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181960678
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fjo3
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“The rate of rectal cancer seems to be increasing more than two to three times compared to colon cancer,” said Mythili Menon Pathiyil, lead author of a new study and a gastroenterology fellow at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.
If the trend continues, rectal cancer deaths will exceed the number of colon cancer deaths — already the nation’s No. 1 cause of cancer death in people under age 50 — by 2035.
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Don Jr. and Eric are heavily invested in drone companies. They need their grift money too.
This is true, but it is also true that the US military pivoting towards drones is a necessary step for maintaining effective military forces. The world is not a peaceful place, and a lot of that is because of the United States - but not all of it.
181837594
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Infrared color photography, originally developed to help spy planes unmask enemy camouflage, has become a favorite of hobby photographers long after the surveillance method became obsolete. It's a beautiful example of a warlike technology being turned toward peaceful ends.
181837038
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Japan has lifted a post-war ban on weapons exports as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined its defence policy since the end of the Second World War.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, announced the plans after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, writing on X that the change was necessary given the “increasingly challenging security environment”.
181836070
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An anonymous reader writes:
While California lawmakers were busy pushing a totally unconstitutional "Stop Nick Shirley Act" to make his style of investigative journalism punishable by big fines and even jail time, you might have missed out on the story about the state's missing $425 billion that nobody will bother auditing.
Or as Barth's report put it: "Obando conceded that required audits are falling by the wayside because 'instead of funding us they cut us they keep cutting our auditing teams.' He added that agencies 'none of them want us to go in there.' When pressed on the Controller’s Office’s ability to perform its core oversight function, Obando stated plainly: 'We just can’t conduct the audits.'"
Watching where the money goes is literally Controller Cohen's only job. If she isn't allowed to do it, that means that the system is performing as designed. If she isn't screaming to high heaven about it, that means she's in on it. No other conclusion fits — particularly when the state's real concern seems to be stopping independent reporters like Nick Shirley from doing even part of Cohen's job for her.
Here's the
unconstututional
"Stop Nick Shirley Act" that
Victoria Taft
reported on last week:
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's wife, Mia, a leftist state assembly member, has introduced AB 2624. The bill would fulfill a need that no one needs or asked for except for the professional grifters receiving big dollars from their buddies in government who want to hide it from the media. They want to hide the identities of the people running the programs under the guise of protecting illegal immigrants.
Under the bill, the press would be prevented from any meaningful reporting on the grift through fines, jail time, and orders to remove the content from media outlets.
"It sounds like the actions of tyrants," Victoria added — or like thieves covering their tracks.
181811392
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fjo3
writes:
Katie Jennings was scrolling on her phone last April when a headline stopped her cold. A second unvaccinated child had died of measles in her home state of Texas.
It was a tipping point for the 40-year-old stay-at-home mom who had grown up in a staunchly anti-vaccine, fundamentalist Christian community. “What are we doing? Why are we doing this?” she remembers thinking. “I wanted to protect my kids.”
She took all six of them to get the measles, mumps and rubella shot. Then she posted an emotional TikTok aimed at the anti-vax crowd she used to be a part of: “You can change your mind,” she said in the video that’s been watched more than 422,000 times.
181744604
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fjo3
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The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are coming out.
Most recently, a man allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house. Days earlier, a councilman in Indianapolis said that somebody had fired a dozen bullets at his house, with a handwritten note reading “No Data Centers” left on his doorstep.
A similar story is playing out across swathes of rural America, with small towns continuing a years-long effort to keep environmentally damaging data centers that put a huge strain on water availability and the power grid out of their communities.
Earlier this week, voters in a small town in Missouri led a revolt, firing half of their city council over a recently-approved $6 billion data center deal.
181712324
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fjo3
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Chinese President Xi Jinping lamented a world in “disarray,” using some of his strongest language yet to describe a collapse of the Western-led international order as he vowed to play a constructive role in the Middle East.
“The international order is crumbling into disarray,” Xi told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday in Beijing, using a Chinese phrase indicating not only chaos but also moral decay.
The comments, part of Xi’s first public statements on the Iran war since the conflict began more than a month ago, followed a flurry of visits by world leaders to Beijing and fresh economic data on Tuesday showing the war took a sharp toll on Chinese exports in March. Xi has framed his country as a stabilizing force in a world thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump’s erratic approach to trade and foreign policy.
181709292
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fjo3
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Consumer AI chatbots falter when used to make medical diagnoses, particularly when faced with incomplete information, according to new research highlighting the risks of relying on them as digital doctors.
The study finds that leading large language models struggle to suggest a range of possible diagnoses when patient data is limited, frequently narrowing too quickly to a single answer.
The results point to a broader limitation in AI: while chatbots can identify likely conditions once a case is fully specified, they are less reliable at the earlier, more uncertain stages of clinical reasoning.
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You're going to meet some gentle people there.
181510946
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fjo3
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There’s one perhaps unusual problem the crew of NASA’s Artemis II has to be mindful of while aboard the spacecraft: their farts.
In an interview with CTV News, science and technology expert Dan Riskin addressed the potential repercussions of a space bathroom or flatulence catastrophe, particularly in light of the fact that Artemis II’s “lunar loo” temporarily stopped working April 3rd.
The crew called into Mission Control and was forced to remove the urine hose from the toilet’s cradle in order to reactive it, which fortunately did the trick.
Astronaut Christina Koch celebrated the feat, laughing about being the “space plumber.”
“I’m proud to call myself the space plumber,” she joked. “I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.”
181510832
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fjo3
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Breathable oxygen has been created from Moon dust in a world first that paves the way for a lunar base.
Blue Origin, a company founded by Jeff Bezos, the American billionaire, announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen from lunar soil by using an electric current.
Almost half of Moon dust – the thin layer of rock that blankets the lunar surface – is oxygen, but it is bound to metals such as iron and titanium.
Scientists and engineers want to extract the oxygen to repurpose it as breathable air or rocket fuel. Transporting oxygen to space from Earth would be too dangerous and expensive, so making it on the Moon is seen as a key step for long-term habitation.
181510770
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fjo3
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What if you could ask your guide dog where the nearest water fountain is and hear it answer back, complete with directions and an estimated walk time? Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton have built a robotic guide dog that can do something close to that, holding simple back-and-forth conversations about navigation with its handler, describing the surrounding environment, and talking through route options as it leads the way.
Real guide dogs are incredible companions, but they can only respond to a handful of short commands like “forward” or “left.” They can’t tell a person what’s around them or explain that reaching the kitchen means passing through two doors. And the supply problem is staggering: only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs, partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate. In China, the gap is even wider, with roughly 400 guide dogs serving more than 10 million visually impaired people.
181332064
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fjo3
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As the astronauts pass behind the Moon at about 23:47 BST on Monday, the radio and laser signals that allow the back-and-forth communication between the spacecraft and Earth will be blocked by the Moon itself.
For about 40 minutes, the four astronauts will be alone, each with their own thoughts and feelings, travelling through the darkness of space. A profound moment of solitude and silence.
181218026
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fjo3
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Dr. Lorelei Mucci, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a co-author of emerging research on prostate cancer and ejaculation, told The Post that her team has come across some interesting patterns.
Data from a long-term health and lifestyle study assessing more than 50,000 men since 1986 suggests that those who ejaculate 21 or more times per month had a 19-22% lower risk of prostate cancer than those who came less, she said.
“The ’21 or more’ isn’t a strict biological magic number, but rather a finding that emerged from our robust statistical analysis,” Mucci explained, adding that her team has even observed small reductions in risk for men who ejaculated only eight times per month.
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