During these days with headlines still, unfortunately, about (pardon the expression) Trump, I recommend escaping with science, which is certainly more interesting and less depressing than current politics. Every Tuesday the Science Section of the New York Times continues to present mind-bending reports. Imagine, shrimp hop out of the water, walk over rocks until sunup, when they go back into the water: home sweet home again! (The video and images are amazing to see!)
And what about the new considerations of life on Mars! Relatively recent volcanic activity on this distant planet suggests conditions for life there. Yes, we may not be the only ones in the vast universe with a future. So much to learn about, so much more stimulating than accusations by the loser of fraud in fair elections.
Want more to chew on? How about DeepMind, a lab owned by the same parent company as Google, which has developed a new artificial intelligence program that can predict three dimensional conformations – the folding patterns – of proteins from their amino acid sequence. Sound too technical? Never mind. It promises to be a bonanza for drug development, and who knows what else? There are no boundaries to imagination!
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