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Submission + - Autopsies Reveal The Terrible Damage COVID-19 Can Inflict on The Human Brain (sciencealert.com) 1

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: As COVID-19 relentlessly infects more and more of us, scientists are getting a close look at the strange and frightening damage it can inflict on our bodies. We've known since early in the pandemic this disease wreaks havoc on more than just the respiratory system, also causing gastrointestinal conditions, heart damage and blood clotting disorders.

Now, a year into the pandemic, in-depth autopsies of COVID-19 patients have revealed greater details of widespread inflammation and damage in brain tissues. This may help explain the deluge of neurological symptoms that have manifested in some patients, from headaches, memory loss, dizziness, weakness and hallucinations to more severe seizures and strokes. Some estimate that up to50 percent of those hospitalised with COVID-19 could have neurological symptoms that can leave people struggling to do even common daily tasks like preparing a meal. "We were completely surprised. Originally, we expected to see damage that is caused by a lack of oxygen," said physician and clinical director at National Institute of Health (NIH), Avindra Nath. "Instead, we saw multifocal areas of damage that is usually associated with strokes and neuroinflammatory diseases."

Submission + - Scientists Observe Live Cells Responding To Magnetic Fields For First Time (newatlas.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the most remarkable “sixth” senses in the animal kingdom is magnetoreception – the ability to detect magnetic fields – but exactly how it works remains a mystery. Now, researchers in Japan may have found a crucial piece of the puzzle, making the first observations of live, unaltered cells responding to magnetic fields. Many animals are known to navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field, including birds, bats, eels, whales and, according to some studies, perhaps even humans. However, the exact mechanism at play in vertebrates isn’t well understood. One hypothesis suggests it’s the result of a symbiotic relationship between the animals and magnetic field-sensing bacteria. But the leading hypothesis involves chemical reactions induced in cells through what’s called the radical pair mechanism.

Essentially, if certain molecules are excited by light, electrons can jump between them to their neighbors. That can create pairs of molecules with a single electron each, known as a radical pair. If the electrons in those molecules have matching spin states, they will undergo chemical reactions slowly, and if they’re opposites the reactions occur faster. Since magnetic fields can influence electron spin states, they could induce chemical reactions that change an animals’ behavior. In the living cells of animals with magnetoreception, proteins called cryptochromes are thought to be the molecules that undergo this radical pair mechanism. And now, researchers at the University of Tokyo have observed cryptochromes responding to magnetic fields for the first time.

Submission + - SPAM: Burger King has your back! 33 cents an hour hazard pay.

Submitted by Kungpaoshizi
Kungpaoshizi writes: So Burger King is staying open in my town. My significant other works there. They announced plans to take everyone's temp at the door outside, and deny entry. Good plan, but what happens when a worker dies? So far Burger King is only offering a month of Hazard Pay for working alongside this pandemic.And how much is your life worth, for a single month? 33 cents an hour is what they're giving workers for Hazard Pay for possibly getting infected with a lung damaging virus.
Aside from this, they also announced a few weeks back, 'during this, nobody can be fired, it must be reviewed by upper-management first'. At least they get that 33 cents an hour until they're hospitalized and have a 60,000$ medical bill..

Comment Therapy is not progress.... (Score 1) 109

by Kungpaoshizi (#59421472) Attached to: Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy'
I think we need to waste an hour and have a meeting about this. If anyone has any questions, please schedule another meeting after this meeting. If anyone has any answers, please schedule another meeting after that one. After you get into the office, and we waste a few hours, let's go to Panchero's for lunch, but no business talk during lunch please.

Comment For Young Male Coders, Internship Interviews Can B (Score 1) 242

by Kungpaoshizi (#59124220) Attached to: For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
Oh wait thats right, I didn't even get to the interview. The compay said, "interns are for college students" when I attempted to change discipline directions after doing IT for 10 years. This man vs women, women vs man crap needs to end. All the recent non-profits, fundraising, and attempts at "equality" inherently are RACIST AND DISCRIMINATORY.

Comment Re: Who cares? (Score 1) 796

To focus on gender and not content is called sexism. If there are fewer of one gender than another, that's called life. If you believe that because there's an equal amount of one gender to another in life, there should be an equal amount of both in an industry, I believe you should read up on the definition of what "skilled worker" means. Also, read up on the Meyer-Briggs personality test. Not everyone is equal. In intelligence, not everyone is equal. in understanding spatial physics, not everyone is equal. In storytelling, not everyone is equal. In painting, not everyone is equal. To think otherwise shows your lack of understanding in the world.

Submission + - Carriers bloatware leads to degradation of mobile phones? (boostmobile.com)

Submitted by Kungpaoshizi
Kungpaoshizi writes: An interesting tangent. As we all know, as components are used, components degrade. What happens when companies are forcing "customers" to house their choice of applications that make them more money yet cost the owner of the device? Could it be considered the same premise as a botnet?

Comment Nobody cares (Score 1) 1448

Nothing to see here, except the movie, move along. I wish morons would quick bickering about someones past remarks, if everyone was under the spotlight, we would all be screwed. I have a feeling those who call out other peoples intolerances (but by doing so they ARE intolerant) in fact need to look inward, perhaps there lies the problem.

Comment Re:Wow, just wow. (Score 1) 406

I agree with your other points, but this: If some troll (or anyone else I disagree with) This just makes me think you're as ignorant as the OP. Everyone should be able to say whatever they want. If people cannot "tune them out", "ignore them", or "have an intellectual conversation" to help this other person see the error of their ways, that is their own fault. And if the "argument" lacks any validity and is nonsense, good. At least it will be entertaining to read. Ultimately though, I would feel sad for them, that they cannot construct a decent conversation to express why it is the way they feel.

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