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What the Heck Is a Pneumonia Front?

Written by atlasobscura.com

It’s a late spring afternoon along the southwestern coast of Lake Michigan, and people from Chicago to Milwaukee are out enjoying the sun after another long Upper Midwest winter. The temperature creeps up to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and continues to climb, unseasonably. The promise of an early summer lures out gardeners, cyclists, and beachcombers. Then, it happens.

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A new strain of ‘Swine Flu’ or a change in surveillance?

Written by Judy Wilyman

The Australian Government recently prioritized a vaccine for community use against a new strain of influenza. This preventative action is notable as there has been little evidence in the community that suggests this influenza strain is more virulent than other new strains which occur regularly.

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Fact-Checking Facebook’s Orwellian CO2 Fact Checkers

Written by Gregory Wrightstone

The false face of Facebook is once again presented in the censorship of our organization, the CO2 Coalition, an Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit that promotes the benefits of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. On Earth Day this year, The Washington Times published my op-ed “There is no climate emergency — We love CO2 and so should you.” Shortly after publication, the paper’s Facebook post on the commentary was labeled “false and misleading” and its ad for it was rejected.

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India could have almost 3bn tons of solar waste by 2047

Written by pv-magazine-india.com

Researchers led by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have projected the waste expected from end-of-life solar panels and related components. They assumed 347.5 GW of total installed solar generation capacity would be reached this decade. The academics said the waste would include critical metals worth around $645 trillion, 70% of which could be recovered.

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Exposing the Media’s Plot to Hide Record Vaccine Deaths

Written by revolver.news

“What is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal.” – That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed, at any rate, prompting outraged denials from the old-guard media and those self-appointed “fact-checkers” who sprung up out of nowhere a few years back, claiming to be the final arbiters of truth.

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The Global Race Towards Full Vaccination

Written by zerohedge.com

Scientists initially estimated that 60 to 70 percent of a population would have to acquire resistance to Covid-19 in order for herd immunity to take effect, a threshold that has been revised upwards since the start of the year with 80 to 85 percent quoted in some cases.

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ESA’s Mars Express is now 18 years old and still going

Written by theregister.com

Wednesday June 2nd marked the 18th anniversary since the European Space Agency launched the extraordinarily long-lived Mars Express spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in 2003. Readers may recall the group operating Mars Express last talked to us in 2020, just as ESA was battening down the hatches in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, so we caught up with them again to discuss the latest milestone.

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