Nuclear-war head: assassination in Iran
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The killing of the country’s top nuclear scientist comes at a tricky time: violent retribution may threaten hoped-for diplomacy with the incoming American administration. An artificial-intelligence breakthrough may transform protein science, with implications for everything from industrial processes to tackling disease. And why Europe’s lighter-touch, second round of lockdowns have been so effective.
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| 1:03.8 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:09.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the |
| 1:12.9 | events shaping your world. Nearly every process in biology involves different proteins, |
| 1:21.6 | with each one's shape defining its purpose. But those shapes are incredibly hard to work out. So a speedy new artificial |
| 1:30.4 | intelligence approach could solve all kinds of problems in disease and drug design. |
| 1:37.8 | And about a month ago, as COVID-19 cases rose sharply, a number of European countries went back into lockdowns. |
| 1:46.3 | We look into streams of mobility data and ask why this round of lighter-touch lockdowns |
| 1:51.3 | was so surprisingly effective. |
| 1:56.2 | But first... The funeral of Iran's top nuclear scientist underlined his significance to the country. |
| 2:11.6 | Yesterday's ceremony for Mosin Fakhrizadei was attended by top-level officials at the Defense Ministry in Tehran. |
| 2:20.3 | A military detail then carried his flag-draped coffin through the streets to a cemetery in the north of the capital. |
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