This weeks we have all kinds of news . Some it is good, some of it reads like a crazy drama, others are weird and there is bad news. Each is useful in some way for the purposes of research.

In weird news biology researchers have made a crypto miner that uses bacteria. The bacteria are modified to be able to process the algorithm. It si very slow and clumsy but at the same time the whole design is a very early prototype.

In much less useful weird news antivaxxers have been trying to blur the space between vaccine injury and and unrelated disease complication. In this they are trying to attribute to vaccine the signs and symptoms of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

In good news we may have better data storage in the very distant future with a very simple but effective means being created.

In weird news an excel spreadsheet can destroy a whole network. Or at least the story goes. This is based on the nature of copper wire, file structure and the signals sent.

In bad news we have a growing number of fungi that are resistant to any kind of anti fungal. That is a concern that is overshadowed by the problem of antibiotic resistance.

This weeks news items can be found at the following time stamps:

00:00 Intro
01:12 Crypto mining with GMO bacteria
03:38 Antivaxxers claim adverse event in viral TikTok post
06:36 Antifungal resistance pandemic
08:01 Concussion in slap fights
10:49 American Academy of Paediatrics losing credibility
13:18 Vertical farming
17:00 Immortal jellyfish
19:49 Why legalese is common and complicated
21:29 New mathematical shape
22:53 SAT result data analysis
26:23 PhD negatively effect mental health
29:39 Crystal data storage
31:01 Ultra safe data storage
32:44 Excel files are a danger tone network
34:03 3G comes to an end in Australia
35:18 Time in space harms astronaut hearts
37:20 Blue zones debunked
38:32 Faked graphene data leads to retraction

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TBC