Author: tremendousblog
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How do you lose money selling weed in a pandemic when everyone’s stuck at home? Sundial Growers, Inc. has found a way. Sundial is the darling of Reddit’s Wallstreetbets. It’s mentioned far more than any other stock currently: But popularity on Reddit may not save this failing business. It lost…
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It would be wise not to anger him. Cats kill billions of animals yearly, but feeding them a meaty diet and providing lots of playtime can redirect them to less violent pursuits, a new study finds. The mother of one cat in the study had seen her furry friend wreak…
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Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana as a senator. GameStop was the darling of the merry band of traders on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets. Then this happened: Ouch. Now the community is looking for its next play. I nosed around the message board a little today to see…
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I came across this interesting new study today showing dragonflies can do backflips, even unconscious! They found that conscious dragonflies, when dropped from the upside-down position, somersaulted backwards to regain the rightside-up position. Dragonflies that were unconscious also completed the somersault, but more slowly. Check out the video below! I…
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It’s bigger than party. The Problem This all started when I had to renew my library card. I got an e-mail requesting a picture of a photo ID with my current address on it. I got my driver’s license and passport before I moved here two years ago, so I…
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+ Bureaucracy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Government, New Jersey, New York, New York City, NJ, NYC, Vaccines+
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Kevin Davies literally wrote the book on CRISPR, the revolutionary new gene editing technology that earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier a Nobel Prize a few months ago. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk he gave on that superb book, Editing Humanity. If you’re not familiar,…
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There is a huge increase in homelessness in Brazil, per Der Spiegel. Many have lost jobs due to the COVID pandemic, leading to a second humanitarian crisis, this one economic. I found this quote from a factory worker who recently lost his job particularly striking: “I never thought I would…
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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest. So begins the famous Nature paper by James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Their discovery revolutionized biology and won…
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Of all the possible outcomes from COVID infection, clearly death is the one we want to prevent above all. We commonly see vaccine efficacy numbers from the 60’s to the 90’s, but that figure generally refers to how successful the vaccine is at preventing a COVID infection with any symptoms.…
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Do them until the vein in your forehead bursts! Yesterday, I was speaking with a relative who’s nearing 60. She’s been doing a ton of hard work to strengthen her legs after dealing with a knee issue. Now, she wanted to add some serious abdominal exercises for extra power and…
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+ Health+ Abdominal strength, Core strength, Exercise, Healthy lifestyle, Isometrics, Strength training, Workout, Yoga+
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