China is waging war on Alzheimer’s. What can its approach teach the rest of the world?
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<p>First cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in northern elephant seals confirmed in California <a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-02-cases-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2026-02-cases-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2026-02-cases-hi</span><span class="invisible">ghly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html</span></a> 🦭 <a href="/tags/pinnipeds/" rel="tag">#Pinnipeds</a> <a href="/tags/marinemammals/" rel="tag">#MarineMammals</a> <a href="/tags/marinelife/" rel="tag">#MarineLife</a> <a href="/tags/marinebiology/" rel="tag">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="/tags/seals/" rel="tag">#Seals</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/h5n1/" rel="tag">#H5N1</a> <a href="/tags/birdflu/" rel="tag">#BirdFlu</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 February 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9</span></a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#housing</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/product/" rel="tag">#product</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/lean/" rel="tag">#lean</a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>
<p>Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week</p><p><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newscientist.com/article/2517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newscientist.com/article/2</span><span class="invisible">517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/distopia/" rel="tag">#distopia</a></p>
<p>🙌 The new logo of Molecular Biology and Evolution is now live!</p><p>This new look will carry us forward while maintaining the same rigor and commitment to the molecular evolutionist community as an SMBE journal.</p><p>Visit our website to learn why publishing with MBE, as a society-owned journal, helps to support evolutionary science:<br>🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/why-publish</p><p><a href="/tags/evobio/" rel="tag">#evobio</a> <a href="/tags/molbio/" rel="tag">#molbio</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/societyjournal/" rel="tag">#societyjournal</a></p>
<p>A lab mate shared this write up of Don Knuth using LLMs to solve a math problem: <a href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~k</span><span class="invisible">nuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf</span></a></p><p>It's clear that using Claude did help them arrive at some new understanding here, which is wonderful. I'm happy for them.</p><p>However, I'm upset by how much they personify Claude and attribute the solution to "him."</p><p>From this narrative, it's clear that the humans were very actively involved from beginning to end. Claude was a helpful tool, but it did not solve this problem on its own. What role did it actually play? How was it like or unlike a human collaborator on this problem?</p><p>It did generate a crucial insight, but where did that come from? Was it plagiarized from some unknown source? Did it "just emerge" from text completion and interpolation in latent space? Do we need some other explanation for Claude's apparent creativity?</p><p>These folks don't care. They just wanted a solution, which they attribute to Claude, and leave it at that. I think that's a serious problem.</p><p><a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/math/" rel="tag">#math</a></p>
<p>RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.</p><p>History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 March 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-march-2026-ae4b1344e6d3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-march-2026-ae4b1344e6d3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-march-2026-ae4b1344e6d3</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/leadership/" rel="tag">#leadership</a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission</p><p>Image captured 6 hours ago. </p><p>Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS</p><p><a href="/tags/mars/" rel="tag">#Mars</a> <a href="/tags/curiosity/" rel="tag">#Curiosity</a> <a href="/tags/rover/" rel="tag">#rover</a> <a href="/tags/sol4844/" rel="tag">#Sol4844</a> <a href="/tags/curiosityrover/" rel="tag">#CuriosityRover</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
<p>Monk seals sometimes get eels stuck up their nose. We still don’t know why </p><p><a href="/tags/marine/" rel="tag">#Marine</a> <a href="/tags/pinnepeds/" rel="tag">#Pinnepeds</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>
<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.</p><p>This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.<br><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/childh</span><span class="invisible">ood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/model/" rel="tag">#Model</a></p>
<p>PRESS RELEASE: <a href="https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-names-lori-marino-as-2026-drake-award-recipient/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-names-lori-marino-as-2026-drake-award-recipient/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.seti.org/news/seti-institu</span><span class="invisible">te-names-lori-marino-as-2026-drake-award-recipient/</span></a> </p><p>The SETI Institute announced today that Dr. Lori Marino will receive the 2026 Drake Award, continuing its tradition of celebrating contributions to the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Marino is recognized for advancing our understanding of intelligence—on Earth and beyond—and for applying that knowledge to foster meaningful scientific, ethical, and social change. </p><p><a href="/tags/seti/" rel="tag">#seti</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
<p>‘"Project Hail Mary" demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts.</p><p>From <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span>: An anthropologist explores the hit film.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/fBa0uM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/fBa0uM</a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#Space</a> <a href="/tags/projecthailmary/" rel="tag">#ProjectHailMary</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#Film</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#Anthropology</a></p>
<p>Chinese scientists are turning plants into glowing streetlights with firefly genes, aiming to create bio-cities powered by water and nutrients instead of electricity</p><p><a href="https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/02/chinese-scientists-unveil-glowing-avatar-like-plants-that-could-light-cities-without-elect" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/02/chinese-scientists-unveil-glowing-avatar-like-plants-that-could-light-cities-without-elect"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/</span><span class="invisible">02/chinese-scientists-unveil-glowing-avatar-like-plants-that-could-light-cities-without-elect</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>Our crew at the observatory has CAPTURED THE ORION SPACECRAFT... despite the weather in <a href="/tags/toronto/" rel="tag">#Toronto</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> ... the low position of <a href="/tags/artemisii/" rel="tag">#ArtemisII</a> in the sky and having had to take the science ccd off for repairs.</p><p> Enjoy everyone, now you too can wave at the pixel of <a href="/tags/jeremyhansen/" rel="tag">#jeremyhansen</a> ! Video is up on the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/AllanICarswellObservatory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AllanICarswellObservatory</span></a></span> YouTubechannel! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/dT_ykVY1VaI?si=wDd_GQHUpdYP0-qy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/live/dT_ykVY1VaI?si=wDd_GQHUpdYP0-qy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/live/dT_ykVY1V</span><span class="invisible">aI?si=wDd_GQHUpdYP0-qy</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/orion/" rel="tag">#orion</a> <a href="/tags/artemis2/" rel="tag">#Artemis2</a> <a href="/tags/moonmission/" rel="tag">#moonmission</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/telescopes/" rel="tag">#telescopes</a> <a href="/tags/yorkuniversity/" rel="tag">#yorkuniversity</a> <a href="/tags/moon/" rel="tag">#moon</a> <a href="/tags/observatory/" rel="tag">#observatory</a> <a href="/tags/astrodon/" rel="tag">#Astrodon</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>
