Side-effects of bexarotene rule out use but trial suggests other drugs may halt multiple sclerosis

China yesterday blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and…

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Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories predicts resistance to future COVID-19 vaccination and preventive behaviors like mask-wearing, a new study has found.

I get at least 27 tech annoyances on a single day

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1:

That's a bit unsettling.

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Von Neumann on how games featuring partial information, chance, and deception will make you a better decision-maker.

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This Medical News article discusses the puzzling phenomenon of “long-haulers,” patients who haven’t returned to full health weeks or even months after what sometimes is a mild case of COVID-19.

One activist called Facebook "a roiling cauldron of lies, violence and danger."

‘Ninja bomb’, which uses 100lb of dense material and six attached blades, has been deployed in targeted assassinations

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Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.

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As has been noticed, several Google services were down for some users from 6:00 to 6:23 p.m. PDT. A pool of servers that route traffic to application backends crashed, and users on that particular pool experienced the outage. GCP was not affected.