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"We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies. And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy. I'm Tonya Lewis. I'm Josh fishman. We are scientific American senior health editors. On the show today, we've got some surprising news about cholesterol. The so called good kind is supposed to protect your heart and arteries. But it actually makes things worse under certain circumstances. And doctors are just figuring this out. You go to the doctor for an annual check up, right? Tanya? Yeah, sure. As any good health editor would. Me too. You get asked a bunch of personal questions, a cold stethoscope on your skin and the doctor draws some blood for some standard lab tests. Among those tests, when you get them back, are two cholesterol numbers. Right. What is your level of low density lipoprotein cholesterol, or LDL? It's supposed to stay under a 130 milligrams per deciliter. The lower the better. And the other one is high density lipoprotein, or HDL. And that's supposed to stay above 40 milligrams per deciliter. The higher it is, the better we're told. And that's because LDL is the bad cholesterol. The one that leads to artery clogging plaques, heart disease, strokes, and other nasty stuff. We want less of it. HDL, on the other hand, is good cholesterol. We want more of it. HDL has this good reputation because it binds to LDL, carrying the bad stuff to the liver. From there it gets flushed out of your body, where it can't hurt you. But you know the old saying about having too much of a good thing, that seems to be true of good cholesterol. So is it possible to have too much HDL? It's totally possible. Turns out that too much HDL actually raises the chances of artery and heart disease the very things we're trying to avoid. Once you get above 80 for men and a hundred for women, and I'm going to stop saying milligrams per deciliter because it's a mouthful. You're in the danger zone. A bunch of recent studies have found this effect, but generally, that's not what doctors have told patients. The teaching has been up until recently that the higher the HDL, the lower the risk. So traditionally transitions have been using very high HDL levels as a marker of really healthy cholesterol profile. That's the researcher behind some of the newer studies. My name is Professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Henry university school of medicine Atlanta, Georgia. He did a study of more than 400,000 people in the UK. People without other predisposing risk factors for heart disease. For men, cardiac and other disease risks went up if their HDL levels were under 40, or over 80. For women, the risk climbed once HDL levels topped 100. When you say climbed, how much of a risk are we talking about? A few percentage points, or much bigger increase. Excellent question. And I ask kayumi about the amount of extra risk that people face. If she just took them without any other evaluation of other risk factors like LDL cholesterol or blood pressure, diabetes, et cetera. It's almost too far higher compared to the lowest risk group which would have levels between 40 to 60. Even when he and his team took into account those other factors, those with very high HDL had a risk that was 80% higher than normal. And other studies back this up. One of them looked at more than 11,000 people with high blood pressure. It found a much higher rate of cardiovascular problems and people with HDL levels, both under 40 and over 80. Okay, let me run through the numbers. HDL is bad if it's under 40. It's good if it's 40 to 60. Possibly a risk in the 60 to 80 range and a pretty big risk if it's above 80 for men and a hundred for women. Is that right? Yep. Good cholesterol is really bad cholesterol over 80 or over 100, depending on your sex, and under 40. The middle zone is the safe zone. Now, it's a bit of a mystery why HDL should turn bad when it gets really high. Why should a molecule help you it? Level 45, for instance, but hurt you at level 85. It's possible that the shape of the molecule changes. So they don't latch on tightly to circulating cholesterol and help ferry it out of the body. Interesting. But I want to go back to something intriguing you mentioned. There's a difference between where men and women enter this HDL danger zone. You said it was over 80 for men, but over a hundred for women. Why is that? You're right. There was a 20 point difference between men and women. And honestly, neither kayumi team nor anyone else really knows why. Part of everything is taught to be just sex hormonal differences, estrogen, testosterone, differences between men and women. There are some genetic reasons for that as well. It's not really what worked out. I've read that estrogen can increase HDL in women, and that it can be protective. But once women reach menopause, their estrogen levels drop, and HDL becomes less protective. In any event, it sounds like women shouldn't freak out if their HDL is slightly over 80, according to these studies. Though men in that range should probably be aware that they are at risk. Yeah, and there shouldn't be a huge number of people freaking out, period. Overall, the research shows that about 7% of the general population reaches these scary HDL levels. But still, that's nothing to ignore. If a doctor sees 100 patients in a week, 7 of them will be in this HDL danger zone. So if people are in the danger zone, what should they do? I ask kayumi about that one too. Drinking a lot of alcohol drives HDL up. So he tell patients guzzling one or two glasses of wine or booze daily to cut it out. There aren't drugs that bring down high HDL. So the big thing he'd do is focus on treating LDL. Statins, for instance, are very effective at lowering LDL levels, and he'd use those. Baby aspirin used carefully can reduce blood clots that lead to heart attacks. Check with your doctor on that one. Aspirin can have side effects. And there's one more thing. If they are sedentary, they should be encouraged to exercise, exercise is helpful for everything. I guess I'm going to keep going for my morning runs then. And I'll try to keep my bad cholesterol low and good cholesterol in that happy middle zone. Our colleague, Lydia Denver, calls that the Goldilocks zone, not too low and not too high, but just right. You can read her new science of health column on HDL in the middle of May on Siam dot com. And now I'm going to call my doctor to schedule my yearly checkup. Your health quickly is produced and edited by Toledo bows, Jeff del vizio, Kelso Harper, and Alexa Lim. Our music is composed by Dominic Smith. Our show is part of scientific American's podcast science quickly. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to go to Siam dot com for updated and in depth health news. I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh fishman. We'll be back in two weeks. Thanks for listening.
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"But the hours leading up to the moment were heart -wrenching for her family and the investigators. Stephanie Ramos reports. Charlotte Senna was last seen at 6 15 Saturday night in Morro Lake State Park, where she was camping with her family. After riding bikes with friends, the fourth grader decided to leave for the next three weeks. She had was still around one last time alone before sunset, but when she didn't return after 15 minutes, her parents started searching. At 6 45, the bike was found along the Sarah Cialdini's home, but whether she had seen Charlotte's children, was shot. All r Jackie Shumdeville reporting, Charlotte was gone. Several Children fall into a pool at a daycare in California. Two Children do not survive. ABC's Orange and Shaw has details tonight. The San Jose Police Homicide Unit and the Santa Clara County DA's office are investigating the deaths of two Children after they fell into a pool. It happened around 9 a .m. local time the at happy, happy daycare based out of a residence from above. You can see the pool in the backyard, surrounded by a tall fence. protective We have three patients all together who are going to be immediate. I need two more doses. There were reportedly five Children at the daycare at the time. Ambulances rushing three to the hospital in critical condition. Two of the Children later pronounced dead. The third child expected to survive. and seven Police say. They will be on the scene for a significant amount of time as they investigate with the DA's office, Money and help for Ukraine is already slowing down in the wake of the cuts made to keep the U .S. government from shutting down. ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge has more from Ukraine. The Pentagon tonight warning that US This funding to provide arms and ammunition for the war in Ukraine is running low. Congress avoided a government is down in part by stripping $6 billion of funding for the war. Pentagon officials saying Existing funds are dwindling to the point where the U .S. has already slowed down resupplying some of its own The demand for weapons and munitions is staggering new video showing the ferocity of the On fight the war's main southern front formidable Russian defenses and firepower holding Ukraine back with casualties mounting hospitals full of badly wounded soldiers Taras Losing an arm to an explosive drone after an assault on Russian physicians went horribly wrong out of seven men in his unit. He believes four did not survive. The enemy's advantage is enormous. He tells us it's why when our infantry advances they just die. Officials say there is Hardly any money left for additional humanitarian and financial aid for Ukraine but a new military a package aid for Ukraine could come as soon as this week using existing funding. The EU foreign policy chief will try to get members to donate over five billion dollars in aid to Ukraine next year. These are your world headlines from ABC News. At a European meeting in Kyiv despite some alliance alliance fatigue the EU high representative for foreign affairs Joseph Burrell believes. I hope that we can reach It's an agreement before the end of the year when we have to agree, member states have to The review of the multi -annual financial framework. That total if secured would would go to things like training soldiers and fighter pilots and cyber defense. A typhoon traveling Westward from the Pacific is strengthening as it moves toward Taiwan. It's expected to make landfall Thursday And Britain's treasury chief has announced a hike in the national minimum wage as the governing Conservative Party He tries to persuade voters it's on the side of those who are struggling financially. I'm Tom Rivers at The ABC News foreign desk in London. your stock charts .com money update on news radio 1000 FM 97 seven stocks began The new week with a mixed session the Dow Industrial slipped 74 points, but the Nasdaq composite rose 88 With the government's landmark trial against Google's parent company alphabet moving into its fourth week Microsoft's top boss today lobbed a few salvos against the software giant's rival in testimony today Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed that Google used unfair tactics in becoming the dominant search engine tactics that in turn have thwarted his own company's Bing a key supplier for both Boeing and Airbus Just has had its CEO depart suddenly Spirit Aero system CEO Tom Gentile abruptly resigned the The move coming as the jet components maker continues efforts to deal with various production snafus Spirit board member Patrick Shanahan was named interim chief. That's your money now. I'm Jim chesco northwest news radio. The ongoing United Auto Workers strike has cost the U .S. Economy nearly $4 billion. Brian Shook reports. That's according to a study from the Anderson Economic Group, Michigan a -based research firm it cites lost wages for workers and more than a billion dollars in manufacturing declines at GM Ford and Stellantis. The report also accounts for additional costs to suppliers, dealers and consumers. Thousands of workers are striking against the big three U .S. lawmakers demanding better pay and added benefits. I'm Brian Shook. More than 75 ,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are getting ready to go on what would be the biggest health care strike in U .S. history. Megan Mays of Patient Administrative Assistance says she speaks for a lot of other employees who say working conditions have declined. People are just really really tired. We're working full time and then we're working overtime and then we're working double time. Unions representing the workers notified the company more than a week ago that they could launch a three day strike. This coming Wednesday, negotiations on pay on outsourcing and staffing. Well, they're stalled and the strike would affect Kaiser hospitals and clinics in California, Oregon, Washington State, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D .C. Union coordinator Miles O 'Shea says Kaiser isn't bargaining in good faith. just want what's theirs. They want to be treated fairly. They want to get quality benefits. Health updates. Sarah Lee Rensselaer, NBC News Radio Northwest traffic
60-Second Science
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"Legendary Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone is back with nuclear now. His first film in 7 years coming exclusively to theaters across the USA and Canada beginning on April 28th. Based on the book a bright future written by award winning scholar of international relations, professor Joshua S Goldstein, who also co wrote the film. Nuclear now explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. An option that may become the only viable way to ensure our continued survival sooner than we think. With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia and the United States, director Oliver Stone delivers a revolutionary documentary the variety is called an intensely compelling, must see film. Opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 28th with special one day screening events across North America on nuclear now day May 1st that you won't want to miss. Visit nuclear now found dot com to learn more. How many books would you say you have? I don't know. Sylvia federici's home is full of books. There's stuffed into cupboards under beds, jammed, and kitchen cabinets. Two other editors from scientific American and I are trying to find this famous Italian scholar, some olive oil, but we can't find any. Only more books, which Sylvia keeps excitedly pointing out. And that booklet was very important for me because it spoke about the witch hunt. We're at a dinner that we've dubbed the witch frittata party. To clarify, yes, we are a group of women and Sylvia's philosopher husband George, sitting in a circle. We are in fact eating a frittata. But we are not at least by any of our admission, which is. But in 16th century Italy, as women assembling and talking about reproductive labor and justice. You can most certainly have been tried. But today, we'll talk to two witch hunting scholars and take you on a journey from the Middle Ages in Italy to Salem Massachusetts to the present day to look at some surprising links between reproductive health, labor, and witch hunts. For scientific American science quickly, I'm talik of Bose. So they arrest the woman and then they torture her to death until she has revealed all the names of the other. Sylvia is actually telling me about the horrifying history of the change and meaning of the word gossip. For the first century and a half, which craft is always seen as a collective class, the idea this idea that when women come together, they do something that is not good. Sylvia federici is one of history's most famous feminist scholars, and for one night I got to pick her brain about witch hunts. But there's something else I want to know. As a scholar of domestic labor, how does that tie into witch hunts? I wanted to understand what it being the path from a pre deploy capitalist Europe. Tool capitalist Europe. It all goes back to the Black Death in Europe. Around this time, the mid 1300s, and there was a hunger for labor. Because many had died, it creates a whole new concern about marriage, about the production, killed them this coincides with the rise of certain heritage movements, like the cathars, who contradicted the edicts of the established church. Now, let's fast forward to the 1400s. Which craft appears at first as a form of heavily. But there's more than meets the eye in the story. While the story is about witch hunts, it's also about controlling women's bodies for the creation of a labor market, and the creation of a peasant class in post feudal Europe. By the 1500, you have colonization and this begins to bring silver into Europe, and the more silver comes, the more enclosures. The more people are kicked off the land, and the land is turned to commercial use. Soviet actually argues that the creation of capitalism in Europe was a motivating factor in the rise of witch hunts. As she and other scholars have argued, expansions of capitalism also cause women to lose their social standing and their land. Particularly vulnerable were older women. By the 1600s and edict is issued, it has to do with witches and their apparent ability to stop reproduction. They it pull that accuses which is basically of abortion and contraception. And it's often women who were knowledgeable about reproductive healthcare, who were targeted for witchcraft. Women were the ones who cure it. They were the ones who, in addition to fathoming, had the hurdle guard the cause of the children because of the reproduction. They were the one who knew about the herbs, and so they immediately suspected. According to Sylvia, the accusation of witchcraft relied on targeting people who allegedly interfered with procreation, including abortion, because poor workers were evaluable form of capital. Many, many times in when they burnt women, they also burned gay people. That, by the way, was for the crime of not procreating. This theme around women's roles and domestic labor also shows up in the Salem witch trials. I spoke to Alice Cantor, a writer who happens to be a descendant of a woman tried for witchcraft. Her name was Martha carrier, which she was 7 months pregnant when she got married. So that's sort of a big puritan. Don't do that. She was known for being sort of this outspoken, very had a habit of yelling at her neighbors kind of lady. Side note, this is around the time I found out about a medieval Orchard device called a scold bridle once placed over women's heads to keep them from talking, but that's another story. Now, while Salem didn't have the same obsession with killing people for the crime of running procreation, if you were tried for witchcraft, Alice said it was still related in some way. To reproductive labor. If we zoom out and we think from a sort of broader perspective about what reproduction is, not just pregnancy and giving birth, but all of the works that it, the work that it takes to keep someone alive and the care work that is part of reproductive labor, that aspect does appear in Salem. Because this care work was extremely gender. You know, it was women's work. Not only that, but there were still incidents of women being tried for aiding an abortion. Some of them were killed were midwives who provided abortions or contraceptives. Alice had something to say about witch hunts in the present day too. Witch hunts are not over. At least a thousand probably in the low thousands of people are accused of witchcraft and suffer violence as a result, whether they're killed, tortured, expelled from their homes. Or ostracized. In the present. You can read more about modern witch hunts in a new scientific American article by Alice Cantor and Sylvia federici. There's a lot we can take away from a historical study of witch hunts, especially in our current climate, but I'll leave you with something that Alice said. The witch hunts of the past are
Bloomberg Law
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"Ahead of even the U .S. Supreme Court today in terms of how conservative it is and whether or not the U .S. Supreme Court feels as though it has to rein it in a little bit. And although, you know, this Supreme Court is certainly one of the most conservative in history, as we saw last week, there's still a few justices in the center that are not necessarily as comfortable going as far as some of the justices at the far right want to go, the Chief Justice, Justice Kavanaugh. And so, in each of these cases, spotlight the is really going to be on those justices in the middle and whether or not they're comfortable discussing the Fifth Circuit with the Supreme Court. reporter Greg Storr. Greg, the Supreme Court could also take up a Fifth Circuit case on the abortion pill, Mifepristone. Greg, this decision by a conservative Texas Christian federal judge, which went to the Fifth Circuit, has already been at the Supreme Court once. Yeah, so right now the abortion pill is fully available and that's because the Supreme Court several months ago issued a stay that kept the pill fully on the market while this legal fight goes forward. That was a significant win for by the administration and abortion rights groups. The question is basically whether the Food and Drug Administration, when it approved the drug, considered all the things it was supposed to do and then later on when the FDA under Joe Biden and Barack Obama expanded access to it allowing things like mail allowing order the drugs be mailed to people directly and meaning they didn't have to go to a doc to obtain it. Whether those things complied with the rules that govern administrative agencies. The district judge you referenced friends blocked the drug entirely or said he would have blocked the drug entirely. The Fifth Circuit eased up on that a little bit and said some changes that were made starting in 2016 to widen access to it we're going to block those and for the time being everything is on hold the drug is fully available but the Supreme Court has not yet said whether it will take that case. The Biden administration has filed its appeal it will be probably later on this year again this is one of these cases where because the appeals court said the federal government has done something wrong and the administration is appealing it's the kind of case court almost always takes the Supreme Court is going to consider whether the FDA took some shortcuts or didn't fully consider what it was supposed to consider when it expanded access to the drug. I thought when the Supreme Court you know issued the stay they were sort of telling the Fifth Circuit you know we don't want to deal with this but the Fifth Circuit just went ahead. Yeah the Fifth Circuit essentially reaffirmed what it had suggested previously saying that these changes that allowed distribution for example were in violation of the law and so it did not take that message from the Supreme Court that it was supposed to back full access to this drug and now we'll see you know sometimes when the Supreme Court issues an emergency order a stay order you know sometimes that's a very good indication of how they're going to come out on the merits but as we saw in the case last term involving Alabama and and redistricting the creation of a second majority black district in the state sometimes that's not the case sometimes and the Supreme Court goes in a different direction so this will undoubtedly be a very very hotly contested fight. How long does the Supreme Court stay remain in effect? I mean the Fifth Circuit has already issued its decision twice. Yes the Supreme Court stay remains in effect until they either say no we're not going to take the government's appeal or until after they take the appeal and resolve the case so the stay essentially keeps the drug fully available until the Supreme Court makes a final decision one way or another. Erv Gorenstein of Georgetown Law Center some said of the Fifth Circuit's decisions that will be reviewed this term may well be affirmed. Not every one of them was delivered from crazy town but it would be shocking if at least some of those decisions are not reversed and you know that seems to be the problem. These decisions are not just conservative but they're novel they just seem you know not wedded to precedent. You know some them of are taking on new issues. The appropriations clause issue is one that hasn't really been tested at least not recently. And some of them you look at the Gunn case for example the the Rahimi case. When the Supreme Court ruled on the right to carry a gun in 2022 the court said the test is going to be history and tradition and your judges you're supposed to look and try to find a historical analog for some current regulation. And if you can't find a historical analog that's a pretty good sign that this provision is unconstitutional. And that's the analysis the Fifth Circuit went into.
60-Second Science
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"So <Speech_Female> I had to know, <Speech_Female> did Joao like <Speech_Female> the last of us? <Speech_Female> Did he play the video game <Speech_Female> back in the day? <Speech_Male> I did. <Speech_Male> The game was released <Speech_Male> ten years ago, <Speech_Male> 2013, <Speech_Male> and <Speech_Male> that's when I started <Speech_Male> my PhD at Penn <Speech_Male> State. And <Speech_Male> the scientific <Speech_Male> consultant for the game <Speech_Male> was my PhD adviser. <Speech_Male> So I <Speech_Male> wasn't the right <Speech_Male> time the right <Speech_Male> place, so I <Speech_Male> played a game since <Speech_Male> day one. <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> Of course, I <Speech_Female> also wanted to know if <Speech_Female> he as an OG <Speech_Female> fan of the game had <Speech_Female> any nitpicks <SpeakerChange> about the <Silence> show. 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"Football out of half time in new york the giants trailing the seattle seahawks 14 -3 in a game marred by contentious play and injuries jeno smith back from a knee injury but jamala adams comeback game already done after suffering a concussion in his just ninth snap back from a 13 -month absence moments ago jeno smith leading seattle to a good drive but missed the field goals so still 14 -3 key play the in commander's loss in philadelphia came after the touchdown as time expired on regulation ron rivera chose to kick game the tying extra point rather than go for two and the win and that didn't work out in overtime quite as he planned but he's got a supporter in payton manning who said on the pat mccaffee show that rivera has earned a reputation as a gambler in those situations he knows the situation best and also and sam howell doesn't have a manning -like carte blanche to overrule his coach he's probably not quite ready to have that conversation to tell the head coach hey coach take your extra point team and stick it i'm going for two right you know aaron rogers does do that probably tom brady and the guys that have played a long time so i'm a sam howell fan i like the way he's playing i think he'll earn that trust eventually so but look ron's on the sideline the enemies on the sideline they know the pulse that was the right call for them at the time look there's a lot to not like about ron rivera's decisions but that wasn't necessarily one of his worst rob woodfork wtop sports all right rob still ahead tonight on tlp some political drama more of it i should say in the house house speaker mccarthy's chief critic moves ahead with an to effort push him out i'm mitchell miller today on the hill ten twenty seven this is a test of the washington d .c. the metropolitan operational by Bye i'm katie de paula from long home products migrate grandfather started long a legacy with reliability value and quality in mind at long we do things the right way the long way and that's why we've advertised our products on w two p for the past thirteen years the w two p audience knows they can trust and have peace of mind when working with long home products and we trust w the two p team to attract homeowners to our business for seven decades we've helped families just yours like bring beauty value comfort and safety to their homes whether it's roofing baths or windows you can trust long home products to protect your most valuable investment for decades to come we believe w two p can help attract customers to your business to go to w two p dot advertise com if and search you're looking for the most trusted name in roofing baths and windows visit longhomeproducts com again that's long home products dot com think identity theft won't happen to you think again there's a new victim every three seconds in the u .s. over 15 million this year alone and many don't even know their victims lifelock alert you to identity threats you could miss even when you monitor your credit if your identity is stolen your dedicated u .s. based restoration specialist will work to fix it no one can prevent all identity theft but everyone can save up to 25 % off their first year with
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"And a female astronomer who would go on to change the course of cosmology is initially turned down from visiting the palomar observatory. Because they don't have the right facilities. In other words, they could not give her observing time. And she learned somehow that the facilities in question were that there was only one bathroom in the dome of that houses the telescope, and
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"New homes, more than the 600 there now. Seabrook executives say the expansion will create more than $1 .5 billion in real estate value. The company has been self funded but is now considering bringing in investors to accelerate growth. Apartment rents are expected to rise in Seattle after being stagnant the the past year. Kidder Matthews notes that only 337 new apartment units have been completed in 2023, well below the decade long average of 5200 units per year. The apartment vacancy rate is 6 .3%. The Dow lost 74 points to close at 33 ,433. NASDAQ gained 88 in the S &P 500 rose a third of a point. This is Rob Smith with Northwest News Radio. A Seattle Mariners season of high hopes ends in frustrating disappointment. Swartz Bill examines why the M's fell short of the playoffs. Sellout crowds all weekend at T -Mobile Park tried to will the Mariners into their second straight postseason. Instead, Texas partied on Seattle's diamond. 6 Saturday -1 loss to the Rangers ended the M's wildcard ambitions and left faithful fans with mixed emotions. Absolutely sold out crowd playoff game everything was on the line just couldn't get it done. Hurt, lost, dejected. I feel like I love this team but it doesn't love me back. Sunday's After final regular season game Seattle shortstop JP Crawford vowed to use disappointment as motivation. Take this feeling into the offseason every day. Just every time you're working out or training just remember you know how much that this is you are. Last season the Mariners ended a 21 -year playoff drought creating huge expectations for 2023. Their offseason acquisitions AJ Pollock, Colton Wong and Oscar Hernandez did not improve the ball club. Before the trade deadline the M's pretty much stayed the course. They did send popular relief pitcher Paul Seewald to Arizona for some young infield players. Then a blistering hot month of August with a franchise record 21 victories pushed Seattle into playoff contention. In September the Mariners slumped against powerful teams Tampa Bay, Houston, LA Dodgers and Texas. Manager Scott Service points to frequent strikeouts in clutch opportunities. It needs to get better. That's what teams the good do. I believe at this time of year to survive against really good pitching you've got to figure out a way to get the ball in play. M's catcher Cal Raleigh essentially called out management saying quote they've done a great job growing some players here in the farm system but sometimes you have to go out and buy. Hopefully we can add some players and become a better team. It should be noted the Seattle Mariners active payroll this season $138 million. Texas went 144 million and barely squeaked into the playoffs. I'm Bill News radio. Northwest traffic from the high performance homes traffic center. A five minute delay going from Bellevue to Tukwila on 405 South and SeaTac a northbound 5 crash at 200th is blocking the right lane off. This report is sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Your grief is unique but you're not alone. You always have a place at MADD. Call the 24 hour victim line help at 877 -MATTE -HELP or visit MADD .org. Our next hopeless traffic at
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"Diseases, treatments, and some controversies. And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy. I'm Tonya Lewis. I'm Josh fishman. We're scientific American senior health editors. Today, we're talking about new research on long COVID. It shows that this puzzling and disabling condition may have its roots in the brain. I think the biggest long COVID challenge I did face was like having so much pain in my legs that I couldn't walk. I use a wheelchair for a few weeks and it came for around a year and a half to two years. It really sucked. Like, I used to run races and marathons. And now I have to have a stick to walk around. That's Ibrahim Rashid. He's 23 years old and from Chicago. I met him at a conference a few weeks ago. You can hear some of the conference buzz in the background. I got COVID in November 2020 and my life hasn't been the same since. In December of 2020, I noticed that I was still having trouble breathing. I was waking up at night with intense heart palpitations, waking up very quickly, gasping for air. Man, that sounds really rough. It seems like he's been through a lot. He's had a difficult time, and he's one of an estimated 16 million people in the U.S. who've had long COVID, with two to 4 million being forced out of work. Generally, long COVID means that months to years after infection, you've still got symptoms such as pain or extreme fatigue, or something called brain fog, which is when you have a lot of trouble concentrating or remembering things. More than the normal amount, at least. Recently, though, a common thread has started to emerge among this maze of symptoms, the brain. Huh. The brain makes a lot of sense for things like memory problems, but how are physical pain and exhaustion connected to the brain. Fair question. Well, first of all, signs of the virus has shown up in the brain and central nervous system. We often think of COVID as an infection that mainly hits the lungs. The throat and the nose, but it also affects many other organ systems. One study is found evidence for viral particles in the brains of people with long COVID. Another found virus genetic material in the brain as long as 230 days after infection. Wow, that's almost 8 months. Yeah. And the nose it turns out is actually a root where the virus could reach the brain. Viral material has shown up deep in the lining of nasal passages. Next to neurons. Projections from those neurons go up into the brain to areas that control breathing and the heart. Plus, autopsies of the brains of people who've died of COVID find signs of immune system activation, like there's been a response to some infection. There are cells called macrophages that go after invading microbes. The trouble is that macrophages aren't very precise. When they go on the attack, they produce chemicals that chew up nearby cells. There can be a lot of inflammation and damage. Immune cells also travel through the blood and spinal fluid and the brain is filled with tiny blood vessels. So an ongoing immune response could damage those vessels and neighboring brain cells. Exactly. This is why William Pittman a doctorate UCLA health who works at a long COVID clinic says he now thinks of the condition as a neurological disorder, as much as it is a respiratory one. That's interesting. But how does that explain the wide variety of symptoms people experience? Because of something called dysautonomia. Um, I've heard of that. What did you find out about it? Well, there are all these activities in your body that the brain usually takes care of automatically, like breathing, blood pressure, heartbeat, and balance. Sending signals all on nerves throughout the body. Dysautonomia is when the brain kind of loses that control. Ibrahim described it to me. If I would try to like move my leg, it would feel like it was taking longer. Like there was like a few millisecond delay. And I'd be looking at it. I'm like, I'm moving it back and forth. But it's moving slower. And then I would feel like unstable and I was like, wait. Why am I losing my stability? I do feel like there's this disconnect. This loss of control can also happen with the heart. For a lot of long COVID patients, when they stand or sit up, their heart starts racing, it can speed up by 30 beats a minute. And that creates exhaustion among other problems. Plenty of people with long COVID simply crash if they push themselves. Ibrahim told me about one episode when he was studying for a big exam, he was a grad student, and afterwards he couldn't get out of bed for ten days. Oh, jeez. There are some ways to treat this, right? I mean, beta blockers, a type of drug that lowers the heart rate, have been effective for some people. Yeah, there's still a lot of uncertainty around long COVID treatments. What works for one person may not work for another. But looking at it as a brain body disorder can help focus therapy. That's right. For long COVID patients who might have nervous system inflammation, doctors have tried giving them a cocktail of proteins and antibodies called intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIg. This dampens the immune response that triggers inflammation. Our colleagues, Stephanie Sutherland, wrote about that therapy and some others in a Siam cover story in the march issue. She said that some long COVID cases may be caused by the virus lingering in the body, and you and I talked about the evidence for that. Right. For those people, it might make sense to treat them with antiviral drugs. In fact, there's an ongoing clinical trial looking at using pax lova to treat long COVID. And a veteran's affairs study found that taking PEX lovid when infected reduced the risk of developing long COVID symptoms by 25%. There's also some evidence that COVID vaccines reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms. It's not clear by how much though, one recent study said that it cut the risk in half. But another one showed us slimmer reduction by about 15%. It's not all about drugs, though, for people with long COVID, as with other diseases that don't have easy medical answers. The big issue is finding people who believe you. Doctors, Friends, and even family to easily say things like it's all in your head. Ibrahim heard that a lot. People didn't understand why young people like thee were still struggling. I lost friends who just 6 months into my illness were just sick and tired of me being sick. So how's he doing now? Better, much better. He was walking without a cane when I saw him. He is adjusted his diet and he gets plenty of rest, all to reduce the chances of ongoing inflammation. And he cofounded a company called strong haulers. They're developing an app that can pull data from wearables like fitbits and Apple watches. The idea is to give people with chronic conditions info on activities that trigger symptoms, and on activities that reduce them. That's really cool. That seems like it's helping patients to help themselves, and it could give them data they could share with their doctors to validate their symptoms. And those symptoms are telling the medical community that long COVID isn't all in the head. But it does seem to be in the brain. Your health quickly is produced and edited by Kelso harbor to leak a Bose and Jeff del vicio. Our theme music is composed by Dominic Smith. Our show is part of scientific Americans podcast science quickly. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to go to Siam dot com for updated and in depth health news. I'm Tony Lewis. I'm Josh fishman. We'll be back in two weeks. Thanks for listening.
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"That's Christine mclevy, a pianist, and one of the architects of OpenAI's music models. If you think of a good quality recording, it's maybe like 44 kilohertz which is 44,000 samples per second. It's a lot a lot of information. And you have to get each one of those numbers correct. There are just so many ways you can get off by a little bit. In order to work with these massive files, engineers like Mick levy needed to compress all that information down into a small space. Their approach isn't that different from how you compress a file on your computer. Basically, they break up the audio into small pieces, they call tokens, like breaking a sentence into words. Each token contains important information about a portion of the audio waveform, compressed into a smaller amount of space. If you're a teacher who's going to give a lecture, usually you wouldn't write down literally every single word you're going to say, you have a sort of higher level plan of what's going to happen. And in the same way, we're kind of doing that to the music. We're trying to generate this higher level representation first. And then from that, then generate the sort of fleshed out version where we get the full sound that we can listen to. Honestly, this part of the technology is just like magic to me. But it works. The resulting program called jukebox came together through a few months of trial and error. This is the algorithm. In August 2019, trying its best to make a pop song.
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"Gotta stay true to our roots. A new science quickly series. We're calling it cosmos quickly. Every episode will take you on a skyward journey. Into space. To explore what we know. And what we're just learning about the universe we all live in. Today, in our inaugural episode, we'll start off with Space Force. That's right. We sat down with lieutenant general neenah armagh, the director of staff for the United States Space Force. Welcome lieutenant general. Thanks for being here. So can we start off with a very basic question? What is the Space Force? The Space Force is a service just like the army navy air force Marine Corps. We are the newest service for the United States of America. And we were established on December 20th of 2019. The United States Space Force organizes trains and equips guardians so that guardians may conduct space operations for the good of our nation. Now, to some people, the Space Force sounds, well, kind of funny. Like something out of science fiction. I mean, pretty quickly after then president Trump announced you all, pop culture kind of jumped on your story. Sure. You mean Netflix? Yeah, that series starring Steve Carell. Potus once complete space dominance. To that end, the president is creating a new branch. Space Force. Which mark will run. What? Netflix actually, it was funny. I thought it was funny. The first couple of episodes I thought were hilarious and I hate to say it, but you know, it just made fun of the coast guard actually more than it made fun of the Space Force and to show the rivalry between the air force and the Space Force I thought was just hilarious because the truth is we came out of the air force and we rely on the air force for many, many, many things still. I mean, it's a true partnership underneath the Department of the Air force. And in The Pentagon, every service has a corridor. And in the Space Force corridor, we actually have a section on humor. Because there's not only the Netflix series, but there was also a Ben and Jerry's ice cream called boots on the moon. And I think there's still one tiny carton hanging around The Pentagon somewhere. Well, it's good to know the Guardians of the Galaxy. I mean the guardians have a good sense of humor. But back to reality, how big a deal is the Space Force. We've been doing space operations for decades. I want to make that clear that just because we have a new service. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden the United States is active in space. We've been active for decades. And in fact, when we were first established in 2019, and then into January of 2020, the line of funding that we were already using was carved out and given to the Space Force. Roughly about probably 18 billion at that time. It is a lot of money. But it's 10% of the air force budget. And it was only about 2% of the DoD budget. Fast forward to just this week, the president's budget request that was sent to Congress. Asks for 30 billion for the United States Space Force. And so it's almost a doubling request. But I think what that shows is the importance of what we're trying to do. We're not simply continuing to provide the best services from the space domain. We also now have to protect and defend the space domain. And that is a large undertaking. That is why the Space Force was established because all joking aside, Russia and China are threatening our capabilities. They're building capabilities that can threaten our systems in space. And we need to be able to protect defend and continue to operate through. So then in a future conflict crisis or even war, our forces in every other domain, air, land, sea, undersea, can still get the exquisite data that they currently get from the space domain. What would it actually mean to go to war in space? Well, a war in space would be devastating. Because it would probably destroy the very domain itself. And so, you know, the world, as we know it, would be very, very different. Yikes. And what would it mean for regular people down on earth if we did lose some of those capabilities in space? I mean, you know, today, especially in modern American life, we benefit from that timing signal from the GPS constellation. That that timing signal runs everything from the power that we're enjoying to the blue dot on your cell phone. I mean, that timing signal is everything. Not to mention the positioning and navigation that GPS provides free to the world. A war in space could
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"Every episode we dive into one topic we discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies. And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy. I'm Tonya Lewis. I'm Josh fisherman. We're a scientific American senior health editor. Today, we're talking RSV vaccines. After decades of effort, we may be on the cusp of having several safe and effective vaccines and other preventive treatments for this nasty virus. If you have small children or as my Friends with kids like to call them adorable germ factories, you've probably heard of or had RSV. That's short for respiratory syncytial virus. It infects most of us by the time we're two or three years old, and it keeps infecting us throughout our lives. Last fall, we had an especially bad RSV season, because the COVID pandemic changed some of the patterns of seasonal viruses. You're saying that COVID actually made RSV even more widespread than normal. How does that happen? COVID precautions essentially delayed RSV infections because everyone was social distancing. But then we had a really big wave once kids started going back to school again and all got sick at the same time. The symptoms of RSV are often similar to the common cold. But in very small babies and in older adults it can sometimes be pretty dangerous. Our SOB causes severe respiratory disease in young children. And it's the leading cause of hospitalization in children under 5. Cumulatively. And it also causes severe illness in the elderly. That's Barney Graham. I'm senior adviser for global health equity now at morehouse school of medicine in Atlanta. You might have heard of him, mainly because he and a team of scientists at the NIH's vaccine research center were instrumental in developing the technology for the mRNA COVID vaccines. He was actually working on RSV vaccines when the pandemic hit, and he turned to COVID, his team's work on those shots changed the world, protecting millions of people. And the scientists ended up on the cover of Time Magazine, but RSV has never been far from Graham's mind. RSV was discovered in 1956, around the same time that the first polio vaccine was developed. Scientists started to work on a vaccine for RSV in the early 1960s, but those early efforts were marred by some serious problems. Like the polio vaccine, the first RSV vaccine was based on a whole inactivated virus. In a clinical trial in 1965, it was tested in children under the age of 6 months. But the trouble started that winter. That vaccine that whole inactivated vaccine was tested in about 31 children compared to another group of controls. But among those 31 children, during the next winter season, the 66 67 just after Christmas, 20 out of 31 were infected, and 16 of those 20 had to go to the hospital. And two of them died. Basically, the vaccine enhanced the disease's severity because it produced the wrong kind of immune response in the children. Graham started his RSV career wanting to understand why. So I worked 20 years on what was the cause of the vaccine enhanced illness. Graham started collaborating with scientists Jason mcclellan and Peter kwong on a better RSV vaccine design. RSV infects cells using a protein called the F glycoprotein. When it fuses with the host cell, the protein unfolds from a so called pre fusion form to grab hold of the cell membrane, and then re folds into a post fusion shape. The early vaccines failed because they were based on the post fusion form. So when it was given to kids, their bodies made antibodies that only weekly attacked the pre fusion form. This resulted in the vaccine making the disease more severe, not less. Wait a second. I get that there are pre fusion and post fusion forms. What I don't quite understand is why does this whole process of vaccination make the disease more severe than the no vaccine condition? That's a great question. The antibodies that targeted the post fusion form still produced an immune response, but it was more of a state of hyperinflammation, which turned out to be dangerous. So Graham's team turned their attention to targeting the pre fusion protein. Once we had that structure and learned how to stabilize it and keep it in that shape, it turned out to be a very good vaccine antigen. That brings us to today, several companies have now developed vaccines using this protein structure based approach. Pfizer and GSK are both testing a vaccine for adults over 60, and one for pregnant people, which could protect their babies up to 6 months after birth. And several of these, especially the ones for older adults, appear to be getting close to FDA approval. And it's not just vaccines. For children under the age of 6 months, who are most vulnerable to a severe infection, several companies are also making monoclonal antibodies for RSV. A product called nurse 7 mab made by AstraZeneca is already approved in Europe, and it's been accepted by the U.S. FDA for review. Well, it's exciting for us and it gratifying multiple things are in very advanced development or near the stage of licensure. So we are going to have products for RSV and Graham told me the FDA will likely decide on the antibody product and some of the vaccines for the elderly by July, or maybe even earlier. So things are really moving along. In fact, just a few weeks ago, the FDA is committee of independent medical advisers met, and they went over the latest data on the two RSV vaccines for that older group. Their info came from the trials you mentioned, plus some other tasks. Overall, the efficacy rates were pretty impressive. GSK's vaccine was about 83% effective at preventing infection in the lower respiratory tract and adults 16 older. And 94% effective at preventing severe disease. Pfizer's vaccine, meanwhile, was 67% effective at preventing infection and 86% effective at preventing severe disease. But that's not the whole story. No, it's not. I watch the FDA advisory hearing, and I got to tell you that the committee wasn't completely happy. Public is very skeptical and in order to maintain the trust that the FDA gets from the public and perhaps to rebuild that trust, we need to make sure that we're really careful about the safety of a vaccine before we send it out. They were worried by two side effects that cropped up. One of them is called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. That's when the brain or spinal cord rapidly swells up. There were two cases in trials of about 15,000 people with the GSK vaccine. The other worry was guillain Barre syndrome, a rare nerve disorder which causes weakness and sometimes paralysis. It usually begins in the hands and feet and can spread to the whole body. Yeah, it happened in one person with a GSK vaccine and in two people with Pfizer. The concern is that these conditions occur less frequently when they're in the general population. So in the trials, they could have something to do with the vaccines, and that really bothered the FDA advisers. But it's also possible that the cases were coincidences, because with just one or two cases, the numbers are really too small to say if there's really a safety issue. Meanwhile, the GSK maternal RSV vaccine trial was halted because of a safety signal, meaning they also saw some kind of side effect that needs to be investigated further. The Pfizer maternal vaccine trial is still ongoing. In the end, the advisers voted to let the applications for the older adult vaccines go forward. That's going to take months and the scientists really want to see more safety data as these trials keep going. So our SV vaccines aren't a done deal, but things are
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"Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. But one, two, three, four, 5, and up the scale. And so as I started to sit down with these digits, I started to map them onto the notes of the scale. One to one, two to two, upscale. And as you started to do that, did it sort of make sense intuitively immediately as you started to go through the digits, what did it sound like? Yeah, so at first this was just a trick for remembering it, right? I was going to have these tones in my head. That was going to help me kind of recite these digits. But as I mapped just the very first 5 digits, it sounded really nice. It sounded like kind of some of the folk songs I used to sing in choir. Maybe a lullaby and had this nice sort of, I'm going to try to sing it here, forgive me. Give it a shot. I'll give it a shot. Something like three, one four, one 5, kind of walking up a scale. And so I sat down at the piano and started to play with that. And so as you sat at the piano, did it continue to make sense? You know, it's not a random number, but it did sound like there was something come together here that was a little bit more than just a seemingly random set of numbers you had to try to internalize. Yeah, so the fun thing is, if you talk to people who memorize pi, I've actually heard this from other people too, who have used other techniques. You find these patterns when you're memorizing it. They're not anything inherent to the mathematics. It's just your brain kind of picking up on stuff. Because I was kind of clicking this out on the piano, I started to identify these phrases. That's not a really nice. So that was sort of the starting point of playing with that. I tried parts in a major key parts in the minor key, playing with different arrangements of chunks from pie. So what did you end up calling your composition? It's a little cheesy, but I ended up calling it lullaby. And actually one person who helped me a little bit to write this has already used it as a lullaby for his child, so that was really nice. Did it do the job? Did it put the kid to sleep? He said she liked it. Fantastic. So maybe the next thing just getting in on the Spotify rotation. Yeah, I assume it's going to go double platinum. It's going to Beyoncé is going to cover it. It's going to be fantastic. But I'm actually looking, I'm thinking about maybe orchestrating it with strings with flutes trying to kind of play around a little bit more. So if anyone out there plays an instrument and wants to collaborate, I'd love to expand it. And before we actually listen to a lullaby in its entirety, did it actually help you to memorize more digits than you thought you might? I think it did and it's actually a trick I use now. We were driving around the city the other day in my partner and I, we saw a telephone number that we wanted to remember and I immediately started kind of mapping it onto the tones. And I found I could remember it 5 days later just by creating a simple little song. Maybe I'll do that with my kids school schedule. I'll start singing it from now on. It'll make you the coolest dad in school. I'm sure. Oh
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"I think, you know, while we don't have those answers yet, we do know that many mental health conditions develop during adolescence and if they go untreated, they can persist into adulthood and they can limit quality of life, one of the points that namita made was that you really need to address this in schools. So schools are like a natural place for connecting kids with mental health services. Which of course is going to require local school districts and states to pony up money for schools. You can't just expect kids to be so isolated and deal with all of these stresses and not have there be some kind of long-term fallout. There's one change that we all made during the pandemic that looks like it's going to stick around. And that's telehealth. Using a video or audio connection for a check up with your doctor. Before COVID hit, telehealth was pretty rare, insurance companies didn't reimburse healthcare workers for doing it, and various regulations required what they called an in person relationship. But then in 2020, we suddenly had to keep our distance to avoid infecting others, so those regulations were relaxed, and telehealth boomed, the boom spread throughout medicine, including cancer care, endocrinology, and a bunch of other specialties. How big a boom are you talking about? A pretty big one, Tanya. At Stanford healthcare in California, telehealth shot up from about 3% of visits before the pandemic to about 70% during it. Now, a lot of healthcare networks are saying that it's settled in at about ten to 30% of all their patient visits. But how do you do cancer care over video? Don't you have to show up in person for chemo and x-rays? Well, that's an excellent question. And you're not the only one curious about that. Our colleague reporter Lydia denworth wanted to know about this too. So I asked her to stop by and explain. Maybe you should start by telling everyone who you are, Lydia. I'm Lydia Denver. I'm a science journalist, and I'm a contributing editor for scientific American for the magazine, and I am also now the new columnist for the science of health column. Good to have you here. Now, you yourself have done some telehealth, haven't you? I did. Like many other people in this country during the pandemic, I had some sessions with my psychiatrist that had to be by video through telehealth instead of in person that made me curious as the pandemic is beginning to abate from people's lives about how telehealth is actually being used. I can imagine that talk therapy, psychotherapy lends itself to telehealth. But you found some surprises in other medical specialties, didn't you? I did, but it turns out that things like cancer care also are making quite substantial use of telehealth in places. How can you care for a cancer patient through a video link? You usually have to go to the doctor quite a lot, and it turns out that you can cut out a big chunk of those appointments. The ones that don't require things like an infusion for immunotherapy. So when you're talking to your doctor and checking in with your doctor, you can do those appointments virtually and save everybody
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"We still don't know a lot about these three objects, but Sophie, our resident tech editor, scientific American, decided to interview an aerospace expert and let's not forget a UAP expert. So this is someone who specializes in unidentified aerial phenomena. Correct, it's the new and improved term for UFOs. I have so many questions. Shoot. Okay, so first of all, tell us who you spoke to. So in addition to policy experts, I interviewed Ian Boyd. The director of our center for national security initiative here at the university of Colorado. And to Mick west, a writer who investigates and debunks UAPs. Where they may list a whole bunch of new UAPs, and vast majority of the ones that they identified were balloons. It's important to rule out a UFO, I mean UAPs, right? Well, okay, let me preface this by saying it's not aliens. But the military has not officially ruled out the idea. According to Mick west, that's because the military doesn't like to rule anything out. The military hasn't said we determined it's not to be alien, not aliens, but you can't rule our everything. Wow. Okay, I'm really curious about that. Can you expand? Let's explore the possibility that alien ships just so happen to show up a week after we spot this Chinese surveillance balloon. But I can see the object itself doesn't look very much like a meteor, based out the media as I've seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder. If these objects were alien ships, they would be ships that are acting a whole lot like balloons. Wait, how does that work? So these particular objects were about the size of a small car, which is consistent with the size of a typical weather balloon, although it's a lot smaller than the first surveillance balloon that was shot down. And they didn't seem to move under their own propulsion. They just drifted with the wind. Okay, but I heard that the earlier balloon seemed to change course. How did it do that if it's just moving with the wind? So here's why that maneuverability aspect is so interesting and unexpected. The typical balloon does move at the mercy of the wind, and it can only change position to shift up or down. But because different altitudes may have wind moving at different speeds, this does give it a limited ability to navigate. That said, the big balloon that was shot down early this month did seem to change course at one point. It also apparently had some structures on it that looked like propellers. How do we know that these could be in fact spy balloons? So the objects that were shot down more recently could have been spy balloons, but they could also have been innocuous research balloons. They could have been something else entirely, maybe some sort of other craft like a dirigible, but the reason we're pretty confident that the first balloon was a surveillance platform is because it had equipment on board like antenna that could be used to transmit information. And this is especially worrying because it was traveling over some sensitive military sites, including where missiles are stored. I'm curious what did Ian Boyd say about us? Ian Boyd pointed out that by studying the electronic signals that are being used at those sites, an adversary could potentially figure out ways to jam the signals or to interfere with them in some ways. It gives you more information about designing a counter a countermeasure to be able to suppress or disable those kinds of communications. And I'd rather question what do you think people are getting wrong about all the balloon coverage, especially when it comes to science and tech? So a lot of people are having fun speculating about aliens, but it's not likely that we're mistaking an alien craft for balloons. What is likely is that we're mistaking balloons for aliens. So Mick west studies UAPs and debunks them and he pointed out that the government has also been interested in exploring these phenomena in recent years and they've released reports on them. And you've read the recent UAP reports that came out in January. Where they may listed a whole bunch of new UAPs, and that's the majority of the ones that they identified were balloons. Because it's such a common thing to be. And they're not going to be things like research. They're going to be mostly things like possible limbs. And in these reports, a lot of the UAPs they investigate turn out to be done. That's so interesting, okay, I guess. So it makes sense because there's a lot of balloons in the air. What do you think people should take away from all of this, especially from a science and tech perspective? People might be worried about these three objects shot down in quick succession, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were threats. So after the larger spy bloom was detected, norad, they are radar typically filters out smaller objects because radar can pick up those mylar party balloons. It can pick up birds even certain clouds under some conditions. So they have their radar tuned to filter out those small objects, and after detecting the Chinese surveillance balloon, they widened the filter to catch more things, and that's probably why the government detected those balloon like objects, and they claim that the reason they shot them down wasn't because they were necessarily threatening it was because they were at an altitude where they could have interfered with civilian aircraft. So the truth is out there, and the truth is balloons. For scientific American, I'm Sophie bushwick. I'm Julia bows. Don't forget to listen to science quickly for in depth news and features and subscribe to scientific American dot com.
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"Raging wildfires, extreme flooding, and heat waves in the winter. There's no denying that climate change is here. But what can we do about it? How do we prepare for what's coming? Ease the impacts and build a resilient society. Battelle, a nonprofit organization focused on applied science and technology is tackling this question at its innovations and climate resilience conference this march. The second annual event brings together the top experts on climate change to share breakthroughs and action plans. Scientific American custom media recently sat down with Justin Sanchez, a technical fellow at Patel and lead organizer of the conference to learn more about the conference and why climate resilience is a top priority. Justin Sanchez has spent his life creating innovative technology. First, for the defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa. A lot of the technologies that we love today came out of darpa things like the Internet and GPS and touch screens that are on your phone. Those were fundamental technologies. And now for Patel. It means I get to think about chemistry, biology, physics, and material science, use all of those approaches and really different ways to develop new technologies and approaches to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Working on those problems is literally battelle's mission. It was founded as a charitable trust nearly 100 years ago, with the goal of using science and technology to address society's biggest challenges. It's almost a daunting task. But with that being said, we have a few focus here. So inside of a tell, we have a focus on health. We focus on environment and infrastructure. And we also focus on national security. Right now, Justin is focusing his attention on climate change. Specifically, how can we respond to the rising seas extreme weather and the other effects of our warming planet? We don't need to continue saying climate change is coming it's coming it's coming almost that sky is falling thing. No, it's here. Okay, now that it is here, what are we doing? That's why Patel is hosting a climate resilience conference for the second year in a row. Why resilience? Justin says it reflects strength and responsiveness in the face of climate change. Even if you just go to the dictionary and you look up the word resilience. You'll find words like robustness or the ability to manage change. Justin has three main goals for the gathering in March. Action action action. That's what it's all about. What does that action look like? Getting people from a range of backgrounds and perspectives to say okay, here are the changes that are occurring today as well as in the future here are the technologies in the bold ideas and the actions that you can take in order to mitigate that moving forward. Justin says those actions have to happen on many fronts at once, because climate change affects almost every aspect of our society from defense. It's a huge problem in how we defend our country given the changes that are occurring in different parts of the world as well as the United States. To health? I think only a recent times have people been really personally feeling the effects of, let's say, extreme heat. And how that affects the body. To how much we pay at the grocery store. You might be thinking today about how the increase in food prices. Yeah, it might be tied in a large part to inflation and other kinds of things. But those food prices are also affected by how hard it is to grow those crops, which is impacted by climate change. To address the multifaceted impacts of climate change, the conference will bring together problem solvers from places as varied as the national science foundation, Google, and the Department of Defense. And we want to mobilize all of the people that attend this conference to find those new ways to go and take that action and leave the meeting with the intent on implementing them. Justin says Patel is uniquely positioned to focus on solutions. In whatever form they might take. For instance, he's excited about a speaker who's exploring how to use agriculture to pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. And they have a whole new kind of idea around using crops for carbon capture. And they're starting to bring these technologies out of the lab and into real world kinds of environments. Justin says if there's only one conference you go to on climate resilience, it should be this one. Your horizons will be expanded so much and you'll leave the event saying, oh my God, I have no idea that any of this was even possible or that I would even meet some of the people that are actually going to be at the event. Even if you're not a scientist or an expert on climate change, Justin says it's worth coming to the conference for new perspectives and inspiration. In the end, it's going to take all of us on personal and political levels to respond to climate change and build resilient society. Justin Sanchez is a technical fellow at battelle. The innovations and climate resilience conference runs from March 28th to the 30th.
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"This feels a little like bragging, but I took an attachment style quiz, and it told me I have a secure attachment style. Over the years, I've learned to really value and appreciate the securities in this world because we don't tend to do that so much. Pretend to overlook that. Amir Levine is co author along with Rachel Heller of the book attached the new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love, where a lot of the new attention on attachment styles has come from. A mere sings the praises of people with secure attachments. The Abbott talent in relationships. But because they always show up because they're always there because there's no much drama. We tend to sort of not feed them as much and concentrate on when there's the most tries in our lives. By strife, he means the other styles, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. Simply put, people with an avoidant attachment, turn away from closeness. Other colors probably aware of the time to run away. After a whole weekend, they spent the time together with you. Do they disappear or not female or don't text you? Meanwhile, anxious people are afraid their partners don't love them. Read into every little text or lack of text as proof of this and need a ton of reassurance. How sensitive are they to a change in the availability of the other person? And people with a disorganized attachment are a little bit of both. But where do these categories even come from? They originate from work done on the different kinds of attachments babies form with their caretakers by psychoanalyst John bowlby and psychologist Mary ainsworth in the 1950s and 1970s. Yet it wasn't until 1987 that researchers applied those patterns to adults and their love lives. That was the original insight click. If you look at ainsworth's research on attachment patterns, there's similar dynamics or similar qualities in young adult suite. We were studying. That's Philip shaver, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Davis, who, along with his then graduate student Cindy hazan, was the first to ask whether attachment theory from kids could be applied to later in life. We created a questionnaire at that time to try to capture those tree patterns, things we were talking about. Their study wasn't funded at the time, and it was just a speculation that grown-ups might fall into these attachment styles. We actually put the initial questionnaire in the Rocky Mountain news. This was in 1985 and around 1200 people answered it within a week. The researchers analyzed the first 620 responses in a study published in 1987, and they found that people did sort into the rough categories of anxious avoidant or secure. That study has now been cited thousands of times. Something that we were viewing as very speculative shaky and so on has turned into this monster. Has Philip seen tiktoks about attachment style? I've never seen social media. I don't pay any intense like that. The hashtag attachment style currently has more than 731 million views on TikTok. And there's probably a good reason, the styles are so relatable. If you're out there in the world trying to meet people, you'll notice that some people shy away from relationships and get spooked by intimacy, some are really anxious about it, and others can feel both ways. Please avoid and bathe need just as much love and understanding as anxious cuties. I get it. A mere learned about attachment theory while he was doing his residency in child and adolescent psychiatry, helping mothers with post traumatic stress disorder better connect with their children. And as he was going through a breakup. And said, why would someone want to become more distant if they feel too close? So for me, immediately translated to this person doesn't love me enough. They only love me enough. Then there we bought a baby with me. The approach helped a mere understand his partners avoidant response to love versus an anxious one. I really experienced it as a revelation at a personal revelation. It helped me so much and understanding all the different things that were going on in my failed relationship and the breakup. But of course, when psychological theory spread widely, there can be distortions. Online, the attachment styles are treated as rigid categories. You're either avoidant or anxious. I've had friends who, when talking about dates, say, I'm not going on a second date. He's an avoidant. But the attachment styles are not as fixed as they might sound. Now they call it more orientations. So see it more of the continuum. There aren't types, but a person can land on different spots along four quadrants. Most of the time, people will fall under the same events. But probably the biggest misconception about adult romantic attachment styles is that they aren't directly tied to how your parents treated you and the attachment style that you had as a kid. If anything, there's a very weak correlation, the research doesn't support that at all. How we relate to each other comes from a number of different sources, all the people we've had relationships with in our lives, such as Friends, family, teachers, and bosses, there's also a strong genetic component to, as well as an environmental one. And as Sarah merrell, a postdoctoral fellow at the university of British Columbia has studied, there's an epigenetic influence, or how our social relationships in early life change the expression of our genes. DNA methylation, which are methyl group tags on your DNA to reduce body markers of either things that have already happened in your DNA or potentially even can change how the name of the transcript, most importantly, attachment styles aren't fixed. The reason why I find this whole field so promising is that people can't really change their assment style and people can indeed change their attachment styles. And I would be in a methylation is also dynamic. And realistic either. If you align with a certain attachment style, you might not forever. 30% of people change their attachment styles within a four to 5 year period. And a person might have a general attachment style, but find a relationship where that style doesn't express itself. That relationship itself is secure, even if the person and their expectations of relationships. So then everyone else. Are mostly characterized by other behaviors and expectations. Avoidant or anxious attachment styles are not pathologies either, even though they're talked about this way online. You can't be diagnosed with them. They're not mental illnesses. Think about it as like 25, 25% of the population are avoidant. Not all 25% are ontological. And there is actually research that shows that there's certain times that it's actually I've been pages to be avoiding. And there are certain times that these advantages to be anxious. So why are attachment styles the darlings of the Internet? Basically, I thought becoming similar to how the Internet was talking about Myers Briggs, how the Internet was talking about astrology. Steve rathje is a psychologist at New York University, and he makes psychology content for TikTok. The attachment styles have a lot in common with other personality metrics because they give people easy labels to put onto themselves.