#CoSoAstronomy

Astronomers discover new 'fossil galaxy' buried deep within the Milky Way.

"Of the tens of thousands of stars we looked at, a few hundred had strikingly different chemical compositions and velocities. These stars are so different that they could only have come from another galaxy. By studying them in detail, we could trace out the precise location and history of this fossil galaxy."

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-astronomers-fossil-galaxy-deep-milky.html

Paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.10374.pdf

Forensic Architecture ???

Second-by-second forensic recreation of Beiruit explosion.

At 20 minutes long, no time is wasted in this forensic reconstruction of August's massive explosion in Beirut. Footage of the fire and the detonation are carefully timestamped and positioned, the smoke plume studied be experts, and the actual explosion modeled in 3D to determine exactly where, why and what happened.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion

#CoSoSpace

Do we send the goo?

The ability to stir new life into being, all across the Universe, compels us to ask why life matters in the first place.

"This is not panspermia, or even terraforming. Here I elaborate one of many possible applications of prebiotic chemistry, protospermia, which should be debated as a technologically viable human endeavour."

By Betül Kaçar

https://aeon.co/essays/if-were-alone-in-the-universe-should-we-do-anything-about-it

#CoSoEconomics

To Save the Economy, Save People First.

"Limiting economic damage caused by the pandemic starts and ends with controlling the spread of the virus. Dozens of experiments conducted in different countries across the world definitively show that no country can prevent the economic damage without first addressing the pandemic that causes it."

By Phillip Alvelda, Thomas Ferguson, and John C. Mallery

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/to-save-the-economy-save-people-first

#CoSoBiology

New effective and safe antifungal isolated from sea squirt microbiome.

By combing the ocean for antimicrobials, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a new antifungal compound that efficiently targets multi-drug-resistant strains of deadly fungi without toxic side effects in mice.
by Eric Hamilton

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-effective-safe-antifungal-isolated-sea.html

Paper:
Science 20 Nov 2020:
Vol. 370, Issue 6519, pp. 974-978
(Posted earlier)

(Also adding this week a copy of "New Scientist", for its excellent coverage of the new covid vaccines.)

[If people want me to continue to share this each week, let me know.]

#CoSoNewScientist

For your reading pleasure.

The latest issue of
NewScientist
For 2020 11 21

Grab it here:

https://share.counter.social/s/d0dbfc

#CoSoNature

For your reading pleasure.

The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
For 2020 11 19

(Note: I had to flatten this file to get it under 100MB, so a small loss in quality)

Grab it here:

https://share.counter.social/s/f37186

#CoSoScienceMagazine

For your reading pleasure.

The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS.
Science
For 2020 11 20

Grab it here:

https://share.counter.social/s/58dc11

#CoSoEconomist

For your reading pleasure.

Here is the latest copy of
The Economist Magazine
for 2020 11 21

Grab it here:

https://share.counter.social/s/ad5c04

For Everybody here:

It's Friday !

Every Friday, I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I set them to expire after a month. So grab them now.

If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.

Find them here:

(weekly)

#CoSoEconomist

#CoSoNature

#CoSoScienceMagazine

(monthly)

#CoSoSmithsonian

#CoSoAtlantic

#CoSoCovid

To watch:

Covid-19 and the Immune System: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Watch our discussion on how the immune system responds to viral threats and what that means for developing vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

https://knowablemag.org/article/health-disease/2020/covid19-and-immune-system-good-bad-and-ugly

#CoSoSpace

Prospects for life on Venus fade, but aren’t dead yet.

Debate continues over controversial report of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere, as researchers reanalyze data and find a fainter signal.

"The reanalysis found that phosphine concentrations in Venus’s atmosphere occasionally peak at five parts per billion. That means levels of the gas might wax and wane over time at different places on the planet."

By Alexandra Witze

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03258-5

#CoSoSec

Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan.

Evidence that advanced persistent threat group Cicada is behind attack campaign targeting companies in 17 regions and multiple sectors.

Symantec analysts have linked this activity to Cicada due to the use of previously seen obfuscation techniques and shellcode on loader DLLs.

https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/cicada-apt10-japan-espionage

And

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/massive-china-state-funded-hack-hits-companies-around-the-word-report-says/

#CoSoTech

$ spy
Terminal/CLI Epub reader.

https://github.com/wustho/epy

#CoSoPrograming

Introducing Directus 8

Data-First Headless CMS & API

Directus is an open-source tool that wraps custom SQL databases with a dynamic API, and provides an intuitive admin app for managing its content. Self-host for free, or use our on-demand Cloud service to manage all your omni-channel digital experiences.

https://directus.io

#CoSoCovid

Note:
This is the only predictive modeling that even slightly make sense.

Note 2: They only go out 4 weeks because, any farther would be bullshit.

Note 3: The ensemble forecast for 4 weeks from last Tuesday (this is published every Tuesday),

= near 12,000 Deaths per week.

https://viz.covid19forecasthub.org

#CoSoSpaceForce

As command transitions from the Trump administration to the incoming Biden administration, the U.S. Air Force today announced the final six candidate locations to host the U.S. Space Command headquarters.

They include —

• Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico

• Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

• Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

• Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

• Port San Antonio, Texas

• Redstone Army Airfield, Alabama.

#CoSoBooks

Also reading now.

Book 2 in the White Space series.

Machine
by Elizabeth Bear

https://www.goodreads.com/series/126226-white-space

#CoSoNationalSecurity

The President's Daily Brief and Presidents-Elect: A Primer.

"Each day’s PDB contains crucial information to help the president anticipate national security threats and identify global opportunities. Its timely, objective and accurate information from all available sources grants insights that cannot be gained simply from open source information and the transition team’s own national security advisers."

By David Priess

https://www.lawfareblog.com/presidents-daily-brief-and-presidents-elect-primer