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Infections after surgery are more likely due to bacteria already on your skin than from microbes in the hospital − new research
Most infection prevention guidelines center on the hospital environment rather than the patient. But the source of antibiotic-resistant microbes is often from the patient’s own body.
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8 days agoCurrent Event kxh
France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years ago
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10 days agoCurrent Event kxh
Israel Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War
Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel highlight an America-led regional war spanning Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others.
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10 days agoCurrent Event kxh
Man notices ancient human jawbone embedded in parents' tile floor
A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.
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11 days agoAnalysis kxh
Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response to Maui wildfires – report
Inoperative cell towers left residents and tourists with few options to receive emergency alerts like evacuation orders. And the closed systems used by police created a dam of information that was not being relayed in a timely way to the mayor and emergency officials, the report said.
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11 days agoCurrent Event kxh
Will the ‘cancel culture’ crowd speak up about the silencing of Asna Tabassum? Don’t hold your breath
The University of Southern California canceled its valedictorian’s planned speech after pro-Palestinian posts. It’s no surprise
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11 days agoAnalysis kxh
Voynich Manuscript Finally Decoded? Medieval Sex Secrets May Hide in Mysterious Text
Sex may be one of the subjects detailed in the manuscript – and that the largest diagram represents both sex and conception.
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13 days agoAnalysis kxh
Keto Diet May Slow Down Alzheimer's, Mouse Study Reveals
We know that a host of factors play into Alzheimer's risk, including the makeup of our gut bacteria.
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13 days agoAnalysis kxh
Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
Roads of destruction: we found vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest
What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
Rethinking reality: Is the entire universe a single quantum object?
In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers, but as a quantum whole linked by entanglement
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3 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
Gravity experiments on the kitchen table: why a tiny, tiny measurement may be a big leap forward for physics
A new measurement of gravity at small scales hints at an alternative to billion-dollar experiments for the future of physics.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom See a World We Can't Even Imagine
When you view the world a certain way, it's easy to forget not everyone has the same vision.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis kxh
Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by Scientists
Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far
These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few re…
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Magnetic Fingerprints of The Milky Way's Black Hole Revealed in Stunning Image
The magnetic fields that spiral around our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* have now been revealed by twisted light.
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer's Risk by Over 50%
An FDA-approved pharmaceutical used to treat erectile dysfunction could soon be recommended as a therapy for decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Landmark Study Confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is 'Unambiguously Biological'
In 2016, years before long COVID was a thing, the US National Institutes of Health, the largest single public funder of medical research in the world, launched a study into a long-neglected and puzzling condition: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also...
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell
Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes unlike any other creature in the animal kingdom.
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1 month agoAnalysis kxh
Ultra-Heavy EVs Will Easily Demolish Nation’s Unprepared Guard Rail System
The U.S. is a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline. So, of …
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1 month agoExpression kxh
As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There
You know that line, “every accusation is a confession?” For no reason at all, that’s coming to mind all of a sudden. No reason. If American freedom can’t resist an app of short videos, mostly used by kids, what kind of freedom is it really?