Doomsday scenarios

C-MOR Consortium Releases Findings on Excess Mortality from the Pandemic in 22 Countries

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Friday, July 30, 2021
Articles, Academic disciplines, Demography, Epidemiology, Death, Gerontology, Mortality displacement, Doomsday scenarios, Pandemic

They launched the COVID-19 Mortality (C-MOR) Consortium which welcomed countries from around the world and focused on measuring excess mortality.

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  • They launched the COVID-19 Mortality (C-MOR) Consortium which welcomed countries from around the world and focused on measuring excess mortality.
  • As such, the Consortium could more accurately measure how the pandemic affected mortality in countries across the globe.
  • For five of these countries (Cape Verde, Cyprus, Georgia, Slovenia, and Ukraine) this is the first published analysis on excess mortality.
  • The authors note that the countries with increased excess mortality tended to have limited or delayed control measures, and vice-versa.

Milken Institute Urges Better Global Coordination to Detect and Prevent Future Pandemics

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Thursday, June 3, 2021
Other Philanthropy, White House, Federal Government, Other Technology, State, Local, Public policy, Other Policy Issues, Infectious diseases, Hospitals, Data management, Philanthropy, Technology, Public policy, Government, General Health, Biotechnology, Health, Law enforcement, Emergency services, Other Education, Healthcare reform, Education, Articles, Doomsday scenarios, Biotechnology, FasterCures, Lobbying in the United States, Pandemic, FasterCures, the Milken Institute, FASTERCURES, THE MILKEN INSTITUTE

FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, today released a set of recommendations that can be used to mobilize an early warning system for global pandemic threats.

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  • FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, today released a set of recommendations that can be used to mobilize an early warning system for global pandemic threats.
  • The pandemic revealed significant gaps in early warning capabilities, but we now know what it will take to develop a better, more effective system.
  • Its now critically important to bring our efforts to scale through dedicated focus and close coordination to ensure global readiness to detect emerging threats to human health.
  • A Global Early Warning System for Pandemics: Mobilizing Surveillance for Emerging Pathogens is co-authored by Esther Krofah, Carly Gasca, and Anna DeGarmo.

New partnership gives Canadians trustworthy evidence, information about the evolving science driving the COVID-19 pandemic

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Articles, Doomsday scenarios, Gerry Wright, Pandemic, McMaster University, Infection

"Together with Canada\'s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats, the Lung Health Foundation will provide the clear, consistent and fact-based information Canadians can trust to help stay safe and make informed decisions about vaccines.

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  • "Together with Canada\'s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats, the Lung Health Foundation will provide the clear, consistent and fact-based information Canadians can trust to help stay safe and make informed decisions about vaccines.
  • "\nCollaboration is key to success, says Gerry Wright, lead, Canada\'s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats at McMaster University.
  • Wright is a global expert in antibiotic resistance and scientific director of McMaster\'s Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research.\n"Partnerships are essential to help us bring an end to this pandemic and prepare for the next," he says.
  • Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada\'s Global Nexus researchers have received more than $57 million supporting 150 research projects from the federal and provincial governments and industry partners.

A Top Computer Science Professor's Insights and Predictions for Conversational AI

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Articles, Academic disciplines, Technology, Computational neuroscience, Doomsday scenarios, Video game development, Internet bot, Jason Mars, Artificial intelligence, AI takeover, Computer science, Video game bot

In Breaking Bots: Inventing a New Voice in the AI Revolution, Jason Mars expresses the surprising progress AI has made in recent years and what our shared future holds.

Key Points: 
  • In Breaking Bots: Inventing a New Voice in the AI Revolution, Jason Mars expresses the surprising progress AI has made in recent years and what our shared future holds.
  • Breaking Bots offers insights into the paradigm-shifting technical and cultural DNA that makes Jason's work, and Clinc's technology, a bold future for AI.
  • Jason Mars has built some of the world's most sophisticated scalable systems for AI, computer vision, and natural language processing.
  • He is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan where he directs Clarity Lab, one of the world's top AI and computing training labs.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Doomsday Clock" Update Scheduled for January 27th

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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The decision is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board in consultation with the Bulletins Board of Sponsors, which includes 13 Nobel Laureates.

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  • The decision is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board in consultation with the Bulletins Board of Sponsors, which includes 13 Nobel Laureates.
  • The factors contributing to the decision about the Doomsday Clock time will be outlined on January 27th.
  • In 2020, the Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds to midnight , closer to midnight than ever in its history.
  • In December 2020, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists marked its 75th anniversary.

New NPG Forum Paper Examines the Connection Between Affluence, Consumerism, and the Environment

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Software, Operating systems, Computing, Universal Windows Platform apps, Doomsday scenarios, Human overpopulation, Population ecology, World population, Facebook, Twitter

A pandemic that scientists long warned was likely to occur, occurred, and has already killed well over 240,000 people in the U.S.

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  • A pandemic that scientists long warned was likely to occur, occurred, and has already killed well over 240,000 people in the U.S.
  • These words, written by Edwin S. Rubenstein, mark the start of his new work titled Will Affluence Ruin the Environment?
  • We believe that our nation is already vastly overpopulated in terms of the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.
  • For more information, visit our website at NPG.org , follow us on Facebook @NegativePopulationGrowth or follow us on Twitter @npg_org .

Helping Hand USA's Diverse Programs Positively Touch Over 11 Million Lives in 2020

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Articles, Health, Global health, Pandemics, Doomsday scenarios, COVID-19 pandemic, Virus

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- HelpingHandforReliefandDevelopment 's (HHRD) diverse programs and projects changed the lives of 11,026,333 people across the globe this year.

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  • SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- HelpingHandforReliefandDevelopment 's (HHRD) diverse programs and projects changed the lives of 11,026,333 people across the globe this year.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic posed an immediate threat to those living in poverty, refugee populations, and daily wage workers.
  • Without the proper tools to maintain hygienic conditions and prevent the spread of the virus, communities were exposed to the worst possible outcome.
  • A total of 231 companies matched 3,586 donations made to HHRD providing the opportunity for donors to double their impact.

Human Factor Pivotal to Pandemic and Cyber Modeling, Says CyberCube Report

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Monday, November 9, 2020
Professional services, Data management, Security, Technology, Insurance, Software, Articles, Global health, Pandemics, Epidemiology, Financial risk, Doomsday scenarios, Risk, Virus

Understanding and predicting human behaviour is one of the biggest challenges facing modelers of both pandemics and cyber risk, a new report from CyberCube concludes.

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  • Understanding and predicting human behaviour is one of the biggest challenges facing modelers of both pandemics and cyber risk, a new report from CyberCube concludes.
  • The report, Viruses, contagion and tail-risk: Modeling cyber risk in the age of pandemics, also finds that lack of data is a brake on progress for both types of modelers.
  • There have also been very few significant systemic cyber events, although there have been thousands of cyber incidents, since the emergence of the Internet and connected technology.
  • CyberCubes report, Viruses, contagion and tail-risk: Modeling cyber risk in the age of pandemics, is available for download from CyberCubes website.

A plan by a world leader that could destroy Earth must be stopped in ‘Volcanic Winter’

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Petrology, Geology, Articles, Volcanology, Doomsday scenarios, Volcanism, Climate change, Climate, Volcanic winter, Problem solving, Volcano

The vice president, Robert Jenkins, struggling for relevance with voters to be re-elected, takes charge of a plan to defeat climate change.

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  • The vice president, Robert Jenkins, struggling for relevance with voters to be re-elected, takes charge of a plan to defeat climate change.
  • Volcanic winter appears to be the answer to climate change and he becomes its champion.
  • Then he discovers volcanic winter is the equivalent to international genocide.
  • Probin sees volcanic winter as a way to solve the problem of climate change and give him the opportunity to discredit Jenkins and force his resignation.

68% Average Decline in Species Population Sizes Since 1970, Says New WWF Report

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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Doomsday scenarios

Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean have fared worst, with an average decline of 94%.

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  • Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean have fared worst, with an average decline of 94%.
  • Global freshwater species have also been disproportionally impacted, declining 84% on average.
  • This report reminds us that we destroy the planet at our perilbecause it is our home.
  • The Living Planet Report points to one underlying cause for the deterioration of nature and decline in species populations: humanity.