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    UK Houses of Parliament lit with Karthigaipoo to mark Maaveerar Naal

    :shocked: This is disgraceful really..... https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/uk-houses-parliament-lit-karthigaipoo-mark-maaveerar-naal https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/nov/27/we-remember-homage-to-fallen-sri-lankan-tamils-projected-on-uk-houses-of-parliament-2228783.html
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    Myths and fallacies vs Science and Truth of COVID-19

    An interesting presentation with the reknowned SriLankan Virologist & Pathologist - Prof Malik Peiris - Organised by the Ceylon College of Physicians recently.
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    Oxford Vaccine - Preliminary Analysis - Puzzling results

    Te preliminary results announced yesterday showed that one regimen had an efficacy of 90% when the drug was given as a half dose, followed by a full dose at least one month apart. A second regimen showed 62% efficacy when given as two full doses at least one month apart. The combined analysis...
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    Arecibo Telescope to closedown - An end of an era for Radio-Astronomy

    The legendary Arecibo Radio-Telescope in Puerto-Rico is destined to be closed down due to unprecedented damage. The movies "Contact" & "GoldenEye" was filmed in here. With a dish size of 1000ft (305m), it was one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, built in 1963. The trouble began in...
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    Second Opinion

    An old joke being recirculated again in WhatsApp... Joe had suffered from really bad headaches for the last 20 years. He eventually decides to go and see a Doctor. The Doctor says, 'Joe, the good news is I can cure your headaches. The bad news is that it will require removing your testicles...
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    Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sells 62% of his stock

    Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla cashed out 62 per cent of his stock in the company on the same day it announced the success of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, a regulatory filing showed. Bourla on Monday sold 132,508 of his shares at an average price of US$41.94 — a total...
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    One Minute Breath Test for Covid-19 developed in Singapore

    Breathonix Pte Ltd, a spin-off company from the National University of Singapore (NUS), has developed an easy-to-use breath test to detect COVID-19 within a minute. The company develops non-invasive breath tests for disease detection. How it works..... Breath analysis technology works by...
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    Low quality of Antibody production in serious Covid-19 cases

    For anyone interested.... Possible explanation of why the low quality of antibodies found in those infected with Covid, and the limited B-cell memory has been published by a team of researchers led by Prof Shiv Pillai (Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at Harvard, Director of Harvard...
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    Scientists just discovered another organ in the Human Head

    Doctors in Netherlands discovered by accident a mysterious set of salivary glands which had been never noticed before. They were in fact examining prostate cancer patients with an advanced type of scan called PSMA PET/CT. With injections of radioactive glucose, this diagnostic tool highlights...
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    Possibility of SADS-Cov jumping across from animals to humans

    In 2017, Guangdong province, China, saw the emergence of a new highly virulent swine acute diarrhoea syndrome coronavirus (SADS‐CoV). This fatal diarrhoea caused the death of 24,693 piglets. But from May 2017 to January 2019, there were no new SADS cases reported. Again another diarrhoea...
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    Nobel Peace Prize -2020

    NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 2020 IS AWARDED TO THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. "
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    Nobel Prize in Literature - 2020

    The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück - “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
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    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA, “for the development of a method for genome...
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    Nobel Prize for Physics 2020

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK, Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Andrea Ghez, University of...
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    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020

    The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice - for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
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    Helsinki Airport uses Dogs for Covid detection - close to 100% accuracy

    Four Covid-19 sniffer dogs have begun work at Helsinki airport in a state-funded pilot scheme that Finnish researchers hope will provide a cheap, fast and effective alternative method of testing people for the virus. A dog is capable of detecting the presence of the coronavirus within 10...
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    Everest Climber "Snow Leopard" passes away

    Mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa, who climbed Mt Everest 10 times without bottled oxygen and who is also known as the "Snow Leopard", aged 72, died on Monday morning at his residence in Jorpati, the Kathmandu based newspapers reported. He holds a couple of Guinness Records and his last climb was in...
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    Alert (AA20-259A)- Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities

    FYI - CERT Release - 15 September 2020 CISA and FBI are aware of a widespread campaign from an Iran-based malicious cyber actor targeting several industries mainly associated with information technology, government, healthcare, financial, insurance, and media sectors across the United States...
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    Oxford Vaccine on hold

    Final clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, have been put on hold after a participant had an adverse reaction in the UK. AstraZeneca described it as a "routine" pause in the case of "an unexplained illness". A spokesperson for AstraZeneca...
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    ChAdOx1 - SARS-Cov-2 Vaccine - Preliminary Report

    If anyone did miss the previous post on the preliminary results of the mRNA-1273 vaccine by Moderna please read - https://elakiri.com/threads/an-mrna-vaccine-against-sars-cov-2-%E2%80%94-preliminary-report.1945543/ The current post is about the ChAdOx1 vaccine (also called the AZD1222)...

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