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(Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University and Wyss Institute at Harvard University) A slippery yellow slime that lives in the damp undergrowth is continuing to test our understanding of what it means to make decisions. Physarum polycephalum, AKA the many-headed slime mold, uses its body to physically sense its environment before making a decision about where it wants to go, new research has found. It's the latest in an impressive list of ways the single-celled organism has blown our minds lately. "People are becoming more interested in Physarum because it doesn't have a brain but it can still perform a...

The 1970 Porsche 917K driven by Steve McQueen in the classic film 'Le Mans' will be put up for auction next month - and could fetch more than $18million. Expected to become the most expensive Porsche ever, the car is one of racing's most illustrious vehicles having competed in the race and starred with McQueen in the movie. McQueen even drove it while crossing the finishing line in the winning shot. The sports car represents the culmination of Porsche's engineering at the time as the company sought to take its first victory at the 1970 race, according to the auction's...

Tucker Carlson: It Appears There Was Meaningful Voter Fraud in Fulton County, GeorgiaFox News host Tucker Carlson went on the record Wednesday night to declare that it appears there was “meaningful voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia” in the 2020 election, contradicting the prevailing Democrat-media narrative that portrays all such allegations as “a big lie.”“That is not a conspiracy theory,” Carlson insisted. “It’s true.”Referring to this week’s bombshell revelation that the election was “riddled with massive errors and provable fraud,” Carlson reported that “at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots from the November election were double counted in Fulton County,”...

A woman who was arrested last week after she stepped on a pro-police “Back the Blue” sign and threw it into a trash bin in front of an officer faces a hate crime charge under Utah law, records show. -snip she identified herself in a Daily Beast article as 19-year-old Lauren Gibson, a college student in California. The incident occurred July 7 when Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputy Cree Carter pulled a driver over at a gas station for speeding in Panguitch, Utah, court records said. Carter said he saw Gibson “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where...

Numerous video at link: In the past seven days, South Africa has never come closer to becoming a failed state. The riotous looting has reduced Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces hit hard by the social unrest into what resembles warzones. The country quickly descended into what could be the beginning innings of a civil war, prompting the government to call up military reserves and seek deployment of up to 25,000 troops to quell the violence. "It is a war zone . . . towns deserted, shops looted, bodies lying on the road," John Steenhuisen, leader of the main opposition...

Heathrow passenger numbers remain almost 90 percent down on pre-pandemic levels and significantly lower than EU rival airports, new figures show. Airport bosses revealed just 957,000 passengers passed through its terminals in June compared with 7,246,157 who used the west London airport in June 2019. The number of passengers travelling through the airport covers the month where Portugal was moved from the green list of countries to amber and led to widespread fury in the travel sector over the speed of rule changes for travellers.Bosses added that the continued closure of the transatlantic links between the UK and United States...

My friends, the EXPONENTIAL demonic movement behind all mediums of information today is absolutely ASTOUNDING to me! Lawless men are all in for lawlessness and are whole heartedly available and open to demonic deception and use (John 8:44, Eph. 2:1-2)! We can especially see and observe this EXPONENTIAL demonic movement in all facets of medium today in light of our nation's post 2020 elections and in light of the Biden crime family scandals etc. In light of the Left's super aggression, "Fake News", critical theory agenda, coordinated narratives and unified montages, envy, love of lawlessness, rebellion and demonic defamation against...

Liz Cheney said she smacked away fellow Republican Representative Jim Jordan's hand during the January 6 Capitol riot when he tried to offer her help, excerpts from a new book detail. The book by two Washington Post reporters reveal a phone call between the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Cheney where Mark Milley asked her how she was doing after the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. 'That f***ing guy Jim Jordan. That son of a b***h,' the excerpts from CNN claim she said, according to the book I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's...

Arizona’s Secretary of State and Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors are caught spinning garbage again. Arizona’s Secretary of State and the Board of Supervisors were wrong when they claimed the voting machines were no longer usable after Senate audit firm, Cyber Ninjas, performed their audit of the County. The machines they claimed were no longer usable because they were inspected by Cyber Ninjas, which is not certified by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). In May the Arizona Secretary of State and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors claimed the voting machines audited in the county were not longer usable since...

Mental health professionals will be sent out to respond to some 911 calls in Chicago instead of cops, following defund the police protests and a number of police killings of mentally-unwell people. The city is launching a two-part 'alternative response' pilot program this fall that takes a more public health approach to responding to 911 calls for mental health emergencies. The initiatives aim to both ensure people suffering a mental health crisis get the help they need rather than face criminalization and free police up for tackling crime, amid a mass exodus of cops from the force.

Black Lives Matter has blamed the 'cruel and inhumane' US for the current unrest in Cuba as the activists praised the communist regime for its 'solidarity' with oppressed people. The group sparked a furious backlash with the statement shared online following a week of violence on the island and furious protests over food shortages and rising prices. BLM accused the US of causing the instability with its embargoes which have caused 'pain and suffering' for Cubans for 60 years in the message which was branded 'worse than embarrassing'.

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Bill Clinton took two trips with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein - including one on the pedophile's private jet - that have not been previously disclosed. A new podcast reveals that the former President flew on Epstein's jet, which was dubbed the 'Lolita Express', in February 2005 while visiting Japan, Taiwan and China. Clinton also flew on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Burkle with Maxwell as a passenger during a trip to India in November 2003.

Former staffers of Vice President Kamala Harris have described a toxic environment in her offices dating back more than a decade, just days after her employees claimed they are 'treated like sh**t'. Reports of an 'abusive' workplace atmosphere in the Vice President's office, published by Politico, have resonated with staffers who worked for Harris while she held senior positions such as US senator. 'So many people recognized themselves in it, or recognized treatment they had seen or treatment they had heard about and dismissed,' one former staffer told Business Insider.

The Left does not wish to admit it has become the party of wealth. How often during the last year of woke, have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions? Million-dollar-a year university presidents virtue signal on the cheap their own sort of “unearned white privilege.” Multimillionaire Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates, indict Americans for their biases. Former Black Lives Matter founder and cultural Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors Brignac decries the oppressive victimization she and others have suffered—from one of her four newly...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - An unprecedented heat wave and ongoing drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is damaging white wheat coveted by Asian buyers and forcing fruit farm workers to harvest in the middle of the night to salvage crops and avoid deadly heat. The extreme weather is another blow to farmers who have struggled with labor shortages and higher transportation costs during the pandemic and may further fuel global food inflation. Cordell Kress, who farms in southeastern Idaho, expects his winter white wheat to produce about half as many bushels per acre as it does in a normal year when...

CNN anchor Erin Burnett said Wednesday on her show “Erin Burnett OutFront” that Republicans and media personalities questioning coronavirus vaccines are pushing “complete bullshit.” Burnett said, “Out front, tonight, cracking down, the White House tonight fighting back in a big way against deadly disinformation about COVID vaccines, much of it coming from Republican lawmakers and right-wing media. Sources are telling CNN that the Biden administration is taking on a new aggressive strategy as the CDC, for the first time since late April, is projecting COVID hospitalizations are expected to spike. Now, in Los Angeles County, every COVID patient hospitalized right...

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on Tuesday said that the 2020 presidential election audit’s ballot count led by Cyber Ninjas differed from the Maricopa County tally, and that the discrepancy prompted the election review team to acquire new machines to recount the ballots. “They haven’t released a number yet,” Fann, a Republican, said during in an interview with KTAR. “However, we do know that those numbers do not match with Maricopa County at this point.” Jack Sellers, the chairman of the county’s Board of Supervisors, told the Arizona Mirror that he was not surprised by the claim. Cyber Ninjas has...

An explosion was reported at an office building in western Tehran on Wednesday night, causing heavy damage to part of the building, according to Iranian media. A spokesman for the fire department in Tehran told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) that the explosion took place in one of the units at a five-story building used for offices, commercial and residential purposes. He stated that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. "There was a relatively severe explosion on the second floor of the building," the fire department spokesperson told ILNA. "The blast was so intense that the walls...

Senators Grassley and Johnson want to know, among things, what the Justice Department has done to recover missing phones and whether phones were reviewed for evidence of leaks. =================================================================================== Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to the Justice Department Wednesday asking for more information regarding missing phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during the Russian collusion investigation. The senators sent the letter after finding out the Justice Department "could not locate 59 of the 96 phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team," according to Grassley's website. The two senators...