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October 29, 2024 Woodrow Wilson Center event: 2024 Canada-US Legal Symposium | Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Governance, and Liability
An October 9, 2024 notice from the Wilson Center (or Woodrow Wilson Center or Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars received via email) announces an annual event, which this year will focus on AI (artificial intelligence), The 2024 Canada-US Legal Symposium | Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Governance, and Liability TuesdayOct. 29, 20249:30am – 2:00pm ET6th Floor...
Printing and growing lung tissue from mucus-based bioink?
I’m always surprised by the uses scientists can find for mucus. This time, it’s being used as the based for growing lung tissue as this July 30,2024 news item on phys.org announced, Note: A link has been removed, Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal...
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Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) shares 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics with John J. Hopfield (Princeton University)
What an interesting choice the committee deciding on the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics have made. Geoffrey Hinton has been mentioned here a number of times, most recently for his participation in one of the periodic AI (artificial intelligence) panics that pop up from time to time. For more about the latest one and Hinton’s...
Nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone
Nanoscopic, banded collagen protein fibrils from an Ice Age woolly mammoth hip bone. Credit: Landon Anderson Courtesy: North Carolina State University (Looks like a moody seascape to me but it’s not.) A July 23, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily announces the results from a pilot study of nanoscopic imaging of ancient bones, A pilot study...
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Critical Networked Experience (part of the international Leonardo LASER series) event on October 10, 2024 in Toronto, Canada
Toronto’s ArtSci Salon, one of the hosts, has announced (in an undated notice) an upcoming event, LASER Toronto – Critical Networked Experience – Jonah Brucker-Cohen – Oct 10, 2024 Critical Networked Experience. An artist talk with Jonah Brucker-Cohen Thursday, October 10, 20245:30-7:30 pm [ET]The Fields Institute for research in Mathematical Sciences222 College Street Register here...
Nano-enabled precision delivery methods for agriculture
A July 23, 2024 news item on Nanowerk provides an introduction to nanoparticles and their potential use in agriculture, Note: Links have been removed, Nanoparticles could potentially help address agricultural and environmental sustainability issues on a global scale. Those issues include rising food demand, increasing greenhouse gas emissions generated by agricultural activities, climbing costs of...
