#Articles

You may read that Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, is aiming to be "carbon negative" by 2030.You may then scratch your head. Because, of course, that cannot be right.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-0
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This is a really weird story that doesn’t acknowledge that Obama changed the definition of “showerhead” in 2010. https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-08-12/trump-to-relax-rules-for-showers-after-complaining-about-flow-kdrl
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Beijing pushes very close to acts of war by cyberattacks on America's ability to protect its people from COVID-19. Partnering with Iran makes it look even worse.https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-iranian-hacking-may-be-hampering-search-for-coro
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What a chump the CDC Director is in his excuse making in this interview:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/what-happened-to-the-cdc-storied-disease-agency-takes-a-back-seat He minimizes the lost month of Feb due to CDC's botched t
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NEW: In 2018, a small team of PlayStation developers tried to build their own studio to remake The Last of Us. Today, the game still exists but the studio doesn't.
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So ⁦@pfizer⁩ INTERIM ANALYSIS of their mRNA vaccine looks promising. Article indicates 94 people in study have been infected - breakdown of placebo/dose@not@disclosed by#ut “90% effective” is better than anticipated.
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1 of 3:Covid-19 deaths increase away from the source.This chart plots C-19 deaths as a % of the > 65 population (at risk group).Lockdown stringency does not consistently increase away
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Donald Trump has more or less fulfilled his election promise of massively reducing immigration from the South, but mainly not by building a physical wall, but by changing asylum laws
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I gotta say, publishing articles like this with "MIGHT" in the headline is pretty dicey. They MIGHT never distribute comics again. They MIGHT only distribute comics that are in Spanish
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After an eight-year struggle, Shinichi Mochizuki has finally gotten his 600-page proof of the abc conjecture accepted in a peer-reviewed journal. But some experts are still unconvinced.Photo credit: Kyoto Universityhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41
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Pra quem perguntou sobre vacinas, a Nature soltou uma compilação ótima sobre iniciativas em andamento: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00073-5São 115 vacinas em desenvolvimento, 78 registradas. Dessas, 5 já tão em testes clínicos, que
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The mortgage market is a mess. A short thread. Congress allowed borrowers to suspend payments for up to a year, saddling lenders with the cost --- and straining the mortgage-market
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BREAKING: Firearms manufacturer Remington Arms Co. is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection for the second time since 2018 and is in advanced talks for a potential bankruptcy sale
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Got a PPE donation site up for my dad and his VA hospital colleagues! Please share and donate if you have any PPE! :)https://www.ppeconnect.org/paul-giuffre  Here is a @WSJ article about
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A reminder that Elsevier made$6 BILLION selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and made more profit than Amazon, Google and Apple every year for YEARS...And paid the academics
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Researchers have identified microscopic features including a unique furin cleavage site that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus @DrEricDing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x More information on the furin muta
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