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COVID Variants Resist Antibodies

Written by Marina Zhang

All COVID-19 variants, including omicron, are resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies, meaning they are less responsive to the vaccine, as shown in a study published in the journal Vaccine. However, this resistance could be temporarily overcome with additional COVID-19 shots.

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Digital Nomads in STEM Fleeing to Asia in Their Millions

Written by John O'Sullivan, CEO, Principia Scientific International

STEM professionals are fast turning into digital nomads to escape a collapsing western economy.  There were over 35 million digital nomads around the world in 2022 [1], while the digital nomad community’s economic value is now a staggering $787,000,000,000 per year [2]

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Higher-Than-Normal UK Death Rate Raises Questions

Written by Ellen Wan

In the past two years, the UK has recorded abnormally high death rates. According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of registered deaths in England and Wales in the week ending Dec. 1, 2023, was 3.9 percent above the previous five-year average, with COVID-19-related deaths accounting for 1.6 percent. Some scientists point out that the level of protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines might be showing signs of lagging and that it may be necessary to take additional precautionary measures in the future.

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When They Wrote The IHR Amendments Crossing Out Human Rights Was No Mistake

Written by Meryl Nass

4 months until the pandemic treaty and IHR as amended will be adopted—or not—by the WHO members. We now have our full Door to Freedom team in place. We have our written materials, a website, videos, ppts, cartoons and clips. I will be interviewed by Russell Brand with Andrew Bridgen on Feb 8 after visits to the UK and Irish parliaments and then a trip to Oslo for more events this week.

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Is KY Jelly Safe?

Written by Maryam Henein

If your lubricant itches or burns, consider it a sign to trash it! The global personal lubricants market size was valued at USD 1.3 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.65% from 2023 to 2030. The market growth can be attributed to the increased demand for these products owing to the rising number of vaginal dryness & erectile dysfunction cases, and the growing need for alternatives to enhance the sexual experience.

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All The Drought That’s Fit To Drink

Written by CDN

Apparently the Amazon rainforest is now the Amazon desert, and it’s all your fault. The Guardian panics that “The climate crisis turned the drought that struck the Amazon rainforest in 2023 into a devastating event, a study has found.

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Those Weren’t The Days

Written by CDN

One question we periodically attempt to pose to climate activists, and suggest you do the same, is that if we really can control global temperature, if atmospheric CO2 does determine it and our emissions determine CO2 levels, what’s the ideal temperature and how do they know?

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The End of Snow As We Know It

Written by CDN

Among the curiosities of the winter of 2023-24 thus far, it has seen a lot of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, with both Environment Canada and the Rutgers Snow Lab reporting levels above the average for the last quarter-century in Canada and the last half-century in the U.S.

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