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Podcast episode examines information, behavior and the government in COVID-19 – Penn State News

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The response to COVID-19 has varied widely from country to country, and even state to state in the U.S. The latest episode of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and WPSU at Penn State, examines some of the reasons why that occurs.

The episodes guest is Nita Bharti, assistant professor of biology and faculty member in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics in the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. Bhartis work focuses specifically on human infectious diseases and the interactions between social and biological processes in human health.

Bharti said the key to successful public health campaigns is to create messaging thats accurate without being panic-inducing and creates a sense of motivation to act without infringing upon individual liberty.

You can have messaging that suggests something very effective, but people will not comply with it because it's either too extreme, it's too difficult or it flies in the face of their beliefs, Bharti said. You need to be able to reach that medium of something being effective, being compassionate to people's needs and beliefs, and being something that will achieve high compliance because effective messaging is not effective if you don't get behavioral changes.

The differences in response both from government officials and members of the public highlight the differences between democracies and authoritarian countries, which can be much more aggressive about ordering people to take certain actions or not in times of crisis.

However, Bharti said those actions could have diminishing returns, and the goal should be to find solutions that balance individual human rights with the broader public good.

The individual rights and public health push-pull has probably been a part of the conversation for every epidemic we've ever faced," Bharti said. I think we can be really respectful and ethical and not violate human rights and still find effective solutions for stopping outbreaks.

Listen to the podcast episode at wpsu.org/democracy or by searching Democracy Works in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast app.

Additionally, the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics is taking questions about the Coronavirus pandemic at askciddpsu@psu.edu. Each week, experts will answer your most commonly asked questions, anonymously. They will attempt to provide the most current accurate information, informed by scientific evidence.

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Mindset Matters: Invisible Disabilities And The Future Of Work In The Era Of COVID-19 – Forbes

Finding A New Normal

As the world begins to catch its breath and realizes that we are faced with a new reality, we are starting to acknowledge that this new normal maybe with us for a while which is both upsetting, daunting, and frankly scary for many. As we take the next steps in this new normal it is important that we begin to reframe this new reality both from a perspective of work and even our basic understanding of human behavior. When defining invisible disabilities this usually refers to areas of the human experience that are hidden from view such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks to deeper mental health issues that greatly impact ones daily life such as bipolar and borderline personality disorders. In this time of COVID-19, the idea of invisible disabilities is no longer the right terminology, in fact millions of people are coping with numerous mental health issues impacting the quality of their daily lives both personally and professionally in profound ways. Invisible disabilities can longer be in the shadows but must be seen and dealt with exactly for what they are, nuanced and complex, and offer a greater understanding that there is not a one size fits all solution.

If there is a silver lining in this horrible period of human history it maybe that going forward, organizational leadership has a better understanding of the importance that mental health plays in the future of work. In this new age where tele-work has been the only option for both employers and employees, what comes along with this is a whole new set of challenges when considering the health and wellbeing of an organization to run more efficiently and effectively.

If organizations are going to be more efficient and effective in this new era of tele-work, it is important that they ask themselves some critical questions going forward:

1.What Are The Most Essential Elements In Defining A Healthy Corporate Culture In the Age of Tele-Work?

2.How Will Your Organization Create An Infrastructure to Assist Remote Workers In Cultivating A Stronger Mental/Physical Health Strategy?

3.How Can Organizations Define More Effective Talent Management Strategies for Employees with Disabilities/Older Workers as A Critical Value Add In the Emerging Tele-work Evolution?

The Future Of Work

As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the globe, it is important to remember that human beings are creative and adaptable. Despite the fear of the unknown which at this moment is permeating throughout our lives we will get to a point when life will get back to some sense of normalcy and the world will open again. However, it is important in this transition that we rethink how we want the world to operate going forward. Corporate leaders play a crucial role not only in the future of work, but how we as species in what journalist Thomas Friedman defines as a flat world will define what the future of work will look like and how it will see inclusion as a vital step in the next wave of business ingenuity.

Workers Dealing Their Own Invisible Disabilities In The Era of COVID-19

As we embark in this new age of remote work it is critically important not to put all the responsibility on corporate leadership. Employees must take accountability of their own mental health needs in order to deal with the challenges ahead and reframe their own understanding of work-life balance. In the wake of COVID-19 we are faced with a question that many social scientists, corporate leaders, and others have been grappling with for some time. It is the question of can the traditional five-day work week be tenable in the digital age? If people are working remotely and being productive, should a new pragmatic model of work need to be explored? While this deserves a longer and more thoughtful explanation, for the sake of this column it is important that we look at one particular aspect. As we are realizing, COVID-19 has made organizations begin to rethink everything in how they articulate their work process. Employees are now forced to grapple with understanding their own rhythm and pacing and define what is healthy for them. For those employees that have dealt with mental health or invisible disabilities this can often be more of a challenge when the traditional structure and pace of work has been taken away. As the writer of this column who also happens to be a psychotherapist, it is important that we delve deeper into exploring tactics and strategies to deal these extenuating circumstances but offer a glimpse into what lies beyond. In the coming weeksMindset Matterswill take a deeper dive into these very issues to help readers discover answers to some of these challenges that await.

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Gov. Tony Evers announces ‘Safer at Home’ order coming Tuesday – WTMJ-TV

WISCONSIN A "Safer at Home" order is coming for Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday morning.

The governor said that the order will be announced on Tuesday.

The order encourages people to stay at home rather than make "unnecessary trips." The order, according to Evers, would still allow workers providing essential care and services to continue traveling to and from work.

"You can still get out and walk the dogsits good exercise and its good for everyones mental health," Evers said on Twitter. "Limit your travel to essential needs like going to the doctor, grabbing groceries, or getting medication."

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"In the days, weeks, and months ahead we will continue listening to the public health experts, healthcare providers, first responders, and businesses and workers on the front lines. And as I listen and learn I will continue to share updates with the people of Wisconsin," Evers said.

In Milwaukee, Mayor Tom Barrett and Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik announced their own "stay at home" order, which goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

"The major goal is to change human behavior," said Mayor Barrett. "Change in a way that is safer for the community, safer for all of us."

People who do not follow the order and continue to congregate in public spaces, such as around bars, liquor stores or restaurants will be asked by police to move, but the overall goal of the measure is that people will comply without law enforcement involvement.

As of Monday morning, there have been 401 positive cases of coronavirus in Wisconsin. Five people have died, and 6,230 people have tested negative.

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What Is Maeves Destiny in Westworld? And Other Theories. – The Ringer

I knew social distancing would get weird, but I thought it would take at least 15 days before I wrote about the chances that we are living in a simulation. Ten days minimum. Yet here we are. Westworld Season 3 has only accelerated either my descent into madness or my journey to enlightenment. Lets discuss some prime theories coming out of the seasons second episode, The Winter Line.

Congratulations to all the sim truthers who bought Elon Musks blow torches.

No, Sizemore is not alive. Felix did not revive Maeve and Sylvester did not give her the stink eye. It turns out that Maeves control unit is merely plugged into a simulation machine that looks like a futuristic bong.

Maeve realizes that her mind is in a computer simulation designed to extract information from her and figures out a way to crash the system and escape (albeit briefly). The main reveal that Maeve was in a simulation is shocking enough, but the possibilities stemming from it are virtually infinite. In the season premiere, one of Liam Dempsey Jr.s friends asks whether the Westworld park was a simulation inside a simulation, which naturally leads to another question: Is the entire show of Westworld in a simulation, including the real world with humans?

Spoiler alert: We dont know. Showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan clearly want us to be doubting the shows core reality, but the grand reveal may not be as important as how the characters grapple with the question. Maeves situation in The Winter Line is a state of affairs that echoes matters of consciousness that have been argued for centurieswhat exactly defines existence. Ren Descartes famously said, Cogito, ergo sum or I think, therefore I am. He knew he existed because he was thinking, but anything beyond that was _()_/ (Descartes used emoji, learn your history). A more modern argument, however, built on that theory to ask: How do you know you are not a brain in a vat being manipulated by a scientist (or if this is The Matrix, a race of AI machines)? Westworld wants us to think about this question, and it is not being all that subtle about itMaeves hard drive is literally in a vat.

Serac wants Maeve to stop Dolores, but Maeve might get another idea along the way. Maybe she could use Incites AI, Rehoboam, to disrupt the human world the same way she used all of those maps and the square root of one to disrupt her World War II simulation. If she causes enough human havoc, perhaps she can hack into Rehoboam and discover that all of humanity is in an even bigger version of the vat she found herself in during this episode.

Maeve is not the only one questioning the nature of her reality in this episode. Bernard does some introspection in this episode in the form of digging into his veins. Ive been searching my code on a tablet made outside the park. But if Dolores planted a corruption in my code, that same corruption might mean Id create a tablet to ignore it, Bernard tells Stubbs before sending him off to fight a bunch of henchmen without any weapons.

In English, Bernard thinks Dolores deleted some of his memories, but she didnt hit the empty trash can button, so he can still dig through everything that wasnt permanently deleted. As he scrolls through, we see a spliced set of memories, but thanks to one meticulous Reddit user, surrealsunshine, Bernards deleted files can be viewed as images. There are two key takeaways:

1. Dolores definitely rebuilt Bernard when she was still in Charlotte Hales old body. She also seems to have been making a second host during this process.

2. Dolores seems to have suppressed certain key memories Bernard cannot access from the end of Season 2, including:

If Bernard remembers these things nowand his newfound resolve to find Dempsey suggests that he doeshis relationship with Dolores is likely quite different. All of this also hints at why his personality is so messed up. His alias at the meatpacking plantArmand Delgadois an anagram for Damaged Arnold. Bernard may not know that, but he knows who damaged him.

Serac, a.k.a. Engerraund Serac, a.k.a. that annoying thief from Oceans Twelve, is apparently also the guy who cocreated Incites main AI technology, Rehoboam. But how did Maeve get tied up in this? The same reason Bernards memories are still scrambledDolores covered her tracks. Serac did not know what Dolores did at the end of Season 2 with the missing host data, and when Dolores went missing everyone must have assumed Maeve did it. So Serac put her to the test. Like everyone else, he just wanted to know what happened at the end of Season 2. As Maeve tells the simulated Sizemore: Whoever is doing this has gone to a lot of trouble to test me, find out what I know. You took me to the forge for a reason, didnt you? You thought I could reaccess the world Dolores had hidden from you? Why are you after that world? ... Whoever planned this has their own agenda, and it is certainly not a family reunion.

Seracs agenda is about Rehoboam, the AI that seems to have fixed every problem in the world by predicting all human behavior, but has encountered one unpredictability: Dolores. Serac wants to find the unpredictable being that threatens to disrupt the algorithmic future hes created and kill any potential revolution before it truly gets off the ground.

Thematically, Serac is something else altogether. Westworld is not short on Genesis references. The Season 1 finale has Anthony Hopkinss Robert Ford explain to Dolores at length the similarities between Arnold creating her and Michelangelos The Creation of Adam, pinpointing the idea that the mind creates God. In this weeks episode, Sizemore not-so-coincidentally refers to Maeve as a painting in the Sistine Chapel, which is the showrunners all but screaming at us to compare Maeve to Adam in the Garden of Eden. By the end, where do we find Maeve but in a literal garden? And who resides in that garden but a slithery-ass dude whos eating an apple as he delivers his soliloquy on humankind?

For the most part humanity has been a miserable little band of thugs stumbling from one catastrophe to the next, Serac says with an apple in his hand. Our history is like the ravings of lunatics. Chaos. But weve changed that. For the first time history has an author.

As the creator of Rehoboam, Serac sees himself as that authorbasically God. But if, in actuality, hes the serpent, the rest of Season 3 is not going to go well for him.

The Easter egg to end all Easter eggs appeared this week when Westworld featured a dragon about to be chopped to pieces by two lab techs played by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. (Unlike some of my colleagues, I do not have the energy to be angry at them for how Game of Thrones ended.) In the scene, Weiss turns to Benioff and says he is going to sell the dragon to a startup in Costa Rica. This is a reference to none other than Jurassic Park, which was based on a novel written by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the 1973 movie that Westworld, the show, is based on. (Thats a lot of park content.)

But this begs a larger question: Were the dinosaurs at Jurassic Park ever real? Or were they just robot dinosaurs made to look real? Faking a dinosaur is easier than faking a person. Nobody even knows what a dinosaur is supposed to look like. The dinosaurs dont have to talk, or interact with people, or perform the kind of acts that Westworld robots must (at least I hope not). Hell, if you could 3D print any organism out of primordial oat milk, wouldnt you immediately roll with the T. rex instead of cowboys? Wouldnt Jurassic Park be the first park to open? Doesnt this entire show make more sense if Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones were prequels to Westworld, and it turns out that all of that was going on inside various Delos parks? Was the only real person in Game of Thrones a 13-year-old billionaire named Joffrey?

Disclosure: HBO is an initial investor in The Ringer.

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Kim Myung Soo Puzzles Over Why Shin Ye Eun Is Tearing Up In Meow The Secret Boy – soompi

Kim Myung Soos character hastrouble understanding human emotions in Meow the Secret Boy!

The upcoming KBS 2TV drama will tell the story of Hong Jo (Kim Myung Soo), a cat who can mysteriously transform into a human, and Kim Sol Ah (Shin Ye Eun), a puppy-like person who still likes other people even if they hurt her.

In the newest stills, Kim Sol Ah is becoming tearybecause of overwhelming emotions, and Hong Jo tilts his head at the sound of her sniffling. Hong Jo, who is still unfamiliar with human behavior since it hasnt been long since he becamea human himself, carefully approaches Kim Sol Ah with a curious expression.

Kim Sol Ah cries out of sorrow, but his silent yet comforting presence soothes her emotions. Viewers are curious about what has led Kim Sol Ah to burst into tears with her back turned to him.

This scenewas shot in Damyang of South Jeolla Provinceon November 11 of last year.Kim Myung Soo and Shin Ye Eun preparedtheir emotions in separate spaces before filming, and once they entered rehearsal, they transformed into their respective roles. To prevent the two from being emotionally disturbed, the crewcarefully waited in silence and started filming with seriousness.

Although Kim Myung Soo didnt have a single line, he was able to express his character with his eyes, and Shin Ye Eun was able to quickly cry and then slowly pull herself together. Once the OK sign was given,they applauded each otherand wrapped up the shoot.

The production crew saidthis was ascene wheretheir vivid emotions were captured on camera and added, Both are very good at magnetizingtheir characters. You will be able to see a new side of them as they fullytransform into their characters.

Meow the Secret Boy will premiere on March 25 at 10 p.m. KST and will be available on Viki.

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In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska – The New York Times

Chance would soon be on the air, her station powered initially by emergency generators. She tried to vet information before going live with it, and passed on pleas and updates from family members looking for loved ones. Over the next three days, the state experienced 52 separate aftershocks, 11 of them greater than 6 on the Richter scale. Through it all, while racing back and forth to take care of her family, she remained calm. She understood, better than most of those around her, that mass hysteria would lead to mayhem. She asked grocers to open their stores, and cautioned people against hoarding. I was responsible for reassuring them that the world had not come to an end, she said later.

Mooallem does a nice job of showing the domino of damage in cinematic slow motion the crevasses opening in city streets, the land slinking and sliding, the indiscriminate collapse of homes of both the rich and the poor. And hes astute in explaining the science: the crust of the Pacific Plate pushing under the North American Plate. Its no exaggeration to say that Anchorage was nearly unrecognizable after the quake.

He also brings to life a half-dozen or so ordinary people who acted in extraordinary ways. The old saying of how women feel about Alaska men the odds are good, but the goods are odd certainly applied. But these oddballs were heroic, each in his own way. There was a psychology professor, Bill Davis, who marshaled the volunteers of his Alaska Rescue Group into action. A theater director, Frank Brink, was determined to stage Our Town soon after the disaster, to prove that life and storytelling go on. A sociologist, Enrico Quarantelli, doggedly documented human behavior under extreme duress. And Alaskas first governor, William A. Egan (no relation), proved as steady as Genie Chance.

But this is a very strange book. The big land of Alaska and the outsize people who inhabit it have long inspired some terrific tomes Jack Londons Call of the Wild, John McPhees Coming Into the Country, Jon Krakauers Into the Wild. The main problem with This Is Chance! is that it fails to rise to the drama of the event. That would be fine if the character drama played out in a satisfying way. But here it comes up short as well. The book moves about in time, jumping ahead and then back again. Its one thing to leap off the chronological ladder, quite another to leave the reader confused or worse caring less about people in the story.

Our hero fades and then disappears rather suddenly, with many pages still left in the book. At that point, the author appears, a wry and sometimes laconic-seeming writer with an off-kilter jaw, as Mooallem writes about himself. This is trouble, and things go downhill from there. All due respect to my fellow scribe, a bright and resourceful writer, but I wanted more of Genie Chance and less of her chronicler.

Chance divorced the abusive husband, had a good run at state politics, but then suffered illness and family tragedy at a relatively young age. She got dementia and died at 64, in 1998, at the Juneau Pioneer Home. She left behind many recordings, not just of the days when she was a lifeline through the airwaves, but of her experiences as a true pioneer in a state where that tag is too easily thrown around. The quake certainly has its place in history. This remarkable woman deserves her own.

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Staying human amid the pandemic – Marketing Dive

The following is a guest post from Grant Pace, partner and executive creative director at marketing agency CTP. Opinions are the author's own.

As the events of the past few weeks have unfolded, I've found some comfort in focusing on what feels most natural to me: Staying calm and trying to help clients solve problems with creative thinking.

I believe crisis can lead to opportunity, reveal strengths and bring people together. I still remember the sense of community and shared grief I felt after 9/11. So, as a marketer, I try to lean into these times when the ground shifts under our feet, whether it's a dip in the economy, a bad season on the sports field or something more unnerving like what we're witnessing now.

I've had some experience with it. In 1995, I went to ad agency McKinney & Silver to help relaunch Audi in the U.S. Sales had plummeted after a "60 Minutes" segment accused the cars of "unintended acceleration," killing some motorists. The story was later retracted, but the business suffered significant damage. We were able to breathe new life into the brand by highlighting how fun the cars were to drive. Time magazine took note, even quoting some of the more playful lines I had written. The campaign connected with car lovers and Audi was back.

That brings me to Corona beer. We're not the brand's agency, but I have deep roots in the beer industry, so I've paid close attention to its plight. I saw the tweet that said "38% of beer drinking Americans would not buy Corona under any circumstance now," which CNN helped go viral. Having been on the losing end of some past beer-related disasters, I felt for them. So random and nonsensical, but consumer behavior can be painfully fickle especially when fear invades, because it too is contagious.

But here's the lesson. Amid all the insanity, Corona parent company Constellation Brands CEO Bill Newlands didn't panic. He didn't get defensive or start blaming others, and he didn't squirt a lime into the eyes of the cynical social media monster. Instead, he stayed calm and led with his heart, saying simply, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by this terrible virus and we hope efforts to more fully contain it gain traction soon." Nice.

He added that his business was, in fact, healthy: "We've seen no impact to our people, facilities or operations and our business continues to perform very well." And then the kicker, he shared data that showed Corona sales were actually up 5% in the U.S.

The response was genuine, empathetic and backed by data. Suddenly, Corona wasn't a punchline to a bad joke. It was human, and it helped foster a deeper connection with him, his employees and the brand.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to use times of extreme emotion to work for you, instead of against you. Rooted in empathy, a mindful reaction to the challenge at hand, and the opportunity to create real, human connections with those affected. Those connections are the cornerstone of a brand's success.

We don't know when, but the pandemic will eventually recede. Thanks to a CEO's ability to put a more human face on his company, the Corona brand may well come out of it healthier than ever which is astounding.

In the meantime, agencies like mine are still seeking creative ideas to help clients stay focused, calm and, most importantly, human.

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Biochemistry

UB sends supplies to Erie County to support COVID-19 testing – UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff – University at Buffalo Reporter

Amid a nationwide shortage of materials, the UB community mobilized last week to send laboratory supplies to Erie County to support local testing for COVID-19.

After obtaining a list of items the county could use, Gerald Koudelka in the College of Arts and Sciences Deans Office put out a call for materials via email. Researchers across the university amplified the message, forwarding information to colleagues and Tweeting out the plea for supplies.

That was on the morning of Friday, March 20.

By the afternoon, Jay Roorbach, UBs senior emergency planning coordinator, was delivering 250 nasopharyngeal swabs and six pints of molecular biology-grade ethanol to grateful colleagues at Erie County. These supplies just two of the many materials needed for COVID-19 testing are in high demand as communities nationwide look to ramp up testing capacity.

This was a high-priority request that ended up coming to us through official channels from Erie County, and we were pleased to be able to offer assistance, Roorbach says. We will not always be able to fulfill such requests, as we have a process of resource management in place and need to ensure that UB has high-priority supplies on hand to support important operations, including those related to the pandemic. But in this case, we were able to quickly identify some items Erie County needed and send those to our colleagues there.

It feels good to be part of a university that is so connected to the surrounding community. Of course, everyone wants to help their neighbors, friends and family. This is a unique way that, as researchers, we are in a position to help, says Denise Ferkey, associate professor of biological sciences, who initiated the collection effort after hearing about a similar endeavor at Stanford University from Arnd Pralle, UB professor of physics.

The response was overwhelming, Koudelka says.

People across the university mobilized. Staff and faculty shared the emails and put out calls on social media. Lisa Martin in theDivision of Comparative Medicine helped coordinate collection of nasopharyngeal swabs. The ethanol came from the Biochemistry Stockroom, part of the Department of Biochemistry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Roorbachs team is working closely with partners across the region to respond to the crisis. He has access to a centralized portal where agencies and jurisdictions across Erie County can put out calls for materials and equipment, and UB will continue to review and respond to those official requests when the university is able to help, he says.

University employees who receive requests for donations or supplies from UB should contact the emergency management team at emergencymanagement@buffalo.edu.

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Biochemistry

Heres Why Invisible Aliens May Exist Amongst Us And Well Never Know – ED Times

Alien life has always been a fascinating topic for all of us.

The debate around the existence of alien life has been ongoing for centuries. There have been a lot of movies around the same that hints at the presence of aliens or extra-terrestrial life. These sci-fi movies urge us to wonder about the possibility of an alien invasion on Earth or worse, aliens co-existing with us but in a different dimension.

As a space nerd, all of these speculations are interesting to me but with no proper evidence, theyre considered vague and unrealistic. However, a UK based science expert broke the silence over alien existence and said that she believes aliens do exist but in a form that humans cant see.

Sounds strange, right?

But she has a point to validate her argument. Lets decode the same.

Helen Sharman, Britains first astronaut and a chemist at the prestigious Imperial College, London said in an interview with The Observer, that alien lifeforms maybe be impossible to trace among us.

Well, life as we define moves, grows, sense, reproduce, excrete, etc, thus every time we imagine an alien, its more or less like a humanoid or a horrendous creature that can be easily recognized.

However, Sharmans speculation has made us all reconsider our idea of visualizing an alien. She says that she has a strong belief about alien existence and theres no two way to go about it (sic). But we are unaware as we limit our imagination to geocentric or anthropocentric ideas of what alien life may look like.

We say that we will know aliens exist when we see them. But what if theyre already there and we cant recognize them due to our limited intelligence?

Life may not only be present as we know it. Considering the vastness of the universe and the limitations of the human brain, it is safe to assume that there is so much in science and space not yet known to mankind.

Considering the same, Helen puts forward her point that alien life exists in a form not comprehensible by the human brain. The biosphere as we know it is validated in the form of DNA, thus we study DNA as the basic thread of life. Science has advanced enough to detect uncultured strains of microbes but is only limited to discover life as DNA.

Therefore our microscopes are yet not powerful enough to detect life which we dont know about. This brings up the vast possibility of alien existence in our biosphere in an unfamiliar form.

Helen further says that these aliens might have different biochemistry than us humans which makes them invisible to the naked eye.

According to her research, alien life supposedly has an alternative biochemistry unexplored by the mankind. A popular suggestion around this alternative biochemistry talks about silicon biochemistry.

Humans are known to carry a carbon biochemistry that supports life. The structure of carbon is similar to that of silicon and even 90% of life supported on earth is made of iron, magnesium, oxygen and silicon.

The chemical composition of life on Earth has an approximate correlation with the chemical composition of the sun, with 98% of atoms in biology consisting of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. So if there were viable silicon lifeforms here, they may have evolved elsewhere but might have invaded Earth- as such we would never know.

What makes the silicon-life biochemistry more appropriate is the research of a Californian scientist. According to Live Science, few years ago, scientists at Caltech managed to breed a bacterial protein that created bonds with silicon essentially bringing silicon to life. So even though silicon is inflexible compared with carbon, it could perhaps find ways to assemble into living organisms, potentially including carbon.

Thus, it can be said that it is very much possible to breed life out of silicon.

Although these are just speculations and nothing similar has been proved yet but I believe in order to discover the possibility of extra-terrestrial life, one really needs to think outside the box and for once break the pattern of scientific conventional thinking.

After all, if you want to know what you dont know, you got to experiment and think about what you never thought before.

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Veterinary Biochemistry Analyzers Market Overview includes Industry Specifications and Applications Forecast to 2025 – News Times

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The global Veterinary Biochemistry Analyzers market size is estimated at xxx million USD with a CAGR xx% from 2015-2019 and is expected to reach xxx Million USD in 2020 with a CAGR xx% from 2020 to 2025. The report begins from overview of Industry Chain structure, and describes industry environment, then analyses market size and forecast of Veterinary Biochemistry Analyzers by product, region and application, in addition, this report introduces market competition situation among the vendors and company profile, besides, market price analysis and value chain features are covered in this report.

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