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    Video - Please watch & decide

    Not sure where the original is from...
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    Mahinda, Gota & the Dying Pope

    Copied as received....... :P The old and frail Pope lay dying in the hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the world. He gestured for his nurse to come near. “Yes, Father?” said the nurse. “I would really like to see Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa before I die...
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    New Cholesterol lowering jab

    A new Cholesterol lowering drug from Novartis is hailed as "Life Changing". It's been just approved in the UK. Global trials have proved that this drug safely cuts cholesterol by 50%. The drug is "Inclisiran", and it is administered as an injection. It boosts the liver’s ability to reduce...
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    Thai Sweat Test for Covid...

    Thai researchers are developing a sweat-based mobile virus detector, and road-tested it on shopkeepers at a Bangkok food market this week. "From the samples, we found that people infected with COVID-19 secrete very distinct chemicals," said Chadin Kulsing from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn...
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    The Mu variant is highly resistant to neutralization

    A team of Japanese researchers have announced that the Mu variant is highly resistant to neutralization by sera from convalescent or vaccinated individuals. The Mu variant is the The B.1.621 variant, first isolated in Colombia in January 2021. The Mu variant has the mutations P681H (first...
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    Study reports that modified Covid vaccines can be quite effective

    A team of researchers at the University of Texas has reported that modified vaccines could beat the pandemic. They first created four chimeric SARS-CoV-2 viruses, each bearing a distinct variant spike gene from the alpha (B.1.1.7), beta (B.1.351), gamma (P.1; Brazil), or epsilon (B.1.429...
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    Viruses & Giant Viruses..

    An interesting recent presentation about viruses that some of you might like to watch...
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    A simple work sharing puzzle

    Lionel & Mary can finish painting a room in 2 hours. Lionel & Noel can finish the same painting job in 3 hours. Mary & Noel together is able to finish it in 4 hours. If all three of them work together how long the job will take? :rolleyes: (Assume that each person works at a constant rate...
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    The Universe is Hostile to Computers

    An interesting video... How cosmic rays can affect.
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    The Mu Variant

    The Mu variant is still a VOI - Variant of Interest - Not a VOC - (Variant of Concern). The Mu variant was first noticed in Colombia in January 2021, and was called B.1.621. It has since been detected in 40 countries, but currently accounts for only 0.1% of infections globally.. The Mu variant...
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    CEPI releases funding to develop a Universal Covid Vaccine

    The prospect of a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine that could offer protection against future virus variants took a step closer to reality about a fortnight ago. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has agreed to provide $20.6 million in funding to a six-year-old...
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    Emergency Declared Surreptitiously

    On 30 August 2021, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was reported to have issued emergency regulations relating to the supply of essential food items. The Presidential Media Division stated: “As per the powers vested in terms of the section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance, President Gotabaya...
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    Why Don't Black Holes Swallow All of Space?

    Black holes do a damn good job of swallowing everything. Then, why don't they just keep on expanding and expanding and simply swallow the Universe? A bit of a mind boggling question, isn't it? Sometime ago the well known Stanford Physicist Leonard Susskind, who is one of the fathers of the...
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    Covid infection might confer better immunity than a vaccine

    The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try...
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    A cholesterol drug could dramatically cut the treatment time for Covid.

    Professor Yaakov Nahmias' team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) reported that the new coronavirus causes abnormal accumulation of lipids, which are known to initiate severe inflammation in a process called lipotoxicity. The team identified the lipid-lowering drug TriCor (fenofibrate)...
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    Rattlesnake neurotoxin related enzyme & Covid severity

    It was only yesterday I wrote the following in reply to @DjAnomaly 's thread on antivenom and his question on whether antivenom could help to combat Covid.... "PPS: I am not aware of any Covid drugs being developed. But there are teams on it. The PLA2 enzymes in snake venom can kill the Covid...
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    Sinopharm - Budapest Study

    Last February Hungary became the first EU country to use Sinopharm. They purchased 5 million doses while it wasn't approved by the EMA. The in fact they cited an excuse, that the Chinese had the virus for the longest and thus they will know the most. Hungary has the highest per capita deaths...
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    Astra Zeneca & Sputnik mix - Gamaleya press release

    A combination between AZ & the First component of Sputnik V demonstrates high immunogenicity profile I have alwayss argued for vaccine mix & match. You can easily mix AZ/Pfizer, AZ/Moderna and AZ/Sputnik. Heterologous vaccines can be more effective than the homologous boosting with the same...
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    An antibody that could help to protect against the variants.

    Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified an antibody that is highly protective at low doses against a wide range of viral variants. Moreover, the antibody attaches to a part of the virus that differs little across the variants, meaning that it is...
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    Afghanistan Olympics 2030

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