Don't be so sure. Although penicillin resistance may have been first reported in the 1950's, Penicillin itself keeps on going strong. It is 100% effective against the #1 cause of neonatal infectious morbidity and mortality, Group B Strep. Plain old Amoxicillin high dose remains highly effective against the most common form of pneumonia, Pneumococcus. So does monotherapy Ceftriaxone for pneumonia, UTI, and gonorrhea. And penicillin remains the best and essentially only treatment for syphilis. It is correct that many other microbes have developed plenty of resistance to plenty of antibiotics. But it's not a lost cause nor a sinking ship. And there is evidence that when doctors improve their prescribing patterns, antibiotic resistance subsides, which is pretty cool. If you come in to my hospital, we won't run out of options to treat your infection. Next decade, I don't know. But I'm 28 years into my career, and I've heard about how all the microbes are gonna be resistant soon for, oh, about 28 years. --JS

I don't know the details on this medicine yet. But usually the biggest last-ditch guns for fighting resistant infections are IV-only and restricted for use. That means the big guns we keep in reserve keep working for a long time. --JS

Yeah, it can seem easier to just write a script for bazookacillin and stroll onwards to the next paying patient. But when I piss off patients with needless diarrhea and yeast infections from dumb antibiotics, I don't wind up with happy customers. --JS

I'm one of those MD's. Primary care, not greedy, and hopefully not incompetent. There are a lot of forces working to curtail inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Industrial farming, I can't say. But we're pretty careful with antibiotics. --JS

The study looked at calorie restriction and found reduced DNA-methylation. These authors hypothesize that DNA-methylation drives aging. But that's a hypothesis. No one knows for sure what drives aging. This is as dumb as saying "calorie restriction reduces wrinkles" and equating fewer wrinkles with less aging. Journalists have an insatiable appetite for anything that sounds scientific-ish and exciting.

No it is not, just a single study, not summary of many

Only these careers??? I think this is quite simplistic. One could have said the same thing in 1950, 1970, 1990, or 2010, and been mostly right. STEM, business, healthcare always have high demand and high chance of a viable career. But the other careers mentioned that you said would be loser-subject hobbies-at-best in 1970, 1990, or 2021 still put people into tons of jobs. These degree programs just have a lower chance of six-figure salary, but those who go through them still wind up with lots of jobs, and not just baristas and uber drivers. There are so many just flat out weird jobs and careers out there. So these masters programs are not zero-chance jobs, just lower-chance than the jobs you named.

"She had a masters in microbiology... which wouldn't get her a job." Uh-huh, read that again. The biology of microbes like bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses. That had no future whatsoever in 1978. Yep. I don't know the particulars of her or her field at the time. Maybe it was her, maybe one needed a PhD to go far in biology. But, puh-lease...

Non-invasive blood glucose monitoring has been the holy grail of medical device makers for decades. It's never been done. Somehow Apple swoops in with no background in medical anything and aces it? Color me skeptical. Fantastic if they do it. But don't get your hopes up. Furthermore, consider the liability risk. It has to work 100% of the time. Not 99.9%, since 1-in-1,000 errors with tens of millions of diabetics checking sugars billions of time a year will be a big deal.

so making an entire car's battery will be a cinch. --JS

Temperature and symptom screening also struck out in this study of the highly controlled environment of Marine boot-camp induction.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...

At this point I'd like to see evidence that temp & symptom screening works and simply assume it does not until shown otherwise --JS

I thought this was still years down the road. Guess the hemorrhaging of human jobs giving way to autonomous driving gets underway now.

I'm a physician. The temporary suspension of HIPAA confidentiality requirements is a godsend. Now clinicians can use FaceTime, Skype, or whatever to reach patients in their homes so much more effectively than telephone, and let's face it, with similar security risks. I'd prefer not to use my personal iPhone to reach patients, but if it enables me to see a sick child's chest to assess breathing, or see a rash, or see body language and expressions as I counsel someone on a plan, or it if lets the psychotherapists we employ continue psychotherapy with patients in need now more than ever, I'm all for it.

Iâ(TM)ve been hearing for 20-30 years about the next gen of small modular backyard nuclear future. It ainâ(TM)t here. Yet now is different?

Like combo of Atari Battle Zone and a Delorean