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I suppose it depends on what one thinks millennials are full of.

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Known as the delta-32 mutation after the allele it resides in, the mutation is quite famous, according to study author Rasmus Nielsen, an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley. One reason, he says, is the evidence its geographic distribution provides of historic diseases in Europe; another is the fact that it makes those who have it either completely or partially immune to infection with the HIV virus; and the last, of course, is the fact that it was the mutation He Jiankui chose to tweak in Nana and Lulu.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

(My favorite artist is Rembrandt, but unfortunately it couldn’t cope. Ah, well.)

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

(There’s an app for that! Knots 3D)

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As Scott Adams never hesitates to point out, new technology nuclear power is about the only viable option for ‘clean’ energy.

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A professor at American University who has correctly predicted the last nine presidential elections says that Trump will win in 2020 unless Congressional Democrats “grow a spine.”

Well. There it is.

They’ve got plenty of spine. What they need is a brain.

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About. God. Damned Time.

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Digital voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa are tools of oppression used by the patriarchy to keep women down, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with the German government and the EQUALS Skills Coalition, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

I guess you can blame all of those right-wing sexists who run Google and Apple. The swine.

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Good news! Think about it: Do we really want more of those guys?

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Could there possibly be a better name for a blues singer than Leon Redbone?

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Really, these ‘heartbeat’ abortion laws are turning into the garlic-and-holy-water tool against the Left. Pass a law, and proglodytes self-deport.

Now, if we could just find an equivalent for illegal Turd World immigrants….

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Quickly, before the mob of angry proglodytes comes to burn it down.

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I like it. Most states containing huge urban conurbations find that they are (a) hotbeds of political corruption, (b) sinkholes of welfare spending, and (c) storehouses of Democrat underclass voters that wag the dog of the rest of the state.

All of the states on the Left Coast and the Other Left Coast ought to be pushing similar initiatives.

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The blockbuster discovery last year of superconductivity in a material called twisted bilayer graphene caught theorists off guard. In all their published ruminations, none of them had even speculated about the phenomenon that showed up in Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: a sudden loss of electrical resistance when two sheets of graphene — honeycomb lattices of carbon atoms — were stacked and twisted at a relative angle of 1.1 degrees. But theorists are making up for that lapse now, publishing a steady stream of explanations for this “magic angle.”

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Heads are exploding all over.

Trump is probably the least racist president in my lifetime, despite proglodyte efforts to paint him as one.

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Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, researchers have demonstrated that mutations in so-called ‘junk’ DNA can cause autism. The study, published May 27 in Nature Genetics, is the first to functionally link such mutations to the neurodevelopmental condition.

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A non-profit organization established to privately fund President Trump’s southern border wall has completed nearly a mile-long section on private land near El Paso, Texas.

We Build The Wall – a nonprofit founded by triple amputee veteran Brian Kolfage, boasts former White House Chief Strategist and former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as its director, while former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the effort’s general counsel.

According to Kolfage, the segment took just three days to complete.

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Appearing tentative, the world’s first raspberry-picking robot is harvesting a fruit. After assessing its age, the robot plucks the fruit with its “holding arm” and cautiously deposits it into a waiting basket. The entire process takes about one minute for a single berry. It has been joyfully nicknamed “Robocrop” by British journalists, an homage to Alex Murphy aka RoboCop.

Automation may eventually solve our immigration problem for us.

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Construction began over Memorial Day weekend on a privately-funded border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the first project of its kind.

We Build The Wall, a viral online campaign calling on everyday Americans to fund a U.S.-Mexico wall, broke ground over the weekend, the organizers revealed on Monday. About a mile of 18-foot steel bollard wall was built along the southern border between El, Paso Texas and Sunland Park, New Mexico.

The wall is similar to the design used by U.S. Border Patrol, but the organizers claim their wall can be built faster and cheaper. The project was led by construction mogul Tommy Fisher, CEO of Fisher Industries.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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It seems like all parts of the once “too good to be true” Tesla narrative are – well, turning out to be too good to be true.

Anyone who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

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Well. There it is.

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Yoga is not, apparently, a survival skill.  Good to know.

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Three weeks ago, a CNN executive suggested that talk of impending layoffs were nothing more than a “crazy rumor.” Last week, the network laid off nearly all of the Atlanta-based staff that cover health care, according to Fox News and confirmed by TVNewser – a media watchdog site founded by CNN’s Brian Stelter.

Help us, Obi-wan Kenobi. You are our only hope.

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Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

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I left my fart
In San Francisco….

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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The prophylactic effect of the ‘heartbeat’ abortion law seems to be very robust.

Apparently, nothing works better to keep proglodyte ‘celebrities’ out of your state.

Can’t wait until Texas gets one — perhaps it will keep the Californicators away.

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Using advanced technology at UChicago-affiliated Argonne National Laboratory, the team studied a class of materials in which they observed superconductivity at temperatures of about minus 23 degrees Celsius (minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit, 250 K)—a jump of about 50 degrees compared to the previous confirmed record.

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The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the Earth’s axis. Both were essential for Earth to develop life. Planetologists at the University of Münster (Germany) have now been able to show, for the first time, that water came to Earth with the formation of the Moon some 4.4 billion years ago. The Moon was formed when Earth was hit by a body about the size of Mars, also called Theia. Until now, scientists had assumed that Theia originated in the inner solar system near the Earth. However, researchers from Münster can now show that Theia comes from the outer solar system, and it delivered large quantities of water to Earth. The results are published in the current issue of Nature Astronomy.

And the odds of alien life just plummeted.

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Markets work.

Ace of Spades is pretty cynical.

I imagine that he’s been reassured by certain factions that he will get corporate support if he runs for president, and that he’ll get corporate gigs after he loses. So I don’t think he really cares about elective politics anymore anyway.

The Ruling Class protects its pawns. (To some extent, at least.)

Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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They take out the THC so that it can’t be used to get high.

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Notice how AlGore is looking more and more like a Soviet apparatchik..

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While Washington pols and pundits angrily debate who counts as a spy, and whether any such exotic creatures have ever been employed by the FBI, new evidence is emerging that the FBI not only uses spies, but has done so extensively, including in the Trump-Russia investigation.

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Two studies published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine andLancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology show that for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and colorectal cancer, one whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) scan can work just as well as multiple scans, offering a quicker, cheaper alternative, preferred by patients and involving less exposure to radiation.

The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317, half the £620 cost for multiple scans and the cost of a WB-MRI scan for colorectal patients was £216, compared with £285 for multiple scans.

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Australia held a national election yesterday which all of the polls predicted for weeks would be won handily by the Labour Party. The ruling Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australian politics because they still understand the historic meaning of liberalism) has been on office for over a decade, and had struggled as ruling parties often do when they grow stale in office. In fact leadership struggles within the Liberal Party had left it in chaos heading into the election campaign. The pollsters and the media called it an “unlosable election” for Labour.

But in a stunning upset, the Liberal Party has won the election. It sounds a lot like our 2016 election, no? Apparently lots of voters told the pollsters one thing, but voted differently in the voting booth.

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Fusion will be very nice, once they get it to work.

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Amazon.com has jumped into the market of the third-party logistics broker, roiling the waters and raising concern that the Seattle-based e-commerce giant could disrupt the freight industry forever and indelibly.

Amazon’s new freight-hauling site — located at freight.Amazon.com — has been up and running since August 2018, but it went largely unnoticed by media until early May, when The Wall Street Journal and others reported on Amazon’s entry into the market. Reports noted Amazon was offering “beta service” full truckload hauling in dry vans. The service is available for pickups in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

A tentacle here, a tentacle there,
Jeff Bezos brings you into his lair….

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For 2017, data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows non-citizens comprise about 7 percent of the country’s population, but the 2018 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics shows they committed more than 40 percent of all federal crimes.

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The White House has announced a new system that gives Americans the power to call out foul play by tech companies.

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Outline no longer works for some sites, like the New York Times and the  Wall Stdreet Journal.

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Meet George Jetson….

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Usually a Voice of the Crust like The Guardian go all hair-on-fire about things like this. I’m curious as to why they didn’t do that here.

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The multidrug “herding” technique, which forces cancer DNA to adapt to one treatment by developing weaknesses against others, could become an “effective cure”, ICR scientists said.

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To study screams is to probe the fuzzy boundary that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a way to explore our prelinguistic past. Although we are fully symbolic creatures today, on occasion a trace of our primal selves bubbles to the surface in the form of a scream. Understanding its characteristics could improve the treatment of nonverbal patients, help fight crime, or simply make movies more frightening. But first scientists need to explain what makes a scream, a scream.

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Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.

The situation came about due to the somewhat unconventional nature of Idaho’s regulatory process. Each year, the state’s entire existing body of regulations expires unless reauthorized for an additional year by the legislature. In most years, reauthorization happens smoothly, but not this year.

Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules will expire. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.

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Well, let’s see if these claims stand the test of peer-review.