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Wanna lose your mind? The sea squirts have it all figured out — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 17, 2021 “These big brains are more burden than bargain.” (Kurt Vonnegut) In your life, you may face no greater nemesis than your own mind. The tradeoffs for these ...
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'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong Rover Touches Down On Red Planet | Sébastien Ricci
Mars (seen in an image released on March 3, 2021 taken by China's Tianwen-1 probe which carried the rover) is the the most prestigious of all prizes in the competition for dominion of space. May 15, ...
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Politically Polarized Brains Share An intolerance Of Uncertainty | Brown University
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain May 14, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Since the 1950s, political scientists have theorized that political polarization -- increased numbers of "political partisans" who view ...
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Birds vs. Tweets: Which Sounds Are You Tuned Into? — Mickey Z.
European Starlings (Photo: Rachel Wood/Great Backyard Bird Count) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 3, 2021 While walking in my neighborhood the other day, I heard a beautiful and astonishingly ...
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Are You a Free Agent or a Cyborg? — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World New Trust April 26, 2021 “If something strikes me as probable, I say it; and that is how, unlike everyone else, I remain a free agent.” (Cicero) In a recent article, I shared with ...
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Moderate Geomagnetic Storm Watch For Sunday 25 April 2021 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
April 22, 2021 (NOAA) -- NOAA issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for Sunday 25 April 2021. A partial halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was associated with a C3 flare from Region 2816 at ...
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Vaccines May Protect Against New COVID-19 Strains -- And Maybe The Common Cold | Johns Hopkins University
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. ...
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Reducing Police Inappropriate Use Of Force | Nora Luongo
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain April 22, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Experts on violence have policy and procedural recommendations for reducing police use of inappropriate force. A report from the Police ...
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Pentagon COVID Microchips: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 16, 2021 I looked up “irony” in the dictionary the other day and found a video of a contemporary human being declaring: “I’ll put up with health passports to get ...
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What If I Told You the COVID “Rules” Make No Sense? — Mickey Z.
(screenshot from The Matrix) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 14, 2021 Last year, the #woke crowd had a field day mocking Trump’s mention of injecting disinfectant and/or drinking bleach. They ...
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Reversible CRISPR Method Controls Gene Expression Leaving DNA Sequence Unchanged | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence -- and then reverse the changes. Credit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead ...
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