Funky Weird Blog Spot: April 2022

This is good link for primary aldosteronism

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33660617/

F1 Schedule 2022 - Official Calendar of Grand Prix Races: "Check out the Formula 1 calendar for 2022, including the inaugural Miami Grand Prix*.

How to hack your brain to cope with change | London Business School:

1. learning new things,

2. highlighting our unique strengths and

3. understanding the personal impact we have on the world.

Car insurance for NHS volunteers | Alan Boswell Group: “Volunteers who are giving up their time to help can rest assured that they do not need waste time on the phone to let their car insurer know that they are using their car to do volunteer work”

Also:

https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/steward-volunteer/driving-for-royal-voluntary-service

Download Visual C Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 from Official Microsoft Download Center: The Visual C Redistributable Packages install runtime components that are required to run C applications built with Visual Studio 2012. Also, helps fix broken installs. Solves this problem: https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?t=68740

What Is a Transformer Model? | NVIDIA Blogs: “We are in a time where simple methods like neural networks are giving us an explosion of new capabilities.”

“I caught a couple hours sleep in one of the small conference rooms, and I woke up just in time for the submission when someone coming in early to work opened the door and hit my head.”

Intel Starts R&D Effort in Probabilistic Computing for AI - IEEE Spectrum: "ways to help self-driving cars and autonomous robots deal with the uncertainty of the real world"

How to stay optimistic in these dark times - by Noah Smith: "There are different kinds of optimism; let's think carefully about which we need"

Summary of freehold - Search for land and property information: "This is how HM Land Registry have described the property in the register."

How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane | Self-driving cars | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/27/how-self-driving-cars-got-stuck-in-the-slow-lane

Doctors suggest new names for low-grade prostate cancer | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-cancer-prostate-cc8e4fce80a0a6d531370a7e1ba0b8ae

Coventry A46 closures as weeks of Binley junction resurfacing works to take place - CoventryLive
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-a46-closures-weeks-binley-23715448

G%FCnther%20Anders: Christopher John Müller on his new book and his English translation of Günther Anders, a contemporary of Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt. Also:

https://www.cjmuller.co.uk/contact/

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/260789-muller-christopher

How cybercriminals turn your data into dollars | CSO Online: "By merging data from multiple sources, cybercriminals can build profiles of hacked account owners to enable other attacks or increase the effectiveness of social engineering campaigns."

QR codes offer scammers another avenue to circumvent traditional email security: “The use of the QR code presents a unique challenge to those security platforms that look for known bad, as these emails come from legitimate accounts and contain no links, only seemingly benign images appearing to contain no malicious URLs,”

About%20%u2013%20Critical%20Posthumanism%20Network: Technoscientific cultures, global economic challenges, looming environmental disaster, the spread of digitalisation, the rise of biomedia and the erosion of traditional demarcations between human and nonhuman all call for alternative ways of thinking�about�humanity and its environments. Posthumanism is a paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity and the human that these developments pose.

Spring4Shell under active exploit by Mirai botnet herders • The Register. Classic Malware Factor. https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/11/spring4shell-flaw-exploited-mirai-botnet/

Omicron Covid symptoms fade in half the time as common cold in triple vaccinated people. But what about long Covid?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/omicron-symptoms-fade-twice-quickly-common-cold-study-b993681.html

UK's Covid cases continue to plunge and hospital pressure eases as No10 rejects NHS pleas to bring back FACE MASKS and outdoor socialising: Britain posts average of 30,000 positive tests a day over the weekend in 36% drop.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10708305/UKs-Covid-cases-continue-plunge-hospital-pressure-eases.html

Rings%20%u2013%20Emefa%20Cole: Rings in different colours: rose, yellow and white

Apocalypse | SpringerLink: "This chapter demonstrates the pervasive cultural influence of apocalyptic thinking in the twenty-first century."

Cognitive Rehabilitation Exercises to Sharpen Your Mind: "In this article, we are going to cover some of the best cognitive exercises for TBI you can do at home to sharpen your mental skills."

Apocalypse | SpringerLink: "This chapter demonstrates the pervasive cultural influence of apocalyptic thinking in the twenty-first century."

Dr Christopher John Müller: "How do technological objects, artificial and linguistic structures shape human perception, emotion and interaction?"

Before%20Humanity%20%7C%20Critical%20Posthumanism%20%u2013%20Stefan%20Herbrechter: "Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings."

Fraud loss data…compare IC3? Check this message out from WMNow, sent via Neighbourhood Alert: https://www.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk/da/420765

Günther Anders: biography, texts and links, by Harold Marcuse: "When technological solutions begin to make humans look embarrassingly limited and flawed, new emotional vulnerabilities are exposed."

Devastating%20emotional%20impact: "Which? says government can no longer fail to act against the harm being caused by a surge in sophisticated online scams."

So, Americans spend a lot more on health as a nation, but have lower life expectancy than the nation that has a national health system: Life expectancy vs. health expenditure, 1970 to 2015

Lasting Power of Attorney reforms cannot come soon enough | Financial Times

https://www.ft.com/content/9223bc53-e959-40d5-bf0f-143df5aa9b1d

Steve%20Roach: "A pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music."

Language: why artificial general intelligence may be impossible - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/the-future/artificial-general-intelligence-impossible/

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