No. The correlation is clear. But what's not clear is the direction of causation, or whether there's a feedback loop.

My, non-expert, guess is that Alzheimer's causes beta-amyloid clumps. This is largely because drugs that reduce beta-amyloid clumps seem to have practically unnoticeable effect on the disease.

Well, considering the number of updates that have been hitting me recently, I'd say that they've likely been already patched. But I sure wish I felt more certain.

Sorry, but that's unfair. You might not approve of the use, but it is using water, not wasting it.
OTOH, it *does* mean that it's not available for other uses.

A brief search indicated that those are fresh-water species. (Perhaps not all of them, though.)

Apparently I really need to start using <humor> tags.

Makes sense, but doesn't explain the blue. Exact wavelength spectra would be more diagnostic. (Not to me, but to experts in the field.)

Yes. Never doubt that. The questions are "How many?" and "Which people?".
Before anyone sensible should believe it, it should come with easily enforceable penalty clauses that are stiff enough to be meaningful.

As rain.

I think the first hard drive I used was 20MB, but it could have been smaller. And that was the claimed size, not what was really available.

Don't misunderstand what was found. What they found was fossilized blood cells and veins. I doubt they'll even be able to detect the ribosomes, which were almost certainly there.

Yeah, is an extremely well preserved fossil, but don't overread it. It's really no more surprising than the detection of the colors of dinosaur feathers.

Not until January 20, 2027.

It could well be that he doesn't trust either party. This is quite reasonable, and neither deserves trust. (Personally I tend to be left of most Democrats...so I think of myself as independent, but if the two parties are on the ballot, I generally hold my nose and vote for the Democrat, even though they hardly represent my position.)

Those are showing up. The robots *are* coming. But not just to the US.

The US surged to dominance in the aftermath of WWII, when most of the other major countries had sustains severe damage. Since then, they have recovered, so the US no longer has that much advantage. Several of the other countries are smaller, or have other disadvantages, but the US has some disadvantages of its own. And we've essentially abdicated out position. China seems to be moving in to fill the vacancy. (Don't take this too seriously, I don't spend much time analyzing this stuff, but that's my take.)

AI *IS* going to be extremely important and shape the world over the next decade. It's an extremely important thing to get right, and getting it wrong could be deadly. But it's already clear that it's going to dominate repetitive jobs. And China is well aware of this. So, apparently, is Amazon, and a few other places. What's not clear is just how cheap it will be. (But China is pushing it hard...so probably cheaper than humans.)

The US is not at war with Russia. I think that has been decided as the definition of an enemy country under the treason definition.

Odd, I thought he was acting more as a Russian puppet, even though China was the main beneficiary.