Free Republic

Life with type 1 diabetes is a juggling act of diet, exercise, and insulin therapy to maintain normal blood sugar levels. While there's no shortage of solutions in the works for trying to make diabetics' lives easier, a promising new approach focuses on the insulin itself. Michael Weiss, a biochemist from the School of Medicine at Indiana University in the US, and colleagues have gone back to the drawing board on the insulin molecule, tweaking the structure to respond to the presence of a simple carbohydrate, with the aim of reconnecting the activation of insulin with internal levels of blood...

Alarming UN report blamed human activity for ‘unprecedented’ changes to the climate. Humanity will experience more extreme weather in the coming years and it will suffer the consequences of rising sea levels and melting Arctic ice, scientists working from across the globe said in a crucial UN climate report. The alarming report by a UN scientific panel, released on Monday, called changes to the climate “unprecedented”, added that it is “unequivocal” that humans are to blame, and laid out the case for drastic cuts to emissions in order to hold the global temperature to under the limits set by the...

The AMOC, which contains the Gulf Stream, is currently at its weakest state in over 1,000 years, and new evidence has indicated that it could already be nearing complete shutdown. Climate scientists have detected early warning signs that the Gulf Stream is in a state of collapse, indicating that it may have already been losing stability over the last century, which could lead to severe consequences for the climate, a new study reported. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major Atlantic ocean current, to which the Gulf Stream belongs, and at the top of the ocean it transports...

What we now know as the Boston Tea party occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston Massachusetts. Colonists boarded three merchant vessels in the city’s harbor and dumped a total of 342 chests of tea into the water. The incident has long been remembered as one of the key steps on the road to the American Revolution and an act of defiance against the British crown. It might better be categorized as a demonstration directed at an illegal combination on the part of the government of Great Britain and the British East India Company. SNIP Sort of like forcing...

Singer John Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen, were guests at Barack Obama’s big maskless birthday party on Saturday in Martha’s Vineyard: Guests including Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend leave Barack Obama's 60th birthday EARLY https://t.co/ZyoDjV6jPc — Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) August 8, 2021 And we have yet to see a single masked guest anywhere in that poorly ventilated tent: Via https://t.co/QG9S7POklr, Obama and guests dancing maskless in the poorly ventilated tent. pic.twitter.com/LZG6wCs4T4 — Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) August 8, 2021 This would be the same John Legend who on August 2 said being “unmasked at a large indoor...

Biden Envoy Threatens Brazil Not To Question Electronic Vote Joe Biden’s diplomats have attempted to influence the internal affairs of Brazil ahead of upcoming elections in the country. On Saturday, newspaper Folha Di Sao Paulo reported U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan urged President Jair Bolsonaro not to question the integrity of electronic voting systems. Sullivan delivered this message ahead of 2022 elections in Brazil. Bolsonaro, who has been an ally of President Trump, said electronic voting systems may have been manipulated to alter election outcomes. Bolsonaro said paper ballots must be returned to ensure election integrity. “I want elections...

Too many parents complain that the Clark County School Board view Parents as an obstacle to their radical agenda. But Nevada schools have been ranked last in the country for the last 30 years, even though the schools are getting billions of dollars more now than they got 30 years ago. Parents haven’t failed our kids. The Clark County School Board has failed our kids. The Clark County school board has failed thousands of black children who’ve ended up stuck in poverty, in prison or dead. The Clark County School Board has failed to make the safety of our kids...

One-in-five Americans say they have lost friendships over disagreements on the Chinese coronavirus, a daily YouGov survey updated Friday found. The daily question surveyed 5,219 U.S. adults on August 5 and asked, “Have you lost any friendships because of differences in opinion related to the COVID-19 pandemic?” Twenty percent of respondents said they have, 68 percent said they have not, and 11 percent indicated they remain unsure. When broken down by party lines, nearly one-quarter of Democrats, 24 percent, said they have lost friendships, compared to 15 percent of Republicans. The survey comes as politicians begin to alter their rhetoric...

Workers at one of the world’s largest call center companies said additional monitoring would violate the privacy of their families in their home.. Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation’s largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes to monitor work performance, an NBC News investigation has found. Six workers based in Colombia for Teleperformance, one of the world’s largest call center companies, which counts Apple, Amazon and Uber among its clients, said that they are concerned about the new contract, first issued...

Like many other farmers and ranchers, Tennessean Mike Brundige is worried a proposed change in tax policy will keep him from passing the family’s farmland on to his children and grandchildren. Brundige farms with his two sons in Weakley County, in the northwestern part of the state. They represent the fourth and fifth generation, respectively, to farm that land. Brundige is counting on there being many more generations to follow. “Our main goal is to keep the land in the family in hopes that it will continue to prosper and grow enough that any other future family members would have...

Belarus preserved its economy by abandoning the idea of a curfew amid the pandemic, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday. "We didn’t go crazy and didn’t impose a curfew as was demanded of us," he said. Due to this, Lukashenko believes, it was possible to maintain the pace of economic development. "The foundation of what is happening in the economy in the first half of the year was laid when we did not stop the economy, when we did not force people into four walls, when we developed a clear approach to treating people: the outpatient stage, the clinical stage,...

“‘Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth’” (Matthew 6:19). A true believer is not to hoard earthly possessions. You may remember this old adage: “The miser says coins are flat that they may rest in stacks; the spendthrift says they are round that they may roll.” In Matthew 6:9 Jesus is specifically talking about the miser. The Greek verb translated “lay up” is thesaurizete, from which we get the word thesaurus—a treasury of words. Jesus is using a play on words by saying, “Do not treasure up treasures for yourselves.” The context of the passage shows that He...

Come join Clay and Buck every weekday from noon to three eastern time. The show and it's hosts are "inspired by Limbaugh" to move forward and deliver a good show five days a week. Check your local listings because some IHeart stations replay portions of the show on the weekend.

Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Child exploitation is a serious problem, and Apple isn't the first tech company to bend its privacy-protective stance in an attempt to combat it. But that choice will come at a high price for overall user privacy. Apple can explain at length how its technical implementation will preserve privacy and...

With the 31 July fatal attack by a black bear near Swan Hills in Alberta, Canada, 2021 has tied the record for the number of fatal bear attacks in one year. From ctvnews.ca:EDMONTON — Mounties say a female tree planter was mauled to death by a bear in northern Alberta. RCMP told CTV News they received a call just after 3 p.m. on July 31 regarding an attack in a rural area northwest of Swan Hills. The 26-year-old woman was planting trees in the remote spot when she was attacked by what witnesses described to police as a black bear.The...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 129 A song of ascents. 1 “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say; 2 “they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. 3 Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. 4 But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.” 5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. 6 May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow; 7 a reaper cannot fill...

LNXY ND OX AZRG YN QG YEZTXMIZTYGW, IJPG Z YEGG, QGDNEG HG QINXXNL. —INOJXG TGRGIXNT

There has been a lot of talk recently about “systemic racism” in the United States. At first, I was skeptical of the term, particularly because those who throw the term around rarely name an example of specific conduct by anyone that intentionally disadvantages blacks. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that there actually are quite a number of instances of major societal institutions engaging in systemic conduct that is clearly known to differentially disadvantage blacks. In every case I can think of, the conduct that systemically disadvantages blacks is a sacred cow of the left...

ALBANY, N.Y.—Melissa DeRosa, the top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said Sunday night she was resigning, as the Democratic governor faces a possible impeachment over sexual-harassment charges as well as a criminal investigation. Ms. DeRosa was mentioned multiple times in a report issued Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James that found Mr. Cuomo violated state and federal sexual-harassment laws when he inappropriately hugged, kissed, touched and commented about 11 women—most of whom are current or former state employees.

For the past 18 months, fewer people have been louder than America’s celebrities when it comes to insisting that “the little people” wear masks. Showing once again that celebrities believe themselves to be above those rules, it appears that for many, if not most, of the attendees at Obama’s 60th birthday bash, there wasn’t a mask to be seen. Tom Hanks has no respect for people wearing masks. His exact words are, “If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I’ve got no respect for you, man.” George Clooney drops F-bombs at people who don’t...