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Many respiratory infections add significant stress to cells and organs, which can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which can cause death. "Novel therapeutic strategies to address ARDS, instead of fighting the infectious agent, could elicit the tolerance of the host organism towards the inflammatory challenge by boosting its natural adaptive stress responses," says Professor Johan Auwerx. Adrienne Mottis and her colleagues have shown that one such strategy can exploit a biological phenomenon known as "mitohormesis". Mitohormesis describes the fact that a mild stress to a cell's mitochondria can induce a series of responses that actually increase the cell's...

Michael Burry, the hedge fund investor made famous in the 2015 film “The Big Short,” suggested Wednesday that a long-feared stock market crash is already underway. Burry, who predicted more than a year ago that stocks were headed for “the mother of all crashes,” delivered his latest warning alongside a graph showing the S&P 500’s sharp decline since hitting an all-time peak in January. “And yet I keep getting asked ‘wen crash?’” Burry said in a now-deleted tweet captured by the @BurryArchive Twitter account.

Dietary niacin intake is associated with migraine among U.S. adults, with an L-shaped curve and an inflection point of about 21.0 mg/day, according to a study. Huanxian Liu, M.D. and colleagues examined the association between dietary niacin and migraine using cross-sectional data from people aged older than 20 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2004. Data were included for 10,246 participants, of whom 20.1 percent experienced migraines. The researchers found that the adjusted odds ratio values for dietary niacin intake and migraine were 0.83, 0.74, and 0.72 in quartiles (Q) 2 (12.4...

When a renovation contractor showed up at his doorstep requesting for payment on Wednesday (Aug 31) morning, this flat owner not only locked the door but took a rather drastic step of climbing out of his window and sitting on the ledge – some 11 floors above the ground. During a three-hour stand-off that frightened and confused residents living around Block 465A at Yishun Avenue 6, the man was spotted drinking from a bottle of alcohol with his feet dangling precariously on the window of his 11th floor unit. The man, dressed in only a pair of shorts, was also...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Mass of the Ages’ trilogy aims to show Francis who traditional Catholics really areOn today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, 'Mass of the Ages' director Cameron O'Hearn discusses what's coming in the third and final episode, as well as what motivated him to produce the series. (LifeSiteNews) — Cameron O’Hearn, the director of the Mass of the Ages trilogy, was kind enough to join me on today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show. The timing of Mass of the Ages could not have been better, given the huge controversy surrounding the Latin Mass since Pope Francis asked...

A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her husband was jailed for corruption. The couple have been the focus of multiple graft investigations since Najib's surprise election defeat in 2018, when voters' anger over a separate, multi-billion dollar corruption scandal ended his nine years in power. Advertisement · Scroll to continue A flamboyant figure by Najib's side, Rosmah was widely scorned in Malaysia for her extravagant lifestyle and penchant for Hermes Birkin bags,...

The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus. The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day. "They were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something," the lawyer, Michael Rose, told the newspaper. The cadets’ names have not been released. Rose...

China has been simulating attacks on US Navy ships and is aiming to prevent foreign forces from coming to Taiwan's aid in the event of a war, Taiwan's defence ministry said in a strongly worded report raising the alarm on Beijing's military designs. Tensions between Taiwan and China have soared following a visit to Taipei last month by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which infuriated Beijing, which viewed it as an interference in its affairs. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own despite the strong objections of the Taipei government, carried out war games after Pelosi's trip and is...

Tight control of blood sugar in teens with Type 1 diabetes may help reduce the disease's damaging effects on the brain, effects which have been shown even in younger children, according to a study. The findings indicate that better glucose control can actually improve brain structure and function in youth with Type 1 diabetes, bringing them closer to their peers without diabetes, investigators said. "These results offer hope that harm to the developing brain from Type 1 diabetes might be reversible with rigorous glucose control," said the paper's senior author, and co-principal investigator, pediatric endocrinologist Nelly Mauras, MD. "Use of...

She’s asking the Supreme Court to consider whether this seizure is an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment.The IRS wants to seize more than $2 million from an elderly woman, whose family fled from Nazi Germany, for failing to report her father's endowment to her. Now, she's petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether this is an unconstitutionally excessive fine. The Institute for Justice, representing Monica Toth, an 82-year-old grandmother living in the Boston area, filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Friday asking them to determine whether federal "civil penalties" imposed by the federal government for violating regulations...

State attorney generals obtained emails that show the Biden administration arranged weekly and monthly calls with Facebook to discuss content to censor. The documents show a specific conversation in which a Biden official asks a Meta executive to take down an Instagram account that mocked Dr. Fauci, the partisan bureaucrat who lied about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. In essence, the Biden admin sees comedy as a thoughtcrime. Consider this more proof that Facebook has acted as a government agent on behalf of the White House.

Project Veritas released a second video in its newly launched Education Series today exposing a senior administrator at a prestigious New York City private school. Jennifer Norris, who is employed by Trinity School NYC as its Director of Student Activities, was recorded admitting how her current leadership role facilitates her goal of promoting politics in the classroom. Here are some of the highlights from today’s video: Jennifer Norris, Director of Student Activities, Trinity School NYC: “I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can. And now that I'm in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” Norris:...

[Catholic Caucus] September's Poop Video - A Travesty Against God's JusticeH/T Canon 212In September's Poop Video, Francis calls upon all Catholics to "pray for abolition of the death penalty". Here it is now. Below that I will explain why I believe this is supremely wrong and spiritually poisonous.So much error. So little time. But I'll do my level best to unpack this crap.I've written much about Francis' dalliance with heresy in calling for the abolition of the death penalty. I need not rehash those writings in this post. If the reader would like to dismiss my writings as simply the...

While Fetterman is able to engage one-on-one - and has resumed campaign travel - he has more difficulty chaotic auditory environments, according to The WashingtonPost. 'We are working to figure out what a fair debate would look like with the lingering impacts of the auditory processing in mind,' Fetterman campaign strategist Rebecca Katz the paper. 'To be absolutely clear, the occasional issues he is having with auditory processing have no bearing on his ability to do the job as senator. 'John is healthy and fully capable of showing up and doing the work,' Katz added. On Tuesday, Fetterman said he...

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The radical LGBT organization Equality Florida endorsed Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) for governor in Florida’s gubernatorial race — a welcomed endorsement for Crist, who claimed that the “LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis.” “I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake, our LGBTQ+ community is under attack by DeSantis,” the Democrat claimed. “The people deserve a champion back in Tallahassee. Someone who will listen, respect, and fight for them. I vow to be that governor,” he said: I’m honored to earn the support of the Equality Florida Action PAC! Make no mistake,...

Republicans lead Democrats by six points on the generic congressional ballot, according to the latest Trafalgar Group poll released Wednesday. The poll found that of the 1,084 likely general election voters surveyed, 47.2 percent said they would vote for the generic Republican candidate. In contrast, only 41.4 percent of the respondents said they would vote for the generic Democrat.

Rep. Eric Swalwell blasted former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after a man called the California Democrat's office and threatened to kill him with an assault weapon. A staffer of mine - who's 1 month into her job - received a call from a man saying he’s coming to our office w/ an assault rifle to kill me,' Swalwell tweeted Tuesday. 'I hesitate to share this but how else do I tell you we are in violent times, & the architects are Trump & McCarthy. Bloodshed is coming.' In a follow-up tweet, he copy and pasted...

A federal judge on Thursday handed down the longest sentence to date in a prosecution stemming from the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering former New York City cop Thomas Webster to spend 10 years years behind bars for assaulting a police officer during the insurrection. Judge Amit Mehta issued the sentence four months after a jury in Washington, DC, readily rejected Webster's claims that he acted in self-defense on January 6. During the weeklong trial, prosecutors played bodycam footage and other video that showed Webster confronting a police officer along bike racks outside the Capitol and then repeatedly...