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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?Black-eyed Susans and glads. Classic late summer flowers!
My Susies are going great guns, now that I've eliminated the rabbit menace. They used to eat them down to the ground by June and I never used to see any flowers. I'll divide and move some around either later this fall or next spring. They've been flower for three solid weeks and show no signs of slowing down.
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Who needs Wuhan and what could possibly go wrong?Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers.
It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI.
The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people.
The breakthrough has been labelled a "very significant turning point" in science that could unlock a new era for treating disease. But experts have also warned AI-designed viruses raise "urgent" safety and security concerns.
AI tools are rapidly advancing and have already been used to design new antibiotics.
But that is relatively simple compared with designing a new viable virus from scratch.
"This is a next step in the complexity that's designable by generative AI, this is the first time generative AI has been used to design a complete genome, it's something that can replicate and have other functions inside cells… this was new territory for us," Brian Hie, assistant professor at Stanford University, told the BBC.
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About that White House ballroom and the East WingThe Trump administration has been ordered to stop construction on President Donald Trump's $400m (£297m) ballroom at the White House.
A federal appeals court dealt the latest setback to the controversial project on Friday, testing Trump's presidential authority. He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
"Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help," the panel's majority said.
The order upholds a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after the administration tore down the East Wing last year to begin the project without congressional approval.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyq80jqqleo
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From complaints to connectionNursing Home Chef Got Tons of Complaints About Food. He Asked 1 Simple Question That Changed Everything
“When you start getting that personal connection, you realize you’re a guest in their house,” says chef Craig Bowerson.
This story made me dig up my Mom's old recipe book. Talk about a flood of memories. A lot of her recipes were ones that her friends shared with her.
Here are three I remember well; Jell-o figures prominently. There are others, but they are in Lithuanian!
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Short sleepersWhy Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep
Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences.
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Well, Hello!So glad to hear you have found your place to land, @daniel . Wishing you much happiness in your new home.
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Continuing to redecorate Washington DCPirro came prepared. No umbrella as far as I can tell...
The top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital carted a box full of evidence to the White House on Monday, in a bid to prove to President Trump that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by shoddy construction and not by vandals, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News on Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, a staunch ally of the president, made the case in a sometimes heated private meeting in the Oval Office Monday, hours after Mr. Trump had publicly rebuked her for dropping criminal charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
She was later photographed leaving the White House carting a large white box and other bags, which sources said contained all of the evidence collected from the Interior Department that exculpated Hearn and several others from criminal vandalism.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pirro-box-evidence-trump-reflecting-pool-damage/
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Victor Borge plays it straight — Clair de LuneI saw him at Ravinia in the late 1990s. It was a hot humid day and he was of course performing in the outdoor pavilion. He was sweating profusely and I was worried he would keel over mid-performance but he never missed a beat.
Borge played his first major concert in 1926
Holy cow.
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How is everyone's summer going?Think I learned the folk harp is not for me.
How about kanklės, a Baltic box zither instrument that's a popular folk instrument in Lithuania? I could pronounce you an honorary Lithuanian to make it official.
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