"Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death" - Sandeep Jauhar, NYT, 30JUL2025

>Brain death is rare. In New York State, with a population of 20 million, there are on average fewer than 500 cases suitable for organ procurement and transplantation each year.

>Far more often, people die because their heart has permanently stopped beating. Organs from people who die this way are often damaged and unsuited for transplantation.

>There is a new method that can improve donation after circulatory death: normothermic regional perfusion, doctors take a donor off life support to determine the heart has stopped beating, then they are placed on a machine that circulates blood through the body to preserve organ function.

>The solution is to broaden the definition of brain death to include irreversibly comatose patients on life support. Using this definition, these patients would be legally dead regardless of whether a machine restored the beating of their heart.

https://archive.is/mdZuu
(Medicine?)

USA river network and drainage basins
https://redd.it/1mdz1hl
@r_mapporn

“To be in the twenty-first century,” as Fisher points out, “is to have twentieth-century culture on high-definition screens.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ewanmorrison/p/the-great-reboot-in-memoriam-mark?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

🇬🇧How you should eat rice in Britain.

"Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager" - Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 31JUL2018

>A teenager from Texas has taken quantum computing down a notch. In a paper posted online earlier this month, 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved that ordinary computers can solve an important computing problem with performance potentially comparable to that of a quantum computer.

>In its most practical form, the “recommendation problem” relates to how services like Amazon and Netflix determine which products you might like to try. Computer scientists had considered it to be one of the best examples of a problem that’s exponentially faster to solve on quantum computers — making it an important validation of the power of these futuristic machines. Now Tang has stripped that validation away.

>“This was one of the most definitive examples of a quantum speedup, and it’s no longer there,” said Tang

https://archive.ph/udmLe
(Fake Science)

NEW - UK develops spy balloons fleet to give Armed Forces "the edge" on intelligence gathering in "arms race with China" and potentially also assist in disaster support, weather forecasting and research on "climate change."

https://www.disclose.tv/id/0r6ijhg72a/

@disclosetv

Why did this whole interview get skewed in my brain as soon as Glenn Beck asked Whitney Webb what her age was... Should I let you all take a numerical guess??...Ready, go! https://youtu.be/MxavOW-k0A4?si=w5cztwesDtGT5M-e

BREAKING: Howard Stern’s show is now being canceled by SiriusXM.

@GeneralMCNews

NOW - Kennedy: "HHS has determined that mRNA technology poses more risks than benefits" in humans for respiratory viruses.

Full HHS announcement on mRNA injections: https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1952856902020546847

RFK Jr cancels $500 million in mRNA research, HHS to prioritize "safer" alternatives.

@disclosetv

"Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds" - Cathleen O'Grady, Science, 04AUG2025

>The paper, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints an alarming picture. Northwestern University metascientist Reese Richardson and his colleagues identify networks of editors and authors colluding to publish shoddy or fraudulent papers, report that large organizations are placing batches of fake papers in journals, suggest brokers may serve as intermediaries between paper mills and intercepted journals, and find that the number of fake papers—though still relatively small—seems to be increasing at a rate far greater than the scientific literature generally.

>For instance, of the 79 papers that one editor had handled at PLOS ONE, 49 have been retracted. Flagged editors handled 1.3% of papers published in the journal by 2024, but nearly one-third of all retracted papers.

https://archive.ph/f7qjY
(Replication Crisis)

We had a great first week of the Fields & Energy Book I campaign. Seventy-five backers more than tripled the original goal of the campaign. If you haven’t backed already, please do so to be one of the first to get a copy of Fields & Energy Book I. I’ve been hitting the podcast and interview circuit, and one of my first stops was with University of Chicago Professor Rachel Fulton Brown. Here’s a summary of our far-ranging discussion that weaves together medieval science, modern physics, art history, and philosophy.

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/secrets-of-the-spectrum

☕️GASBAGS ☙ Wednesday, August 6, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

An all good news midweek roundup touching election security, merit over DEI, and the unraveling World Economic Forum — all lining up at the perfect time before next year's midterms. Plus more!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gasbags-wednesday-august-6-2025-c

US State/Territory by Extreme Temperature
https://redd.it/1mdsvwg
@r_mapporn