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LOUISIANA: CANNABIS OK, BUT DON’T SMOKE IT

Louisiana, a state where “legalized medical marijuana” means that non-smokable cannabis products may be purchased from a registered pharmacy on the recommendation of a doctor (such as CBD oil), is now on the verge of decriminalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Fines, But No Jail An item in the Wall St. Journal on 26 May...

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ASSUME HE IS ARMED!

By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato I cannot urge strongly enough that the whole idea of “force continuums” for practical self-defense is ridiculous and dangerous. Ridiculous, because it assumes that, somehow, the victim of a violent attack will have the capacity to know (rather magically, I would assume) the criminal history, the abilities, and the...

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AMOEBA GENE IMPROVES VISION IN BLIND MAN

In a first, scientists have shown that a blind person’s vision can be improved through the application of genetic therapy. A 58-year-old man lost his sight 40 years ago to retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited condition that breaks down the retina, the cells lining the eyeball that respond to light, but leaves the eye’s connection to...

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SNAP DEBUTS FIRST COMMERCIAL AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES

Snap Inc., parent company of social media app Snapchat, has beaten rivals Apple and Facebook to introduce the newest generation of augmented reality glasses. The smart glasses, dubbed Spectacles, look like a slightly boxy pair of sunglasses instead of the giant, face-eating goggles used by some previous “mixed reality” technologies.  The lenses are actually transparent...

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THE BUILDING IS THE BATTERY

Concrete is one of the world’s workhorse building materials and also among the most energy-intensive to create. Now researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers Institute of Technology have found a way that concrete can give back some of that fuel. Into a slab of standard concrete, the scientists mixed short carbon fibers that can conduct electricity. The...

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VACCINE FAST FACTS

There have been 4,647 deaths and 227,805 adverse events reported to the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Reporting System) as of 17 May 2021. The death count for the first four-and-a-half months of COVID vaccinations is now higher than that of all vaccinations given in the U.S. from 1999 through 2020. During the two decades before the...

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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL TO FEATURE STUDY THAT COVID LIKELY ENGINEERED

A team of Dutch and British scientists will finally have their study claiming COVID-19 was engineered and disguised, published by a scientific journal. Dr. Birger Sørensen and Professor Angus Dalgleish say their findings show that the COVID virus has no natural ancestor, and there’s conclusive evidence it was created via “laboratory manipulation.” First reported in...

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LOCKDOWNS CREATED SOCIAL DEFICIT FOR CHILDREN

Children forced into remote and hybrid learning alternatives during the COVID pandemic have paid a price in social development. That’s one takeaway from a national survey by Tufts University. According to the survey, 46 percent of parents reported negative social impacts on their children due to pandemic restrictions on in-school learning, compared to 26 percent...

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