Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste
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Wired
Are Radioactive Diamond Batteries a Cure for Nuclear Waste?
Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years.
Mask wearers are “dramatically less likely” to get a severe case of Covid-19
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Inverse
Mask wearers are “dramatically less likely” to get a severe case of Covid-19
When people wear masks, they can still get infected, but they’re more likely to have milder symptoms.
Why Privacy Matters
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This Too Shall Grow
The Why and How of Privacy and Security — This Too Shall Grow
It’s possible that you posted something online 10 years ago, and it was fine back then, but 20 years from now you will hope that no one finds it. My message is: the Internet never forgets, cultures change, and retroactive laws exist. People can get screwed…
Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells
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www.abc.net.au
Honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells, Australian research finds
Venom from honeybees is found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially groundbreaking new Australian research, with hopes the discovery will lead to the development of a treatment for triple-negative breast…
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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Claremont Review of Books
Comfortably Numb - Claremont Review of Books
The only thing more frightening than annihilation is the possibility that our decadent society could coast on forever.
Regular cannabis use were associated with poorer cognitive performance
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Wiley Online Library
Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate‐to‐heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling‐comparison…
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To examine whether moderate adolescent cannabis use has neurocognitive effects that are unexplained by familial confounds, which prior family-controlled studies may not have identified.
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To examine whether moderate adolescent cannabis use has neurocognitive effects that are unexplained by familial confounds, which prior family-controlled studies may not have identified.
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Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
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Psychology Today
What if Some Mental Disorders Weren't Disorders at All?
Different labels that imply very different outcomes.
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Drainage canals in Japan are so clean they even have fish.
Post-Covid syndrome severely damages children’s hearts
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UT Health San Antonio
Post-COVID syndrome severely damages children’s hearts; ‘immense inflammation’ causing cardiac blood vessel dilation
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical literature review published…
Only one in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence – study
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ScienceAlert
Only 1 in 10 Medical Treatments Is Backed by High-Quality Evidence, Study Finds
When you visit your doctor, you might assume that the treatment they prescribe has solid evidence to back it up. But you'd be wrong. Only one in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence, our latest research shows.
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
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The Conversation
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
A conservative estimate of the productivity gains from working from home suggests they're bigger than all of the reforms of the 1990s combined.
Finally Confirmed Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in Covid-19
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Harnessing the Power of Nutrients
Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19
The first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of vitamin D in COVID-19 has just been published. The results are astounding: vitamin D nearly abolished the odds of requiring treatment in ICU. Although the number of deaths was too small to say for sure, vitamin…
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
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Science
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought
Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy
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CNBC
Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy
Worries of a K-shaped recovery are growing in the alphabet-obsessed economics profession. That would entail continued growth, but split sharply between industries and economic groups.
"La Natura", a sculpture by Alphonse Mucha in the #artnouveau style, made in 1899.
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Animals can just sense evil.