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The REAL First Rule of Fight Club — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 23, 2021 Life in the United States of Algorithms has me thinking about Fight Club again — reading snippets, posting quotes, and watching YouTube clips until I finally gave it a re-watch. Such is the power of Fight Club. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1999. It was love at first sight. Like the well-programmed white male “radical” I wa ...

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Antibiotics may help to treat melanoma | KU Leuven

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 22, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Some antibiotics appear to be effective against a form of skin cancer known as melanoma. Researchers at KU Leuven, Belgium, examined the eff ...

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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice | University of Chicago

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 22, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, a group of scientists from the Unive ...

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The White House & Facebook vs. Freedom of Speech — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 20, 2021 “Freedom of speech/Just watch what you say.” (Ice T) "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate ...

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What do you really know about U.S.-Cuba relations? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 18, 2021 “The need to possess Cuba is the oldest issue in U.S. foreign policy.” (Noam Chomsky) When you watch the latest news stories about unrest in Cuba, are you r ...

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A DIY Little League Story (we’d all be canceled today) — Mickey Z.

Yours truly, at maybe age 6, in Long Island City High School schoolyard Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 16, 2021 Growing up in a working-class, blue-collar neighborhood — long before there was an i ...

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Family Separation Law: Israel’s Demographic War on Palestine Intensifies | Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians waiting at Qalandia Checkpoint (Photo: Patrick Edgar, Supplied) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 14, 2021 When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly refe ...

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Critical Race Theory: Echo Chamber vs. Echo Chamber — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 14, 2021 “Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward” (Jaron Lanier) Critical race theory, according to Wikipedia, is “a body of legal schola ...

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Species of gut bacteria linked to enhanced cognition and language skills in infant boys | University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Credit: CC0 Public DomainJuly 13, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- A University of Alberta-led research study followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys at o ...

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First actionable clock that predicts immunological health and chronic diseases of aging | Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 12, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- Researchers from the Buck Institute and Stanford University have created an inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) that measures inflammatory lo ...

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Cheaters drawn to the opportunity to cheat | Max Planck Society

Common warning: when there are crowds in city centers, pickpockets find easy prey. But in other areas of life, too, some people take advantage of an opportunity to steal or cheat with no qualms . An ...

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