2021-07-08

Cool

• Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing

• 1,174-carat diamond unearthed in Botswana

Worthy

• Out of Africa's midlife crisis: bottlenecks, crashes, and diversity

etc

• Cerne Abbas Giant - Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery - SAPIENS

  Now, using a combination of laser beams and snails, scientists established that the giant was born between A.D. 700 and A.D. 1100 in the late Saxon or early medieval period. The results were totally unexpected because no other chalk figures date from that time, says environmental archaeologist Mike Allen. “We were all wrong … and that’s tremendously exciting.”

• Aging Condos Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ and Need More Oversight

Horseshit

• Juul, The e-cigarette company, bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal

• Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher

  Many biologists and electromagnetic field scientists believe the modulation of wireless devices makes the energy more biologically active, which interferes with our cellular mechanisms, opening up calcium channels, for example, and allowing calcium to flow into the cell and into the mitochondria within the cell, interfering with our natural cellular processes and leading to the creation of stress proteins and free radicals and, possibly, DNA damage. And, in other cases, it may lead to cell death.

celebrity gossip

• Trump sues Twitter, Google and Facebook alleging 'censorship'

  • Why Donald Trump Is Suing Big Tech

• Pelosi’s Husband Locked in $5.3M from Alphabet Options

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Tucker Carlson Responds To Unmasking In Blistering Monologue, Discusses With Glenn Greenwald | ZeroHedge

  • New Twist in Tucker Carlson's NSA Spying Claims – PJ Media

• Covid-19 lab leak: Did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign?

TechSuck

• Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability

• Cryptocurrency miners in China are beginning to sell off GPUs for cheap

• Qualcomm Just Released a $1,500 Smartphone for Some Reason

• Brave Browser: The Bad and the Ugly

Economicon

• What's behind the push for a fourth stimulus check

• Wells Fargo tells customers it’s shuttering all personal lines of credit

• The upside to inflation: rising wages

• Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via "Shrinkflation"

• WTI Rebounds Above $72 After Gasoline Demand Hits Record High

Poilitcks

• America Needs to Break Up Its Biggest States

• Biden Drafting Executive Order to Promote 'Right to Repair'

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals | Hacker News

• Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt | RealClearInvestigations

• The FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation

World

• Tokyo Olympics will be held under a state of emergency as Japan mulls fan ban

• Some Britons crave permanent pandemic lockdown

Health / Medicine / COVID

• New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid 'immunity debt'

• Delta variant is 'Covid-19 on steroids,' expert says

• Fitbits Detect Lasting Changes After Covid-19

• Death rates are declining for many common cancers in U.S.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Why North America's killer heat scares me

• ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say

• US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming

  • PNW heatwave would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change

• Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction

• Insect wars: murder hornets vs. the American honeybee