I was going to post this in the happy thread, but I didn't want to offend the sensibilities of the perpetually grumpy.
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Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
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In 2021, there were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982 – with the report stating ‘this remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination’.
And no, I will absolutely not forget how antivaxers and the religious right want to condemn young women to cancer because they are all dumb as ####. I hope your children sue you for negligence one day. Don't ever give these mother####ers an inch.
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This video is just basic science information, but it is the first video Dianna (Physics Girl) has been able to make after dealing with long Covid for three years, so I'm happy to see it.
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight.
The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, while simultaneously creating a useful, value-added chemical product through a process inspired by nature.
“Our goal was to solve the plastic pollution challenge by converting microplastic waste into high-value products using sunlight,” said Dr. Yimin Wu, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and the Tang Family Chair in New Energy Materials and Sustainability.
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To tackle this problem, the team developed a bio-inspired cascade photocatalysis using iron atoms embedded in carbon nitride, like how certain types of fungi break down organic matter using enzymes.
When exposed to sunlight, the material drives a series of chemical reactions that transform plastic polymers into acetic acid with high selectivity. The reaction takes place in water, making it particularly relevant for addressing plastic pollution in aquatic environments.
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While still at the laboratory stage, the team envisions that this approach could be adapted for scalable, solar-driven recycling and environmental cleanup and the photocatalytic upcycling system can be further enhanced through strategic engineering of the materials and manufacturing processes.
Now we just need to figure out what to do with all that vinegar...perhaps with a companion process producing baking soda, we can create the world's largest science fair eruption. Or maybe rockets.
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That's just making an extraordinary claim because we don't fully understand something. "...only makes sense if there is a program at work, because only a program can ignore the laws of physics." Or a God. Or a turtle.
I accept that I could be wrong, but I think it's likely they are wrong. I think they are basically asking the question 'who created the universe' which I believe to be the wrong question in that it -presupposes a creator, showing a misunderstanding of time, the universe wasn't really created, there wasn't really a before in the universe, it just was, time exists within it not beyond it.
I also think they have taken the sims video game to a reductio ad absurdum. Assuming if you can simulate a 'world' you can simulate everything. But that really just ignores vastness and continuity of the universe, that requires they often only render a portion of the world as it is observed. But this ignores glitches you would with renders that were turned off and not fully 'updated' to anything else that changed in the world when you turn them back on, and it is also a very self-centric dare I say arrogant view of the world, assuming you are the main character surrounded by NPCs.
The universe already with only a could hundred years of true physics makes too much sense for it to be a partially rendered simulation.
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