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Push for seniors' dental scheme grows ahead of federal election
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Aged care resident Arlene Freeland admits it's getting harder for her to clean her teeth properly as she grows older."I try my best and some days it's not good enough, really," she says."There should be more help for us oldies, who need as much help as we can get."Dental therapist Leonie Short visited Arlene's Ipswich aged care facility, west of Brisbane, educating residents and their carers about preventative oral health care for seniors."Some of it was tips I didn't know," Arlene said."They have been helpful."Arlene's nursing home was part of a research collaboration between the University of Southern Queensland, UnitingCare and Oral Tech AI to develop a digital platform to optimise oral health awareness, education, and screening in aged care.Most aged care facilities do not have the resources to fund such a service, despite the potential dire risks."The consequences of poor oral health are illnesses, for example, having a tooth abscess but also hospitalisation and unfortunately, d...
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Data centers drive ERCOTs massive power demand forecast
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
By Philip JankowskiAustin Bureau CorrespondentApr. 9, 2025|Updated 5:03 a.m. CDT|3 min. readTexas power grid operator ERCOT is projecting an explosion in energy demand over the next five years, with peak electricity use more than doubling as new data centers come online around the state.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Tuesday updated its projections to show peak electricity demand as high as 218 gigawatts in 2031. The current power demand record, set in August 2023, was 85.5 gigawatts.Energy-hungry data centers are driving the massive increases in ERCOTs long-term estimate, accounting for a whopping 86 gigawatts of demand growth. Thats enough electricity to keep the lights on at 21.5 million homes.ERCOT also downplayed the estimate, simultaneously releasing an adjusted estimate that showed power demand would grow, but at a significantly reduced pace. It showed demand hitting 145 gigawatts in 2031, 33% lower.Business BriefingBecome a business insider with the latest news....
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Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste
2025-05-02 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Profiles / Neural networks Losing HHMI Investigator status prompted Yuste to study neural networks in a new way. By Brady Huggett, Shaena Montanari 4 April 2025 | 10 min read comments https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 https://doi.org/10.53053/WLAP1965 - opens a new tab Cite this article Go West: After Yuste finished medical school in Madrid, his mentor Sydney Brenner guided him toward a Ph.D. at Rockefeller University. Photography by Mackenzie Calle Rafael Yuste woke up in his bedroom. It was early on a Sunday morning at the end of March 2019. Manhattan was quiet outside his windows. He had been dreaming of Sydney Brenner, sitting face to face with the Nobel-Prize-winning biologist. Brenner was speaking about Hydra as a model in neuroscience but also chiding Yuste, telling him to forget funding concerns and focus on the things that truly matter in science.He was so shaken by the dream that his wife woke up, too. A few days later, Yuste was reading the news online when he saw that Bre...
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