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    The 4 things it takes to be an expert

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    Two studies reveals early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

    SARS-CoV-2, likely first spread to humans from animals in two separate transmission events in a Wuhan market in late November 2019, according to a pair of analyses by international teams co-led by Scripps Research scientists. "Upstream events are still obscure, but our analyses of available...
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    Images of a rare Double Aurora

    Capturing two different kinds of aurora (the red and green bands seen here) at the same time, new images have revealed that the mysterious red glow might be caused by electrons raining down through the atmosphere. Amateur astronomers have captured a strange combination of red and green auroras...
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    The Deadliest Virus on Earth

    The rabies virus is a negative-sense, non-segmented, single-stranded RNA virus measuring approximately 60 nm × 180 nm. It's genome encodes five proteins: nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), glycoprotein (G) and polymerase (L). All rhabdoviruses have two major structural...
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    The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions

    Fritz Haber - Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
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    The Final Days of Petra

    Most of you will know where Petra is. It's one of Jordan's national treasures and by far its best-known tourist attraction. located approximately three hours south of Amman. It's a UNESCO Heritage site and well known for it's architecture and ingenious complex of dams and water channels. This is...
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    NewYork reports a Polio case nearly after a decade.

    A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first instance of the virus in almost a decade. Tests show that that the patient had contracted a strain of polio likely derived from an oral polio vaccine, which are no longer administered in the U.S. (Sabin Type 2 poliovirus) However, this...
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    Dulles or else?

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    Plitvice Lakes & Krka National Parks - Croatia

    One member here queried me why travel to Croatia? I don;t really decide where we travel, as I don;t have time to plan these things. I am only the driver that takes the family around wherever we are. We always travel when we can and even though many do not visit these countries, there's plenty of...
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    Lake Annecy (Lac d'Annecy)

    Arrived in France, CDG Airport on the 11th June around 7.30 AM . Collected the pre-booked rental car by 8.20 and drove to Lake Annecy by about 4PM. It;s a long drive about six hours, about 650kms and hence needs a lunch break somewhere. So made an exit to a small township of Beaune had lunch and...
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    The Great (Penguin) Escape

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    Cancer Killing Virus - First time used in Human Clinical Trials.

    A recent Phase 1 clinical trial has administered a dose of an experimental anticancer drug called CF33-hNIS, or Vaxinia, to the study’s first participant. This novel therapy involves using an oncolytic virus, a type of virus that can infect and kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue...
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    The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math

    An interesting short video about Leslie Lamport, the creator of LaTeX, TLA+, the work behind distributed computing & 2013 Turing Award winner. Also known for the bakery algorithm and the Byzantine Generals Problem.
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    Anyone residing in Croatia?

    Anyone here residing in Croatia... around Drvenik or even Zagreb? (y)
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    13 year old shopping in the USA....

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    World Bank on SriLanka

    WASHINGTON, May 24, 2022—The World Bank today issued the following statement on Sri Lanka: “Recent media reports have inaccurately stated that the World Bank is planning support for Sri Lanka in the form of a bridge loan or new loan commitments, among other incorrect assertions. We are...

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