This week OpenAI and Anthropic launched their health/bio updates. While both companies are leaning into consumer-facing health concierges, Claude now has better tooling for life science researchers.

Supply and demand after global catastrophes

In unserer neuen Blogreihe „Retrodigitalisierung – vom Papier zum Pixel“ zeigen wir, wie die TIB durch die Digitalisierung ihrer analogen Bestände wissenschaftliche Schätze sichert und weltweit zugänglich macht. Dabei geben wir auch Einblicke in die technischen und rechtlichen Prozesse moderner Retrodigitalisierung.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Boojum and Hootin Annie in the Balsam Mountains: Gemstones, Moonshine Jugs, and Haywood County Folklore In the high country of western North Carolina, between the tourist glow of Waynesville and the deep coves that run toward the Smokies, there is a stretch of ridgeline where stories and promotion have tangled together for more than a century.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – The Hopkinsville Goblins: Little Green Men on a Kentucky Farm On a hot Sunday night in August 1955, a caravan of cars pulled up outside the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station. Inside were eleven people from a small farm community called Kelly, just north of town. Some were crying. One man’s pulse was racing.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Wizard Clip and the Priest’s Field: Poltergeist, Frontier Faith, and a Haunted Farm in the Shenandoah Valley In the lower Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia there is a quiet patch of fields and houses that once answered to an unsettling nickname.

TLDR/Summary Early COVID-19 analyses suggested countries with higher Global Health Security (GHS) Index scores had worse mortality, contradicting pre-pandemic validation. Our new research with improved methodology resolves this paradox.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – The Legend of the Blowing Rock: Wind, Lovers, and a High Country Cliff If you stand on The Blowing Rock on a clear afternoon, the world falls away in layers of blue. The cliff juts out from the Blue Ridge crest above the Johns River Gorge, a stone prow hanging thousands of feet over forest and river. Below, the gorge carries water south toward the Catawba.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Sensabaugh Tunnel: Ghost Tourism, Urban Legend, and the Real Sensabaugh Family Along the Holston North of Kingsport, Tennessee, the land folds into low ridges and narrow hollows along the North Fork of the Holston River. Farmhouses sit back from the road, the railroad keeps to its own bench above the creek, and narrow lanes carry locals through places that do not make most highway maps.

Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – The Rivesville River Monster: Ogua, Giant Turtles, and the Stories Marion County Tells Itself On a warm summer night at Rivesville in Marion County, the Monongahela River looks almost tame. Barges push coal up toward Pittsburgh. Fishermen sit on the bank near the mouth of Paw Paw Creek or lean against the rail of the pedestrian walkway, watching their lines disappear into the dark water.

We’ve seen a lot of raptors with their heads turned 180 degrees recently. Jerry Harris dropped me a line to remind me that flamingos are also perverts when it comes to neck posture.