How did we celebrate vacation before?
Due to the easing, the holidays are getting going again. This year all slightly different than usual. How did we go on vacation in the old days? Imagine yourself in the former holiday life with old images. How did we celebrate vacation before?
Pictures of the week: Pride Lights, Paddy Day, Grizzly Swim.
A new water slide in the Czech Republic, a cat on the Algerian waterfront, struggles in the legislative power of Taiwan, a reopening of the cave in Italy, a collapse of a building in Brooklyn, the burying of a coronavirus victim in Russia, a model village in England, a wildfire in Colorado, and much more Pictures of the week: Pride Lights, Paddy Day, Grizzly Swim.
Vegetable steaks are coming.
Next year, the Israeli start-up Redefine Meat will bring the first 3D printer on the market with which you can print a plant-based steak at home. It would look the same as a normal steak, have the same texture and taste. Now other companies have already announced that they could do something like that, but what is very important in this announcement is the word 'texture', because that's what insiders said was the characteristic that was missing so far - because this printer could recreate the structure of the muscle. Vegetable steaks are coming.
The Precipice.
Corona has shown that most countries can handle even a very predictable (and often predicted) event such as a virus pandemic moderate to bad. What Oxford researcher Toby Ord describes in his book The Precipice is how we should deal with so-called existential risks: dangers that threaten the survival of human civilization. He sees three categories of existential risk, he tells in this podcast:
Natural risks (viruses, supervolcanoes, asteroid collisions, etc.).
Anthropogenic (man-made) risks (nuclear war for example).
Future risks (artificial intelligence that derails and other science fiction).
Now listen.
Bonnie and Clyde.