Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#OTD in 1911. French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum but was released a week later.

The theft of the Mona Lisa was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence. via @wikipedia

#art #literature

'On Tuesday, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will begin considering their arguments at a trial that cuts to the heart of a long-simmering question: Did today’s tech giants become dominant by breaking the law?'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Technology

'A longstanding debate persists regarding whether language and action share the same neural basis, with 2 opposing views. One view proposes that language emerged from action expressed in communicative gestures, and thus they share a common basis [5–7]. The other view sees language as a cognitive ability independent of action'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002266

@cyrilpedia Also in Lisbon's Hospital Santa Maria
.

I am so sick of all these mfers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/desantis-appoints-moms-for-liberty-tina-descovich-florida-ethics-commission/70777620007/

Towards an equitable people-centred health system for Spain - The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01858-5/fulltext

Monique Worrell sues DeSantis, as she should. The second elected prosecutor DeSantis has attempted to oust, Worrell’s suspension order was even more vague than the one issued against Andrew Warren.

@Montaagge "The natural evolution of SARS-CoVs, in addition to spread-out more effectively by air, is to reduce the response capacity of the immune system to persist longer in the host, causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417023000872

Britain will rejoin two of the EU’s science funding projects in a major post-Brexit shift.

The UK government announced Thursday that it will associate to both Horizon Europe, the bloc’s multibillion-euro research funding scheme, and Copernicus, its earth observation program, under a “bespoke new agreement unlocking unparalleled research opportunities, and also the right deal for British taxpayers.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-rejoins-eus-horizon-science-scheme/

#UK #EU #Brexit #HorizonEurope #Copernicus #Science #Research

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft

These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.

They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:

✔ Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services
✔ Allowing the download of alternative app stores

❌ Banning tracking outside of their services without consent
❌ Stopping ranking their products more favourably

➡ https://europa.eu/!NbfBbn

#DMA

"In this review we analyze memory T cell subtypes based on their potential utility in cancer immunoprevention with regard to longevity, localization, activation requirements, and efficacy in fighting cancers."
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/211/6/907/265865/Memory-T-Cells-in-the-Immunoprevention-of-Cancer-A?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'Não é a falta de mundo, ou de cosmopolitismo, o grande defeito de Cavaco. É a sua arrogância. A sua dificuldade, talvez impossibilidade, de admitir erros. E claro que teria muito sobre o que se debruçar.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/06/opiniao/opiniao/cavaco-silva-politico-sabe-unir-esquerda-2062343

“A principios del siglo XX no estaba claro que estudiar los fenómenos espiritistas fuera una pseudociencia. Todavía existía la intención de ver qué leyes físicas o psicológicas podía haber detrás de estos fenómenos”, expone Graus. El prefacio del libro Fotografie di Fantasmi, de hecho, está escrito por el francés Charles Richet, padre de la palabra ectoplasma y ganador del Nobel de Medicina en 1913 por descubrir la anafilaxia, las reacciones alérgicas extremadamente graves.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-09-06/aparece-un-libro-de-fotografias-de-fantasmas-con-notas-de-cajal-si-es-un-dibujo-sobre-carton.html