Xi'an's Og

When visiting Warwick last week, I read an issue of Nature in the plane and came across…

…a brand new and ambitious museum in Egypt for Egyptians (and others), incl. the repatriation of many artefacts, while hoping the tragedy of the unique Institute of Egypt, a research centre set up in 1798 by Bonaparte, being destroyed in 2011 by fire during the clashes between Tahrir Square protestors and military forces in Cairo, and finished by firemen flooding the place and its rare books, and remembering the sorry state of the surroundings of the Great Pyramids when I visited them almost twenty years ago,
…Nature editorial on its failing to publish AlphaFold3 code, with corporate knee-jerk newspeak,
…within an article on the “miracle” obesity drug(s), the sobering warning of half of the population turning obese by 2035…
…a Swiss experiment on paying researchers to spot errors in published papers, although I am unconvinced by the argument that paid readers would prove more reliable than benevolent ones,
…AI experts hired by the US Congress providing advice on federal AI legislation,
new achievements in developing quantum internet at the scale of a (so far small) city, a concept I had never met before (and which does not make total sense to me, incl. the appeal of quantum entanglement),
…support or lack thereof of harassed scientists within their institution (which would clearly be in the “lack” branch for my institution!),
…some “careers stories” of faith vs. science, that reports on a survey on how scientists with a religious affiliation experience their religion at work, or not, with some unconvincing arguments towards incorporating religion elements in scientific discussions,
…a (weekly) portrait of a biotechnologist cum fisherman fishing for blue crabs in Pula, Croatia—which we visited eleven years ago—,  an invasive species that he encourages people to eat,

and much more stuff!