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Sudanese paramilitary attacks famine-stricken camps, killing at least 100
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Sudans paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, afterlaunching an assault on two famine-stricken camps in the Darfur region, the latest escalation in a bitter civil war about to enter its third year.The RSF targeted the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps, where more than 700,000 peopleare sheltering from the relentless violence that has killed tens of thousands,forcibly displaced 12.7 million peopleand left 24.6 million people facing acute hunger, according to the United Nations.U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Clementine Nkweta-Salami said Saturday that the latest attacks marked yet another deadly and unaccepted escalation in the conflict, and that attacks on civilians and aid workers marked grave violations of international humanitarian law.The colleagues from an international non-governmental organization were killed while operating one of the very few remaining health posts still operational in the camp, she said.The...
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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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