In the latest blow to the face-mask-wearing cabal, a newly released study suggests that these ubiquitous face coverings could expose wearers to an unsafe level of toxins.
Tag: sep 12 2023
“LIVING MATERIAL” CLEANS WATER, THEN DISAPPEARS
At the University of California San Diego, researchers have 3D-printed an “engineered living material” that neutralizes organic pollutants in water, then can be dissolved by a common nontoxic compound.
AN ENZYME THAT MAKES ELECTRICITY FROM AIR
Scientists at Australia’s Monash University have isolated an enzyme in a common soil bacterium that pulls hydrogen from air and uses it to make an electric current.
NEW TECHNIQUE TURNS CANCER CELLS INTO MUSCLE CELLS
An experiment led by scientists at Cold Springs Harbor National Laboratory has transformed cancer cells into muscle cells.
‘PURE GARBAGE’: SCHOOL CAFETERIAS START SERVING UP BIG FOOD’S LUNCHABLES
The quality of school lunches has been deteriorating for decades, and it just got another downgrade.
As reported by CNN, two Kraft Heinz ready-to-eat prepackaged Lunchables are being added to K-12 school lunch programs across the U.S. as of this fall semester.
U.S. EXPERIENCING ‘CRISIS OF EARLY DEATH’
The U.S. is losing more than a million young and working-age adults compared to other high-income countries, which researchers said is “unprecedented in modern times.”
THE NEXT CRISIS IS ANYONE’S GUESS, BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS READY TO LOCKDOWN THE NATION
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
GABON BECOMES LATEST FORMER FRENCH COLONY TO HAVE PRESIDENT OUSTED IN COUP
The anti-French dominos continue to fall in Africa, with Gabon’s military staging a coup last month to oust President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled the country for 55 years—enriching themselves while using its close ties with Paris to maintain power.
REMOTE WORKERS ALSO FEEL REMOTE FROM EMPLOYER’S MISSION
The proportion of remote workers who feel connected to their company’s mission or purpose slipped from 32 percent to 28 percent year over year, according to a Gallup survey of 9,000 employees this spring and summer.
SPOTLIGHT: EUROPE GOING DOWN
The HCOB purchasing managers index (PMI), which measures business activity across the 19-country Eurozone, sank to 47 in August, its lowest in 33 months, after the ongoing slump in manufacturing was joined by an unexpected contraction in services.