The megadrought that has almost the entire western half of the country in a death grip is starting to become extremely painful. In some areas, irrigation water is being totally cut off for farmers, and that is going to result in a totally lost year for many of them.

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Quinine is found in grapefruit, tonic water and the cinchona tree. The amount of tonic water needed daily in order to reap health benefits from quinine is approximately 60 ounces.

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China’s plucky Yutu 2 rover is about to wake up and continue to explore the far side of the Moon.

Public health advocates demanded federal action to ban the use of toxic FPAS “forever chemicals” after 100% of breast milk samples were found to be contaminated with PFAS at levels 2,000 times those considered safe for drinking water.

In 1981, Honda’s Electro Gyrocator paved the way for modern GPS systems, using a helium gyroscope and a 16-bit computer in the trunk.

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Quantum mechanics has brought its fair share of disquieting revelations, from the idea that objective reality is an illusion to the realization that objects can be in two states at once (both dead and alive, for instance).

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China’s Zhurong rover touched down on Mars three days ago, from the Tianwen-1 orbiter, the nation’s state media says. We’re told the machine will take carry out self-tests, and try to move itself to explore the Red Planet’s surface.

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A recent article published in the scientific journal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases makes the claim that the mRNA Pfizer Covid vaccine may contain prions which cause a deadly neurodegenerative disease, sometimes called “Creutzfeldt-Jakob”; the human form of “Mad Cow” disease.

States and stores on Friday said they were largely dropping their mask requirements after a top U.S. health agency advised that people fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 could stop donning face coverings.

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Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

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The continuing miniaturization of electronics is opening up some exciting possibilities when it comes to what we might place in our bodies to monitor and improve our health.

Please circulate widely because this just may be an effective way to guard against the spike protein contagion caused by the Covid-vaccinated.

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been making waves on the technology side of neural implants, but it hasn’t yet shown how we might actually use implants. For now, demonstrating the promise of implants remains in the hands of the academic community.

The NHS is preparing for the “biggest data grab” in the history of the service, giving patients little information or warning about the planned transfer of medical records from GP surgeries in England to a central store for research purposes – and with no prospect of the data being deleted.

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A massive Anglo-Saxon cemetery was uncovered in Northamptonshire in the U.K. during January 2021. Nearby, archaeologists also discovered a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial site.

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The Sun powers life on Earth; it helps keep the planet warm enough for us to survive. It also influences Earth’s climate: We know subtle changes in Earth’s orbit around the Sun are responsible for the comings and goings of the past ice ages. But the warming we’ve seen over the last few decades is too rapid to be linked to changes in Earth’s orbit, and too large to be caused by solar activity.¹