2026-02-11
Horseshit
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'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better
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My week of only using cash: could a return to notes and coins change my life?
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Scientists Found a Mysterious Cave Full of Million-Year-Old Fossils
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New study finds weak link between social media use and teens' mental health
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Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance
It's a typical workday and you sign onto your computer. Unbeknownst to you, a high-frequency sensing system embedded in your work device is now tracking your heart rate, allowing your employer to monitor your breaks, engagement, and stress levels and infer alertness. It sounds like a dystopian scenario, but some believe it's not so far from current reality.
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Museums incorporate "scent of the afterlife" into Egyptian exhibits
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Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
I vaguely knew that others got fewer details, but as I was just discovering, others had received active disinformation. In a few cases, security officers were even using fake photos and documents to create the Alien cover-story for secret-weapons programs. It turns out my fellow commissioner had been briefed by the U.S. government that it was Aliens, and he went to his grave believing it so.
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What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance
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'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
- How many places ban Heelys?
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If You're Willing to Pay $70K for a 35-Year-Old Toyota Pickup, Get Some Help
- Parts availability is going to be a severe problem
Epstein
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Trump Officials Redacted Epstein Files to Protect 'Prominent' Individuals
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The first mention of Trump in the FBI interview summary notes that he told investigators that he "threw Epstein out" of Mar-a-Lago, something he has maintained consistently over the years. "Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this," Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department. “TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ the report continues. The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently dismayed by what he saw and "got the hell out of there."
The alleged call from Trump came in July 2006, around the time the details of the police investigation became public, according to a source familiar with the timing. Reiter was a central figure in the first law enforcement probe of Epstein in Florida. After repeatedly sparring behind the scenes with local prosecutors, Reiter went public in 2006, expressing his displeasure with the local prosecutor’s decision to take the case to a grand jury instead of charging Epstein directly.
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According to representatives Massie and Khanna, they have identified at least six individuals incriminated in Epstein’s crimes, two of whom the FBI has officially labeled as co-conspirators, in the limited time allocated to them on the first day of being able to review the unredacted files whose identities have been obfuscated by the Trump administration despite their apparent complicity. Of those officially acknowledged as a co-conspirator is high-profile Epstein associate and billionaire Les Wexner, whose confirmation as such opens the door to criminal charges being brough against against high-ranking members of the Trump administration.
While Wexner’s role in facilitating the crimes of Epstein has been well-established for years, the revelation that the FBI officially acknowledged him as a co-conspirator by 2019 dismantles the narrative woven by the Trump administration that it has not withheld the identities of any of the notorious pedophile’s accomplices. In September 2025, Patel ostensibly did just that when he testified before Congress regarding Epstein. During his testimony, Patel was asked “Who did Epstein traffic these young women to?” by Louisiana Senator John N. Kennedy. Patel responded, “Himself.” There is no credible information—none—that he trafficked to other individuals.” The revelation that the FBI had confirmed that Wexner was a co-conspirator of Epstein by 2019 suggests that Patel lied to Congress during his testimony. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, knowingly and willingly making a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement to Congress is a felony punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years.
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Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem Named by Massie over Epstein 'Torture Video' Email
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Jeffrey Epstein’s digital cleanup crew | The Verge
Epstein regularly directed his gripes at Al Seckel, a fixer type who appears over and over in Epstein files and promises to bury news articles and other content that mentions his abuse. But Seckel didn’t do it alone. Over thousands of documents, it’s clear that many people — SEO consultants, contacts in the sciences, and even unrelated acquaintances — helped to obscure Epstein’s past whenever someone searched for him online. Even after Epstein had pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution, making him a registered sex offender, his network was happy to do him favors and reputation management firms took him on as a client. Reputation management services aren’t necessarily a tool to cover up crimes — it’s a standard public relations practice — but in Epstein’s case, the agencies would have known about his abuse, given that that’s what they were being hired to try to minimize.
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Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett (V.I.) beseeched Jeffrey Epstein for help funding a new "voter file" that would allow her to "completely outperform anyone in any race." Using the email handle "LeRoy Daughter," Plaskett pitched Epstein on the idea in an email on May 5, 2017, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. In the pitch, Plaskett asked Epstein to fund a one-year project to "create a new voter file" of Virgin Islands voters.
The email adds to an existing pile of evidence that Plaskett was far closer to Epstein, both personally and politically, than she has conceded publicly. In November, Plaskett defended revelations that she exchanged text messages with Epstein during a February 2019 congressional hearing, describing the exchange as correspondence with a "constituent" who had sent her unsolicited messages.
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Noam Chomsky's Lame Excuses for His Years of Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Dijkstra's algorithm won't be replaced in production routers any time soon
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Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal credentials – but we don't know how
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Players discover that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies
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Discord's age verification mandate is a leap toward a gated internet
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Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
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The death of Washington Post's Book World: What it means for readers
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Health Advice from A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache
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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app
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AI helps scam centers evade crackdown in Asia, dupe more victims
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The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most
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Backlash over decision to retire GPT-4o shows dangers of AI companions
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SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch
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Cloudflare forecasts annual sales above estimates as AI drives cloud demand
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
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Monopoly Round-Up: The $2T Collapse of Terrible Software Companies
it turns out there are no real use cases for crypto except for money laundering and fraud, and little real interest beyond “number go up” speculation. It’s not a very interesting technology, with AI taking the spotlight and legalized gambling and future markets taking the froth. Even some of the big crypto firms, like Coinbase, have given up on crypto and are just trying to become less regulated dollar-based banks. I suppose there’s still the possibility of a bailout or something, but at this point everyone knows that crypto is a legal way to gamble that is more boring than other ways to legally gamble. And that’s all it’ll ever be.
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South Korean exchange races to recover $40B of Bitcoin sent by mistake
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Nevada sportsbooks see lowest Super Bowl betting handle since 2016
Economicon / Business / Finance
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No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands
The companies that had significant layoffs in 2023 went on to make a lot more money in 2024. Not only that, but they grew revenues. Which invites the question: What were these workers doing? Not much, apparently — or at least, not much of value.
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Zillow wins court fight over private listings, enforcing ban on private listings
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Google secures EU antitrust approval for $32B Wiz acquisition
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Novo Nordisk sues Hims after $49 weight-loss pill sparks FDA backlash
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Boss of 'Black Swan' fund expects stocks to surge higher before a historic crash
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The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Right-to-Compute Laws Spread Across the US, as Electricity Bills Skyrocket
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Minn. GOP gov candidate Jeff Johnson's daughter is stabbed to death
The daughter of Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson was stabbed to death in a botched murder-suicide over the weekend — leading her father to abruptly suspend his 2026 campaign. Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. Tobler’s husband, 23-year-old Dylan Michael Tobler, was also critically injured inside the home with what investigators believed to be self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. Dylan, who is now in stable condition, has been taken into police custody and is expected to be hit with homicide charges in connection with Hallie’s death following his release from the hospital, cops added.
Four-term US Sen. Amy Klobuchar is running as the unchallenged Democratic gubernatorial candidate in her home state after Gov. Tim Walz suspended his campaign last month.
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USDA's reputation suffers after revisions in US corn acres
The decline in total U.S. crop acreage that began in 2014 does not appear to have fully run its course. But it is important to keep in mind that if economic and weather conditions in the Great Plains improve in the future the total could begin ticking up.
Trump
Left Angst
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Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Regulatory Rollback
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Neither Law nor Common Sense Gives Journalists a ‘Get-out-of-Jail Free’ Card in News Reporting
The two counts include violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by allegedly using force to gain entry into and then disrupt worship services. The FACE Act was originally passed by Congress and signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 to protect access to abortion facilities. The second count is based on 18 U.S.C. § 241, the federal law that makes it a crime to conspire to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person …in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” If convicted, Lemon could face a decade in prison and heavy fines.
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The Left has a Hyperpolitics problem
The United States, with its fragmented political system and its overheated attention economy, has proved particularly susceptible to hyperpolitics. Belgian-born, U.K.-based Jäger is not the first foreigner to be dazzled by the sheer over the topness of American politics, marveling at “WWE wrestlers and country stars pledging to physically shield their candidate from harm at the RNC” and “Georgia rappers counting down to state announcements at the DNC.” But neither does he treat the election of Donald Trump as an exceptional moment in the country’s history or the anti-democratic features of the American Constitution as a suitable explanation for our present discontents.
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After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice
the fourth edition included material on climate change prepared by two authors at Columbia University. But a group of attorneys general from Republican-leaning states objected to this content. At the end of January, they sent a letter to the leadership of the Federal Judicial Center outlining their issues. Many of them focus on the text that accepts the reality of human-driven climate change as a fact. “Nothing is ‘independent’ or ‘impartial’ in issuing a document on behalf of America’s judges declaring that only one preferred view is ‘within the boundaries of scientifically sound knowledge,’” the letter complains, while ignoring many topics where the document does exactly that."
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'The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.'
A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents, on a video provided to Unicorn Riot. He also conceded that the Trump-era anti-immigrant program is more violent than the Obama-era equivalent. This is the first time we are aware that any federal agent in the Twin Cities campaign has connected the federal immigration campaign with Minnesota’s political alignment as a “blue” Democratic Party-leaning state.
When the agent says “Technically, they’re trying to pass a bill that’s [inaudible] requires you to be a United States citizen to vote in an election,” it is difficult to hear for certain if he means a bill would make it possible for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Currently this is false: Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal in the United States. On the other hand, Conservatives have been pushing bills to make it tougher for citizens to vote, including the “SAVE Act.”
- Its "already illegal for noncitizens to vote" but they really don't want to have anyone look at their voting rolls or the other receipts for all the other benefits that are only supposed to go to citizens... We're supposed to accept the protestations that "of course it doesn't happen" and ignore reports to the contrary, becuz Democrats!, apparently. They're allowed to do these things.
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Ironically, this is exactly why slave states fought to count slaves in the census
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Trump Immigration Crackdown Could Shrink US Population for First Time
- The goal of Greens since the 1970's has been realized! surely they will celebrate this success and fawn on the leader that secured it?
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Who’s Paying For Minnesota’s Mayhem?
While the violent protests were organized by a group called “50501,” they’ve been backed by the militant “Party for Socialism and Liberation” and “The People’s Forum,” two groups “largely subsidized by American former tech mogul Neville Roy Singham.” And who is Singham? He’s a much-investigated current resident of Shanghai who shares an office with a Chinese Communist Party-linked media firm. Citing a 2023 New York Times investigation of Singham, Fox News notes “that Singham has funneled over a quarter-billion dollars to dark money organizations in the U.S. with little to no footprints, and some of these organizations are vaguely named with office addresses under suspicious locations like general UPS mailboxes.” As the Times investigation said, “What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.”
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here's Where It's Going Next
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Google Handed ICE Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers
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When Trump Officials' Claims About Shootings Unravel in Court
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ICE defies judges' orders to release detainees, step by step
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Democrats Propose Minor Reforms for ICE – and Record Funding
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Marc Benioff makes cruel ICE jokes at company event
At Salesforce’s annual company kickoff in Las Vegas, Benioff presented a keynote address that was broadcast to all Salesforce employees. In a room filled with thousands of Salesforce staffers, he asked who traveled from abroad to stand up for recognition. He then proceeded to make a joke about ICE agents being in the back of the room, an anonymous tipster told Gazetteer. There were faint boos from the crowd.
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Swalwell’s Gotcha Question Backfires After ICE Director Drops a Truth Bomb on Him
"Considering your honorable service in the past, and the dishonorable acts that those who have worked for you have conducted, and the disgraceful statements that the leadership above you have said — you now have a decision," Swalwell lectured. He framed it as a choice: "Will you stand with the kids who you're supposed to protect, or will you side with the killers bringing terror to our streets?" Then the big question: "Mr. Lyons, will you resign from ICE?"
Lyons didn't flinch. "No, sir, I won't," he replied flat out. "Why not?" Swalwell pressed. That's when Lyons dropped the hammer. "Because, sir, that child that you're showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement," he said, pointing to the photo of Ramos behind Swalwell.
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US embassy in London denies visas to executives over minor offences
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ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents
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FDA Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine. Instead, it said the FDA took issue with the “comparator” in its clinical trial — the vaccine the company used as a benchmark to evaluate its own shot. The FDA said the use of the standard flu shot as a comparator “does not reflect the best-available standard of care.” The standard flu shot is FDA-approved.
- Last year's flu shot was less effective than no treatment; it made you more likely to get the flu, according to studies I've seen.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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CIA Launches New Acquisition Framework to Turbocharge Work with Private Sector
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Nvidia must live with guardrails around its AI chip sales to China, Lutnick says
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(2023) Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?"
- The US Government bought most of those trucks.
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Cubans Sent to U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Are Returned to Cuba
World
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Japan’s Takaichi to pursue conservative agenda after election landslide
Takaichi apparently feels her mandate will empower her to sweep aside obstacles. "We have advocated policies facing significant opposition," Takaichi said at LDP headquarters, "including a major shift in economic and fiscal policy, strengthening our security policy, and enhancing intelligence capabilities." Takaichi's lopsided victory comes amid a general shift to the political right in Japan.
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Euronews: How Europe's broadcaster became an influence network
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UK 'could lose generation of scientists' with cuts to projects and facilities
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NSW anti-protest laws were rushed through to keep the peace. They've failed
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Europe's 'painful' realisation it must be bolder with US: security report
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UK justice ministry orders deletion of largest court archive
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Apple and Google pledge not to discriminate against third-party apps in UK deal
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Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds
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Researchers will move to France from US following bid to lure talent
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Why some Canadians are betting big on 3D printed housing in Canada
Iran / Houthi
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not If It's Decaf
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FDA Takes Steps to Ease Path for Non-Petroleum Food Colors
Products containing only naturally derived color additives may bear a “no artificial colors” claim, according to the FDA. Historically, a “no artificial colors” claim was only allowed on products containing no color additives whatsoever, whether natural or artificial.
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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin's 'ability to kill cancer cells'
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- So the years of Federal spending directed towards it by Democrats was a mistake? Odd how no one clued in 'til someone said "Let's look at other possible causes and treatments," innit.
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People with obesity 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from infection
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Mindfulness enables more effective endoscopies in awake patients