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Scientists Discover How Tardigrades Survive Blasts of Radiation, and It's Weird April 12, 2024 Summary: (Current Biology) Tardigrades can survive remarkable doses of ionizing radiation, up to about 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans. How they do so is incompletely understood. We found that the ...

Cancer Treatment: Experts Propose Specific and Suited Guidelines for the Use and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence April 16, 2024 Introduction: (Eurekalert) Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for cancer treatment are trained and approved only for specific intended purposes. GMAI models...

If you were to ask most American when did Donald Trump first run for president a likely response would be 2016. A week ago, that would have been my response. Actually, Trump first ran in 2000. Here is the sequence of events surrounding that candidacy: The Federal Election Campaign Act contains provi...

Why a Porn Star-Payoff Is Exactly the Right First Criminal Trial for Donald Trump by David Corn April 12, 2024 Introduction: (Mother Jones) Out of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump faces, the one scheduled to begin on Monday in a New York City courtroom is not the prosecution that most addr...

Looking at how even this sub-forum is focused on all illness, except mental illness, I wonder everyday, if depression ... For me at least, stress is very much related to mental illness. We do have a thread dedicated to stress management in which many forms of mental illness can be addressed: https:...

^^^ A very important point: capitalism as practiced now, or at least as practiced in the last part of the twentieth century, depended on the internalization of profits and the externalization of costs.

Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists in 57 German Cities by Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf April 8, 2024 Introduction: (Labor Notes) Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and ...

Why the UAW Is Standing Up with Mexican Auto Workers by Brandon Mancilla March 29, 2024 Introduction: (Labor Notes) The United Auto Workers announced February 23 that it will provide material support to Mexican auto workers organizing in the independent union movement. As a member of the UAW Execut...

We Need Housing, Not Handcuffs by Farrah Hassen April 10, 2024 Introduction: (Other Words) As the cost of housing has exploded, so has the number of people experiencing homelessness. And unfortunately, instead of trying to house people, more states and cities are criminalizing people simply for lac...

As Elections Loom, Congressional Maps Challenged as Discriminatory Will Remain in Place by Marlyin W. Thompson April 4, 2024 Introduction: (ProPublica) With the Republicans holding just a two-vote majority in the House of Representatives, voters will go to the polls in November in at least two cong...