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NASA celebrates anniversary of JFK speech
"NASA celebrated the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's historic moonshot speech Kennedy spoke at rice university in Houston in 1962 about sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade and bringing them safely back to earth But why some say the moon He said why climb the highest mountain We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things Not because they are easy but because they are hard 60 years later at rice university administrator Bill Nelson talked about NASA's Artemis moon rocket Not going to be easy It's going to be hard Some things never change NASA is gearing up for a test flight of Artemis after two scrubbed launches But this is more than just a moonshot To take us further than ever before to Mars NASA hopes to launch Artemis at the end of the month I'm Ed Donahue
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"rice university" Discussed on Pulse of AI
"Welcome back to the pulse of AI, I'm Jason stoughton, here in Silicon Valley. Joining me on the show today is Byron Reese to talk about his latest book that just hit the bookshelves titled stories, dice, and rocks that think, how humans learn to see the future. Byron is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, futurist, award winning author, and just a really fun guy to talk to. If you are like me and you believe the saying that history doesn't necessarily repeat, but that it does rhyme sometimes, and so you end up spending a lot of time studying history in order to get a better understanding of what might happen in the future, then you will love this book. It's a tour de force that explores three leaps in history that Byron has identified that he claims made his who we are, and that by really understanding these, it will change how we think about the future. In this wide ranging conversation, we talk about the book, his career, technology in general, transformation, and even about how he writes so prolifically. Don't forget if you like what you hear, subscribe to the podcast, follow me on Twitter at the pulse of AI or pay me on LinkedIn. Let's get to it. Well, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So let's start out by just having you tell the audience a little bit about yourself. Well, I was raised on a farm in east Texas, a fact I don't have much nostalgia about. And I tended rice university where I met my wife. I mean, she wasn't my wife when I met her.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Melissa Cain Travis and Eric Discuss How Life Came Into Being
"I'm talking to Melissa Kane Travis. She's the author of science and the mind of the maker with the conversation between faith and science reveals about God. Let's get specific Melissa. There are a lot of exciting chapters in here. I never know where to go first because I like it all, right? But the idea of how life came into being from non life. I don't remember if you deal with that in a whole chapter if you just touch on that in the book. But what they call a biogenesis. Do you talk about that? I do. There's a chapter in there that talks about the problem posed for naturalistic origin of life theories. When we consider the specified complexity found in the DNA molecule. And for the listeners who are familiar with doctor Stephen Meyer, who you mentioned earlier, he's written an entire book on that, right? Signature in the cell. So I drew on Myers work for that chapter. Well, it's interesting because I came to it a little bit through Stephen Meyers, but also through doctor James tour, who's also down there in Houston at rice university. And what I always find funny is the fact that we never talk about this. about it. But if you go up to your average person and say, okay, life appears on earth, single celled form 4 billion years ago. How did that happen? I think most people just go what do you mean? I don't know. How did it happen? It's like you would think that that would be the most basic question. Science. Okay, science. The most basic questions. There's life. We are life. How did life come into being? And it seems like the more we know about the complexity of DNA, the complexity of single cell, the more we know that we have no idea how life came into being. But that's a pretty big thing to admit. So nobody's really been very public about it, at least on the non Christian side of the
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Paradigm Shift From Science to Religion
"Stephen, you believe, and I also believe that we're at a we can call it a tipping point a paradigm shifting inflection point in western culture where over the decades, the arguments for God have become so strong that with books like yours and others, there's a shift going on. Now, you're really, you're in a world where you talk to actual scientists, do you find that scientists are out there are quietly saying yes, this seems clear, the arguments in your book return of the God hypothesis are compelling. What do you, what do you hear out there in that world? Yeah, I do think there's a shift going on. I was very pleasantly surprised that some of the endorsements that came back from for the book from scientists to whom the publisher had sent it. And very prominent people and Nobel laureate, you mentioned professor Jim tour at rice university. It was one of the top organic chemists in the world and nano and nanotechnology specialist. We've had them. Scientists recently who's come to affiliate with our work at discovery Institutes with top paleontologists in the world who sometime between 2009 and 2016 had a big rethink of the materialistic Darwinian perspective that he had long held and embrace the theory of intelligent design and eventually publicly announced that he had become a theist and indeed even a Christian and be Gunther Beckley a great German paleontologist. Where is he in Germany? He was at the Stuttgart museum of natural history, the largest Natural History Museum of curator there. It was made somewhat unwelcome after he announced that he supported intelligent design. Well, does this get to the idea though that you still have it's just fascinating to me that there are people that say, no, no, no, you can't talk about that. I just find this fascinating because look, we saw this in Galileo's day, right? Galileo says, hey, I've got some evidence here. He was a Christian. Anybody who wants to talk about that in my book, he was a profound Christian. And he says, look, look at the telescope here, the evidence, and they said then, no, no, no, we can't talk about that. That's unseemly, that's preposterous. It's offensive, it's blasphemous. The same thing is happening today. A guy like gunter Beckley tremendous credentials, tremendous credibility in that world. The moment he seems to side with you or people who are theists, suddenly the German scientific world says we don't like you anymore. And also Wikipedia. He was a great paleontologist until he announced this, and then his page was erased. But, you know, I'm really undeterred by that because this thing is catching on worldwide. And it's a bit immodest but for people who wonder, go to my web page, look at the book endorsement. It's amazing the breadth of scientific the breadth of the scientific opinions that have been lodged in favor of this idea that science is pointing
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Why China Is Laughing at Joe Biden With David Goldman
"Welcome back to one on one with David Goldman. David, we've been discussing these issues for so very, very long. We have also alighted on your recommendation, numerous times. You visited us in The White House and made it first then I think that we need a new space race. We need that speech at rice university from a president who just gets America back into some national program that gets us to a Pinnacle of research and development. I got to ask you last week we had the launch into space of a 90 year old American captain Kirk Bill Shatner made it on a what was it 5 minute space ride? That's not exactly what you're talking about is it, David, you're talking about something big. Yeah, live long and prostate. But you're talking about something a bit larger than Jeff Bezos is vanity project. It's how you know. Seth, you and I have been talking about decoupling at least some parts of the U.S. economy from China for years. As of last month, U.S. imports from China are up 30% since 2018 when Trump started going after them. That's because the body administration has thrown trillions of dollars of people and giving people an incentive to say out of the workforce, people have money to spend, but we can't find the workers because of the disincentives created by government programs. So we've got to buy the goods from China. China's exports to us are booming. They are now equal to 27% of our manufacturing GDP. It's an astonishing number. That is. We need to rebuild American industry. We've got a business elite that doesn't care about manufacturing, doesn't care about manufacturing communities or workers. We need to reverse
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Rice University Announces Switch to Online Classes for Beginning of School Year
"Is moving to online learning for the first two weeks of the fall semester and delaying the start of school by two days. The university said the rising numbers of covid cases in the area students start arriving on campus. The online plan is in effect, at least through September. 3rd.
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"The superconducting transition right. So that's different. That's different than the other case that so it's a to go back to my ballroom. Dance analogy It's not that you've lost the it's not. It's not that everyone's lost their partners. It's just that each each couple is no longer paying attention to what the other couples are doing right and so there here's the real attractive idea. You know if the pairing is really quite robust than boy. Wouldn't it be great if you could figure out how to reach in somehow and synchronize everybody up if the pairing survives up to room temperature than now. You're talking about well. We have a different problem now. now it's not. It's not a question of forcing things to pair. It's a question of forcing things to be coherent though. And so that's that's kind of interesting bit anything about this without just thinking. If the cycle the temperature many many times would be a difference in this system. Not really no. I mean okay. If you cycle the temperature up to very high temperatures high enough adams actually move around. Then you've got problems. But but i mean if you just go back and forth across the transition nothing. Nothing history dependent happens because the we means but did not synchronized so so the challenge is could could you take the structure and leasing recent guys it somehow right so there are people who are playing games with doing things with light or or or Otherwise trying to somehow couple into the pairs and get them to all dance together now. The experiment we did is basically. I can give you another analogy for that too so We use what's called shot noise which is The the noise that results in the chart. So you if you apply voltage across a some electrical and what you have the current flow you get some average current and so we used the idea that this is how you define resistance right..
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Back globe. You're talking about contents matter physics and sometimes because of all the exotic stuff that bahir astrophysics clay that physics. The public has some really attached to a concert. Snyder physics cars and Into multidisciplinary field of media sciences type. Things involved there to you have a few papers Recent papers and one of them electron pairing in the gap state reviewed by short noise inc. Junctions you say in the quest to understand high temperature. Superconductivity corporal sites debate has been focused on the pseudo gap a partial energy gap. That oh console. Were portions of the flurry service in the noble state. Able to buck Temperature before we get to the details of this doug i remember Superconductivity again in the eighties. We were told that it is. You know just just a few years me that temperature if now okay. So here's here's the story so superconductivity. Is this remarkable state that happens in some conductors. It tends to happen at low temperatures. And that it's what allows Conductors to carry electricity to carry electrical currents without any resistance and certain very particular. Things have to happen in order for that to take place. We now understand One thing that has to happen it would appear as that the electrons have to pair up so even though electrons repel each other electrons pair up into what are called pairs and in. This is the cooper of the bernardine. Cooper sri for theory from nineteen fifty seven and these cooper pairs all decide to act cooperatively. So the one where you can picture it. Is you know matching having a dance. People pair up into partners and pairing up is important but the real super conductivity happens when when all the partners are all dancing together in sync. Okay twist and it has nothing to do with entanglement though right this. Is something completed ohio. Well that's a very. That's a very complicated question on Certainly there entanglement is important ingredient. This problem because when you're when you're pairing the electrons really your entangling them with each other now the the the kind of superconductivity that happens it really low temperatures that was discovered by cameras onus in the.
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"This is one of the challenges with high energy physics these days. Which is that. You could argue feary there. With the exception of the discovery of the higgs boson which was in fact sort of expected yards reasons for have not been any big experimental surprises in high energy physics and so the theory community has been a bit decoupled and it's kind of gone off in pursuit a whole lot of exotic things hoping that there will be evidence for some of these things coming down the pipe. I mean. I don't want to sound like you're totally unmotivated. They've got good reasons for thinking about the things we're thinking about. But but there really is kind of a disconnect between between theory and experiment at the high energy level in certain ways that is not true in you know in condensed matter or in atomic physics where there's much more of a back and forth between theory and experiment. I think these days the economics of the machines in clayton deficits is sort of limitation rate And so still advances dances and you know he still acquiring the next context entity levels will so that that's really the question right so so how far. How much more energy do you need before you expect to see interesting surprising things. If the answer is three acts that's easily conceivable right. If the answer is thirty thousand x. And you need a particle accelerator. The size of the moon. Then you start thinking to yourself okay. There have to be different approaches to these problems. That might be more practical implements right and so this is in fact why there are all kinds of clever ideas out there now from the world of both condensed matter atomic physics about you know. Can we do precision measurements. Can are there other things we can do to infer about more exotic physics without necessarily having to build a five hundred billion dollar giant particle collider. I am reading doug. This wasn't book. I think the subdue Desktop corrado something they did wide i people stanford i mean. There's there's a number of people who have thought about Very compact ways of of making particle accelerators wakefield. Acceleration is a phrase that crops up And i think there's progress being but the fact is that these days you know. The large hadron collider is really where all the businesses At the at the energy frontier of particle physics it. The other extreme of this of course is astro-physics. I mean there are astrophysical sources of very energetic particles and so there are some beautiful experiments like ice cube down at the south pole where they're basically using the south polar ice as a simulator and detecting cosmic rays and neutrinos from highly energetic neutrinos from space by the flashes of light given off inside the polarize excellent. So let's take a quick break dot com guy. Talk about some recent papers sounds good. This is a scientific sense. Podcast providing unscripted conversations bit leading academics and researchers on a variety of topics. You'd like to sponsor this podcast. Please reach out to in full at scientific sense dot com.
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"I think You know it does one. One aspect of condensed matter is that it is led to some realizations in recent years. That that Maybe there are organizing principles that we weren't rethinking about before that we need to beware of so of this. There's a lot been a lot of work in the last ten fifteen years on topology the importance of topologies. So you you know. A lot of people have kind of a hand wave. Notion of what's apology is saying. That basically You know it's kind of the the connectedness of things. It's the branch of math that that tells you that. A donut is different than fear because a donut has is a surface of genus. One and a sphere is the surface of gene zero and and that the idea that a donut can be continuously transformed into the shape of a coffee mug. Because you've preserved the number of holes right these. These kinds of ideas have really come to the foreign condensed matter in the last ten or fifteen years and again there's a lot of interest in first of all there's just the the scientific insight that boy we really haven't been thinking about some of these things the right way But then there's the possibility that these systems with interesting hidden top logical properties might really be useful for things. There's ideas about quantum computing involving top logical. Qubits there's there's ideas about materials where along the edges of these materials. You could get chart. You can imagine having charged flow with very very very minimal dissipation because the scattering that usually gives you things like ordinary. Electrical resistance is sort of forbidden because of top logical recent. So it's very interesting stuff. Yeah i don't know much about this done so think materials don't typically think about apology or geometry. We certainly think about geometry in the sense of the spatial arrangement of the atoms. I think the topologies stuff that comes about. Is this one again. One reason why it's challenging to explain certain aspects of condensed matter general. Audience it the apology. That comes up in. These systems really has to do with basically the properties of the electric wave functions like the quantum mechanical states of the electrons. And that's not something you can see with your eye right mean condensed matter. We're used to this idea that like look. I can tell the difference between a solid and a liquid. And i can tell those. Irs distinct states are distinct phases and with very crude tools. I can tell whether.
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"With certain materials. We are extraordinarily adept at controlling their properties on very small scales with almost atomic precision. And that gives you tremendous control that allows you to achieve remarkable properties that so-called naturally occurring materials. Don't necessarily have right. And so that's that is some of the attraction is. Is this idea that really. How are the building blocks go together and how they enter the interplay between them if you can if you can you know. Make the equivalent of atomic legos. You can just put together anything that you want You could really. You could really do some impressive things and solve some impressive technical problems. So celebi getting close to their dug in a specification for immaterial. That doesn't exist. Today can be custom-created so so the phrase materials by design is something that occurs sickly in the kind of the research community right. This comes up every every twenty five years or so. There's a big push that says we should work on materials by design. And i have to say we are closer to that now than we ever have been this this comes. There's a number of different aspects to this right so first of all overarching all of this. You are still governed by the actual rules of chemistry and physics. So you can't arbitrarily make anything because you will find is that certain structures are just energetically entropy favored and so you know the history of of Materials physics for example is replete with predictions of. Oh if you could make the following compound it would have it would superconductor room temperature or it would have these amazing properties and it just turns out that you can't make the atoms stick together that way and there are some properties that are that are just because of physics there. They tend to be incompatible with each other so You know it's very hard to have something be an incredibly good electrical conductor up to high frequencies and yet be transparent.
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Layer of carbon atoms and you look at the basically the the electrons that come from the hills of the carbon atoms they move like klis direct from yachts And and and why do they do that. Well it's because of the particular symmetry of the material and and and the you know the arrangement of atoms and exactly how many electrons you have in there that you end up with these emergent properties. So there's there's a lot of stuff in condensed matter that is You know these ideas of symmetry and these ideas of quantities that are conserved that that are conserved when the electron say are inside the solid. But if you took away the solid they wouldn't they wouldn't be conserved anymore that you know the all the ideas all the deep ideas that show up and high energy physics show up and condensed matter as well is where i'm trying to Eat Video exciting discipline As you say sort of in some sense similar to high energy physics but here you can run. Some experiments without spending tens of billions of dollars owed imagine that was. Certainly something appealed to me. When i was a student that kind of liked the idea that i could. You know. I could have all of the tools i needed to do interesting experiments and they would in fact fit in one room and and the number of authors on the paper might be three instead of instead of requiring a you know twenty billion dollars facility with a thousand collaborators just to keep it running so it you know i it's different in that respect But i think condensed matter. There's just there's what. I wish people had what i wished. The popular public had was in appreciation of just how amazing the physics of the everyday world around. You is the physics of the everyday materials around. You is amazing now. I know it doesn't sound terribly exotic to say seeing condensed matter. We can explain..
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Well certainly close to materials science. Except that again. I have a sort of a particular point of view on this way. I figure it is when i talked to students. Trying to explain the difference between science and engineering Obviously there's a continuum there's no hard and fast boundary between science and engineering but in general physics in particular is concerned with trying to understand the rules. What are the organizing principles. What are the rules that govern how matter behaves and then engineering is okay. We understand the rules and now we have a particular problem of utility that we're trying to solve so let's do something clever in leverage the rule the understanding of the rules that we have to solve a problem so so these are related things. But they're not the same But is a solid state physics as you mentioned as it used to be called this. There's so many applications salsa Everything that the do today The are feeling it and so So in that sense applied applied physics. Is it. it doesn't have to be applied. i mean i think there can be applied. Certainly certainly many aspects of knesset matter physics and even atomic molecular and optical physics are now applied and have been useful for technologies that we use every day but I think there are. There are just some really interesting Really interesting and fundamental properties that we learn about that that that come about in these contexts. I mean it's what's it was pretty interesting to me. Is that these days. There's there's actually a lot of Cross talk between the condensed matter world in high energy. Physics world right So somehow i guess yours what i would say. There's this tradition. That goes back. I suppose a bit over one hundred years of reductionism. You've got people have this idea that okay. If you want to understand matter you have to understand. The particles and fields out of which matter is built and that is eventually leads you to particle physics and trying to understand the ultimate time constituents of matter and i think the that's the reductionist approach right and the the emergence approach which is a compliments to that. Says well you know. Knowing the mass of the higgs boson tells me about why diamond is transparent in extremely good thermal conductor and the hardest material out there right End and the point is that there are in the same way that their organizing principles in high energy physics that people like to talk about about symmetry in about You know special..
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Mike Son was professor chair of physics and astronomy at twice university. He's twisted focuses on the electronic magnetic adopt properties launches the conduct. Thank you happy to be here. Thanks for doing the silent still with you. Come in three in physics today. The years ago of conduct matters image. Problem you said condit's mattress largest discipline bit physics. It has enormous influential. Average person stabilized nonetheless the feed flies under the popular radar routinely upstate in the press television at popular literature but news of astrophysical exotica in the quest for new elementary particles I agree with you I used to have a h getting background in that. I think about physics generally just think about desperate physical exotic that you mentioned the politics so says a looked exactly is it. Let's start. Let's go to the physics What exactly is condensed matter physics. Condensed matter physics is what is the modern name for what people call us to call solid state physics but i think they want people wanted to include liquids as well so that's why it's sort of condensed phases distinct from gases and the whole point of condensed matter physics the whole philosophy behind condensed matter physics to use the word in a non professional way is that there are emergent properties. That happen when you bring together large numbers of constituents that may be interact via very simple rules. You can end up with emergent behaviors and emergent properties. That are not at all obvious.
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Prof. Douglas Natelson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.
"Mike Son was professor chair of physics and astronomy at twice university. He's twisted focuses on the electronic magnetic adopt properties launches the conduct. Thank you happy to be here. Thanks for doing the silent still with you. Come in three in physics today. The years ago of conduct matters image. Problem you said condit's mattress largest discipline bit physics. It has enormous influential. Average person stabilized nonetheless the feed flies under the popular radar routinely upstate in the press television at popular literature but news of astrophysical exotica in the quest for new elementary particles I agree with you I used to have a h getting background in that. I think about physics generally just think about desperate physical exotic that you mentioned the politics so says a looked exactly is it. Let's start. Let's go to the physics What exactly is condensed matter physics. Condensed matter physics is what is the modern name for what people call us to call solid state physics but i think they want people wanted to include liquids as well so that's why it's sort of condensed phases distinct from gases and the whole point of condensed matter physics the whole philosophy behind condensed matter physics to use the word in a non professional way is that there are emergent properties. That happen when you bring together large numbers of constituents that may be interact via very simple rules. You can end up with emergent behaviors and emergent properties. That are not at all obvious.
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Houston Matters
Blasting Houston Leaders Over Opposition To New Voting Bills
"On today's panel houston chronicle editor of opinion. Lisa falkenberg vivian. Ho health economist at rice university and baylor college of medicine and marcus davis the breakfast club restaurant and host of fish grits and politics. Lisa vivian marcus. Welcome to houston matters. Craig thank you panel. Texas lieutenant governor. Dan patrick had some choice. Things to say. Tuesday about the houston area's leaders and voting procedures in the last election cycle patrick speaking at the state capital criticized harris county for twenty four hour drive thru voting and mass mailing absentee ballot applications to eligible county residents all efforts last november to improve voting access during the pandemic. And all of which would be outlawed if senate bill seven passes this session. Patrick noted harris county does not make policy and create law for the rest of the state. He was responding to a monday. Press conference here in houston in which leaders including mayor turner and harris county judge. Lena hidalgo criticized espy seven arguing. It would discourage minority voter participation. turner called the bill. Jim crow two point. Oh echoing criticism of similar legislation in georgia. Patrick called that characterization race baiting the rhetoric is strong from state and local leaders. Over sb seven and voting procedures. Is this good bad or ugly. Lisa falkenberg from the perspective of journalists. It's good because strong rhetoric makes great headlines right from a from a perspective of texan. Just a texan. Who wants my government work. you know. it's bad it's ugly. You did this. This whole argument is just ridiculous because during the presidential election no one at the aftermath. Nobody was screaming. Oh texas has all this fraud always went you know. We need a recount in texas. No everybody was perfectly fine with the way the election ran but afterward things are so bad that we need to have all this reform. Texas is already the hardest state of the union to cast a ballot in. We have no need for more restrictions
Kottke Ride Home
European Scientists Create First Light-Up Tattoos For You and Your Avocado
"A team of scientists in europe have created what they say is the first light emitting tattoo using oh led based technology which is like the kind used in newer televisions and smartphones especially the folding kind. And well of course. This sounds totally awesome. If a bit frightening the team mostly propose practical uses like alerting an athlete when they're dehydrated or indicating when someone should get out of the sun to avoid getting a sunburn and tattoos for medical use are not unprecedented. I know a couple of people who have replaced their medical bracelets for conditions like diabetes with permanent tattoos on their wrists and radiation therapy often tattoos. Small black on cancer patients skin to use as reference marks for the machines and a handful of in the us tattooed kids with their blood types. During the cold war thinking it could facilitate blood transfusions in the case of a nuclear attack. And that's a real thing that happened. I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to read more about it and sort of grim as that sounds to our modern ears. There are still proposals around to people including children with their medical information. A team from rice university. A couple years ago developed fluorescent quantum dot tattoos that would only be visible through a custom smartphone app. At which time they would show a person's vaccination history something particularly crucial in hard hit rural areas. Where people sometimes don't have paper or digital vaccination records then no one's actually a pretty good idea even if it sounds a little big brother that the offset and unfortunately because of that. It's gotten pulled into a lot of covid nineteen vaccine conspiracy theories even though it's a tattoo not in any way an implant a microchip and not in any way related to the covid nineteen vaccines. It's being cited by conspiracy theorists as evidence that the covid nineteen vaccines are implanting tracking microchips into people. It doesn't help that. The original study was proposed by the bill and melinda gates foundation a lot of conspiracy theorists love to say that bill gates engineered the corona virus. Or something. I only bring all of that up in case you hear about it in relation to this vaccine history. Quantum dot tattoo study. So now you can. Debunk anyone spouting that false claim but anyways back to the light up. Oled tattoos in addition to some practical wellness related uses. The team also expects that they could be used for fashion purposes. Like having a light up tattoo or even fingernails and they could even go beyond humans to be used on produce. The tattoos could go on packaging or on the fruit or vegetable itself to identify when it's gone bad now. If you're imagining how impractical it would be to take a tattoo gun to a tomato. I should clarify that. These tattoos are applied more like a temporary tattoo is quoting university. College london the oled's are fabricated onto temporary tattoo paper and transferred to a new surface by being pressed onto it and dab with water and quotes now as gizmodo notes. Quote the idea of personally augmenting. One skin with glowing. Art isn't new either. But previously this has involved bio hackers implanting technologies like led's beneath the skin and the results don't have much practical use besides attention grabbing or inviting questions about why someone would do that to themselves. This new approach to light emitting. Tattoos is easier to apply more practical and temporary without requiring surgery to have it removed and quotes. So how does this one work well. The flexibility of the oled display is key so that it can move and bend along with the human or fruit skin beyond that quoting again from gizmodo. The electronics of the light emitting tattoos made from an extremely thin layer of electro luminescent polymer that glows when a charges applied measure in at just two point three micrometres thick which according to the researchers is about one third the diameter. A red blood cell. The polymer layer is then sandwiched between a pair of electrodes and sits atop insulating layer which is bonded to temporary tattoo paper printing process. That isn't prohibitively expensive. The tattoos can be easily washed off when no longer needed or wanted using soap and water with a current applied the led tattoos in their current form simply glue green but eventually could produce any color using the same rgb approach that oled screens. Us and quote won't professor franken says saline lead author on the study notes that they've demonstrated a proof of concept that d- tattoos can be made cheaply and at scale. There's still a number of kinks to work out. Like normal temporary tattoos these ones degrade pretty quickly especially when more on a moving human and they still need figure out how to integrate them with a battery or super capacitor in the lab. They're currently hooked up to an external power source so oily tattoos might not become into the public too quickly but the technology is there and it will probably happen before
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Yeah and you can do it right Dominating the during the procedure often. What happens is you go back and you study at and you say that it's enough margin. You have a second surgery so if you can avoid that this group actually. The method was so successful. They actually have a mass spec in the operating room at least of this in this test demonstration phase. so it's a little while and the destructs material. Go straight to a mass spec because mass spec a very advanced technologically but i guarantee if they can put a mass spec in operating room. I can put a little baby rahman drama. That's another advantage of the rama. It's just a little teeny. It's not a doesn't have to be a big fancy instruments. So it's it's pretty other things i mean. That's that traction. here. I think you know The instrument and be really small. It can be potentially incorporated into existing heart. There presumably giving inflammation a procedure. That things are working of examples of people who try to use rom on it in these ways during surgeries on natural samples. And that's really a direction. The field i think is headed what. I'm working on some now. Even in my own work on the the method were looking at the lipids. Is you know. We use quantum chemistry to predict these modes part of this method. I did was. We used quantum chemistry programs to you got to know something about how the molecule vibrates and how the ramadan properties change. And i did that. I'm furious but there are commercial packages. The what you do that. But i did that on. Just an ideal molecule structure and that'll predict on spectrum but then molecules are always fluctuating around around all the single-button their rotations. And how does that affect the roman spectrum so latest paper. I didn't send it to you. It's still it's still under review is looking at how molecular affect these spectra and infect the termination of the romans room which is a further complication and interpretation really..
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"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"That's all you're looking at. So and as roma's aren't real sensitive so if you send in a million photons nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine. We're gonna rayleigh scatter and one is going to romans so you so you don't get a lot of signal but these metal nanostructures these that have these plows on resonances. They basically focus the light down onto a molecule at their surface and then they act like an antenna and broadcast the scattering. So that's what the surface enhanced part means molecules their surface Greatly enhanced scattering in the enhancement can be sort of like one hundred million just because of the physics of how it works. You get really huge enhancements so Servants guttering has actually been shown to give you the vibrational spectrum. Down to a single molecule. If you make the right arrangements of metal structures you can get just huge enhancements and watch single. Jump around and everything. So that you would think that would have big applications. It's just hard to get serious. It's hard to make it real reproducible. So we did say. Forget getting the super high enhancements. Just look at particles in solution and take medium enhancements and see if we can understand the signals and get structure the basic what we did in that paper yet. Sweetie fascinating you say. The new method can determine specific in the facial structure. Under under apple conditions mike quantities of material dog market level. So i i see just like you're doing in the lab. Tom potentially industrial applications See more diagnostic site Jason you know because it takes energy. It's easy to just make this crew That into some sort of the needs to mend a working on long term is so it is through. The method is very easy. So if i was you know right now so you know this is how science works you get away to do something then if you really wanted to catch on you've got to convince the people to do it or you wanna look at their samples or getting. I'm sort of in that stage of now demonstrated this now going to look at a bunch of systems and get people excited and realize what this method can do. So it's sort of like. I kind of think of it a little bit like anymore. You know anymore is widely used method in. It's a method that really is a spectroscopy. But there's a little bit of structural information buried in the spectra says basically what i'm doing with stairs it's just spectroscopy. But we can tease structural information out and sensing and things like that. But it's a lot easier you know really if somebody already as roma's trumpeter when all of industry does you really just need the particles and all the stuff i had to do on the of calculating molecular properties and everything so something that could be very easily uptaken by industry or other researchers relative to like in our. You've got to install a whole facility but finding what to do with it. That's trickier so i think one thing i've thought about is Is this series has the same problem of ram on that. there's just too many signals. But if you put this lipid beyeler like reporting on the particles. The net sorta holds back. Most things like the only thing i get near the particles stuff like to be an by where instant screen for you know. Ninety nine percent of the junk in the solution and will just accept sort of the membrane Attracted molecules.
Scientific Sense
"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"You talked about quantum dots already Was that the so. Yeah so the novel structures. We just found these novel structures so he wrote a paper about him. One though was the fact that so this gets a little bit more into the plasma resonances those belts so if the cross section of the bill to square the plaza in residents as green it happens at green wavelengths or green frequencies five thirty whatever nanometers And then if it goes elongated it happens more in the red so seven hundred nanometers or so and we found there are structures where it would just evenly shift from green to red so structurally the belt is going from earth square cross section than it's spreading out into a wide cross-section optically when you look at it. It's this nice. Little thing that changes colour so in a sense we thought this is kind of like a spectrometer but a very different kind of spectrometer trauma take lights of all these mixed colors and you shut it off of like a some called diffraction grating and that makes it reflect out a different angles. But this little plasma. I think we call it. Applies monitor on oprah said that in the paper but what we could do is say you wanted to measure how different plasma wave links enhance like quantum mission. You know if you make your plasma energy match your quantum dot energy than you get more light out. So i think one figuring that paper was we took one of these Taper belts we call them and covered it with quantum dots and just looked at the mission in it was brightest where the quantum dots were resonant with belt somewhere between red and green so it was basically like a structural way to measure the the exhortation spectrum of the quantum dots of thing. We've never really thought about being able to do. But it's something that this weird structure let us do so up potentially some applications Event right yes. So let's if you wanted to proven Mid if you wanted to really ideas would miniaturize something like you needed long term. Maybe we can make it higher resolution and everything but but it wouldn't require like the long arm of hitting grading and then when you hit a grading you gotta let the light spread out for very long distance. So this is sort of like a spectrometer. You could put on a chip because you don't need that. That separation is a completely different kind of way to do it. You don't need the the angle difference from the greetings very small so you to let it go for a long way to get the wave separated where this is more of a direct separation so can applications to set consideration Maybe ten to sculpt space space if you sort of had these on something where you could you could detect which part of the belt was getting excited than potential you. Could you could really shrink this and have sort of a chip level spectrometer. So i can. I can imagine that. Yeah yeah. I wanted to go into One of your recent jason analysis by enhanced rahman's catherine So rodman scattering. What is the romance cutter. It's a special kind of light scattering so so if you think about When light scatters off of an object than can we start over it depends on the cody. Object okay so let's imagine we have a white house right and the white marble and if you shine green lights off of this marble you're going to get green white..
Scientific Sense
"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Get students purchasing jason hafner. Who's of physics and astronomy at rice university. His lab studies nano photonics at inter facial biology. Thanks for your much. Yeah thanks for doing this. So before we get into your your papers I want to send the context of these two things so natto photonics and into fish biology. What do those things need. Yeah sure so Netanyahu has just sort of a part of nanna science in general. You know nanno has been a big thing since Sort of the nineties. This idea that if we shrink material matter or control materials down to the nanometer scale they with the world differently and that's sort of big picture we study so as you can imagine nature. Photonics is doing that with light so normally we think of light does not being real nanno. The wavelength of light is about five hundred. Nanometers is why we have like a limit to what we can see an optical microscope but as delight interacts with materials the nanometer scale some materials will focus the light downed meter skill. Or you know Heat the liar heat up due to the light in special ways so really big picture photonics is just. How can we manipulate the nanometer scale with nettle materials. Yoke okay. we'll get into the details of that deficit deficit have any sort of computational. Applications also computational. Yeah yeah You know Doesn't doesn't have a sense of design or anything like that. The debt are right. Yoga ways to go also competition alexa. We use many competition tools in. It's actually critical in many areas of research these days but especially these interactions..
Scientific Sense
"rice university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
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Sean Hannity
Houston saw 33% less traffic in 2020 than in 2019
"Better last year due to the pandemic. Houston saw one third less traffic on the roadways in 2020 compared to 2019, according to Rice University's Kindle Institute. Research finds the traffic congestion level in Houston fell from 24% to 16%, meaning Houstonians gained almost two full days worth of travel time. Compare with a typical year. Texas State lawmaker filing legislation that would put
600 WREC
"rice university" Discussed on 600 WREC
"And I asked my source. How did they get these assistant head coach is on recruiting violations and he said, Well, They put money into McDonald's bags and gave them to the recruits. When they came on campus. Some of the campus visits were not organized or they were not above board. But they were handing out cash. So you literally had bagman and they put the cash and McDonald's bags and handed it to the recruits. My source said they were so in your face with it. They weren't even trying to hide it. And that's where my source said. Tennessee got sloppy. Georgia got sloppy, but there's been no word on the N C. A A looking at Georgia but Tennessee they got sloppy and they were handing out cash. And McDonald's bags. An attorney for the coach fired back, saying that school officials intended to paint Pruitt in a negative light and fire him with cause to avoid paying him. A settlement. Well. There you go. A Rice university student has sued Rice University demanding a refund. For being forced into virtual learning. Undergraduate student and a sebaceous and her lawyers filed a lawsuit against Rice University staying stating that the private college touted and promised An unconventional culture. And college experience, complete within person courses and opportunities. But breached its contract by failing to provide those services. The university still charged students full price. Tobias wrote in the suit. Plaintiff and the members of the class have all paid for 20. It's a class action, or maybe they're seeking certification for the class. Have all paid for tuition for a first rate education and on campus in person educational experiences, with all the pertinent benefits offered by a first rate university. Instead, students like plaintiff were provided a materially different and insufficient alternative, which constitutes a breach of the contract entered into by plaintiff With the university. Well, that's a very, very interesting approach. You've got 7100 students. Attended Rice University. In the spring. Of 20,020 and then the fall later in the year of 2020. Where they were not allowed into campus. But paid Mm hmm. So it strikes me. You might have a different case for the spring and the fall. Because by the time of the fall They probably were able to say. We're most likely gonna have Only virtual classes. So if you want to come here for the fall, you'll be taking virtual classes. But for the spring Remember Corona virus was probably on American soil in December. But the Chinese and the who were lying to us, which is why Joe Biden has rejoined the Who, It's very important doctor. Fauci said. He is honored that we're back member of the World Health Organization after they lied to us about Corona virus. And people ended up dead. Okay? The lead Chinese and the Who lied and people died. Remember that? So if you started school In January, coming back for the spring semester, the second half of the count of the academic year. And then several weeks later. They stopped the classes. And you on, Lee did virtual learning. You could argue They didn't deliver. That which they were supposed to deliver to you. Which is an on campus in class learning experience. Now. This could turn out When you When you bring a case like this This one students one semester. They're trying for two. But let's say it once didn't one semester. Might be $20,000. That's not enough money to make. This lawsuit makes sense, however. If you could get a class action, you have to have a class certified, which means You have to show that other members who were similarly situated and similarly harmed. Represented by you. They signed over to you. Now you bring a mass case. And when you do that the legal fees on something like that. Now, instead of $20,000 per student or whatever it is Start running the numbers based on 7100 students. But if you can get a class action Against Rice. You could probably expand that class. If you could get it certified. Who all private universities. Maybe even all universities period. I don't know if you can. I don't know what the governmental Restrictions against suing the government. If it's a university in this case, but let's say it's private universities. You paid all this money to come and get this certain education that they then don't they don't provide And so if you if your immediate thought is well, yeah, but it's not their fault. It's covered. I got that. But if you paid for an event You know you rented a hall. And that whole you read in the hole and the hole closed down because of the, uh coded Had I spent half a million dollars of my own money. Paying people back who had deposits for events at the RCC because they were having bar mitzvahs and Kingston yet as in weddings and all that that I had to pay back just out of my own pocket, because that's what you have to do. Right? So that's a very, very interesting question as this thing plays out And.
KTRH
"rice university" Discussed on KTRH
"For tomorrow by appointment only all the appointments or book so you won't get in on this one. But perhaps the future one. The Health Department had 2400 appointments on the website 10 o'clock this morning, They opened up to schedule another 2600, and they were gone in less than 20 minutes. The portal shuts down when all the appointments are booked. Houston House says As more vaccines arrive, they'll open more appointments and more locations. Nikki Courtney NewsRadio 7 40 Ktrh, Texas was the first state to distribute more than a million covert 19 vaccines. But there's still problems with the supply as you've probably noticed, Rice University health economist Vivian Ho says. We're only getting enough shots to vaccinate about 7% of the population So far, I think it's quite disturbing that we've kind of good job getting vaccines out our population, but we're not. Think of many doses of other states. She's is our doses or behind states like Florida and New York that vaccinating less people. She thinks the feds should allocate shots based on which states are doing the best jobs of distribution. Texas EquuSearch, helping to try to locate a missing 22 year old man from Liberty County. Nathan Heathcote was last seen walking along. FM 14 09, south of Dayton. Investigators say he could have been in a car accident and could be injured. Anyone with information on Nathan Heathcote whereabouts is asked to contact the Liberty County Sheriff's Office. Ktrh news time 303 the markets are closed. Here's ktrh money man, Pat Shinn brought to you by diem auto leasing dot com and pets. Weekends. I'm kind of a down note. Yes, indeed. And Corey the news. You just said the markets are closed. That's the best news. We've heard all day. The Dow industrials finishing the day down by 177 points. We closed the 30,008 14 S and P 500 down 27 points. Three quarters of 1% did all that for the NASDAQ Down by 114 points. Stocks were down following weakness and markets overseas, all on news that China is locking down certain cities on another jump in Corona virus cases. And we did not get any help from economic data this morning before the rail retail sales for December, coming in below, analyst's estimates a stronger U. S dollar, causing weakness in oil and gold prices. Oil down $1.21 $52.36 a barrel gold down $21.50 announce that $1830.1 note Cory. The markets will be closed Monday for the MLK holiday. And finally, for the week, the Dow industrials. They were down 283 points or just under 1% with a check of your money from the Office of Heritage Asset Advisors. I'm passion for these radio 7 40 ktrh. Lottery machines. Busy putting out tickets at convenience stores around the country is people are dreaming of hitting it big ahead of this weekend's two drawings. The mega millions of Powerball jackpots went combined are worth nearly $1.2 billion. Even people who don't normally buy lottery tickets are throwing in. I know he has a big jackpot going on right now. I was like, okay,.
Outcomes Rocket
interview With Emily Reiser
"Welcome back to the outcomes. Rocket saw marquez's here. And today i have the privilege of hosting emily riser. She is the senior manager of innovation community engagement with the texas medical center. She supports clinicians and administrators at the tmc member institutions as well as hundreds of startups and other corporate partners engaged with tmc innovation. You guys have probably heard some of the healthcare entrepreneurs we've had out of the center. They're doing such incredible things in her previous role at emc she was a strategist for two tmc x. Cohorts she contributed to the redesign of the tmc axe program for twenty twenty and started the tmc alpha program for local innovators prior to joining tmc innovation. She led and venture a nonprofit organization supporting entrepreneurship training and company formation in the life sciences. She has directly contributed to business development projects with dozens of local life startups and supported the formation of four new companies. So her heart is totally in healthcare. Emily earned her bachelor's in biology from emory university and her phd in bio engineering from university focused on drug delivery for cancer immunotherapy. So you can imagine that. It's going to be a really cool conversation and emily Really really grateful that you Carved out some time to be with us today. Thanks for thanks for being outcast. Thank you so much saw so excited to be with today. Yeah and so you have such a cool experience right you've been in the healthcare startups and you know you've kind of gone pretty far in your formal education with bio engineering. And now you're in this area with this like incubating these cool really forward thinking companies that are changing the game. so what is it that Inspires your work in healthcare. I think a lot of us in healthcare are looking to have an impact on how patients are being cared for and that certainly inspires my work as well. And i always knew that i wanted to be in the healthcare space but didn't know how to do that while also making the most impact that i could so when exploring -nology that took me into research which you know if you can develop something that s- impacts you know thousands of people then really feels like you've done something meaningful to impact patient care but of course you have to pick something good you can spend your whole life Working on something. That doesn't end up doing that. And so i've moved more close to the patient closer to the bedside throughout my journey and now i have the privilege to work with folks that are directly saving lives. Impacting how how systems are ryan and making things easier for clinicians hospital administrators and then of course the patients to access the care that they need. So that's what. I love about my job right now. Is being able to work with somebody different kinds of people within the community you know. The house systems themselves clinicians entrepreneurs so every day is different but every single person is working toward making patient. Care better love that you're so mission oriented in that love their by two as you as you think about the work you guys are doing. Tmc is texas medical centers innovationlab. And so i think it's a good opportunity for folks that don't know about it to educate them about it but then after you tell us about it let us know a little bit more about how you're adding value to the healthcare ecosystem absolutely so the texas medical center is that's really interesting. Nonprofit organization that was started seventy five years ago through a gift from the md anderson foundation and we don't provide health care so we're not a health stem but we provide infrastructure that sits under md anderson texas children's houston methodist small herman and twenty one other different clinical institutions as. Well as you know. Other research institutions universities rice university of houston etc and so our role is to be the connective tissue and dr collaboration between and among all of the different institutions. So right now that looks like data that we publish every day around You can go to our website. I you and see how were clobbering across all these institutions to share updates on hospitalizations and other things that are relevant within our hospitals or doing a lot of work behind the scenes to try and make sure that everyone is cloud reading and and sharing best practices. And there's been a lot of really cool work coming out of that but five years ago we also started this great innovation initiative which combines space talent physical resources that all come together to provide different actors to entrepreneurs that can work with our health systems. And so it's an incubator. We have a partnership with johnson and johnson j. labs and body and other corporate partners to create density around making startups possible and always relevant tied back to the clinical application clinical outcomes. And
Houston Public Media Local Newscasts
Kinder study finds Houston's citizen police review board deeply flawed
"A new study says houston's police oversight board is one of the least effective among the state's largest cities flooring and martin says a report presents a dismal view of police oversight in houston researchers at rice. University's kinder- institute looked at police oversight in houston dallas fort worth austin and san antonio. They found that houston's nine-year-old independent police oversight board is the only one that consists of unpaid volunteers. Only steve sherman is to reports co author. They effectively work under a gag order. They really can't talk publicly about the work they do. In the cases that they review. And they're really just looking at completed internal affairs investigations and he says unlike houston other cities oversight board. Don't just look at the use of force incidents but they also do policy research and make recommendations and things like hiring and community outreach which the police departments usually follow after the death of george floyd in may mayor sylvester turner created a task force in part to the city's police oversight board.
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Rice University's Baker Institute Employee First To Receive Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine Trial In Houston
"Employee and Rice's Baker Institute was the first to receive a shot in the arm is part of a local Koven 19. Vaccine trial, Christine Kimmel says she signed up for the modern a trial after weighing the possible side effects in order to help save the world to be demonstrative, not only to Houston in the community that there's another way to help during this pandemic, but to my Children, because this happened again in their lifetime, I want them to understand that there are married of ways. If they can help and rolling up their sleeve is one of them. Kimmel doesn't know whether she received the actual vaccine or a placebo. She'll go back for a second injection next month, says the follow ups could last up to two years.
Jay Talking
Big Ten Conference Cancels Fall Sports, Aims To Schedule In Spring
"He's done everything you could do word that the Big 10 and pack 12 conferences have put off their college football schedules until the spring is reverberating throughout other conferences. As CBS's Jenna Chen Lee and report the decision by those two big conferences not to play football, in effect all fall sports at those schools and it could have a ripple impact across the country. For example, here Rice University they've already moved football back to the inn September.
Glenn Beck
Dallas - When Could Unemployed Texans Receive Extra $400?
"Governor Abbott today is expected to address whether unemployed Texans will be included in President Trump's $400 a week federal extension of unemployment benefits. Rice University political scientist Mark Jones says it's still not clear whether Governor Abbott could comment about it at all. Many would say that President Trump doesn't have the authority to reallocate that 44 billion of FEMA funds to pay $300 extra per week to be pointed employment, the state's Jones says. It's also not clear whether Governor Abbott would legally have the authority. Me to approve the spending of the matching $100 or whether Texas has the money to spend.
Houston Matters
Houston - Texas Confirms Record Number Of Coronavirus Cases And Hospitalizations
"Texas. Health officials are reporting another single day record of new covid nineteen cases Tuesday with ten, thousand, seven, hundred forty five cases and eighty seven deaths. This is third time in seven days that the state has reported at least ten thousand new corona buyers cases over two hundred, seventy, five thousand confirmed. Cases are being reported here in Texas now. The Medical Center says the average. Average number of people testing positive for covid nineteen is four times higher than it was during the peak in April sixth several of the early warning indicators, the hospital systems attract have ticked into the yellow moderate concern level. Still new hospitalizations continue to remain relatively flat after several straight weeks of rapid increases. The Texas Medical Center remains in face to of expanded intensive care capacity with more. More than twenty four hundred people hospitalized for covid nineteen, some eight hundred eighty six people have died with the illness. Now here's some interesting results Michael that we received from Rice University. A team out there says even though corona virus cases are surging. A sizable number of people are feeling less anxious about it. More than three thousand people have taken survey through Rice's Cova Nineteen registry. Thousand nine percent of them report a decrease in their anxiety about the pandemic, as time has gone on sixty seven percent say they've about have the same level of anxiety. When the pandemic began only fourteen percent say they've grown more anxious. Some other takeaways from the survey Michael Respondent say they're doing more of the activities. Health experts encouraged to stay safe, so that's good news. Ninety percent say they're washing hands more often. Fourteen percent say they're using facemasks frequently and on the other hand, though thirteen percent of respondents. Respondents say they're no longer limiting outings to only essential activities, something experts have advised against
Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
Houston health officials monitoring wastewater to track COVID-19
"No no one one is is ever ever done done this this before before but but the the Houston Houston health health department department partnered partnered with with Rice Rice University University to to test test wastewater wastewater for for coronavirus coronavirus and and so so one one of of the the things things we we know know is is that that this this virus virus is is shed shed in in the the stool stool and and so so we're we're actually actually able able to to test test the the waste waste water water for for the the presence presence of of virus virus health health director director Dr Dr David David Parker Parker says says once once they they get get the models worked out the links expect to be able to estimate the percentage of contamination and the surrounding area
John Rothmann
Trump administration delivers mixed messages on coronavirus
"Did you hear today one senior administration official blamed the national security staff for bundling the early coronavirus response already blaming somebody else other aides blamed the vice president's office which are taken the lead in the response and the this comment was made by one White House official the office of vice president seems way over its head way over its head they don't know what they're doing separately some H. took issue with the centers for disease control and prevention director Robert Redfield who dutifully stood by trump during his Friday visit to Atlanta agency and commended the president for his decisive leadership and of course trump for his part continue to denigrate the media the Democrats on Twitter for hyper over hyping the coronavirus now just to let this finger pointing reflect some of the broader confusion and mixed messages the health experts say hamper the trump administration's early attempts to staunch the the corona virus outbreak in the U. S. I do agree with that or not it it's fasting Douglas Brinkley presidential historian professor of history at Rice University said what has been remarkable is that trump has not had a global crisis like this during his presidency so far this in his leadership moment and he was ill prepared for it instead said Dr Brinkley trump wants to create an alternative lane of blame and of course you know the White House spokesperson the judge dear said this this is just more effort by the fake news to create panic among the American people and to speculate on palace intrigue the president has been leading from the very beginning to protect the health and safety of the American people and that is his priority the president has also been very clear that the vice president on the coronavirus task force are doing an incredible job leading the whole government approach to the close coordination with state and local leaders
The Oil Patch
Houston: Rice University requests small group to self-quarantine for coronavirus
"Story today Rice University released a statement stating that out of an abundance of caution the crisis management advisory committee asked a small group of rice employees and students to self quarantine this is because a rice employees possible exposure to the corona virus while on overseas travel university says it is working with the guidance of Harris County