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    ABBA songs of politicians…

    Since it’s such a hot topic, I’ll share the favorite ABBA songs of politicians….. 1. Sajith P - Slipping Through My Fingers 2. ⁠Mahinda R - Waterloo / The King Has Lost His Crown 3. ⁠AKD - I have a dream 4. ⁠Ranil W - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! 5. Harini A /Vijitha Herath- Winner takes it all 6...
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    In less than 2 decades the Earth has Tilted 31.5 Inches.

    Water has power. So much power, in fact, that pumping Earth’s groundwater can change the planet’s tilt and rotation. It can also impact sea-level rise and other consequences of climate change. Pumping groundwater appears to have a greater consequence than ever previously thought. In less than...
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    UTIs are quite common - but Kidney infections aren't - Why?

    Infections in the lower urinary tract rarely migrate to the kidneys, but the precise mechanism that the human body employs to keep the twin organs disease-free has remained a medical mystery—until now. Earlier reasearch showed that the kidney can sense infections in the bladder and protect...
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    The Woman Scientist who First Identifed CO2 as a GreenHouse Gas in Mid 1800's

    Women have been making significant contributions to science for centuries and receiving little to no credit for their work. Rosalind Franklin captured the X-ray images of the DNA molecule that allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to decipher its structure. That kind of recognition isn’t the...
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    Next Frontier in Gene Therapy - RNA Editing.

    The US FDA has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim is to treat an eye disease called wet age-related macular degeneration that causes vision loss in millions of older people worldwide. This trial marks a new frontier in gene therapy—the...
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    The Physics That Doomed Amelia Earhart

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    Vaping Is Too Good To Be True

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    Labour Minister Questioned About Historical Trump Tweets

    Check out this interview with UK Minister Steven Pineless. Pineless by name, priceless viewing. See the nincompoop current Labour Minister make an ass of himself, squirming, dodging direct questions (no answers, given the circumstances) and no doubt regretting hugely his ill thought and very...
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    Sajith on Election loss.

    Sajith Premadasa has been asked by a journalist about the dismal performance of his party at the recent elections. This has been his response: "Our faction experienced a calamitous and unequivocal debacle, characterized by a concatenation of strategic infelicities and an insurmountable...
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    Israel destroys Taleghan 2 on October 26th

    High-res satellite imagery confirms the destruction of the Parchin facility, known as Taleghan 2 which was linked with covert Iranian nuclear weapons program. The location is around 19 miles SE from Tehran. Even though the Iranians officially ended the nuclear operations in 2003, covert...
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    Cannabis is Genotoxic

    Cannabis use causes cellular damage that increases the risk of highly cancerous tumors, according to new studies. A "Genotoxic" substance causes damages a cell's genetic information, which can lead to DNA mutations, accelerated aging, and cancer. To make matters worse, this genotoxicity may be...
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    'Alien signal' sent from Mars decoded by an US father-daughter team.

    A signal beamed at Earth from Mars in 2023 has finally been decoded by a father and daughter team in the United States. In 2023, a coded message was beamed at Earth from Mars. After over a year, this simulated extraterrestrial signal was finally decoded. The European Space Agency's (ESA)...
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    Solved - Why Dogs shake when they are Wet

    Scientists have finally figured out why dogs do this shake. According to new research, the "wet dog shake" is the fault of a receptor in mammal skin called C-LTMR. And it causes furry animals of all sorts, from dogs to cats to mice, to perform a surprisingly consistent shake when stimulated by...
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    How do Brains coordinate activity? A Universal Principle from Fruit Flies to Monkeys.

    Author: Brandon Robert Munn -Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Sydney The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Yet, despite decades of research, the mystery of how the brain achieves this...
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    Embryonic development might have existed prior to animals' evolution

    Ancient unicellular organism indicates embryonic development might have existed prior to animals' evolution. Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years...
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    Japan Launches World's First Wooden Satellite.

    On Tuesday, the world's first wooden satellite, the LignoSat, was launched into space in an effort to test the use of timber in lunar and Mars exploration. While the use of wood in space may appear to be a step back in technology, it is hoped to prove a step forward. The wooded satellite was...
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    Visit Myanmar!

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    Voyager 1 Calls back from 15 Billion Miles away.

    NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter. On October 24, NASA successfully reestablished contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief communication pause. The shutdown appears to have been triggered by the...

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