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A small toilet-based sound sensor that can tell the difference between peeing, pooping and diarrhea may one day help prevent cholera outbreaks. "The hope is that this sensor, which is small in footprint and noninvasive in approach, could be deployed to areas where cholera outbreaks are a persistent risk," said researcher Maia Gatlin of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if untreated, according to the World Health Organization. So Gatlin and her team wanted to see if they could identify bowel sounds. They tested the idea in a way that...

Researchers with the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute have simulated how climate change will affect the distribution of two leading allergens – oak and ragweed pollens – across the contiguous United States. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Allergy, may make your eyes water. Using computer models, the team, led by Panos Georgopoulos, a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice at the Rutgers School of Public Health, found that by 2050 climate change significantly will increase airborne pollen loads, with some of the largest surges occurring in areas where pollen is historically uncommon. “Pollen...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has come to a “general agreement” to forward some criminal referrals to the Justice Department, its chair told reporters Tuesday. It was a confusing morning at the Capitol, with Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) walking back statements he made earlier in the day when he told reporters “we will” be making criminal referrals. “We’re not there yet,” Thompson said later, adding that the earlier “gaggle [with reporters] was wrong.” The panel will meet later on Tuesday to discuss the issue, following a Friday presentation from a subcommittee of the...

Apparently in our quest to make EVERYTHING racist, the Washington Post has now dubbed Discovery channel's popular "Shark Week" as racist for "lack of diversity" and featuring too many white men as experts. Especially white men named Mike. ************************************************ The Washington Post @washingtonpost · Follow Official Researchers say Discovery’s programming overwhelmingly featured White men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks. washingtonpost.com ‘Shark Week’ lacks diversity, overrepresents men named Mike, scientists say The experts featured on Discovery's signature shark programming include more men named Mike than women, a recent study found. 3:11 AM · Dec 6, 2022 ******************************************** You...

MRC President Brent Bozell announced new MRC Business investigative research exposing the extent of liberal billionaire George Soros' influence over the global media. He also slammed the liberal media for largely ignoring Twitter owner Elon Musk's document dump that revealed internal communications on Twitter's effort to squash the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher “praise[d] the work” that MRC Business did for “breaking the story about George Soros having his fingerprints on literally media organizations around the world.” Bozell reported during the Dec. 5 edition of Fox News at Night that the MRC uncovered “253 organizations —...

More than 400 congregations in Texas have voted to leave The United Methodist Church amid the mainline Protestant denomination's ongoing schism over LGBT issues. Over the weekend, UMC regional bodies in Texas voted to approve the disaffiliation votes of hundreds of churches, with most planning to join the recently created Global Methodist Church. The total number of departing congregations includes 294 of the 598 churches belonging to the Houston-based Central Texas Conference and 145 of the 201 churches belonging to the Lubbock-based Northwest Texas Conference, reported The Dallas Morning News.The departing congregations constitute nearly half of all UMC congregations in...

Street Vendor cooking rats on a Rotisserie! IN NEW YORK CITY!.............. Video at link.................. https://twitter.com/i/status/1600051194394968069

If Democrat lawmakers in New York have their way, the black ancestors of slaves will receive a sweet taxpayer-funded payoff. This comes on the heels of a California task force recommending $569 billion in reparations be allocated to every black person in that state who qualifies as the ancestor of a slave. That adds up to a Golden State payoff of $223,200 each. This is just another way for America’s shameless, leftist race hustlers to get their greedy hands on money earned by completely innocent, hard-working taxpayers. Naturally, flush off their victories in the midterms, New York Democrats are looking...

Congressional Democrats are prepared to include language in the NDAA that would strip the U.S. Military of its vaccine mandate for all service members The move would be a major defeat for President Joe Biden, who has insisted the Military should still require all service members to be vaccinated against COVID House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is taking credit for spearheading the effort Said during a White House meeting last month, the top four congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal to nix the vaccination requirement Thousands of troops were involuntarily separated from the Military for refusing the vaccinate and thousands...

Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday they are seeking Emergency Use Authorization for an updated COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years old, but critics said the vaccines are obsolete and too risky.Pfizer and BioNTech are seeking Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an updated COVID-19 bivalent “booster” vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years old.Pfizer on Monday said if the bivalent booster receives EUA, children in this age group will receive two doses of the original COVID-19 vaccine, followed by a dose of the “updated” vaccine targeting Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.Previously, children under...

The CEO of Hertz is sorry, so sorry for misplacing returned rental vehicles and then reporting them as stolen, causing honest customers to be locked in jail in some cases for six months or more. Not sorry enough to voluntarily compensate victims, of course. Hertz waited for a lawsuit, contesting the claims until it was forced to cough up $168 million. "In all cases, Hertz's goal is to protect its profits and cut its costs, even if it knows their own customers will lose their liberty and freedom as a result," said the lawsuit against Hertz."In February, after a U.S....

Political bias and personal profit have become major factors in the degree to which scientific pronouncements have become suspect. Science has had a long and difficult path to its success, and to its well deserved respect over its main competitors: superstition and falsehood. Arguably, in 1945, that respect reached its zenith, with the detonation of the nuclear weapons that are credited with ending World War 2. Science-based technology literally exploded onto the public consciousness. No one could argue with its awesome demonstration of power. Nor could anyone doubt that the predictions of scientists, no matter how fantastic, must eventually come...

Palestinian terrorists are back at it. "Twin rush-hour blasts at bus stops in Jerusalem kill teenager, injure 18" (11/24/22) is another report of sadistic Palestinian terrorists, this time targeting bus stops with "explosives that were placed in bags and contained nails and pieces of metal to maximize the impact." When the Post says "to maximize the impact," it means that the bombs were designed to maim and kill as many Jews as possible. The Israeli bus system is heavily populated with children, young mothers pushing baby carriages, and seniors. They were the targets. The Post explains that "the blasts come...

Republicans say this will be a top issue following the mid-term elections The U.S. government gave $1.1 billion in U.S. tax dollars to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in humanitarian aid since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 — and a top federal watchdog says several U.S. agencies are refusing to explain how the money was spent. The U.S. government remains Afghanistan’s single largest donor more than one year after the Taliban takeover of the country and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says for the first time in history — they don’t have the answers. In SIGAR’s quarterly report to...

What is it with high-profile Democrats and sudden onsets of amnesia? Did the modern Mengele hire Hillary’s lawyers?Yesterday afternoon Eric Schmitt, Senator-elect and current Attorney General from Missouri, dropped the full transcript from a recent deposition involving Anthony Fauci — after a tally, Fauci had used the politician’s cliché “I don’t recall” a total of 174 times.Schmitt also detailed that in February of 2020, Fauci instructed a colleague to forgo the mask, but then just a few short months later, pushed for “universal mask mandates” — we don’t call him Flip-Flop Fauci for nothing.But then things take a morbid turn,...

One anonymous Western official at the time told Reuters that Ukraine was seeing "kinetic effects" behind Russian lines, which was having "a significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership." The U.K. defense ministry pointed out that the Monday "explosions" were more significant given their locations hundreds of miles across Russian borders. At least two Tu-95 BEAR heavy bombers were damaged in the explosions and three people were reportedly killed. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called a meeting with his security council to discuss the country's domestic defenses after three airbases saw "explosions" this week. Russian officials looked to shore...

So what does "American-made" mean to the Biden administration as it hands out huge chunks of "free" taxpayer cash for its "green" infrastructure schemes?As Donald Trump used to say: "Chiii-na."According to Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon:President Joe Biden's Department of Energy is touting a grant to a lithium battery company as a move that would help herald the shift to green energy and ensure the United States is cultivating domestic sources of energy. It did not say, however, that the Texas company receiving the grant operates primarily from China and is under scrutiny from American financial regulators.The DOE...

The Twitter Files released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. This was a woefully stupid decision. The New York Post’s account was suspended for two weeks for the offense of coming up with a scoop that we are still talking about and that will surely play a large role in upcoming GOP investigations into Biden family corruption. That’s the kind of thing that newspapers should get awards for; Twitter thought it should get punished for it. But the Twitter officials caught...

Welp, it certainly does seem to be raining crap all over President Biden and ‘the smartest man he knows’, aka his son, Hunter Biden. Elon Musk pulling the curtain back to show everyone what Twitter did to help suppress this fairly big story about Hunter’s laptop during the 2020 election was only the beginning … Tucker Carlson’s documentary drops today and from the trailer yeah, it’s gonna be LIT. Watch: Biden, Inc. Part 1. Tuesday. @FoxNation pic.twitter.com/8sl9CzKM3U — Tucker Carlson Originals (@TuckerOriginals) December 6, 2022 Guess Tucker is ok ‘messing with a Biden’. Remember when Biden said that? You never...

Leftist billionaire George Soros used his charities to build ties with hundreds of media organizations around the world involved in news and activist media. The journalism and activist media groups Soros supports mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages. They also insulate him from inquiry because reporters see him as an ally, not a target for investigation. The 92-year-old philanthropist’s multimillion-dollar efforts promoting his bizarre “open society” agenda encompass some of the most radical leftist ideas on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism. His global media clout is massive. An...