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innovations scientifiques et responsabilité
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artificial intelligence (A.I.), biometrics, computer age, protecting young people online, gene therapy, brain, neurotech, Covid-19 vaccines
USA
October 23, 2023 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript and photograph
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/23/
USA
October 16, 2023 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript and photograph
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/
USA
April 29, 2023 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript and photograph
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/
USA
March 14, 2023 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript, article and illustration
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/
USA
February 14, 2023 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript, article and illustration
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/14/
USA
May 26, 2021 NPR (USA) podcast with transcript
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/26/
Covid-19: what will it take to vaccinate the world? The Economist 27 January 2021
Covid-19: what will it take to vaccinate the world? Video The Economist 27 January 2021
The race to immunise the global population against covid-19 is under way. With the distribution of safe and effective vaccines posing an unprecedented challenge, what are the key obstacles to overcome?
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZmfC2_j9I
WORLD FACES COVID-19 “VACCINE APARTHEID”
Even countries that hosted vaccine trials — like Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — will not receive adequate supplies.
December 31 2020 The Intercept (USA)
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/31/
How the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was developed 60 Minutes 21 December 2020
How the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was developed Video 60 Minutes 21 December 2020
Bill Whitaker reports on the scientists and advances in biotechnology behind a COVID-19 vaccine that could help end the pandemic.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3gSgvN2Fw
Will everyone in the world have access to a Covid vaccine? G 27 November 2020
Will everyone in the world have access to a Covid vaccine? Video G 27 November 2020
The hunt for a coronavirus vaccine is showing promise but it is premature to say the end of the pandemic is nigh.
Several rich countries have signed a 'frenzy of deals' that could prevent many poor nations from getting access to immunisation until at least 2024.
Also, many drug firms are potentially refusing to waive patents and other intellectual property rights in order to secure exclusive rights to any cure.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdROe2-J8I
Related
https://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2020/nov/27/
Poor Countries Fall Behind In Race To Reserve COVID-19 Vaccine
17 November 2020 NPR (USA) article + photo
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/11/05/
11 November 2020 NPR (USA)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/11/11/
Bill Gates on a COVID-19 Vaccine: Equitable Access & the End to the Pandemic UN 30 September 2020
Bill Gates on a COVID-19 Vaccine: Equitable Access & the End to the Pandemic Video UN 30 September 2020
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a video message at the high-level side event "Accelerating the end of the COVID-19 pandemic". This event hosted by The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the UN Secretary-General aims to build stronger political consensus for a coordinated global response to COVID-19 and champion the importance and urgency of equitable access to new tools, especially effective vaccines. It also seeks to catalyze a step-change in support for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), the most promising solution for global equitable access to the tools needed to accelerate the end of the pandemic.
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, is a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. There is no time to waste in the fight against COVID-19. No-one is safe until everyone is safe.
Launched at the end of April 2020, at an event co-hosted by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the President of France, the President of the European Commission, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator brings together governments, scientists, businesses, civil society, and philanthropists and global health organizations (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEPI, FIND, Gavi, The Global Fund, Unitaid, Wellcome, the WHO, and the World Bank).
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gw3jiWOwm0
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut review – the dark side of science
An extraordinary ‘nonfiction novel’ weaves a web of associations between the founders of quantum mechanics and the evils of two world wars
10 Sep 2020 The Guardian (UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/10/
July 20, 2020 NPR (USA) article + photo + podcast with transcript
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/20/
May 6, 2019 NPR (USA) article + photo
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/
Google Testing A Censored Search Engine Just For China
August 2, 2018 NPR (USA) article + photo
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/
1910s
Germany
ammonia process
The ammonia process – which uses nitrogen from the atmosphere as its key ingredient – was invented by German chemist Fritz Haber to solve a problem that faced farmers across the globe.
By the early 20th century they were running out of natural fertilisers for their crops.
The Haber plant at Ludwigshafen, run by the chemical giant BASF, transformed that grim picture exactly 100 years ago – by churning out ammonia in industrial quantities for the first time, triggering a green revolution.
Several billion people are alive today only because Haber found a way to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia fertiliser.
"Bread from air," ran the slogan that advertised his work at the time.
But there is another, far darker side to the history of the Haber process.
By providing Germany with an industrial source of ammonia, the country was able to extend its fight in the first world war by more than a year, it is estimated.
Britain's sea blockade would have ensured Germany quickly ran out of natural fertilisers for its crops.
In addition, Germany would also have run out of nitrogen compounds, such as saltpetre, for its explosives.
The Haber process met both demands.
Trains, bursting with Haber-based explosives and scrawled with "Death to the French", were soon chugging to the front, lengthening the war and Europe's suffering.
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Bald and absurdly Teutonic in demeanour, Haber was an ardent German nationalist.
He was happy his invention was used to make explosives and was a fervent advocate of gas weapons.
As a result, on 22 April 1915 at Ypres, 400 tons of chlorine gas were released under his direction and sent sweeping in clouds over Allied troops.
It was the world's first major chemical weapons attack.
Around 6,000 men died.
Haber later claimed asphyxiation was no worse than blowing a soldier's leg off and letting him bleed to death, but many others disagreed, including his wife, Clara, herself a chemist.
A week after the Ypres attack, she took Haber's service revolver and shot herself, dying in the arms of Hermann, their only son.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/03/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/03/
innovation and destruction
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/23/
pioneer
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/
pioneer
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/
develop
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/
lay the groundwork for N
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/
biometrics
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/
facial and fingerprint recognition
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/
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