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| 8:52a |
2030 carbon-targets lack £48bn, UK
The UK Labour government is running into the contradiction between
its
fiscal policy, which imitates the Tories, and carrying out even its highest priority projects.
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| 8:52a |
Prolongevity drugs exclude females
Drugs intended to extend human lifespan are developed with
testing on only male mice. When later tested on female mice, it doesn't function for 75% of
them. If any do function for humans, they may
treat
only human males.
The article does not say why researchers normally use only male mice, but I speculate that female
mice are harder to understand because their reproductive cycles make the results more complicated.
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| 8:52a |
How chimps converse
Wild chimpanzees communicate with hand gestures, and
respond
to each other sequentially much as humans do with speech. Some of the gestures have been
understood by scientists.
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| 2:51p |
JD Vance deviance, shapeshifting
*JD Vance calls [the corrupter]
"morally
reprehensible" in resurfaced emails [from 2014-2017].*
I wonder whether he has changed his appraisal of the corrupter or only decided to bury it for
self-interest.
More
about this.
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| 2:51p |
Flaws in studies recommending drinking
Explaining the flaws in research that formerly suggested that using
alcohol at
a
limited rate was good for health.
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| 2:51p |
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| 2:51p |
Ukrainian POWs
Interviews with
Ukrainians
captured and tortured by the Putin forces for long periods of time. Some were soldiers, some
have been and are civilians.
They describe many sorts of excruciating torture, so persistently that it leads me to think that
their guards cannot ever safely be allowed outside prison.
One person asks why have the International Red Cross and the UN not pressured Putin to treat
prisoners humanely? I speculate that they know they have no influence, that Putin will defy them as
he defies any influence against his inhumanity.
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| 2:51p |
Hurricanes, evacuations, an analysis
Now that heating of the oceans and seas makes hurricanes intensify faster, the
question of
whether to evacuate has become more difficult.
Perhaps new building codes are needed so buildings will be able to stand up to hurricanes. They
should also include rules to make sure the building won't be inundated.
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| 2:51p |
(Satire) Forgotten communities in US
(satire) *J.D. Vance Vows To Fight For Forgotten Communities
In
Silicon Valley.*
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| 2:51p |
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| 2:51p |
The gun-control field, US
Republicans
are saying nothing about the possibility of gun control. They are willing to risk their lives
in the name of making America more dangerous and enriching gun companies. I would admire them for
that firmness, if they were serving a worthy cause.
Many towns in the
old "wild" West had gun
control and
did not allow people to carry guns. On entering them, people were required to hand in their guns.
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| 2:51p |
Surgeon on Gaza youth worries
A British surgeon in Gaza reported that a
large fraction of the surgery she
did was on children and young teens. But many of them are so malnourished that they their
wounds do not heal properly.
I can't find a date in the article, but the figure for deaths suggests it was a few months ago.
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| 2:51p |
UAE fighting alongside RSF in Sudan
*Exclusive:
Discovery
of [UAE] passports in wreckage suggest covert boots on the ground, despite Gulf state's denials.*
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