediately to a Reuters request for
comment. U.S. President Joe Biden’s
administration has been negotiating ...
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In July 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-
3, an artificial intelligence language
model that quickly stoked excitement
about computers writing poetry, news
articles, and programming code. Just
as quickly, it was shown to sometimes
be foulmouthed and toxic. OpenAI
said it was working on fixes, but the
company recently discovered GPT-3
was being used to generate child porn.
Now OpenAI researchers say they’ve
found a way to curtail GPT-3’s toxic
text by feeding the program roughly
100 encyclopedia-like samples of writing
by human professionals on topics
like history and technology but also
abuse, violence, and injustice.
OpenAI’s project shows how the
tech industry is scrambling to constrain
the dark side of a technology
that’s shown enormous potential but
also can spread disinformation and
perpetuate biases. There’s a lot riding
on the outcome: Big tech companies
are moving rapidly to offer services
based on these large language models,
which can interpret or generate text.
Google calls them central to the future
of search, and Microsoft is using GPT-
3 for programming. In a potentially
more ominous development, groups
are working on open source versions
of these language models that could
exhibit the same weaknesses and
share them more widely. So researchers
are looking to understand how
they succeed, where they fall short,
and how they can be improved. ...
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The marshmallow test ... is pretty
straightforward. A child is placed
in a room with a marshmallow. They
are told if they can manage not to
eat the marshmallow for 15 minutes,
they’ll get a second marshmallow, and
be allowed to eat both. This ability to
delay gratification demonstrates cognitive
abilities such as future planning,
and it was originally conducted to
study how human cognition develops;
specifically, at what age a human is
smart enough to delay gratification if it
means a better outcome later.
It can be adjusted for animals. Obviously
you can’t tell an animal they’ll get
a better reward if they wait, but you can
train them to understand that better food is coming if they don’t eat the food
in front of them straight away. Some
primates can delay gratification, along
with dogs... Corvids, too... Last year,
cuttlefish also passed a version of the
marshmallow test. Scientists showed
that common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)
can refrain from eating a meal
of crab meat in the morning once they
have learnt dinner will be something
they like much better —shrimp. As a
team of researchers led by behavioural
ecologist Alexandra Schnell of the University
of Cambridge point out in a ...
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