A little word play

Good morning Staker! Here’s what’s cookin’ today: AI is helping doctors predict risk of heart failure up to 5 years in advance; Artemis II crew reflects on the joy of space; and can you believe it’s 50 years since Frampton came alive? 🤯

Let’s get into it!

A team of researchers at Oxford University trained an AI algorithm on CT scans from 72,000 patients across multiple studies over several years, looking for types of fat and inflammation to help predict whether or not they were at risk of heart failure.

Their study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and included risk assessment scores of patients that could be used in the future to help doctors assess a patient’s risk profile beyond just looking at CT scans.

Patients from the study were given scores after their CT scans, and followed up over the course of a decade. Those at the highest risk level were 20 times more likely to suffer heart failure, according to the accurate predictions of the AI tool’s assessment model.

“We have used developments in bioscience and computing to take a big step forward in treating heart failure,” said Charalambos Antoniades, the professor of cardiovascular medicine at Oxford who led the research.

“Our new AI tool is able to take cardiac CT scan data and produce an absolute risk score for each patient without any need for human input. Although this study used cardiac CT scans, we are now working towards applying this method to any CT scan of the chest, performed for any reason.”

The Orion spacecraft touched down about 20 miles off the coast of San Diego on Friday, landing at 5:07 pm pacific time—the exact minute it was expected to.

The Artemis II mission crew travelled further and faster than any other humans in history, getting as far as 252,756 miles from Earth, and reaching speeds of over 25,000 mph upon their atmospheric reentry.

On Saturday, they took the stage at a welcome home event in Houston to discuss and reflect on the historic 10-day mission, and the first of its kind in over 50 years.

“We are bonded forever and no one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through and it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life,” said Commander Reid Wiseman.

“This was not easy being 200,000-plus miles away from home. Like before you launch, it feels like it’s the greatest dream on Earth and when you’re out there, you just want to get back to your families and your friends,” he said. “It’s a special thing to be a human and it’s a special thing to be on planet Earth.”

Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen became the first non-American to circle the moon, and told the audience of NASA workers that when it came down to it, the crew was simply overwhelmed with joy.

“What you saw was a group of people who loved contributing, having meaningful contribution and extracting joy out of that,” he said, before proceeding to share a group hug with his fellow crew members.

It’s been 50 years since Peter Frampton’s iconic live album soared to the top of the charts, and stayed there for ten straight weeks.

Live albums aren’t always a success, but the good ones often become “overwhelmingly” successful, to use the same word Frampton used to to describe the feeling of the album’s popularity in a new Ultimate Classic Rock interview.

Is it surprising? Show Me the Way, Baby, I Love Your Way and, of course, Do You Feel Like We Do, were all featured on the Frampton Comes Alive, so why should anyone be shocked by how well it did, and how close to the hearts of Stakers it remains today?

"Walking on the stage that night at Winterland with probably between seven and eight thousand people, it was one of our biggest headlining shows ever [and their first time as a headliner in San Francisco]," Frampton says now. "You know, I think that was so inspiring for all of us."

"That was one of those nights. Usually, when you come off, two guys will say, 'I had the worst night,' and two guys will say, 'Ah, it was the best night!' Well this time, we all came off and we all went, 'Oh, my God!' We went to the recording truck, after the show that night. Ray Thompson, rest in peace, was the fantastic engineer that did that for us," the guitarist continued.

"He said, 'Look, I'm just going to put all the faders flat, straight out. You've got to hear a couple of these.' So we listened to bits of a couple of the songs and we just looked at each other and went, 'Oh my God, have we got a winner!’”

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