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Anal Contact Tracing

from The Mirror Smart toilet recognises users by their ‘anal print’ and can detect early signs of cancer Scientists say the smart toilet could be useful to individuals who are predisposed to certain conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome, prostate cancer or kidney failure Going to the loo may never be the same again thanks […]

Caveman Make String

from artnet Archaeologists Just Discovered That Neanderthals Made String 50,000 Years Ago, Suggesting They Were Waaay Smarter Than We Thought The researchers say that Neanderthals “really weren’t very different from us.” Archaeologists have unearthed more evidence that Neanderthals were smarter than we previously believed. According to newly found materials, our human brethren were making the […]

COVID Awareness

from DNYUZ The Year of Magical Thinking Last week Angela Missoni took a walk in the garden of her house in Sumirago, a snug town in Italy about an hour northwest of Milan. After a month in isolation, a difficult morning on Zoom and a steady drumbeat of bad tidings for business, she needed some […]

Tubular Bells

The F-word Re-discovered

from The Daily Mail World’s earliest record of the F-word is discovered in manuscript written by bored Scottish student in 1568 locked away in the vault of the National Library of Scotland Earliest written use of the F-word dates back to a 500-year-old manuscript Uni student wrote the manuscript as plague locked down his Edinburgh […]

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H-O-R-S-E

from MarketWatch NBA set to televise H-O-R-S-E competition with league stars on ESPN The NBA stopped play on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic By Weston Blasi The NBA is nearing a deal with ESPN DIS, +3.39% to televise a H-O-R-S-E competition, which would include current NBA stars Chris Paul, Trae Young, Zach LaVine, and Mike Conley. The […]

Back To Our Primal Selves

from AP The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic By DAVID ZALUBOWSKI and JAMES ANDERSON DENVER (AP) — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end […]

Hello, Everest

from FORBES Pollution Recedes Amid Lockdown, And A View Of The Himalayas Emerges For The First Time In 30 Years by Marley Coyne Topline: Residents in north India’s Punjab—where a nationwide coronavirus lockdown has curtailed daily activity—shared a rare look at the snow peaks of the Himalayas, a view that has for decades been obscured by the state’s […]