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A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with clinical trials set to begin in July 2024.

The tooth regrowth medicine is intended for people who lack a full set of adult teeth due to congenital factors. The team is aiming to have it ready for general use in 2030.

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Ah, the beauty of two nations divided by a common language. When Brits say “Asians,” they formally mean anybody from the whole bloody continent of Asia (but probably not Russians except for those of the Russian Far East), but typically they mean Pakistani men of military age.

Of which the UK is now chock-full, due to Tony Blair’s attempt to import a permanent Labour majority.

When Americans say “Asians,” we formally and typically mean orientals, that is the CJK crowd and anybody else with stereotypically fair (“yellow”) skin and an epicanthic fold (part of the “slanted eyes” feature). We have different terms for Pacific Islanders, Southeast Asians, Central Asians (The Stans), Indo-Paki types, Middle Easterners, and the Turk.

Typically divided between “East Asians” and “South Asians”.

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While informative, this does not prove aspartame is safe. Biology is crazy. But it should inform our priors. Speaking for myself, my previous model was that consuming aspartame would result in a crazy unknown synthetic chemical circulating around my body and doing god-knows-what. My updated model is that consuming aspartame results in slightly larger amounts of some totally normal chemicals.

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In accounting we have a thing called Good Will. That’s an intangible asset. Take a company with a super well established name and track record. There’s no physical asset for the name, Coke a Cola or McDonald’s, but there’s an asset value for how incredibly well known those are, and that needs to get accounted for in the valuation. Companies like that aren’t valuable just because they own stores or factories or lots of inventory, but because everybody knows who they are. Basically Good Will exists because customers know who you are, what you do, and generally like that. With big corporations, Good Will is worth billions.

Good Will goes down when companies turn off those customers, or the name starts to have negative connotations and they become less valuable (Anhauser Busch for a recent example).

The Star Wars novels are a perfect example of this. That was once the biggest and most beloved IP on Earth. Novels in that setting should be a license to print money. The Good Will was off the charts. A reboot was a chance to kinda forget the worst of previous products, and come out the gate strong with quality products. In a sane world, the novels of an IP that big should crush the rest of us by orders of magnitude, just off of name recognition and customers being inclined toward checking out products from that brand.

Nope. They went the opposite direction.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights released a statement on the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative decision, which I wrote about here. First the statement, then some comments on it:

So, what exactly has the Supreme Court done that the State of Minnesota think is a blow to gay people’s civil rights? If a gay couple is getting married and they go to a web designer to set up a page to celebrate their romance, there is a possibility the web designer might say, “Sorry, I don’t do gay weddings.” The horror!

The real horror, I suppose, is having to acknowledge that some people are still not in favor of gay marriage. Just a few years ago, a large majority of Americans were opposed to gay marriage. Barack Obama was opposed to gay marriage. Remember? Gay marriage won the day, and liberals like those who run the Human Rights Department now insist that the verdict be deemed unanimous. But it isn’t.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Riots have convulsed France over the past five nights. The New York Times reports, for example, in a story published in the past two hours “France Arrests Hundreds More in Fifth Night of Unrest.” President Macron scrapped an official trip to Germany in light of the riots, though not before he made it to the Elton John concert in Paris.

The occasion this time around is the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy of North African descent identified as Nahel M. this past Tuesday. Some 45,000 police officers have been deployed across the country for the past two evenings. Although the news reports are not helpful on this point, I take it that the rioters come largely from France’s large Muslim community.

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As we head to Independence Day and a celebration of this nation’s founding, the angry chorus of haters with idle hands and minds gets loud. They prefer we dwell on the nation’s sins and ignore our great progress toward an always more perfect union. No longer just angry academics and activists, the press too has joined the act. It is a reminder that the secular religion that dominates cultural institutions is a religion without grace or forgiveness, perpetually anchored in the grievances of the past.

The New York Times produced its 1619 Project to, in the words of its creator, retell the story of our founding. She claimed it was not to be taken as true fact, but narration. She recast the United States and its revolution as about the preservation of slavery. Widely criticized by historians across the political perspective, the damage was done and proudly so. Many people who had grievance and needed a story around which to weave their grievance latched on to the false claims.

The fabulists ignored the Northern colonies moving against slavery long before Great Britain did. They ignored the writings of our founders, including Thomas Jefferson, who knew the institution of slavery undermined the words “all men are created equal” and would have to end. They ignored the reparations paid in blood on battlefields across America as white men from the North killed their kin from the South to set slaves free.

Gates of Vienna.

Massive culture-enriching riots in France are continuing into the weekend. The largest group of conflagrations is in Paris and its immediate environs, but copycat riots are springing up all over the country.

The situation is reminiscent of the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois (another suburb of Paris) in 2005. Back then two culture-enrichers fled from the police and crawled into an electrical substation to hide, whereupon they were electrocuted. It wasn’t even the police who fried them — it was their own stupidity. But “youths” set Clichy-sous-Bois on fire anyway.

Eighteen years later their numbers are much greater, and they’re setting the whole country on fire.

The following brief clip shows a Muslim “youth” exhorting his fellow rioters to kill the police. The important thing to note is the Koranic justification for the killings. Muslims don’t try to hide the role their religion plays in deadly violence, but the Western media hide it from their audience — you won’t see evidence like this on major TV outlets.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

UPDATE: Parisian Holocaust Memorial Trashed

Especially if
You might be a Jew.

Stanford Study of Paxlovid for Long COVID Stopped Early (MedPageToday)

Some Pfizer Vaccine Batches In The EU Were Placebos, Say Scientists

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Criticism “Pisses Me Off” Says Top General

Poland Wants To Host NATO Nukes To Counter Russia

Gen. Milley warns US military must modernize now (Fox News)

US Arming Taiwan With Volcano Mine-Laying Systems After Biden Called Xi A Dictator

UK Says NATO Should Consider Skipping Standard Application For Ukraine  Rules? What rules?

To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Technology from Scratch

Stockman: Why The US Should Stop Sending Money To Zelensky

French youths clash with officers in 4th day of riots over fatal police shooting (Times of Israel) None of these ‘French youths’ are actually French. As with ‘American youths’ in race riots, they seem mostly occupied with stealing stuff.

Violent protests continue in wake of French teen’s fatal shooting by police (CBS News)

France in crisis as riots escalate (BBC News)

Boston University law students offered therapy in response to recent Supreme Court decisions (Fox News)

He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak. (Huffington Post) If he were the anti-trans son of a trans ifluencer, would he be allowed to speak? I think not.

Minn. Abortions Surge, Partly Due to Patients From Restrictive States

How Christians and Drag Queens Are Defending the First Amendment (N.Y. Times) David French continues carrying water for the Left.

It’s the First Amendment, Stupid: Supreme Court Holds That Free Speech Prevails in Challenge to Anti-Discrimination Law

Heartbreak City: Here’s How ABC/CBS/NBC Handled Friday’s SCOTUS Cases (Hint: Not Well)

New York City Now Sheltering More Illegal Immigrants Than Homeless Citizens: Deputy Mayor

40% Of Californians Are Considering Moving To Another State Due To Cost Of Living

French Police Say “We’re At War With Vermin” As Nationwide Riots Spread Like Cancer

“Believe Their Lies Or Pay The Consequences” – Tucker Carlson Blasts Trans Ideology As “Just Another Religious War”

Elena Kagan Has Had Enough (N.Y. Times) She’s still in a minority.

Dem La. Gov Vetoes Gender-Transition Care Ban

White House releases report on reflecting sunlight to cool the earth, no formal study planned now (CNBC)

Environmental policy contributing to historic gas price spike in Washington state: ‘Hit my pockets hard’ (Fox News)

State Department didn’t track carbon footprint of climate summit flights (Politico)

Another Climate-Savior Alarmist Jetsets to South America – For Two Months Of Vacation!

World Now Wasting $1 Trillion Or More Per Year Investing in Useless “Renewables”

The Sea Level Hype Continues

IEA’s Net Zero Dream Was Just Debunked As A Nightmare

Trump, DeSantis Court Moms for Liberty as Group’s Sway Over GOP Grows

Trump’s basement campaign (Axios) We know who he is and what he will do as President. He doesn’t need to ‘campaign’.

dThe time Clarence Thomas said affirmative action was ‘critical’ for society (Washington Post)

Mayor Eric Adams doubles down on comparing Holocaust survivor to plantation owner (Politico)

18 Hasidic Schools Failed to Provide Basic Education, New York City Finds (N.Y. Times) I wonder whether they apply the same criteria to Islamic madrassahs.

Why Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote about babysitters in her student loan opinion (CNN)

White women have helped sink the affirmative action ship (Washington Post)

No Labels Is Chasing A Fantasy (FiveThirgyEight)

Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole is possible: First, follow the money (Salon) ‘Right-wing rabbit hole’? (I followed the money and it led me to George Soros. Now what?)

This Has Been a Very Bad Week for the Supreme Court (The New Republic) Certainly in the estimation of the Narrative media.

Protesters Blast Moms For Liberty Summit in Philly: ‘Klanned Karenhood’ (Daily Beast)

Report: No Labels Derides MoveOn’s Probe Request

Kamala Harris says fundamental freedoms are at stake with the Supreme Court rulings (NPR) The freedom to waste taxpayer money, the freedom to force people to work for perverts, the freedom to give special privileges to black people … all so very fundamental.

Trump Ambassador Gordon Sondland Named in Illegal Donations Scheme (Daily Beast)

MSNBC Rips SCOTUS on Affirmative Action Ruling, Denies Thomas Is Black

Flashback: The Media VILIFIED Clarence Thomas Even BEFORE Anita Hill

Republican LGBTQ group blasts DeSantis over ‘homophobic’ campaign video (The Hill)

Moms for Liberty blasted as ‘Klanned Karenhood’ by protesters in Philadelphia (Raw Story)

Brooks And Capehart Agree: SCOTUS Upholding Free Speech Is ‘Poison’

Vicar: Bank Closes Account Over Trans Ideology

Feds Say They Have 80,000 Pages of Evidence Against George Santos (Daily Beast)

Trump supporters boo, call Lindsey Graham a ‘traitor’ at South Carolina rally (The Hill) How does she know they were Trump supporters? Why, they booed Lindsey Graham! Who would do that except Trump supporters?

College loan forgiveness: Democrats campaign on “Republicans are mean”

Wall Street Journal.

We have the technology.

Associated Press.

Americans who came of age during the pandemic are skipping college in big numbers. Many have shunned traditional college paths, turning instead to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree. Still others feel locked out, deterred by high tuition and the prospect of student debt. Colleges nationwide saw undergraduate enrollments drop 8% from 2019 to 2022, with continued declines even after the return to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. Economists say the impact could be dire. Fewer college graduates could worsen labor shortages in fields from health care and engineering to information technology.

Fewer college graduates would mean that a college degree would actually mean something.

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I am not making this up.

My late first wife was a compulsive accumulator of restaurant condiments packets. McDonald’s nugget barbecue sauce was a favorite.