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Researchers have identified 64 genes that help to shape how quickly a person’s brain ages. They also pinpointed 13 potential drugs that have been explored in clinical trials that could be used to target these genes.

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Bret Stephens is a NYT conservative columnist. I usually don’t agree with his POV but he’s right in this opinion piece.

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This is phenomenal geology humor (full video at www.instagram.com/reel/DHHL3fI...)

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“People are going back into their homes and living in a toxic soup,” said Michael Jerrett, an environmental health prof at UCLA. Dr. Jerrett’s previous research has suggested that more than 50,000 premature deaths in California from 2008-2018 can be attributed to particle pollution from wildfires.

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Honey may be the perfect food. A pot of honey found inside King Tut’s tomb in 1922 was still good!

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"In the first Trump term it took a disease to destroy the economy. This time, Trump is the disease." - Stephen Colbert

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Scientists have synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events a million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs at the K/P boundary. These new records reveal how 2 major eruption phases of flood basalt volcanism impacted climate & biota

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The Permian mass extinction 252 mya wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes released 100,000 b tons of CO2 into the atm. This lead to dramatic global warming. Many plants survived, leaving behind fossils, which scientists have used to model a dramatic 10°C rise in global temps.

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Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries and found that Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had the dirtiest air. India had six of the nine most polluted cities

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Looks like Trumpty-Dumpty had a great fall Splat! From the wall [street] See what I did there?

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They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

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Such a sad ending to a long life. It's possible Mr Hackman spent a week in his house after his wife died, unable to call for help or take care of himself. Where were his kids?

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

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Isn't it funny that DOGE is looking for inefficiency and waste and Trump required an English-to English translator for P.M. Modi's White House visit? Modi was sitting right next to Trump during the news conference yet Trump couldn't understand his accent.

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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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I miss Anthony Bourdain. No one could visit a city to talk about the food and also report on the culture and people there.

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Researchers have found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ago, a gene known as NOVA1 underwent a profound evolutionary change in our ancestors. When the scientists put the human version of NOVA1 into mice, the animals made more complex sounds.

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If an atom was the size of a baseball stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a grain of clay on the pitcher’s shoe.

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Trump is so bored and restless that he's making the exact same face as Musk's 4 year old at the exact same time.

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The Gila monster, which is native to the deserts of North America, can survive on just a few meals a year, thanks to a digestion-slowing hormone in its venom. The discovery of this hormone paved the way for Ozempic

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Haven't we already had this convo? SCOTUS ruled that the president is like a king and his "presidential" executive orders are above the law. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

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Yes, Chevy was the first and possibly the best to do Weekend Update

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A great read about Lorne Michaels.

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"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power that autocrats accumulate is freely given out of fear and resignation." - from the book Tyranny by Timothy Snyder "Real power is fear."- Donald J Trump

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Paul McCartney is 82 yet still demonstrates agelessness.

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This says it all

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Biomolecular condensates now seem to be a key part of how life gets its countless molecular components to coordinate and cooperate, to form committees that make the group decisions on which our very existence depends.

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"No matter what ideology you turn to, no matter how utopian it is, it does not solve the problem of hypocrites, frauds, and charlatans." - writer Tony Tulathimutte

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Trump wants to take America back to the Gilded Age, 1870-1890 because he thinks that's when America was great. But, four men ruled America then and we called them robber barons. I'm sure that when they looked in the mirror, they thought they were god, too.

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Some very useful tips; easy to check your devices for spyware.

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The study was intended to measure how the nation’s lands, water and wildlife are faring, how they are expected to change, and what that means for people.

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The two biggest previous power grabs were Nixon’s 1973 attempt to cancel federal programs he didn’t like & Truman’s 1952 effort to nationalize the steel industry — both of which were struck down by the courts.  The administration is doing the equivalent of these moves several times a day, every day.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. This article contains the link to the Wired article that published the names of the young engineers who are "moving fast and breaking things" in our democracy.

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I have dread that RJK, Jr will be confirmed as secretary and do to the HHS what Musk is doing with federal departments.

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Paleontologists discover skull fossil of oldest known relative of modern birds; 69-million-year-old specimen suggests a number of Antarctic birds survived the Cretaceous extinction event

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The historian Douglas Brinkley described Mr. Musk as a “lone ranger” with limitless running room. He noted that the billionaire was operating “beyond scrutiny,” saying: “There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable. It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.”

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After OpenAI accused DeepMind of "potentially inappropriately using data from their ChatGPT model to develop their own AI chatbot, called DeepSeek." Jon Stewart said, "Isn't it funny to see AI take the job of AI?"

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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us." - Franz Kafka

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Five different combined wavelengths show the true magnificence and diversity of phenomena at play in the Crab Nebula. The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.

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What will Putin and Xi Jinping do?

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This is an guest op-ed by Daron Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024.

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“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.” - Benjamin Cremer

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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sets beside the dome of the 6.5-m Magellan Telescope at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Photo and text: Yuri Beletsky

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No surprise here. I knew this back in 2022.

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