Your betters are simply letting Nature take its course, with a little encouragement.
There’s a problem with human overpopulation.
Why not let it self correct
when there’s so much money to be made and power to be had doing so?
Look who it’s killing (so far), the old and the weak.
Eliminating the useless and unfit, putting Social Security on a sound financial basis.
Real benefits for society!
As long as the virus doesn’t mutate into something really nasty, and as
long as it doesn’t inconvenience too many people that matter,
everything will be just fine....,
expose | UK Government confirms the Triple / Quadruple Vaccinated account for 91% of all COVID Deaths since the beginning of 2022
In January, the vaccinated accounted for 85% of
Covid-19 deaths, whilst the unvaccinated accounted for 15%. By March,
the vaccinated accounted for 93% of Covid-19 deaths, whilst the
vaccinated accounted for just 7%. And by May, the vaccinated accounted
for 94% of Covid-19 deaths, whilst the vaccinated accounted for just 6%.
Many people may believe that this is simply because, according to
data published by the UK Health Security Agency, 50% of the population
of England refused the third jab, and those vaccinated deaths are among
the double vaccinated and partly vaccinated. But unfortunately, those
people are wrong.
Overall, there were 15,113 Covid-19 deaths by 31st May 2022, and a
shocking 13,666 of those deaths were among the vaccinated population.
But what’s even more shocking than this is that 12,442 of those deaths
were among the triple/quadruple vaccinated population.
This means the triple/quadruple vaccinated population have
accounted for a frightening 91% of all Covid-19 deaths among the
vaccinated since the beginning of 2022.
NEJM | Social media and other digital platforms provide the opportunity to collect data on vaccine hesitancy in nearly real time70,71; they also allow new methods of analysis72
and the opportunity to investigate the effect of vaccine sentiment on
actual vaccine uptake and vaccine-preventable diseases. Facebook
collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of
Maryland to collect survey data on a wide variety of behaviors related
to the Covid-19 pandemic.73
Starting in January 2021, Facebook users who agreed to participate in
the survey were asked about their attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccines and
reasons underlying vaccine hesitancy.
Although
data collected on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube, may not be representative, since the users of the platform are
not a random sample of the population, the data have aligned well with
other, less frequently compiled survey data that are available for
select topics and populations. In addition, sometimes data collected
through online platforms are the only available information about
vaccine hesitancy (e.g., when large-scale surveys have not been
conducted). Furthermore, the large samples and the speed with which data
are collected and made available make real-time analysis possible for
what has become a volatile topic. As data collected through social media
platforms become more widely used, we anticipate that validation
studies will be conducted, with improvements made in the sampling,
weighting, and interpretation of the data.
The
large volume of timely data on vaccine hesitancy has provided an
opportunity to develop spatially detailed estimates of vaccine hesitancy
(i.e., mapping by location). For the United States, surveys
administered through Facebook have been used to estimate vaccine
hesitancy according to week and ZIP code. These spatial analyses show
that vaccine hesitancy varies substantially within a county. For
example, vaccine hesitancy ranges from 7 to 49% across ZIP codes within
the rural Stearns County, Minnesota. Such widespread variation within a
county is common in all U.S. states (Figure 2).
Spatially refined estimates of vaccine hesitancy have proved to be useful in local efforts to increase vaccination rates.75,76
The information has been used by community outreach programs to tailor
their efforts to local areas that have the greatest need. Other groups
have used local patterns to help to decide where to provide mobile
vaccination clinics and where to initiate other measures for reducing
barriers to vaccination. Local information can also be used to monitor
the effect of local interventions, including the effect of various types
of vaccination mandates.
In the future, large and
complex data sets on vaccine hesitancy, often referred to as big data,
can be analyzed according to spatial identifiers such as ZIP code and
various individual characteristics, including race or ethnic group, age,
sex, and occupation, which can help to further microtarget vaccination
outreach efforts. This information is also potentially critical for
monitoring progress toward vaccine equity.
One of
the various challenges in taking such an approach to scale and applying
it globally is the inequity in the access to and reach of digital media.
As the digital revolution unfolds globally, the global health community
must keep pace. The consequences of not doing so are loud and clear, as
we have seen in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the
rapid spread of misinformation and consequent vaccine hesitancy.
"We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19."
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canadians need to be "up-to-date" on their vaccines, which he describes as getting the Covid vaccine every nine months. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/pjuPGbORQa
bombthrower | Despite increasingly compelling data and peer reviewed studies
coming out detailing the harms and side-effects of vaccinations,
Canada’s Liberal-Socialist coalition government is doubling down on
vaccinations, and appear ready to move the goalposts on what constitutes
vaccine compliance.
Canadians will be required to get a Covid shot every nine months for the foreseeable future, says Health Minister . Previous definitions of “fully vaccinated” made no sense, he told reporters.
“Nine months is very clear and will help people understand why
‘up to date’ is the right way to think about vaccination now,” said
Duclos. “‘Fully vaccinated’ makes no sense now. It’s about ‘up to
date.’ So am I up to date in my vaccination? Have I received a
vaccination in the last nine months?”
Duclos previously called for the provinces to make vaccinations mandatory and when asked by reporters if mandates would return this fall, he replied “We must continue to fight against Covid.”
Canada seems to be one of the few countries outside Communist China
who is frantically clinging to the COVID narrative, relentlessly pushing
largely ineffective (and arguably dangerous) vaccines on an
increasingly fed up population.
The Trudeau regime is increasingly unpopular, a recent Angus Reid poll
finding those who “strongly support” the government falling into single
digits. The largest single category was “strongly disapprove” at 41%, Reeling with numerous scandals, corruption and gaffes, Justin Trudeau
holds power solely through the merger of his party with the Canada’s
Socialist NDP, headed by millionaire Jagmeet Singh.
The deal ostensibly keeps him in office until 2025. Singh is also on the
ropes, frequently being jeered in public even among his base
constituency in Brampton, Ontario. His brother lost his seat in the
recent Ontario election, and Singh himself was run out of a campaign stop by enraged Sikhs who called him “a sell out”.
amidwesterndoctor |Most of the injuries I saw reported here overlapped with the ones I encountered and documented within my own adverse event log.
Additionally, there were dozens of respondents (primarily healthcare
workers) who had observed a large number of individuals with vaccine
injuries; meaning that my experience is not at all unique. The most
commonly reported injuries were as follows:
•Strokes and blood clots. •Fatal heart attacks and less frequently myocarditis or heart failure. •Cancers that often emerge spontaneously, shock the doctor, and were highly aggressive (frequently killing the individual). •Sudden severe cases of COVID-19. •Cases of sudden death (i.e. a wife heard a thump upstairs, ran up, and found her husband dead on the floor). •Rapid
progression towards dementia in an elder relative (typically resulting
in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, although in one case Lewy body
dementia occurred). •Other neurological conditions
One
thing I have noticed in reviewing reports of adverse reactions to
vaccines is that a large number of them go underreported (even within
these reporting surveys) because they represent common diseases people
develop rather than something very noteworthy. For example, I believe
new autoimmune diseases or exacerbation of pre-existing autoimmune
diseases are the most common adverse event that occurs following
vaccination, as that seems to be the case for around 20-40% of the
patients in many rheumatology practices (see this testimony for example) and this report of a survey conducted by the Israel ministry of health.
However,
despite this being the case, I only saw a few reports of autoimmune
conditions resulting from the mRNA vaccines within these survey
responses. This is relevant because adverse reactions always distribute
on a bell curve and the more extreme ones, therefore, are much rare than
the less severe. ones. This means the adverse reactions that are
noteworthy enough for someone to notice and share likely only represent
the tip of the iceberg for adverse events occurring. A recent article showing there has been a 10% spike in disability within the US population so
far is the best dataset I have come across to suggest something very
concerning on a more chronic level throughout the population is
happening.
Many of these cases were very sad, and it is
difficult to even begin to imagine what the survey respondents had gone
through during this process. Cancer is a particularly terrible disease
given the death process associated with it, and despite coming across
numerous cases of this happening, I was a bit surprised at how
frequently respondents reported these cases. I likewise can understand
why continually seeing these types of reports has motivated Steve Kirsch
to spend every waking moment he has to bring attention to this issue.
Other conditions were less commonly reported. I took particular note of the following:
•Seven
cases of liver failure (or something similar), along with additional
cases of cancers rapidly metastasizing to the liver and causing liver
failure. •Six Reports of Lou Gehrig's disease (also known as ALS) •Three Reports of Fatal Prion Diseases (two of which were specified to be CJD, the third most likely was as well). •A
few reports of birth defects in vital organs with ACE-2 receptors such
as the heart (it is harder to draw a correlation here since those
defects sometimes happen otherwise, but given that I know one case where
this almost certainly happened, I suspect these may have been linked as
well).
I learned a few major lessons from these reports.
The
first is that one respondent made it very clear he and another
individual had had a mild Covid infection they were dealing with, but
once they became vaccinated, the infection went out of control and
rapidly landed them in the hospital. I have been trying to come up with
an explanation for a while over why it is so common to see individuals
be vaccinated and then rapidly be hospitalized or died from severe
Covid. I now suspect that being vaccinated while you are infected alters
the immune response and makes COVID much more likely to progress
towards being a fatal condition. This is unfortunate because those
deaths are often used to justify the urgency of vaccinating.
ssrn | Introduction: In 2020, prior to COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Coalition
for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Brighton Collaboration created
a priority list, endorsed by the World Health Organization, of
potential adverse events relevant to COVID-19 vaccines. We leveraged the
Brighton Collaboration list to evaluate serious adverse events of
special interest observed in phase III randomized trials of mRNA
COVID-19 vaccines.
Methods: Secondary analysis of serious adverse
events reported in the placebo-controlled, phase III randomized
clinical trials of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
(NCT04368728 and NCT04470427), focusing analysis on potential adverse
events of special interest identified by the Brighton Collaboration.
Results:
Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an
increased risk of serious adverse events of special interest, with an
absolute risk increase of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over
placebo baselines of 17.6 and 42.2 (95% CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to
33.8), respectively. Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an
absolute risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest of
12.5 per 10,000 (95% CI 2.1 to 22.9). The excess risk of serious
adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for
COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer
and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).
Discussion:
The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to
the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are
stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes such as
hospitalization or death.
"Gravity is fractally dual" is an assertion waaay above my pay grade. That said, I'll just slide this little morsel in here.
In the 1960s, in an attempt to understand quantum gravity, physicist Roger Penrose proposed such a radical alternative. In Penrose's twistor theory, geometric points are replaced by twistors—entities that most closely resemble stretched, light ray-like shapes. Within this twistor space, Penrose discovered a highly efficient way to represent fields that travel at the speed of light, such as electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Reality, however, is composed of more than fields—any theory needs also to account for the interactions between fields, such as the electric force between charges, or, in the more complicated case of General Relativity, gravitational attraction resulting from the energy of the field itself. However, including the interactions of General Relativity into this picture has proven a formidable task.
So can we express in twistor language a full-fledged quantum gravitational theory, perhaps simpler than General Relativity, but with both fields and interactions fully taken into account? Yes, according to Neiman.
"Things are interesting (life, consciousness, whatever) when the dynamic nature and static nature come to an agreement with each other." RNA is the embodied information that sets causal boundary conditions I got excited last year when it struck me Jordan B. Peterson gish gallop style that interference with any machinery setting causal boundaries for the quantum information flow that makes me interesting is strictly out of bounds.
Now that I have a wee bit of data from physical chemistry - and observational anecdota from clinical observation of covid symptoms - indicating that the ubiquitous spike protein precipitated either by viral propagation or synthetic mRNA therapeutic proliferation interferes with a micro-macro-scale process indispensable not only for life but for the evolution of complex life and anecdotally with aging, well..., it's just too satisfyingly handy.
If you are robust because young, or robust because objectively physiognomically superior, or robust because clever and prepared via blood thinners and vasodialators - laissez le bon temps roulez.
If your processes are suboptimally vigorous, and your body is unable to resist and home in on the virus, well then you're simply fucked. Spike protein gone flocc you up one way or another.
wikipedia | Since the 1940s, the DLVO theory has been used to explain phenomena
found in colloidal science, adsorption and many other fields. Due to the
more recent popularity of nanoparticle research, DLVO theory has become
even more popular because it can be used to explain behavior of both
material nanoparticles such as fullerene particles and microorganisms.
DLVO theory is a theory of colloidal dispersion stability in which zeta potential
is used to explain that as two particles approach one another their
ionic atmospheres begin to overlap and a repulsion force is developed.[1] In this theory, two forces are considered to impact on colloidal stability: Van der Waals forces and electrical double layer forces.
The total potential energy
is described as the sum of the attraction potential and the repulsion
potential. When two particles approach each other, electrostatic
repulsion increases and the interference between their electrical double layers increases. However, the Van der Waals
attraction also increases as they get closer. At each distance, the net
potential energy of the smaller value is subtracted from the larger
value.[2]
At very close distances, the combination of these forces results
in a deep attractive well, which is referred to as the primary minimum.
At larger distances, the energy profile goes through a maximum, or energy barrier, and subsequently passes through a shallow minimum, which is referred to as the secondary minimum.[3]
At the maximum of the energy barrier, repulsion is greater than
attraction. Particles rebound after interparticle contact, and remain
dispersed throughout the medium. The maximum energy needs to be greater
than the thermal energy. Otherwise, particles will aggregate due to the
attraction potential.[3]
The height of the barrier indicates how stable the system is. Since
particles have to overcome this barrier in order to aggregate, two
particles on a collision course must have sufficient kinetic energy due to their velocity and mass.[2]
If the barrier is cleared, then the net interaction is all attractive,
and as a result the particles aggregate. This inner region is often
referred to as an energy trap since the colloids can be considered to be trapped together by Van der Waals forces.[2]
For a colloidal system,
the thermodynamic equilibrium state may be reached when the particles
are in deep primary minimum. At primary minimum, attractive forces
overpower the repulsive forces at low molecular distances. Particles
coagulate and this process is not reversible.[4]
However, when the maximum energy barrier is too high to overcome, the
colloid particles may stay in the secondary minimum, where particles are
held together but more weakly than in the primary minimum.[5] Particles form weak attractions but are easily redispersed. Thus, the adhesion at secondary minimum can be reversible.[6]
research.colostate | Zeta potential is a physical property which is exhibited by any particle in suspension, macromolecule or material surface. It can be used to optimize the formulations of suspensions, emulsions and protein solutions, predict interactions with surfaces, and optimise the formation of films and coatings. Knowledge of the zeta potential can reduce the time needed to produce trial formulations. It can also be used as an aid in predicting long-term stability.
This introduction concentrates on the zeta potential of colloidal systems, with a density low enough such that if they remain dispersed, sedimentation is negligible.
Colloid Science
Three of the fundamental states of matter are solids, liquids and gases. If one of these states is finely dispersed in another then we have a 'colloidal system'. These materials have special properties that are of great practical importance.
There are various examples of colloidal systems that include aerosols, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and association colloids. In certain circumstances, the particles in a dispersion may adhere to one another and form aggregates of successively increasing size, which may settle out under the influence of gravity. An initially formed aggregate is called a floc and the process of its formation flocculation. The floc may or may not sediment or phase separate. If the aggregate changes to a much denser form, it is said to undergo coagulation. An aggregate usually separates out either by sedimentation (if it is more dense than the medium) or by creaming (if it less dense than the medium). The terms flocculation and coagulation have often been used interchangeably. Usually coagulation is irreversible whereas flocculation can be reversed by the process of deflocculation.
Colloidal Stability and DVLO Theory
The scientists Derjaguin, Verwey, Landau and Overbeek developed a theory in the 1940s which dealt with the stability of colloidal systems. DVLO theory suggests that the stability of a particle in solution is dependent upon its total potential energy function VT.
This theory recognizes that VT is the balance of several competing contributions:
VT = VA + VR + VS
VS is the potential energy due to the solvent, it usually only makes a marginal contribution to the total potential energy over the last few nanometers of separation.
Much more important is the balance between VA and VR, these are the attractive and repulsive contributions. They potentially are much larger and operate over a much larger distance.
VA = -A/(12 π D2)
where A is the Hamaker constant and D is the particle separation.
The repulsive potential VR is a far more complex function.
VR = 2 π ε a ζ2 exp(-κD)
where a is the particle radius, π is the solvent permeability, κ is a function of the ionic composition and ζ is the zeta potential.
DVLO theory suggests that the stability of a colloidal system is determined by the sum of these van der Waals attractive (VA) and electrical double layer repulsive (VR) forces that exist between particles as they approach each other due to the Brownian motion they are undergoing. Figure 2a shows the separate forces as a dotted line, and the sum of these forces as the solid line. This sum has a peak, and the theory proposes that particles that are initially separated are prevented from approaching each other because of the repulsive force. However if the particles are forced with sufficient energy to overcome that barrier, for example by increasing the temperature, the attractive force will pull them into contact where they adhere strongly and irreversibly together. Therefore if the particles have a sufficiently high repulsion, the dispersion will resist flocculation and the colloidal system will be stable.
However if a repulsion mechanism does not exist then flocculation or coagulation will eventually take place. If the zeta potential is reduced (e.g. in high salt concentrations), there is a possibility of a "secondary minimum" being created, where a much weaker and potentially reversible
adhesion between particles exists (figure 2 (b)). These weak flocs are sufficiently stable not to be broken up by Brownian motion, but may disperse under an externally applied force such as vigorous agitation.
Therefore to maintain the stability of the colloidal system, the repulsive forces must be dominant. How can colloidal stability be achieved? There are two fundamental mechanisms that affect dispersion stability.
Steric repulsion - this involves polymers added to the system adsorbing onto the particle surface and preventing the particle surfaces coming into close contact. If enough polymer adsorbs, the thickness of the coating will be sufficient to keep particles separated by steric repulsions between the polymer layers, and at those separations the van der Waals forces are too weak to cause the particles to adhere.
Electrostatic or charge stabilization - this is the effect on particle interaction due to the distribution of charged species in the system.
Each mechanism has its benefits for particular systems. Steric stabilization is simple, requiring just the addition of a suitable polymer. However it can be difficult to subsequently flocculate the system if this is required, the polymer can be expensive and in some cases the polymer is undesirable e.g. when a ceramic slip is cast and sintered, the polymer has to be 'burnt out'. This causes shrinkage and can lead to defects.
Electrostatic or charge stabilization has the benefits of stabilizing or flocculating a system by simply altering the concentration of ions in the system. This is a reversible process and is potentially inexpensive.
It has long been recognized that the zeta potential is a very good index of the magnitude of the interaction between colloidal particles and measurements of zeta potential are commonly used to assess the stability of colloidal system.
thehill | The Biden administration
announced Wednesday that is paying $3.2 billion for 105 million doses
of an updated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for a fall campaign, pending Food
and Drug Administration signoff on the new formula.
The order is a major step in the administration’s efforts to move
forward with a new vaccination push this fall, in a bid to blunt a
renewed COVID-19 surge when the weather turns colder in much of the
country.
The updated vaccine is expected to target the omicron variant, with the goal of providing improved protection.
The new doses are expected to begin to be delivered “as soon as late
summer 2022 and continue into the fourth quarter of this year,” Pfizer
said in a news release.
The Biden administration is using money that it was forced to cut
from other areas of its COVID-19 response after Congress did not act on
the administration’s request for new funds.
The White House is still pushing for more money from Congress, but
prospects on Capitol Hill are not looking particularly hopeful amid a
continued stalemate. Republicans have pushed back on the urgency for the funds.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said
that “despite months of warnings from the Administration on the
consequences of a lack of funding,” due to Congress’s lack of action,
Wednesday’s order “will not purchase enough vaccines to offer one of
these new booster shots to every adult and unfortunately, comes at the
expense of continued funding for other critical pandemic response needs
like testing manufacturing and domestic vaccine manufacturing.”
The order placed on Wednesday, though, will ensure the country is not completely lacking in updated vaccines for the fall.
“We look forward to taking delivery of these new variant-specific
vaccines and working with state and local health departments,
pharmacies, health care providers, federally qualified health centers,
and other partners to make them available in communities around the
country this fall,” said Dawn O’Connell, an assistant secretary at the
Department of Health and Human Services.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Thursday gave
the green light to updating vaccines for omicron, though there are still
more steps in the approval process.
Uptake of even a first booster dose, which is recommended for
everyone aged 5 and older, has been lagging, an indication that not
everyone will want an updated booster this fall.
axial | Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and was exiled
from his native home Austria after the nation was annexed by Nazi
Germany. He moved to Ireland after he was invited to set up the Dublin
Institute of Advanced Studies. This follows the past history of Ireland
acting as a storehouse of knowledge during the Dark Ages. After decades
of work, biology was becoming more formalized around the 1940s. Better
tools were emerging to perturb various organisms and samples and the
increasing number of discoveries was building out the framework of life.
With the rediscovery of Mendel’s work on genetics, scientists probably
most importantly Thomas Hunt Morgan and his work on fruit flies (Drosophila) set up the rules of heredity - genes located on chromosomes with each cell containing a set of chromosomes. In 1927, a seminal discovery
was made that irradiation by X-rays of fruits flies can induce
mutations. Just the medium was not known where Schrödinger was thinking
through his ideas on biology. At the same type, organic chemistry was
improving and various macromolecules in the cell such as enzymes were
being identified along with the various types of bonds made. For
Schrödinger, there were no tools to characterized these macromolecules
(i.e. proteins, nucleic acids) such as X-ray crystallography. Really the
only tool useful at the time was centrifugation. At the time, many
people expected proteins to be the store and transmitter of genetic
information. Luckily, Oswald Avery published an incredible paper in 1944 that found DNA as probably the store instead of proteins.
With this knowledge base Schrödinger took a beginner’s mind
to biology. In some ways his naivety was incredibly useful. Instead of
being anchored to some widely-accepted premise that proteins transmitted
genetic information (although he had a hunch some protein was
responsible), the book thought from first principles and identified a
few key concepts in biology that were not appreciated but became very
important. Thankfully Schrödinger was curious - he enjoyed writing
poetry and reading philosophy so jumped into biology somewhat
fearlessly. At the beginning of the book, he sets the main question as:
“How
can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial
boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and
chemistry?”
Information
In the first chapter,
Schrödinger argues that because organisms have orderly behavior they
must follow the laws of physics. Because physics relies on statistics,
life was follow the same rules. He then argues that because biological
properties have some level of permanence the material that stores this
information then must be stable. This material must have the ability to
change from one stable state to another (i.e. mutations). Classical
physics is not very useful here, but for Schrödinger his expertise in
quantum mechanics helped determine that these stable states must be held
together through covalent bonds (a quantum phenomena) within a
macromolecule. In the early chapters, the book argues that the gene must
be a stable macromolecule.
Through discussion around the
stability of the gene, the book makes its most important breakthrough -
an analogy between a gene and an aperiodic crystal (DNA is aperiodic but
Schrödinger amazingly didn’t know that at the time): “the germ of a
solid.” Simply, a periodic crystal can store a small amount of
information with an infinite number of atoms and an aperiodic crystal
has the ability to store a near infinite amount of information in a
small number of atoms. The latter was more in line with what the current
data suggested what a gene was. Max Delbrück had similar ideas along
with J.B.S. Haldane, but the book was the first to connect this idea to
heredity. But readers at the time and maybe even still overextended this
framework to believe that genetic code contains all of the information
to build an organism. This isn’t true, development requires an
environment with some level of randomness.
wikipedia | In chapter I, Schrödinger explains that most physical laws on a large
scale are due to chaos on a small scale. He calls this principle
"order-from-disorder." As an example he mentions diffusion,
which can be modeled as a highly ordered process, but which is caused
by random movement of atoms or molecules. If the number of atoms is
reduced, the behaviour of a system becomes more and more random. He
states that life greatly depends on order and that a naïve physicist may
assume that the master code of a living organism has to consist of a
large number of atoms.
In chapter II and III, he summarizes what was known at this time
about the hereditary mechanism. Most importantly, he elaborates the
important role mutations play in evolution.
He concludes that the carrier of hereditary information has to be both
small in size and permanent in time, contradicting the naïve physicist's
expectation. This contradiction cannot be resolved by classical physics.
In chapter IV, Schrödinger presents molecules,
which are indeed stable even if they consist of only a few atoms, as
the solution. Even though molecules were known before, their stability
could not be explained by classical physics, but is due to the discrete
nature of quantum mechanics. Furthermore, mutations are directly linked to quantum leaps.
He continues to explain, in chapter V, that true solids, which are also permanent, are crystals.
The stability of molecules and crystals is due to the same principles
and a molecule might be called "the germ of a solid." On the other hand,
an amorphous solid, without crystalline structure, should be regarded as a liquid with a very high viscosity.
Schrödinger believes the heredity material to be a molecule, which
unlike a crystal does not repeat itself. He calls this an aperiodic
crystal. Its aperiodic nature allows it to encode an almost infinite
number of possibilities with a small number of atoms. He finally
compares this picture with the known facts and finds it in accordance
with them.
In chapter VI Schrödinger states:
...living matter, while not eluding the "laws of
physics" as established up to date, is likely to involve "other laws of
physics" hitherto unknown, which however, once they have been revealed,
will form just as integral a part of science as the former.
He knows that this statement is open to misconception and tries to
clarify it. The main principle involved with "order-from-disorder" is
the second law of thermodynamics, according to which entropy only increases in a closed system (such as the universe). Schrödinger explains that living matter evades the decay to thermodynamical equilibrium by homeostatically maintaining negative entropy in an open system.
In chapter VII, he maintains that "order-from-order" is not
absolutely new to physics; in fact, it is even simpler and more
plausible. But nature follows "order-from-disorder", with some
exceptions as the movement of the celestial bodies
and the behaviour of mechanical devices such as clocks. But even those
are influenced by thermal and frictional forces. The degree to which a
system functions mechanically or statistically depends on the
temperature. If heated, a clock ceases to function, because it melts.
Conversely, if the temperature approaches absolute zero,
any system behaves more and more mechanically. Some systems approach
this mechanical behaviour rather fast with room temperature already
being practically equivalent to absolute zero.
Schrödinger concludes this chapter and the book with philosophical speculations on determinism, free will, and the mystery of human consciousness.
He attempts to "see whether we cannot draw the correct
non-contradictory conclusion from the following two premises: (1) My
body functions as a pure mechanism according to Laws of Nature; and (2)
Yet I know, by incontrovertible direct experience, that I am directing
its motions, of which I foresee the effects, that may be fateful and
all-important, in which case I feel and take full responsibility for
them. The only possible inference from these two facts is, I think, that
I – I in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every
conscious mind that has ever said or felt 'I' – am the person, if any,
who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Laws of Nature".
Schrödinger then states that this insight is not new and that Upanishads
considered this insight of "ATHMAN = BRAHMAN" to "represent
quintessence of deepest insights into the happenings of the world."
Schrödinger rejects the idea that the source of consciousness should
perish with the body because he finds the idea "distasteful". He also
rejects the idea that there are multiple immortal souls that can exist
without the body because he believes that consciousness is nevertheless
highly dependent on the body. Schrödinger writes that, to reconcile the
two premises,
The only possible alternative is simply
to keep to the immediate experience that consciousness is a singular of
which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what
seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this
one thing…
Any intuitions that consciousness is plural, he says, are illusions. Schrödinger is sympathetic to the Hindu concept of Brahman, by which each individual's consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe
— which corresponds to the Hindu concept of God. Schrödinger concludes
that "...'I' am the person, if any, who controls the 'motion of the
atoms' according to the Laws of Nature." However, he also qualifies the
conclusion as "necessarily subjective" in its "philosophical
implications". In the final paragraph, he points out that what is meant
by "I" is not the collection of experienced events but "namely the
canvas upon which they are collected." If a hypnotist succeeds in
blotting out all earlier reminiscences, he writes, there would be no
loss of personal existence — "Nor will there ever be."[8]
medical-net | Quantum biology is an emerging field of science, established in the
1920s, which looks at whether the subatomic world of quantum mechanics
plays a role in living cells. Quantum mechanics is an interdisciplinary
field by nature, bringing together nuclear physicists, biochemists and
molecular biologists.
In a research paper published by the journal Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics, a team from Surrey's Leverhulme Quantum Biology
Doctoral Training Centre used state-of-the-art computer simulations and
quantum mechanical methods to determine the role proton tunneling, a
purely quantum phenomenon, plays in spontaneous mutations inside DNA.
Proton tunneling involves the spontaneous disappearance of a proton
from one location and the same proton's re-appearance nearby.
The
research team found that atoms of hydrogen, which are very light,
provide the bonds that hold the two strands of the DNA's double helix
together and can, under certain conditions, behave like spread-out waves
that can exist in multiple locations at once, thanks to proton
tunneling. This leads to these atoms occasionally being found on the
wrong strand of DNA, leading to mutations.
Although these mutations' lifetime is short, the team from Surrey has
revealed that they can still survive the DNA replication mechanism
inside cells and could potentially have health consequences.
Dr Marco Sacchi, the project lead and Royal Society University
Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, said: "Many have long
suspected that the quantum world - which is weird, counter-intuitive and
wonderful - plays a role in life as we know it. While the idea that
something can be present in two places at the same time might be absurd
to many of us, this happens all the time in the quantum world, and our
study confirms that quantum tunneling also happens in DNA at room
temperature."
There is still a long and exciting road ahead of us to understand how
biological processes work on the subatomic level, but our study - and
countless others over the recent years - have confirmed quantum
mechanics are at play. In the future, we are hoping to investigate how
tautomers produced by quantum tunneling can propagate and generate
genetic mutations."
Louie Slocombe, PhD Student, Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre and Study Co-Author
Jim Al-Khalili, a co-author of the study and Co-Director of the
Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of
Surrey, said: "It has been thrilling to work with this group of young,
diverse and talented thinkers - made up of a broad coalition of the
scientific world. This work cements quantum biology as the most exciting
field of scientific research in the 21st century."
discovermagazine |With photosynthesis, scientists show
for the first time that there are quantum effects in living systems.
This could lead to better solar panels, energy storage or even quantum
computers. (Credit: Shutterstock) We all probably learned about photosynthesis,
how plants turn sunlight into energy, in school. It might seem,
therefore, that we figured out this bit of the world. But scientists are
still learning new things about even the most basic stuff (see also
the sun and moon), and photosynthesis is no different. In particular, according to a study released Monday in Nature Chemistry,
an international team of scientists showed that molecules involved in
photosynthesis display quantum mechanical behavior. Even though we’d suspected
as much before, this is the first time we’ve seen quantum effects in
living systems. Not only will it help us better understand plants,
sunlight and everything in between, but it could also mean cool new tech
in the future.
The Quantum Conundrum
First, let’s back up. While photosynthesis may be taught in classrooms
the world over, quantum mechanics is a bit less popular, in part because
it’s so weird. Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist Richard Feynman
once said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum
mechanics." It’s so impenetrable to non-experts that the same metaphors
come up whenever someone tries to explain it. You might have heard of Schrödinger's Cat,
which is both alive and dead at the same time thanks to quantum
weirdness — in particular, because electrons can be in two states at the
same time. It’s only when we observe the system that the weirdness
collapses and reality “picks” one state: the cat’s actually alive (or
dead), the electron’s actually at this end of the room (or that end).
But quantum effects are typically limited to the very small, and only
really observable in perfect, laboratory conditions. A living being,
with its wet, messy systems, would be a tough place to find some quantum
weirdness lurking — and yet we have.
Molecular Madness
Scientists zoomed in on the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex, a key component of green sulfur bacteria's machinery
for photosynthesis. It’s been a historical favorite for such research
because we’ve long known its structure and it's fairly easy to work
with. Previous experiments had seemed to show light-sensitive molecules
in this area in two different states at the same time — that’s quantum
weirdness — but the effect lasted more than 1 picosecond, which is much
longer than expected. This new study shows that it was really just
regular vibrations in the molecules, nothing quantum about it. But
researchers have been excited about the possibilities of quantum biology
for years, so having disproved the earlier experiments, the authors
wanted to find some new evidence of their own. “We wondered if we might
be able to observe that Schrödinger cat situation,” says co-author
Thomas la Cour Jansen in a press release. And observe it they did! With a
technique called two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, researchers
saw molecules in simultaneous excited states — quantum weirdness akin to
a cat being alive and dead at the same time. What’s more, the effect
lasted exactly as long as theories predicted it, suggesting this
evidence of quantum biology will last. As the authors succinctly put it,
“Thus, our measurements provide an unambiguous experimental observation
of excited-state vibronic coherence in the FMO complex.” What could be
simpler? The results shed light (haha) on how to harvest energy from
light, and the team thinks they’re “generally applicable” to a variety
of systems, living and non-living alike. This means it could result in
engineering benefits such as better solar panels, energy storage or even
quantum computers. And, of course, updated textbooks for tomorrow’s
lessons on photosynthesis.
quantamagazine | It’s not surprising that quantum physics has a reputation for being
weird and counterintuitive. The world we’re living in sure doesn’t feel
quantum mechanical. And until the 20th century, everyone assumed that
the classical laws of physics devised by Isaac Newton and others —
according to which objects have well-defined positions and properties at
all times — would work at every scale. But Max Planck, Albert Einstein,
Niels Bohr and their contemporaries discovered that down among atoms
and subatomic particles, this concreteness dissolves into a soup of
possibilities. An atom typically can’t be assigned a definite position,
for example — we can merely calculate the probability of finding it in
various places. The vexing question then becomes: How do quantum
probabilities coalesce into the sharp focus of the classical world?
Physicists sometimes talk about this changeover as the
“quantum-classical transition.” But in fact there’s no reason to think
that the large and the small have fundamentally different rules, or that
there’s a sudden switch between them. Over the past several decades,
researchers have achieved a greater understanding of how quantum
mechanics inevitably becomes classical mechanics through an interaction
between a particle or other microscopic system and its surrounding
environment.
One of the most remarkable ideas in this theoretical framework is
that the definite properties of objects that we associate with classical
physics — position and speed, say — are selected from a menu of quantum
possibilities in a process loosely analogous to natural selection in
evolution: The properties that survive are in some sense the “fittest.”
As in natural selection, the survivors are those that make the most
copies of themselves. This means that many independent observers can
make measurements of a quantum system and agree on the outcome — a
hallmark of classical behavior.
This idea, called quantum Darwinism (QD), explains a lot about why we
experience the world the way we do rather than in the peculiar way it
manifests at the scale of atoms and fundamental particles. Although
aspects of the puzzle remain unresolved, QD helps heal the apparent rift
between quantum and classical physics.
Only recently, however, has quantum Darwinism been put to the
experimental test. Three research groups, working independently in
Italy, China and Germany, have looked for the telltale signature of the
natural selection process by which information about a quantum system
gets repeatedly imprinted on various controlled environments. These
tests are rudimentary, and experts say there’s still much more to be
done before we can feel sure that QD provides the right picture of how
our concrete reality condenses from the multiple options that quantum
mechanics offers. Yet so far, the theory checks out.
amidwesterndoctor | One of the tremendously frustrating experiences I have had during my
lifetime has been watching an amazing candidate run for president, be
widely liked by the voting base because of their excellent track record
in standing up for the working class, and then watch the media
systematically torpedo each and every one of their campaigns.
The
only person I have ever seen who was able to address this dilemma was
Donald Trump, as he took a rather unorthodox approach where he
campaigned on the basis of the media being evil. As a result, each time
the media gave him negative attention it helped rather than hindered
his campaign, and before long he was able to pull the mass media into a
symbiotic relationship where it could not help but continually provide
oxygen to Trump’s campaign.
The upside of this approach
was that it provided Trump with the freedom to advance populist
positions that went against the vested interests of the financiers of
the corporate media, something very few other presidents have done. The
downside of this approach was that it was incredibly polarizing, and
divided the country to the point that the left was willing to force
through vaccine mandates as a way of getting back at the right. While
it is important to advance populist positions that go against entrenched
interests (and to expose the systemic corruption within the media),
there was a tremendous cost to the political polarization this approach
created we will likely be stuck with for years to come.
Something
that is often not appreciated about the media is that their business
model is based upon getting as much viewership as possible and to
provide content that appeases their advertisers. For this reason,
content that is critical of any sponsor is never allowed to air. As a
result most media programming is meaningless stories that do not
challenge any vested interest and are emotionally hyped up as much as
possible to antagonize the audience so that the audience is drawn into
caring about them.
Given that the largest sponsor of
the mainstream media is the pharmaceutical industry, it is not
surprising that all news content aggressively promotes the
pharmaceutical party line (the only occasional exceptions I know of are
Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham). One of the ethical journalists who
has spoken out the most on this issue is Sharyl Atkinson, who in one
interview specifically noted that she observed a variety of major
changes occur in the media that coincided with her suddenly being
forbidden from ever discussing vaccine safety concerns on air.
It
is difficult to assign blame for the botched pandemic response to any
single party. However, if I have to identify the key culprit, I would
argue that the rigid censorship by the mainstream media, big tech and
the academic publishing institutions was what allowed the insane
pandemic policy is to march forward despite being clearly in opposition
to most existing scientific evidence. In the same way that
pharmaceutical corruption has gradually taken over the legacy media (the
Gates Foundation for example frequently gives media grants to ensure
their massages dominate the airwaves), these other media venues are
likewise highly susceptible to pernicious influence, which is why
independent media platforms are so critical moving forward.
Study from Senior Editor of the British Medical Journal Peter Doshi, et al, finds the absolute risk of serious AE from mRNA vaccines exceeds the absolute risk reduction of serious covid-19 infection.https://t.co/6JxOyIZVEHpic.twitter.com/PHhODa2dYt
I listened to Fauci, Stephane Bancel (Moderna), Annalies Wilder-Smith, and Richard Hatchett discuss the future of covid at Klaus Schwab's WEF yesterday. Here are my notes. 🧵1/https://t.co/NvyMBrlzfy
courtlistener | The plaintiffs have moved the court to preliminarily enjoin the enforcement of two executive orders by the President. The first, Executive Order 14042, is already the subject of a nationwide injunction. Because that injunction protects the plaintiffs from imminent harm, the court declines to enjoin the first order. The second, Executive Order 14043, amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. Because the President’s authority is not that broad, the court will enjoin the second order’s enforcement.
The court notes at the outset that this case is not about whether folks should get vaccinated against COVID-19—the court believes they should. It is not even about the federal government’s power, exercised properly, to mandate vaccination of its employees. It is instead about whether the President can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment. That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.
NYTimes | With
Omicron sweeping the world at alarming speed, governments are
scrambling to figure out how to contain it in the face of significant
public pressure against reimposing harsh restrictions on daily life,
curbing holiday celebrations and deepening the economic pain wrought by
two years of pandemic.
A new British
report shows that booster doses are less effective against Omicron than
previous variants, and their effectiveness wears off faster — within 10
weeks. Vaccine makers are trying to adjust their shots to target
Omicron.
In
addition to concerns that a fourth shot in less than a year could
actually weaken immunity, some experts said Israel’s government had
still not made the most of other options, such as vaccinating more of
the unvaccinated or giving a third shot to about a million eligible
citizens who have so far not received one.
Along
with the generally sparse knowledge about Omicron, the effect of a
fourth dose against the new variant is also unknown. But the country’s
medical experts point to waning immunity in those 60 or older, who were
the first to receive the third shot starting in August.
Israeli
researchers from the Health Ministry and several academic institutions
presented data to the advisory team that made the recommendation for the
fourth shot on Tuesday. The presentation, obtained by The Times, showed
a doubling of the rate of infection from Delta among the 60-plus age
group within four or five months of the third shot.
There was no clear indication of reduced efficacy against severe illness.
Israel
has confirmed a few hundred cases of Omicron, but officials say the new
variant is much more widespread, and could overtake Delta as the
dominant variant in the country within two or three weeks.
VoA | The World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, warned on Wednesday that blanket COVID-19 vaccine booster
programs will not bring a definite end to the global pandemic, but
prolong it, as poorer countries struggle to vaccinate their populations
because of unequal access to immunizations.
While U.S. health officials urge citizens over the age of 16 to
receive their booster shots in response to the spread of the omicron
variant of the coronavirus, many countries have still not administered
initial doses of the COVID vaccine to the majority of citizens.
Wealthy nations largely regard booster shot programs as the answer to
the rapid spread of the coronavirus’s latest variant, but, during a
media briefing on Wednesday, Tedros stated that doing so would achieve
the opposite effect.
“Blanket booster programs are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather
than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high
levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to
spread and mutate,” he said.
According to the Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource
Center, there are now more than 276 million coronavirus infections
worldwide and 5.3 million deaths. The United States leads with more than
51 million confirmed cases and 810,000 deaths.
Tedros stressed that vaccine inequality will allow the pandemic to
continue. Countries with low access to initial doses of the vaccine will
become breeding grounds for mutant variants of the virus.
For instance, health experts warned that the omicron strain was
linked to vaccine inequality, according to NBC News. This strain of the
infection is thought to have emerged from a South African HIV patient,
where only 26% of the population are fully vaccinated.
Low inoculation rates in countries such as South Africa present ideal
circumstances for the infection to spread and significantly mutate.
People with compromised immune systems are more vulnerable to the virus,
as it can live in these hosts for a long time.
If inequalities in vaccine access continue, mutant strains may continue to emerge.
Tedros pointed to the situation among WHO member states, only half of
which have vaccinated 40% of their populations by the end of this year,
due to “distortions in global supply.”
The director-general stated that enough vaccines were administered
across the world and that had they been distributed equitably, a
targeted vaccination rate of 40% could have been achieved in every
country by September.
“No country can boost its way out of the pandemic,” Tedros said.
WaPo | President Biden on Tuesday outlined plans to expand coronavirus
testing sites across the country, distribute a half-billion free
at-home tests and deploy more federal health resources to aid strained
hospitals, as the omicron variant drives a fresh wave of infections.
At
the White House, Biden acknowledged that Americans are “tired, worried
and frustrated” with covid-19, which he described as a “tough
adversary.” But he stressed in remarks at the White House that “we’ve
shown that we’re tougher; tougher because we have the power of science
and vaccines that prevent illness and save lives.”
The
president said Americans have an obligation to get vaccinated, calling
it a “patriotic duty,” and pointed to former president Donald Trump’s
comment that he got his vaccine booster shot.
Biden
stressed that while the number of covid cases have soared to levels not
seen since 2020, the outlook was far different with vaccines and other
treatment.
“This is not March of 2020. Two hundred million people are fully vaccinated. We’re prepared. We know more,” he said.
Speaking
directly to parents, Biden said, “We don’t have to shut down schools
because of covid-19. We can keep our K-12 schools open. That’s exactly
what we should be doing.”
The
Biden administration will start delivering a half-billion free rapid
tests to homes next month, according to the statement, and health
officials will set up a website where Americans can order them. New
federal testing sites will also be established across the country,
starting with one in New York City this week.
The Biden administration has emphasized
increased testing as one of the pillars of its pandemic response, but
it has been criticized for failing to provide at-home tests at low cost.
Americans are paying $25 for a pack of two tests, if they can find any at a pharmacy.
Health officials say they fear
that the emergence of the quickly spreading omicron variant could
overwhelm health-care facilities nationwide. The variant accounted for
73 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States between Dec. 12
and 18, according to modeled projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WaPo | To
many Americans, entering 2022 feels too much like entering 2021. We are
coming to grips with what is sure to be an onslaught of cases from
omicron and a holiday season marred with outbreaks, full hospitals and
canceled plans.
But
2022 is a far cry from 2021, as we now have something we didn’t have
then: an arsenal to fight back. To fully engage that arsenal, private
actors should require people who use their services to receive a booster
shot.
Three
doses of an mRNA coronavirus vaccine (either the Moderna or
Pfizer-BioNTech shots) are proving highly effective at keeping the vast
majority of people healthy and out of the hospital. The third shot
increases the antibody response by approximately 20-fold or more, enough
to beat back even the many troubling mutations of the omicron variant.
Yet to date, less than 30 percent of Americans have received that third shot.
Businesses,
sports leagues, colleges, hospitals and schools should require anyone
who risks exposing others to have that third shot. Protocols such as
this that keep up with the latest evolving science should be routine and
without much controversy at this point in the pandemic.
Already
we can see how easily and rapidly omicron spreads. Quick, informal
gatherings can turn into major superspreader events. And about a quarter
of the public isn’t yet eligible for a booster because they are not old
enough to receive them, meaning they must rely on others for
protection. Same goes for the millions of people who have compromised
immune systems that make the vaccines far less effective. Vaccine
requirements aren’t in place solely to help prevent vaccinated people
from getting sick; they also help others avoid infection.
Even
with the vast majority of cases not requiring hospitalizations, the
sheer number of hospitalizations resulting from omicron — on top of many
hospitals that are full because of the delta variant — could simply be
too much for health-care systems to handle. Standards of care will
diminish; cases will be triaged; doctors and nurses will go without
sleep, space and protective equipment and will run thin; and people with
other dire needs will put off care. Omicron is deadly. No matter if it
ends up less deadly than delta, at the level of spread we will see, the
only question is whom it will kill, not if.
If
you are in a position to decide whether to create a vaccination
requirement, you do not need to wait for definitive data from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A decade from now, you won’t
look back on the temporary disruption the same way you would if there
was a superspreader event that was in your control to stop.
Forbes | A breakthrough Covid-19 coronavirus infection may not be “super” to
have. But can it actually give you what’s being called “super immunity”
on social media? In other words, can a severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection after being fully vaccinated
against Covid-19 bring you even greater protection? Well, a research letter just published in JAMA offered a small window into this “super” possibility.
If you search for “super immunity” on social media you will find plenty of posts such as the following:
My husband and I were boosted almost a month ago. We (unfortunately) did not gain any superpowers but we DO have super immunity against Omicron which does sound like a supervillain name so I feel like it counts. Get boosted if you are able to prevent major illness <3 https://t.co/HbzYWL2z1M
You’ll also find mention of the study described by the JAMA
research letter. For example, Monica Gandhi MD, MPH, a Professor of
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and HIV
researcher, used the terms “hybrid immunity” and “super immunity” when
tweeting about the study:
This study shows this too in delta breakthrough infections from Provincetown. Of note, this study also looks at T cells; JAMA study specifically showed increase in IgA levels which are the mucosal antibodyhttps://t.co/StZ5neUFVc
She called it “hybrid immunity,” because the potentially boosted
immune protection may come from a combination of vaccination and then
subsequent infection. Gandhi also referenced another study described in a pre-print uploaded to MedRxiv
that drew blood from 35 vaccinated individuals in Provincetown,
Massachusetts, 14 of whom had had subsequent breakthrough infections.
This pre-print described how the blood of the breakthrough infection
group had 28-fold higher levels of binding antibodies and 34-fold higher
levels of neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant
than the blood of the rest. This study also looked at another measure of
immune protection, how the individual’s T cells responded to the virus,
a measure that I described previously for Forbes.
Those with breakthrough infections had a 4.4-fold higher Spike
protein-specific CD8+ T cell responses against the Delta variant than
the rest of the study participants. Take all the results from this
pre-print with a Ugg boot full of salt though. Anyone with a laptop, an
Internet connection, and opposable thumbs can upload a pre-print. It is
not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a reputable
scientific journal.
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
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64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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