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Among the arguments of those who seem to be pushing for expanded war with the Russian Federation, one of the strangest is that Russia is a weak, third-world country and a “paper tiger.” Those who make this argument point to the protracted three-year conflict in Ukraine and scoff at the Russians’ inability to subjugate a much weaker…
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Deep in the forests of Finland, scientists have uncovered a secret alchemy hidden within the needles of Norway spruce trees. They discovered gold nanoparticles, naturally assimilated with the help of symbiotic bacteria. The scientists catch a glimpse into nature’s intricate dance between trees, bacteria, and trace metals, with…
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Covid vaccination and cancer risk – an inconvenient truth? A new study from South Korea is causing heated debate: Researchers analysed the health data of 8.4 million people and found a statistically significant association between covid-19 vaccinations and a 35–69% higher risk of various cancers – including thyroid, stomach, colon,…
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For thousands of years, writing has been one of the fundamental pillars of human communication, transmitting knowledge, stories and cultures down the ages. However, a new trend is gradually emerging, particularly among Generation Z. These young people, born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, seem to be losing a crucial skill that has…
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Are wars inevitable? War crimes? If we really don’t want wars, it behoves us to get serious about understanding their causes, and choose to radically address them. Otherwise, what’s the point? Feeling a “rush” with folks at political actions only perpetuates our addiction to anti-war rallies, which do nothing to stop wars from occurring.…
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No-one reads anymore. This is something that teachers of literature like me are always saying. “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect,” wrote the scholar of literacy Martha Maxwell in 1979. But more and more, educators are finding that the…
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A scientific study just published on Zenodo presents the first documented evidence of genomic integration of mRNA vaccine-derived genetic material in a human subject The case involves a previously healthy 31-year-old woman who developed rapidly progressive stage IV bladder cancer within 12 months of completing a three-dose Moderna…
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.…
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Former French president found guilty of criminal conspiracy after being accused of pact with Gaddafi regime The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” after receiving a five-year prison sentence – the first time a former head of state has been sent to prison in modern French…
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Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe. Speaking to the UN general assembly, the Ukrainian president tried…
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