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Despite the massive input of cash from Disney, the BBC’s famed Doctor Who sci fi series seems to be struggling in the UK ratings with numbers coming in lower than even the previous low numbers from last season as the show becomes mired in accusations of ultra woke story telling. The British state-run broadcasting service reports that the sci fi show’s seven-day viewing figures are not auspicious at all for the first half of season 15, the second for the “queer” Doctor portrayed by actor Ncuti Gatwa. The press has also been a disaster for the show. Over the past...

n a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what's been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably, the genetic tweak had a profound impact on the little rodents' ability to squeak, revealing astonishing clues about the evolution of vocal communication. Mouse pups that had the human version of the language gene showed different vocalization patterns from their buddies with the usual version mice have. When calling for their mother, their squeaks were higher pitched and featured a different selection of sounds than usual. “All baby mice make ultrasonic squeaks to their moms, and language researchers categorize the varying...

https://youtu.be/cTDTVbourzU?si=rEw0JmCr9lRQxdd3 Rudyard Lynch, aka Whatifalthist, is a young youtubing historian who discusses the comparison between Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experiment and its relevance to today’s society. Essentially the experiment shows that society becomes feminized and chaotic as the population of the mice rise, even though this breakdown in the mouse society occurs well before the supposed carrying capacity of the cage.

Since the pandemic, employers have been engaging in certain types of quiet maneuvering like “quiet cutting” and employee surveillance to assuage the needs of business and stabilize their workforce. A recent study reveals that 79% of employees say they’re under pressure to perform to “show” they’re working. Many workers are retaliating with quiet workaround tactics of their own such as “quiet quitting,” “coffee badging,” “quiet vacationing” and “shadow policies.” First, It Was Productivity Theater As the quiet tug-of-war continues, so does the suspicion and mistrust on both sides. Poor workplace culture also has given rise to resenteeism—a trend similar to...

Woke up the other morning with my better half screaming, ran into the kitchen and she was on her hands and knees on the kitchen counter due to Mickey. I have taken two down so far. I used peanut butter and Nutella to bait them. Maybe that is all, but need to be sure.

This is the shocking moment a pro-Palestine activist let dozens of mice douse in red, green, white and black paint, were let loose in a McDonald's restaurant in Birmingham, terrifying customers. Footage shared on social media showed a man holding to fake number plates that read 'PAIISTN' and 'Free Palestine' as he arrived in his car at the chain's Star City restaurant yesterday. The man, wearing a Palestinian flag around his head, then opens the boot of his car and grabs the huge box of rodents, before walking into the fast food restaurant and flinging the Palestinian-flag coloured mice on...

Within the next decade, some scientists figure it will be possible to create a viable human egg from a male skin cell — paving the path for same-sex male couples to have their own biological children. The prediction came on the heels of a genome development that saw scientists producing baby mice by generating eggs from male cells. Oh, what a tangled web they weave. The LGBTQ crowd in particular is no doubt cheering this latest evil. After all, if tearing down normal, traditional family structure is the end game of the LGBTQ activists — which it is — well...

For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males. This raises the distant possibility of using the same technique for people – although experts caution that very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and no one knows whether it would work for humans.

The process of freeze drying really is punching above its (very light) weight. It makes for a delicious chocolate-covered strawberry, gives astronauts expanded food options, and now, the technique could be used to store DNA and cell information for cloning purposes. With a success rate as low as 0.2 percent, freeze drying of cells still has a long way to go before becoming a standard cloning and storage strategy, but it's a really exciting step. "Maintaining biodiversity is an essential task, but storing germ cells as genetic resources using liquid nitrogen is difficult, expensive, and easily disrupted during disasters," researchers,...

There’s no doubt about it: the vaccine companies have a license to kill. They can kill as many people as they want and nobody in America is going to stop them. It’s all perfectly legal.Steve KirschMar 5 The most frustrating thing about this pandemic is that there is no doubt that the drug companies have killed over 150,000 Americans, yet nobody with authority to stop these vaccines wants to talk about the evidence. The vaccine program is done under the pretext of saving 10,000 lives (the Pfizer Phase 3 trial showed the drug saved approximately one COVID life for every...

Japanese researchers behind the new work... wanted to know how space radiation affects fertility in mammals. Radiation can damage the DNA within cells, causing mutations... Environments on Earth with heavy radiation exposure can cause defects in the offspring of animals. Space radiation in particular has been a major concern for countries like the U.S. and Japan that have sent many astronauts on lengthy missions into low Earth orbit. Farther space destinations are also on the horizon. NASA and other space agencies are developing systems that could support humans on monthslong journeys to other solar system destinations such as the moon...

Animal welfare group PETA called for more humane ways to exterminate mice, as farmers in New South Wales battle Australia's biggest plague of the rodents in decades.

Medical researchers with the Chinese army engineered mice with humanized lungs in 2019 to test viruses on them, it has been reported. The mice, developed using CRISPR gene-editing technology, were mentioned in an April 2020 study which researched their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness, Vanity Fair revealed in its bombshell investigation. Of the study's 23 co-authors, 11 of them worked for the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the medical research institute for the Chinese army.

Government scientists under the Obama-Biden administration specifically requested body parts from aborted baby boys for experiments involving “humanized mice,” according to a document obtained by the watchdog organization Judicial Watch. The document, an email exchange between a Food and Drug Administration scientist and an employee of Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), a human tissue procurement group that works with Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities, was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The email provides more details of the gristly aborted baby body parts harvesting practices that occurred under President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Unbeknownst to...

Since early 2021 much of regional Australia is experiencing a mouse plague. The rodents have kept multiplying through the summer, and are expected to continue to do so even through the winter, potentially threatening crops. Now look at the result! It’s apocalyptic: Hundreds of thousands of mice are ransacking sheds and houses, getting onto and into everything across NSW, Qld, SA and Victoria, Australia. The rodents are munching through crops and wiring, and to the horror of home owners they’ve even been found in bags of bread. The whole district smells of mice. Why this mouse plague? Rainfall and good...

When the mouse plague began in regional New South Wales and Queensland, residents spoke like generals in a war. It was all about strategy, setting the cleverest traps, fortifying houses to keep the enemy out and outsmarting the tiny creatures as they attacked wave after wave. But, six months on, with rodent numbers surging again despite thousands of tonnes of poisons being deployed and devastating floods, conversations about mice have changed. They aren’t foes to be bested any more, they’re more like a giant dark cloud hovering over each town.

Southeastern Australia has been battling mouse plague for months, following a combination of heavy rain, cooler temperatures, and a high crop yield. Experts now worry the influx of mice could just be just the beginning of problems for the region, with worries a snake plague is on the way. Gerard Dallow from a Sydney-based organization called Micropest told nine.com.au that "snakes are likely to follow" the rodents, potentially leading to a spike in their population numbers.

A shopper was left horrified after spotting a mouse devouring $22.99-a-pound veal inside a butchery display case at a Manhattan Whole Foods supermarket. Brittany Ellis shared the clip on TikTok Monday, where it has since racked up more than 2.2 million views. In the footage, Ellis can be heard asking, 'Why is there a mouse?' The rodent can be seen nibbling on a raw slab of osso bucco veal, which retails for a pricey $22.99 per pound.

Australia's out-of-control mouse plague will cut the value of state's winter crop by $1million as the eight month-long scourge continues to worsen, the nation's farmers have warned. The government-funded MouseAlert website shows sightings have doubled since March, with a growing number of mice being sighted in and around Sydney. NSW Farmers Vice President Xavier Martin said farmers were abandoning some paddocks and couldn't defer sowing winter crops any longer. Researchers meanwhile have warned 'without a concerted baiting effort in the next few weeks this could easily turn into a two-year plague event'.

Quivering with life, the developing mice moved ever-so-slightly in their vials. Just a few days since they were fertilized, the rodent embryos were minuscule—smaller than an Aspirin tablet—but their existence a is monumental feat: they developed in an artificial uterus, a first in early mammalian science and a big step in improving scientists’ understanding of embryonic development. The research, published today in the journal Nature, describes how the scientists took new embryos and developed them over the course of six days, about a third of the total mouse gestation period, outside of a rodent uterus. “If you give an embryo...