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With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine dominating the recent news cycle, it’s likely you’ve been hearing more and more about cryptocurrency. Countries around the globe have imposed sanctions on Russia and frozen accounts of oligarchs. This has sent the Russian Ruble into a tailspin. When fiat currency is in decline, people ad business will search out other means of payment.As a result, we’ve seen cryptocurrencies used to supplement fiat currency as well as to aid Ukraine through large donations of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. The crisis in Ukraine has only aided in the adoption of cryptocurrency and the trend...

Use of the drug verapamil to treat Type 1 diabetes continues to show benefits lasting at least two years, researchers report. Patients taking the oral blood pressure medication not only required less daily insulin two years after first diagnosis of the disease, but also showed evidence of surprising immunomodulatory benefits. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that causes loss of pancreatic beta cells, which produce endogenous insulin. There is no current oral treatment for this disease. In 2018, Shalev and colleagues reported finding that regular oral administration of verapamil enabled patients to produce higher levels of their own insulin,...

The family of an Activision Blizzard employee who died by suicide in 2017 is suing the company for wrongful death. The complaint from Janet and Paul Moynihan claims that sexual harassment at the company was a significant factor in the death of their daughter Kerri Moynihan, a 32-year old finance manager at Activision Blizzard who was found dead at an Activision Blizzard company retreat in 2017. Moynihan's parents filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court. According to the report, Moynihan is the employee referenced in the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) lawsuit that was...

Vladimir putin, so intent on bringing Ukraine under his control, is neglecting the problems facing Russians at home. A survey conducted between February 17th and 21st—that is, in the week before Mr Putin’s invasion—by the Levada Centre, an independent Russian pollster, found that 43% of Russians between the ages of 18 and 24 wanted to leave the country for good. And 44% of those who hoped to emigrate cited the “economic situation” as their motivation. That situation is likely to get a lot worse. Western sanctions have created an economic storm: rising inflation, a crashing currency, and imports that are...

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North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, according to its neighbors’ militaries, apparently extending its streak of weapons tests this year amid a prolonged freeze in nuclear negotiations with the United States SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Saturday fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, according to its neighbors’ militaries, apparently extending its streak of weapons tests this year amid a prolonged freeze in nuclear negotiations with the United States. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected a single launch of a presumed ballistic missile from an area near the North...

A new meta-analysis by researchers adds to evidence that taller adults may be more likely than shorter ones to develop colorectal cancer or colon polyps that can later become malignant. While the association between taller height and colorectal cancer has been previously investigated, the researchers say those studies offered conflicting results, carried inconsistent measures of height and failed to include the risk of adenomas, which are precancerous colon polyps. "This is the largest study of its kind to date. It builds on evidence that taller height is an overlooked risk factor, and should be considered when evaluating and recommending patients...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Joe Biden was born to be president in this moment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Melber said, “The State of the Union is the night where people trying to watch other programs are forced to watch a president, and you see an eight-point bump.”

Paracetamol is used in many illnesses for the relief of pain and fever, but a study just published in Clinical Infectious Diseases has shown that it may also help protect against kidney damage in patients with malaria. The study led by former Menzies Ph.D. student Daniel Cooper with A/Professors Bridget Barber, Matthew Grigg, and Professor Nick Anstey, with partners in Malaysia, found that for patients with severe malaria caused by the malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi (the most common cause of malaria in Malaysia), taking paracetamol regularly for 3 days led to improvements in kidney function when tested one week later....

Argentine Bishop Zanchetta sentenced for sex abuseThe former Bishop of Oran, Argentina, was sentenced Friday to four and a half years in prison for the sexual abuse of two former seminarians. Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta was convicted of simple sexual abuse aggravated by his position as a minister of religion, in a decision handed down by judges in his former diocese.The bishop returned to Argentina in the summer of 2021 to face the charges, after he spent years living and working in the Vatican. After Zanchetta resigned from diocesan leadership in scandal, Pope Francis created a special post for the...

Over the weekend, a 40-mile-long military convoy began advancing on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as part of a long-threatened invasion by Russia. Ukrainian diplomats and President Volodymyr Zelensky made impassioned pleas for help to the United Nations and the European Parliament, while refugees streamed over the border to neighboring Poland. Meanwhile, spectators online wondered who would play Zelensky in a Hollywood biopic. The unseemly takes multiplied as the invasion continued. “Putin is Emperor Palpatine,” a self-described “thought-leader” mused on Twitter; Ukraine and its American supporters are “the Rebel alliance.” On Instagram, there were memes of former president Donald Trump...

WASHINGTON — What did the University of Pennsylvania get for the more than $900,000 it has paid Joe Biden?

John Durham on Friday filed a 14-page opposition motion to attempts by indicted lawyer Michael A. Sussmann to have his case judicially dismissed prior to trial. In the document, Durham’s team of government lawyers argued that Sussmann’s alleged lie to the FBI was a material lie under federal law—and one which skewed the way the FBI handled the material Sussmann provided. The Durham opposition noted that the judge “must assume the truth of the indictment’s factual allegations” for the purposes of deciding the defendant’s motion to dismiss at this stage of the proceedings. “A pretrial motion to dismiss an indictment...

[H/T Melian]Ivermectin reached fame as a cure for internal parasites, yet more fame for saving countries such as India from the scourge of the Covid virus, and will likely take its place in cancer treatment. As a paper devoted to ivermectin’s potential in cancer treatment states:Ivermectin, an antiparasitic compound of wide use in veterinary and human medicine, is clearly a strong candidate for repositioning, based on the fact that:It is very safe, causing almost no side-effects other than those caused by the immune and inflammatory responses against the parasite in infected patients, andIt has proven antitumor activity in preclinical studies.The...

Has anyone else noticed a strange lacuna in the COVID-19 media Force? As though a single voice with a million appearances on national television has suddenly gone silent? Actually, yes, someone has, but before we get there, let’s take a quick peek at the media page for Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as of this morning. Up until a couple of weeks ago, Fauci appeared to be very busy indeed. On February 17, fifteen days ago, Fauci made three national-TV appearances — ABC, PBS, and finally on CNN in which the NIAID...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) submitted an amicus brief Wednesday in support of Joseph Kennedy, a Christian who lost his job as a high school football coach for refusing to stop praying at the 50-yard line after games. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in the case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, sometime in April. Kennedy's case dates back to 2015 when Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Washington, placed him on administrative leave It did not renew his contract for the following season. Kennedy filed suit to vindicate his right “to act in accordance...

‘The only way we can have streets that are welcoming to all is if all religions can equally go through them and be on them without feeling like they are less than.’LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Standing atop an approximately 8-foot-high ladder, Evan Clark tugged at a sign tightly nailed to a utility pole on the intersection of Echo Park and Bellevue avenues, just beyond the 101 freeway ramps. The sign quoted John 14:6, and as Clark spun and pulled it to loosen it from the pole, a man in a car shouted, “The way. The truth. The life!,” quoting the...

Adm. Charles Richard, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, said it has become imperative for the United States to have the capability to defend against Russia and China at the same time. “Today, we face two nuclear-capable near-peers who have the capability to unilaterally escalate a conflict to any level of violence in any domain worldwide, with any instrument of national power, and that is historically significant,” Richard told the House Armed Services Committee on March 1. He pointed out that while the need to deter both China and Russia at the same time was only at the level of...

The chairman of the German Catholic bishops’ conference has called for changes to Church teaching on sex outside of marriage and homosexuality. In an interview with the German magazine Bunte published on March 4, Bishop Georg Bätzing agreed with the journalist’s assertion that “no one” adhered to the Church’s teaching that sexuality should only be practiced within marriage, saying: “That’s true. And we have to somewhat change the Catechism on this matter. Sexuality is a gift from God. And not a sin.” Asked if same-sex relationships were permissible, the German prelate replied: “Yes, it’s OK if it’s done in fidelity...