Anna Edwards, Author at GanamRadio

30 Dec

The risk of a dangerous new variant of Covid in China is ‘quite low’, says a US health expert.

Anna Edwards

BEIJING — A dangerous new variant of Covid-19 is unlikely to be spreading in China, said Dr. Chris Murray, director of a Seattle-based University of Washington health research center.His comments on Friday on CNBC's "Asian squawk boxIt comes as US health officials warned this week about the possibility of a new Covid variant emerging in China's national outbreak, and how Beijing's lack of transparency could delay the detection of risks to public health.Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, noted that there were likely billions of omicron infections worldwide this year, but no new covid variants have…

30 Dec

Texas Tech’s Joey McGuire and Dimitri Moore deny racial slurs, spew accusations of “false and irresponsible”

Anna Edwards

Texas Tech Football Coach Joey McGuire has denied an allegation by Mississippi's Lane Kiffin that linebacker Dimitri Moore spat on one of his players and may have used a racial slur during Wednesday night's Texas Bowl game. McGuire issued a statement Thursday calling the allegations "false and irresponsible." Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Joey McGuire and Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin shake hands at NRG Stadium on December 28, 2022 in Houston. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)"We are disappointed that an opposing head coach has chosen to make serious allegations that are false and irresponsible," McGuire's statement read. "I have…

30 Dec

Follow streaming the partial solar eclipse October 2022

Anna Edwards

This Tuesday, October 25a spectacular arrives visual phenomenon in barcelona and part of the eastern, northern and northwestern regions of Spain: the Moon will cover a part of the Sun during noon and a partial solar eclipse. An eclipse occurs when there is a perfect alignment (or almost) of the Sun, the Moon and the Earth itself. If one is given Sun-Earth-Moon alignmentit is our satellite that enters the shadow of the Earth and we have a lunar eclipse. if the alignment is Sun-Moon-Earthit is the moon that leaves us in the shadow and a Sun eclipse. The one of…

30 Dec

More victims recovered from Cambodia casino hotel fire

Anna Edwards

POIPET, Cambodia (AP) — The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex in western Cambodia rose to 25 Friday as the search for victims resumed, authorities said.The fire at the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in the Thai border city of Poipet started around midnight Wednesday and was extinguished more than 12 hours later Thursday afternoon.By Friday morning, 25 bodies had been recovered from the site, according to Sek Sokhom, head of the information department for Banteay Meanchey province. He said six bodies were found Friday morning, some in their rooms and others in…

30 Dec

The Nation’s Cartoonists in Politics Week

Anna Edwards

cartoon carousel Every week, political cartoonists from across the country and across the political spectrum apply their inky skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies, and other shocking events in the world of politics. The fruits of this labor are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and infuriate readers of all political persuasions. Here's a deal on the best of this week's crop, fresh from the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker. By POLITICAL STAFF 09/12/2022 04:30amEST

30 Dec

They seek to reactivate trains in the Colombian Pacific – Sectors – Economy

Anna Edwards

The National Infrastructure Agency, ANI, will carry out pre-feasibility studies for the reactivation of the Pacific Railroad Corridor from the Port of Buenaventura and its connection with the Central Railroad Corridor. The idea is that through an inter-administrative contract signed between ANI and Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional 24 billion pesos are allocated and for 15 months the pre-feasibility is evaluated to advance to the stage of designs and feasibility studies for a subsequent bidding process for awarding.In this way, municipalities such as Buenaventura, Dagua,La Cumbre, Yumbo, Cali, Palmira, Cerrito, Ginebra, Guacarí, Buga, San Pedro,Tuluá, Andalucía, Bugalagrande, Zarzal, La Victoria, Obando…

30 Dec

3 siblings survive in the Australian outback for 55 hours after a car crash that killed their parents

Anna Edwards

Their parents were dead, their SUV overturned, but three children under the age of five managed to survive in the scorching heat of the Australian outback for 55 hours, local media reported. His remaining family has called him "a miracle." Jake Day and Cindy Braddock "were involved in a fatal car accident in Western Australia on Christmas morning," said a GoFundMe set up by Day's cousin Casey Guyer. "Devastatingly, Jake and Cindy did not survive the crash," he said, adding that "it was a miracle that their beautiful babies survived for more than two days in the Australian outback before…

30 Dec

New research reveals there is likely magma on Mars

Anna Edwards

Tuesday has been generally considered a geologically dead planet, however now an international team of researchers led by the ETH Zurichin Switzerland, reports that seismic signals indicate that volcanism is still play an active role in the formation of the Martian surface, as published in the journal 'Nature Astronomy'. The SEIS seismometer Since 2018, when the mission Knowledge from NASA deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists from ETH Zurich have listened to the seismic beeps of more than 1,300 earthquake martians. Time and time again, researchers recorded smaller and larger Martian earthquakes. A detailed…

30 Dec

Can you see which image was created by AI?

Anna Edwards

By David Ingram, Justine Goode and Anjali NairDecember 30, 2022 They told us to fear killer robots. But the artistic ones are here first. Advances in artificial intelligence have enabled a wave of online imagers, giving way to a torrent of computer generated images and works of art with remarkably high quality. AI generated art has prizes won in art competitions, and some content creators are actively using it and may have previously used human illustrators, elbowing out artists using more traditional methods and raising hope and angst about the future of art. But how does AI art really compare…