April 2022

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Hide and Seek (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

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“Hide and Seek” is the ninth episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Mercy”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

The Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) proceeds with her plans to take over La Sirena and use it to create an invincible collective ahead of time. She uses her new drones to hunt down her enemies but her toughest opponents are not in flesh and blood.

Elon Musk's tweet about free speech

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Twitter’s board of directors accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social network for $54.2 a share in a $44 billion deal. One consequence will be that Twitter will be a private company again leaving the Wall Street Stock Exchange. In early April, Musk bought 9.2% of the social network but decided not to join its board. Now, his stated goal is to change Twitter to ensure free speech, which he sees as a bedrock of democracy.

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

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The novel “The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin was published for the first time in 2008. It was translated into English by Joel Martinsen. It’s the second book of the trilogy known as The Three-Body Problem or Remembrance of Earth’s Past and follows “The Three-Body Problem”.

The threat of the Trisolarans has become public knowledge, and this includes the use of sophons by the aliens to interfere with scientific advances on Earth. The aliens’ strategies have been discovered but it’s difficult to find countermeasures knowing that the enemy is listening.

The strategy that is established is to create a very small group of Wallfacers, four people who can have access to any resource to create a defense plan that must not be communicated to anyone. However, the humans who work with the Trisolarans assign each of them a Wallbreaker to discover their plan and make it public.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Mercy (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

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“Mercy” is the eighth episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Monsters”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Guinan (Ito Aghayere) find themselves in the awkward situation of having to answer questions from Agent Martin Welles (Jay Karnes), who seems to have a lot of information about them and the rest of La Sirena’s crew. Kore Soong (Isa Briones) receives unexpected help in her search for the truth about her origin.

A map of the habitats of the various human species

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An article published in the journal “Nature” reports the results of a research on the correlation between climate changes that occurred over the last two million years and the evolution of human beings. A team of researchers led by Axel Timmermann, director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan ​​National University, South Korea, used ICCP’s Aleph supercomputer to simulate climate history. The results were compared with the largest database of human fossils and archaeological artifacts built under the direction of Pasquale Raia of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. The result was that the best habitats for the human species that existed in these two million years match the climatic changes caused by the oscillation of the Earth’s axis and the periodic changes in the shape of the Earth’s orbit.