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The hunt for hidden signs of consciousness in unreachable patients

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The hunt for hidden signs of consciousness in unreachable patients
 

In a hospital in Milan, an uncommunicative man with a severe brain injury is hooked up to a technology suite that researchers here believe can tell them if he’s conscious. 

His head is covered with a cap dotted with 60 electrodes. Hovering above him, an infrared array bounces signals off sensors attached to the man’s temples to produce a moving, MRI-constructed overlay of his brain on a nearby monitor. A researcher watching the monitor then presses a white plastic oval to the man’s skull and aims electromagnetic pulses at his brain. 

Each pulse makes an audible click. On the other side of the room, Marcello Massimini, a blue-eyed, curly-haired neuroscientist, and Angela Comanducci, the patient’s neurologist, watch on a laptop as complicated blue squiggles representing brain waves fill the screen. 

What the scientists see in them is the faintest sign of a liminal, maybe dreamlike, consciousness. This could be the most accurate consciousness meter medicine has ever seen. Read the full story.

—Russ Juskalian

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How to keep the power on during extreme weather

Constant catastrophes: Global warming is underscoring the point, again and again and again, that the infrastructure in the US was built for the past. Hurricane Ida, turbocharged by unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, plunged New Orleans into darkness after reportedly knocking out all eight of the transmission lines into the city. More than a million customers now lack electricity across the broader region, which is grappling with the aftermath of the storm and oppressively hot temperatures. It could take weeks to fully restore service. 

Ida follows the record-setting heat waves in the Pacific Northwest in June, which knocked out power in some areas, and that, in turn, followed outages in Texas that left four million without electricity for days in February.

What’s needed: Every issue requires different, expensive solutions. But they all point to the same problem: the need to build a modernized, robust, interconnected power generation and delivery system, capable of keeping the lights on in the face of increasingly common and severe extreme weather events. Read the full story.

—James Temple

What’s happening with covid vaccine apps in the US

A year ago, vaccines to tackle the covid pandemic still seemed like a far-off idea. Today, though, doses have been delivered to almost 40% of the world’s people—and some are being asked to prove they’re among them, leading to the rise of so-called vaccine passports. The details of these credentials vary from place to place, but at their heart they are the same: digital health records, stored on your phone, to use as proof that you are a low risk to others.

President Joe Biden has already said there won’t be a national app, leaving the choice to states. We looked at the status of digital vaccine systems in all 50 states. Just seven have active apps, while 22 have banned the systems to some degree. Read the full story.

—Bobbie Johnson, Adriana Fraser and Harini Barath

We can still have nice things

A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)

  + These very good boys who rescue turtles are yet more proof that we don't deserve dogs. 
  + It's frankly incredible that cows are so calm, all things considered.
  + All cats love cardboard boxes. Even big ones.
  + The South Pole experiences the ultimate dawn when the endless six-month-long dark winter finally ends.
  + If you don't love the trumpet already, these clips might do the trick.
  + Dorothy Parker has finally been laid to rest.
  + Belgian shadowologist Vincent Bal seems to have a lot of fun with his work. 
  + A US veteran was reunited with three Italians he saved as children during World War Two.

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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Nearly 70% of adults in the European Union are fully vaccinated 💉
The EU is now one of the world's leaders in inoculations, after a slow start. (Axios)
  + Almost one million covid booster shots have already been administered in the US. (CNBC)
  + The US needs a clear covid goal. (Axios)
  + People are trying to get vaccines for their kids aged under 12. That's risky. (Wired $) 

2 High winds are worsening the Caldor fire in California
All national forests in the state are going to be closed until September 17. (NPR)
  + Photos from this Tahoe ski resort look truly apocalyptic. (Earther)
  + What we can learn from the crisis. (NYT $)
  + What it'll take to get power back in New Orleans after Ida. (Wired $) 

3 Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi is going to get a union
The company has come in for criticism for the way it treats its drivers. (Reuters $)
 
4 The secretive partner tasked with cleaning up Facebook
Accenture lets it outsource the messy business of content moderation. (NYT $)
  + Facebook has just quietly admitted that "engagement" is not always a good way to measure what users value. (Wired $) 

5 Silicon Valley's "hustle culture" is on trial
Frankly, Theranos is the tip of the iceberg. (WP $)
 
6 A new conspiracy theory claims the internet "died" five years ago 💀
And since then, it's just been run by AI bots. (The Atlantic $)
 
7 Think you know what a clock is? Think again. 🕰️ 
Researchers are learning the fundamental limits of time-keeping. (Quanta)
  + (Philomena Cunk had it right all along, if you ask me.)

 
8 Zoom is making people's self-image worse
It can't be healthy to stare at your own face for that many hours of the day. (Wired $)
 
9 Flying bipedal robots are coming
What they'll be used for remains a mystery, though. (IEEE Spectrum)
 
10 How paralympic wheelchairs are optimized for performance
These bear little resemblance to the everyday sort. (Scientific American $)

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Quote of the day

“There is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before. For the rest of you in California: every acre can and will burn someday in this state.”

—Thom Porter, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire protection, says that the mass evacuations from Lake Tahoe due to the encroaching Caldor fire should serve as a warning to the rest of the state. 

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