Posts

Showing posts with the label impact

'A voice for generations': The impact of Archie Roach, told by those who know and love him

Image
From the top of Arnhem Land, where musicians draw inspiration from his timeless words, to the streets of Melbourne’s Fitzroy, where fans leave floral tributes on the steps of Charcoal Lane, it seems like nowhere in the country hasn’t been touched by Archie Roach. His sons, Amos and Eban, said Archie died surrounded by his family and loved ones at Warrnambool Base Hospital in Victoria. Archie’s family has given permission to use his name, image and music. But the love Archie feels goes far beyond that hospital ward, far beyond state lines and color lines to every corner of the land we call Australia. Archie left a legacy of tireless work towards reconciliation and a new generation inspired to carry his message of healing into the future. As Australia comes to terms with the loss of one of its greatest storytellers, those touched by Archie open up about what it means to them. Tributes were paid outside Melbourne’s Charcoal Lane Aboriginal social enterprise, which bears the same name as

Scary graphics reveal the full impact of Australia's cost of living crisis on grocery spending

Image
The reason your weekly grocery store is becoming so much more expensive has been revealed because the cost of living crisis continues to hit shoppers at the checkout. The weekly staple, which saw its biggest price increase in a year, was mentioned in the data behind this week’s announcement that inflation was at its highest level in two decades. Vegetables, fruit, breakfast cereals, breads, eggs, oil, butter and margarine all spiked in price last year according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Smile and hold on: The reason your weekly grocery store is getting so much more expensive has been revealed as the cost of living crisis continues to hit shoppers at checkout The opposite graph has depicted an alarming rise in the cost of basic foodstuffs, with vegetables, cereals and other household staples topping the list of sharp price increases. The ABS released its quarterly Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures – a key measure of inflation – on Wednesday morning, show

When friendly forces become enemies: Scientists blunt the impact of natural killer cells to increase vaccine effectiveness

Image
PD-1 dependent NK cell regulation of CD8 + T-cells. C57BL/6 mice were infected with an adenoviral vector encoding the HBV genome and treated with anti-NK1.1 (⍺NK) or isotype control antibodies prior to therapeutic vaccination. Intrahepatic lymphocytes were harvested 14 days after immunization. (A) Quantitative real-time PCR analysis of HBsAg mRNA extracted from the liver of infected mice. (B) Representative plot of CD8 + T-cells isolated from the spleen of CD45.2 PD-1KO or CD45.1 wild-type (WT) mice were transferred to recipients of opposite congenic mice one day before therapeutic vaccination. Examples of PD-1 and IFN . expressions you production in transferred PD-1KO and WT CD8+ T cells. *, pScience Translational Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abi4670 Scientists have found that the body’s own natural killer cells can suppress the immune benefits of therapeutic vaccines, a problem that can predispose to inoculation against ch

'We don't impact the loss of enough parental credit' - ABC Everyday

In the winter my father died of cancer, focusing on work became very difficult. In the normal world of work, people are given mourning leave: a sign of two days to grieve and attend funerals. I need more than this to reflect and reassemble myself. I took a few weeks to slow down, think, and follow the urge to get back to basics. I spring clean my house, go for bush walks, do my own health check, and take over the dining table with a thousand-piece puzzle. After school hours, I read stories with my kids — huddle together and immerse myself in a fantasy world full of magic and solvable problems — and take them out for chai lattés. (Kids of today.) That time made me reflect a lot on my purpose, and how to spend the next part of my time on earth. The ABC Everyday perspective is all about giving you the opportunity to share what you’re going through. It is likely that others have faced the same ups and downs and life experiences. In a short paragraph, send us your offer via email: dai

Mars' oldest meteorite tracked to bizarre double impact crater

Researchers have tracked the oldest known Martian meteorite to its precise point of origin using artificial intelligence (AI), and the findings could help reveal what conditions were on our planet. solar system the planets were like during their first days. The 11 ounce (320 gram) meteorite, officially nicknamed Northwest Africa 7034 but commonly known as “Black Beauty,” is believed to have hit Earth about 5 million years ago. After being discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011, its age was estimated to be just under 4.5 billion years – making it the oldest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth. Scientists believe the meteorite was launched to Earth after a powerful asteroid impact hit Mars, tearing apart parts of the planet’s crust and spraying it into space. Now, using machine learning algorithms to identify and catalog the 94 million craters on Mars, researchers have traced the origins of Black Beauty to small craters within craters in Mars’ southern hemisphere. Scientists named

Impact of climate change on Andean glaciers in sync with polar ice

Glaciers in tropical mountains are experiencing the same impact of climate change drivers as those in the polar regions of Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere, according to a study published today in Nature. The paper by an international team of scientists, including Robert Hatfield, assistant professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Geological Sciences, is the first to show that the effects of greenhouse gases and other drivers of Earth’s temperature are impacting glaciers in the South. Hemisphere at the same speed as the northern ice sheet. To derive their findings, the researchers used sediment deposits from Lake Junín, high in the Peruvian Andes, to create a record of glacial changes that stretch back 700,000 years. Hatfield explains that much of what scientists know about past glacial changes comes from records of ice growth and decay occurring in the Northern Hemisphere. “As we try to understand how climate works around the world, we need more than a record of

Mooners and Shakers: Bitcoin holds but all eyes are on looming CPI inflation data; Gox Mountain Impact is also lurking - Stockhead

Image
Mooners and Shakers is sponsored by Dacxi, the world’s first purpose-built Crypto Wealth platform. Bitcoin lost a nice, round, $20K psychological mark earlier, but has managed to find some decent support above $19.6k, at the time of writing. Meanwhile, the CPI inflation data on Wednesday July 13 in the US, and all the technical analysis in the world today may not be able to keep up with the results. Is it as simple as: lower-than-expected inflation, rising crypto/risk assets; high inflation, crypto assets/risk down? Perhaps, despite the old high inflation “entry price” argument is also floating again. Perhaps the real kicker will come when the US Federal Reserve announces its response to the July 26-27 CPI inflation data with the possibility of another 0.75bp rate hike. Right, got it – inflation… macro sucks right now… is there anything else scaring the market, other than crypto also doing its best to burn internally through the “contagion” effect of Terra LUNA, Celsius and 3AC et al

'Threatening' Asteroid on Collision Path With Earth Just Lowered

It’s nice to know that someone actually gets paid to watch the night sky to make sure that at least we’ll be notified if an asteroid is about to hit Earth. Technology and near-Earth surveys have advanced enough that the possibility of an asteroid the size of a planet-killer appearing out of nowhere, as is so prevalent in modern media depictions, is highly unlikely. Even the smaller ones, which would only annihilate a city or part of a continent, received enough attention to know whether they posed a threat or not. And ahead of Asteroid Day 2022, which happens on June 30, the ESA is proud to announce that they can remove one of the most threatening asteroids from their list of potential impacts. The asteroid, known as 2021 QM1, was first detected at the Mount Lemmon observatory on August 28, 2021. It was only one of about a dozen near-Earth asteroids discovered that night and did not initially raise any alarm. But follow-up observations put it on a potentially near-miss path with Earth