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If you come across Jonah Goldberg on the road, beat him. He will know why.

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What is, and is not, possible with your friendly household high-frequency radiation emitter.

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Thank you, minimum wage.

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The top secret naval base on Muskö, about 25 miles (40km) from Stockholm, resembles a cross between Tracy Island from Thunderbirds and the film set of You Only Live Twice, where James Bond grappled with arch villain Ernst Blofeld in his headquarters beneath a volcano.

Completed in 1969, it boasts cavernous underground docks that can shelter warships, with miles of tunnels, offices and a hospital.

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For a long time, electric machines have hewed to a standard design, which has had the advantage of being very easy to manufacture. However, our startup, Magnax, based in Belgium, has taken another design that in theory can wring much more power and torque from a given mass and has made it commercially practical. We believe this new design can supplant the old one in many applications, notably in electric vehicles, in which it is now being tested.

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Well, we’re in for a major showdown now between the NCAA and California. We’re about to see a standoff unlike we’ve seen before because the NCAA has already said it’ll ban schools in the state from competing if players get paid.

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Experts said the breakthrough – which spots changes in the genes, as disease develops – could be used to improve screening for cancer, allowing treatment much sooner, when it is more likely to succeed.

Crucially, 99.4 per cent cases identified as cancer were correctly spotted – meaning just 0.6 per cent of cases were misdiagnoses of healthy patients.

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Three years ago, California passed one of the strongest laws in the country to outlaw surprise medical billing. That legislation made sure that when patients went to a hospital covered by their insurance, doctors couldn’t later ambush them with unexpected bills.

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According to a report published Thursday by CNBC, Warren’s oppositional attitude toward Wall Street could leave her high and dry in what’s sure to be a costly and hotly-contested general election against President Donald Trump.

Rush Limbaugh discussed this in today’s show.

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A new study released on Wednesday by the Guttmacher institute shows that abortion rates have fallen to their lowest level since the procedure was legalized in 1973, according to the BBC.

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In a surprise move Tuesday, a federal judge in Virginia acquitted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn’s who was convicted in July in a case spun off from the special counsel’s investigation.

Rafiekian, who served as vice chairman of Flynn Intel Group, was convicted July 23 of illegally lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

But Judge Anthony Trenga reversed the jury decision in a 39-page ruling, saying the government’s evidence against Rafiekian “was insufficient as a matter of law” to justify conviction on either count.

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Not, you will note, in California or New York or any other Blue State.

Ask yourself why.

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez revealed to local media over the weekend that he will soon begin deporting Cubans who arrive in his country illegally, marking the latest immigration agreement in the region.

“With Cuba, we are about to sign an agreement at this time that if an irregular migrant Cuban appears, we will immediately return him to Cuba,” Hernandez announced in a television appearance that aired Sunday night, according to Reuters.

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When the story first broke last spring, we wrote that the first round of indictments had to be the tip of the iceberg, because over time, those in the government crosshairs would sing like a bird—and boy, have they ever.

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Proteins are essential for every living cell and responsible for many fundamental processes. In particular, they are required as bio-catalysts in metabolism and for signaling inside the cell and between cells. Many diseases come about as a result of failures in this communication, and the origins of signaling in proteins have been a source of great scientific debate. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Göttingen has actually observed the mobile protons that do this job in each and every living cell, thus providing new insights into the mechanisms. The results were published in Nature.

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Well, we can hope.

One advantage of an MSR, Moltex says, is safety: Gases aren’t produced and the reaction takes place at atmospheric pressure, so the explosive release of any radioactive material isn’t possible. Moltex says its SSR is an evolution from the MSR, allowing for the technique to be used without radical new development.

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Picaridin formula repels mosquitos, biting insects, and ticks.

Not guaranteed effective against Members of Congress.

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Looking forward to it.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties, recently discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria effective against 4 of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled to permit the administration to go on refusing to accept applications for asylum from migrants who have passed through another country without being denied asylum there, while a case challenging this common-sense policy works its way through the courts.

That comes on the heels of the court’s decision in July to allow Trump to use money from the defense budget to build the border wall. It was yet another significant victory for the administration’s initiatives and a sign that the left’s judicial guerrilla war that had been stymieing the president is starting to crumble.

Expect liberal efforts to prevent Trump from overturning President Barack Obama’s executive orders that effectively granted amnesty to millions of illegals to meet the same fate.

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High-tech scanners used to pick up tiny defects in aeroplane turbine blades and car engines have been repurposed by murder detectives to solve 120 homicides.

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We have the technology.

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But I’m sure they’re very polite feral hogs.

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A religious group that sparked protests in 2016 for providing free lunches to Middleton High School students with a dose of Christian scripture has expanded to schools in Madison and Verona.

Typically such protests are on the grounds that some government regulation or requirement put in place by officious bureaucrats has not been obtempered. Quite often said officious bureaucrats, incensed that their rice bowl is being tampered with, step in with threats of fines and jail time. Fortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

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It’s the perfect food: Crunchy on the outside (in theory, at least), potato on the inside, bite sized so as to be eaten without utensils.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it don’t.

Imagine expecting Cancun when you step off the plane and getting Ireland instead. Bummer.

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Imagine my disappointment.

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For the first time, a patient got treated for HIV and cancer at the same time, with an infusion of gene-edited stem cells. The results? Mixed.

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I’m surprised to find this in the Guardian. A highly effective way to kill parasites puts their entire readership and certainly their staff in mortal danger.

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These make good weapons in a pinch.

After the Fall of Civilization, these can easily be turned in to excellent arrowheads.

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The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit late Tuesday night rolled back a decision a federal judge made. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, appointed by former President Barack Obama, had reinstated a nationwide ban against Trump’s new asylum policy Monday, but the appeals court put the policy back into place.

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Patients with advanced lung cancer were far more likely to be alive after five years, compared with those given standard chemotherapy.

The immunotherapy drug nivolumab, which is used for several cancers, works by blocking a protein that stops the immune system attacking cancer cells.

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Got it nailed.

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The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that of the colon, and this heritage was reflected in its form, which combines half of each of those marks. It was born into a time period of writerly experimentation and invention, a time when there were no punctuation rules, and readers created and discarded novel punctuation marks regularly. Texts (both handwritten and printed) record the testing-out and tinkering-with of punctuation by the fifteenth-century literati known as the Italian humanists. The humanists put a premium on eloquence and excellence in writing, and they called for the study and retranscription of Greek and Roman classical texts as a way to effect a “cultural rebirth” after the gloomy Middle Ages. In the service of these two goals, humanists published new writing and revised, repunctuated, and reprinted classical texts.

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The U.S. Army is getting much closer to deploying the next generation weapon that could soon replace the M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun sometime in the early 2020s.

I would like to see some performance data on Cased Telescoped ammunition.

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The Department of Energy is putting down its guns and withdrawing troops in the war on the incandescent bulb that began in 2007. It’s pretty late in the day; the last factory to make them in the U.S. shut down in 2010. It’s hard to find them in a store, in which case: thank goodness for Amazon!

Still, the damage can be reversed. Our houses can again be warm and beautiful, and legally. You can turn on the lights in the morning and not have your eyes lacerated by blindingly fake electric “light.” As the Wall Street Journal summed up the current moment: “If you like old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, you can keep buying them.”

God bless Trump.

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team of engineers, dentists, and biologists from the University of Pennsylvania developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew.

With two types of robotic systems one designed to work on surfaces and the other to operate inside confined spaces the scientists showed that robots with catalytic activity could ably destroy biofilms, sticky amalgamations of bacteria enmeshed in a protective scaffolding.

I’ve been waiting for this.

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Especially to your credit card.

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Trump keeps hitting them out of the park.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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A material that remains a superconductor when heated to the boiling point of water has been predicted by physicists in China. Hanyu Liu, Yanming Ma and colleagues at Jilin University have calculated that lithium magnesium hydride will superconduct at temperatures as high as 473 K (200 °C).

The catch is that the hydrogen-rich material must be crushed at 250 GPa, which is on par with pressures at the centre of the Earth. While such a pressure could be achieved in the lab, it would be very difficult to perform an experiment to verify the prediction. The team’s research could, however, lead to the discovery of more practical high-temperature superconductors.

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How convenient.

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The NTSB released its final report today on a crash involving a Tesla Model S smashing into the back of a fire truck that took place in Culver City, CA, on January 22, 2018.

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…a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, reported that he and his colleagues have created a solar-powered device that could provide water for millions in water-stressed regions. At its heart is a porous crystalline material, known as a metal-organic framework (MOF), that acts like a sponge: It sucks water vapor out of air, even in the desert, and then releases it as liquid water.

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To build the prototype, the researchers installed a water distiller on the back of a solar cell. When in sunlight, the cell produces electricity and releases heat like a typical solar panel. But instead of sending that heat back into the atmosphere, the device directs it to the distiller, which uses the heat as an energy source to power the desalination process.

Very clever.

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Researchers at the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that takes advantage of the unusual properties of graphene to electromagnetically interact with fluorescing (light-emitting) molecules. This method allows scientists to optically measure extremely small distances, in the order of 1 ångström (one ten-billionth of a meter) with high accuracy and reproducibility for the first time. This enabled researchers to optically measure the thickness of lipid bilayers, the stuff that makes the membranes of all living cells. The results were published in Nature Photonics.

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Of all the scandals in which Ilhan Omar is enmeshed, one might think the Daily Mail’s revelation this past July of her affair with political consultant Tim Mynett would be the least of them. The news last week of Beth Mynett’s divorce filing, however, has begun to disillusion a Somali community that has taken Omar at face value. Not cool — not cool at all, and it has thrown Omar off her game.

Omar’s denial of the affair is a lie that is both obvious and bald-faced. She has therefore run from the tabloid newspapers and the local media as they have sought to report on the scandal. See, for example, Emily Bowden’s New York Post article and accompanying video “Ilhan Omar dodges questions from The Post about alleged affair.”

For Omar, offense has always proved the best defense. In this scandal she has run out of plays.

As with all corrupt Democrat politicians, it will catch up with her.

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Apparently the plastic erasers that curators ordinarily use to clean manuscripts can non-destructively remove enough DNA-containing material for analysis.

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Funny thing how Trump ‘keeps trying to destroy the economy’ and yet the economy keeps not getting destroyed. Is puzzle.