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Emory University graduate student Caitlin Risener, first author of the study, gathers tall goldenrod in South Georgia. The study, which was first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, found that two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells. Credit: Photo by Tharanga Samarakoon The first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells, an Emory...

t was beyond time around here to go ahead and do a Woke All-Star Challenge Sweet 16 bracket to decide which member of this elite group will exit the Identity Politics Final Four with the crown as the wokest woke of 2021. Who has been putting in the work? Who has been on top of his/her game? Which woke wants it more than life itself? The honor. The street cred. The admiration from peers. The resume material. Who is going to rise to the top and take home the 2021 Woke All-Star Challenge? I know the conundrum you’re in: It’s...

Every game will be streamed live via the NCAA March Madness Live mobile app. It’s available for free on the App Store and Google Play, so basketball fans can watch all the buzzer beaters and Cinderella stories on their iPhones and Android phones. Fans can also watch games that are broadcast on CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV on their desktop computer and other mobile devices. Links to CBS Sports for the iPhone and Android devices can be found

The network reached out to Trump’s staff and invited the president to fill out a bracket on-camera, just as President Barack Obama had the past several years. The network recently received word that Trump has passed. An ESPN spokesman said in a statement: “We expressed our interest to the White House in continuing the presidential bracket. They have respectfully declined.” White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email to The Washington Post: “We look forward to working with ESPN on another opportunity in the near future.” Neither the White House nor ESPN had any details on what other opportunities...

Please someone in Freeper Land, can you tell me where to source an alternative AC bracket for a 1988 Honda Prelude to allow use of a non-OEM AC compressor on that car? I need to use another more reliable type of AC compressor on the car than the OEM one, all of which are junk.

The Curse of the Obamabino continues! Last year, Barry O's picks fell by the wayside. This year, same thing! His Baracket has been busted! The O-Man went out on a limb and picked a Final Four of Ohio State (a #1 seed), Duke (another #1), Kansas (still another #1), and Florida (a #2 seed, risky call there, Barry). But the O-Man Omen does not BOde well! Barry's teams are now the Final Forgotten! Let's see what the DUmmies have to say about the Marx Madness, here in this THREAD, "Sunday's NCAA Tournament Thread (Elite Eight)" and this THREAD, "Does...

It's Marx Madness, bay-beeee!!! The DUmmies are weighing in on the tourney! Witness this THREAD, "NCAA on now, WVU v. Wash." Which leads us to take a look at Barack's Baracket. The good news is that many of Obozo's picks are falling by the wayside! His Baracket is busted! It's the Curse of the Obamabino! And so we'll check in at the end on this THREAD, "I loves me some Obama ..... NCAA picks" and this THREAD, "So - if Obama wins the DU NCAA pool." So let's go courtside now and join the DUmmies down in the paint...

Round one went pretty much according to plan; all the top seeds won, as expected. The biggest upset came as Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, seeded 12th in his division, defeated Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who was seeded 5th. Daniels, re-elected last year rather comfortably over former Congresswoman Jill Long Thompson, has long been a favorite of the GOP establishment and is thought to be looking at 2012. Brownback, on the other hand, had his shot at the brass ring last time out. But he never made an impression and was gone from the race in October 2007.

Another brutal day for President Obama's NCAA Tournament bracket. He was just 8-for-16 on the day and he would be pretty much eliminated from contention in most pools. The biggest hits he took were Cleveland State's win over Wake Forest and Wisconsin's win over Florida State, which eliminated two of his Sweet 16 teams. He's in pretty good shape in the West Region, where he's only missed one game. His Midwest Region is a disaster with five incorrect first-round picks. Overall, Obama picked 19 of 32 first-round games correctly. In his defense, he probably hasn't had much time to follow...

Here is video of President Barack Obama pausing from his busy work of saving the economy - "the worst economy since the Great Depression" as he likes to say so often - to do the important task of -- filling out his NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket! What if George W. Bush or Dick Cheney had done this at a time of such crisis? NOTE: As he takes time to fill out his bracket for ESPN with such drama, he actually says he did not stay up to see the UConn/Syracuse 6 overtime game because: "I can't stay up until 2...

March Madness Time !!! --- Want to earn extra money? Want to win the office pool? Then follow the advice of the kitties regarding the men’s NCAA basketball tournament bracket. All new pictures this week. Chicago Region --- Round by Round Illinois over FDU; Nevada over Texas; UWM over Alabama; BC over Penn LSU over UAB; Utah State over Arizona; Saint Mary’s over S. Illinois; OSU over SE La Illinois over Nevada; BC over UWM; LSU over Utah State; OSU over Saint Mary’s Illinois over BC; OSU over LSU ILLINOIS over OKLAHOMA ST. UWM Panthers --- Good Kitty; Arizona Wildcats...

Texas, KY, OU, Arizona are #1 seeds