Saturday, February 20, 2021

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Since I started medical school in 1976, until 2020, I have heard the dogma that viral diseases are not treatable (with some exceptions such as antivirals for HIV/AIDS), certainly not with antimicrobials. My older son, a newly minted general surgeon, was educated much more recently, but with the same misunderstanding. Since viral diseases are not treatable, our only weapon is vaccination. A friend
Over the past year, the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused untold damage to people's lives. Discussing whether draconian policies are effective, or whether there may be other ways of managing the crisis, has been muted by angry ripostes - you will be branded a 'denier' or a 'granny-killer'. To disagree is to have blood on your hands. But surely, despite these tensions, most people want t
John writes in to ask how a global conspiracy can function and how it can be kept under wraps. Good question. Join James for this week's edition of Questions For Corbett where he tackles the most common objections of the skeptics and their fallacious counter-arguments against the global conspiracy.
Comment: We knew the situation was bad, but we didn't know it was THIS bad! White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted today that Joe Biden will not be meeting with world leaders in-person for "a couple of months." This news comes after the revelation that Vice President Kamala Harris has assumed one of the traditional roles of the presidency, and has begun taking Head of State calls with fore
If only climate modelers had warned us that children would know what Frozen Fish Tanks were? Instead Texas spent most of the last decade and billions of dollars trying to cool the world by changing its electricity grid. Thanks to market-distorting policies that favor and subsidize wind and solar energy, Texas has added more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of those intermittent resources since 2015 whi

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TL;DR: For a cheaper alternative to AirPods, try the Avanca T1 Wireless Earbuds , on sale for $29.95 — a 50% savings — as of Feb. 20. A quick Amazon search for wireless earbuds will deliver thousands of results — from AirPod lookalikes to quirky buds with obscure names. The trick is to decide what features matter most to you. Do you want something that’s designed like AirPods but carries a more a
Have you heard of Canva? It's a graphic design platform lets you create everything from Instagram posts to business logos, for absolutely no cost. Using it is simple and painless thanks to all the preloaded templates, images, fonts, and graphics, and it offers a very well-designed, intuitive, user interface. All you need to use it is to sign up with Google, Facebook, or an email address. We're ta
An unusual penguin with some unique coloration has been photographed on a remote island near Antarctica. Wildlife photographer Yves Adams had been vis...
Mind-boggling photographs of a cake-limbed man lying in a hospital bed have gone viral on social media. Take a close look at the photograph above - wh...

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Please reassure us schools will be safe and you will soon be on top of the GCSE and A-levels situation this year I hope you have tooled up your rhetoric during this lockdown: millions of parents deserve sympathy and congratulations for the work we’ve been putting in trying to help our children cope with the over-burdened curriculum that previous governments foisted on schools. This is to take not
Exclusive: Prof Sir Robert Watson says backing of Cumbrian mine refutes claims of climate leadership One of the UK’s most eminent environmental scientists has called the government’s failure to block a new coalmine in Cumbria “absolutely ridiculous”. Prof Sir Robert Watson said the UK’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 to tackle the climate crisis was “wonderful”, but that there had to be
Trump’s D.C. hotel hopes to cash in on QAnon true believers who may descend on Washington for his big comeback
At least 40 people protesting the military’s ouster of civilian leaders were wounded in the city of Mandalay, volunteer medics said.
Trump's heinous regime was enabled by a large cast of villains. We have to recognize that all of us enabled them
Heavy snowfall has turned Lebanon's mountainous region of Kfardebian into a winter wonderland - not a scene usually witnessed in this region!

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A rundown of things you can do faster, easier, and with less hassle, all just by peeking under the hood.
Liberté, égalité, reparabilité.
More than one million people lost power in the Houston area.
Democracies around the world are all mired in one crisis or another, which is why measures of their health are trending in the wrong direction. Many look at the decline of the news industry as one contributing factor. No wonder, then, that figuring out how to pay for journalism is an urgent issue, and some governments are pushing ahead with ambitious plans. Big ideas for ways to funnel billions o
The path is now much clearer for the test flight of SN9's successor, SN10.
The U.S. military and conservation groups forged an unusual alliance to help save the red-cockaded woodpecker, but a Trump-era move to take the bird off the endangered list could threaten the species.

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by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy The activity of acquiring documents arranged by the Perugia prosecutor to ascertain the methods of procuring anti Covid vaccines will also concern the headquarters of the Veneto Region in Venice. The objective of the acquisitions at the headquarters of the Region is to ascertain the alleged proponents […]
The Senior Editor The US has been at war with Bolsheviks, not since 1918 but since 1848. The revolutions in Europe that sent millions to the US of immigrants to the US is something our American Bolshevik overlords have erased from our history. Germany, Austria, France, Italy and even Britain faced a Bolshevik takeover under […]
Seeking a sharp break from the “America First” policies of his predecessor — which often manifested in bitter disagreements, escalating trade wars and rejection of the systems established to prevent conflict — President Joe Biden on Friday reaffirmed the US position of global leadership, the power of its alliances and the resilience of democracy in […]
Daily Beast: President Ronald Reagan once claimed, in that jovial, grandfatherly voice that often concealed the impact of his words, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Thirty-five years worshipping at the altar of free markets and deregulation later, America has gone from […]
Daily Beast: He’s the man whose illicit foreign influence peddling is “among the most wide ranging ever prosecuted,” according to the government. Yet most people don’t even know his name. Imaad Zuberi attracted the spotlight when The Daily Beast identified his million-dollar donation to the Trump inaugural committee and his questionable foreign connections. Zuberi later appeared […]

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Guest host Tiffany Haddish knows a thing or two about love and relationships, so she wanted to help the audience by answering some of their questions in “Tiff’s Love Tips.” From: TheEllenShow
Guest host Tiffany Haddish surprised MoNique Waters, a kindergarten teacher in Ohio. MoNique talked about the importance of reciting daily affirmations with her students, and how they’ve incorporated them into their lives. Tiffany also gave MoNique a chance to win big in a game of “Cash at Your Classroom,” thanks to Shutterfly. For more Shutterfly moments, go to: ellentube.com/shutterfly Brought
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It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts but a majority of attacks in recent months have been sticky bombs.
While Jakarta residents are used to heavy flooding in the rainy season, scientists warn the floods are getting worse.
"Ship of Fools" Captain Chris Turney at UNSW claims to have identified a climate catastrophe 42,000 years ago, caused by a period of solar minima, intense cosmic ray bombardment, and the collapse of the Earth's geomagnetic field.
Some poets contain the wilderness within them. They boldly seek out stranger skies, seas and climates. They are not so enamoured by the provincial. Even the whole world is somewhat of a prison. They are not swayed by the whims of fashion. They don't pursue novelties, but inner visions. Dominic Windram

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