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Please don't base your opinion regarding the origins of COVID19 on your political affiliation. Many biologists agree, privately, that the lab leak hypothesis is the most compatible with the principle of parsimony. Blocking posters restricting reply rights.
New mineral analyses may explain the mysterious gap that was present before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago. https://scim.ag/4hQ0lUo
What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?
New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago
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#OwlAwarenessDay 🏺 Greeks + Daunians were very aware of owls, symbol of Athena, and feature of any posh tomb. Set of red figured skyphoi 'a civetta' (owl drinking cups) are from male tomb 669, full to brim w objects for the journey, in Lavello, ancient Forentum, conquered end C4 BC by Samnites.
Ameneh Shahbazifard had left home to buy medicine for her sick child. On her way back, she saw the street clashes and the IRGC forces shooting at the people. She bent down to help a wounded protester but a sniper shot her in the neck from behind. wncri.org/2020/11/14/a...
Ameneh Shahbazifard
Ameneh Shahbazifard was a 34-year-old housewife with three children, a 4-year-old girl and two boys, 12 and 14. She was
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Forbes factchecking RFK’s vaccine and Covid lies . . So you don’t have to! Facts are: there were no facts at all in his lies
Forbes@forbes.com · 2d agoDuring a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.
Smiling at the Gallows – The Public Execution of Majid Kavousifar, August 2, 2007 Majid Kavousifar and his nephew Hossein were hanged in front of Tehran’s Ershad judiciary complex, where they had shot dead the judge Hassan Moghaddas in his car in 2005.
The value-based care approach developed by the Mental Health Cooperative in Tennessee has been associated with improved HEDIS scores, as well as reduced emergency and inpatient care utilization. Learn more in NEJM Catalyst: https://nej.md/4pkMIP6 Explore the August issue: https://nej.md/44nIX1E
🟧 THE GALLOWS TRACK • Iran hangs Omid Behzad, 41, and Pouria Safvat, 35 — convicted of spying for Israel — Times of Israel • Wartime executions are ramping, not tapering — Times of Israel Two names. Two ropes. The internal front is where Tehran still wins.
Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident
Kevin Warsh - Fear The Bond! "If you're not going to tell us how you're going to do it, we're not going to believe you. And you cannot fool the bond. You cannot do it. The bond will see through it." - Mark Cabana, Head of US Rates Strategy, Bank of America, on @bloombergtv.bsky.social .
Sacred harmony: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism. St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
They must be up to something unbelievably awful to be distracting us with Trump’s woeful management of COVID.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is pathologically lying, gaslighting psychopath.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRFK: "You are saying nonsense." Bash: "I am not saying nonsense, excuse me?…This is not productive. " RFK: "You're talking nonsense…You were scaring people." Bash: "Why are you saying that?" RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN." Bash: "Okay, stop."
Namibia is not all desert, it's coast line has huge flamingo, pelican & seal populations. So many flamingos, it's difficult to isolate them, but the morning's fog helped, & created a magical mood! #photography #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #birds #birdtherapy #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Great to see our new paper out; evidence for Neanderthals in Arabia! Time to stop imagining our hominin cousins as only being found in cold northern forests! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neanderthals in the desert? Population history best explains Middle Palaeolithic technological heterogeneity in Arabia
Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…
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Jimbob Blinkhorn@jblinkhorn.bsky.social · 4d agoNew paper klaxon! Neanderthals in the Desert? Our new paper suggests that Neanderthals may have been responsible for producing MIS 3 Middle Palaeolithic Levallois blanks in northern Arabia! Have a look at this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Years ago, I read Ken Alibek’s book on Russia’s secret Cold War bio-warfare program. It is a scary book. This new book from @AnnieJacobsen, which I have just begun, is genuinely spine-tingling and is an important prompt to review whole-of-society bio-war defences.
On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵
Russia Gave Iran Radar Intelligence and Anti-Jam Hardware That Defeated US Electronic Warfare www.techtimes.com/articles/322...
Russia Gave Iran Radar Intelligence and Anti-Jam Hardware That Defeated US Electronic Warfare
Russia Iran intelligence sharing: wreckage from a Shahed drone that struck RAF Akrotiri confirms Russian Kometa-M anti-jam modules in Iranian weapons, while US and European officials confirm Moscow is...
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⚡ BREAKING: US releases final 10-year plan through 2036 for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, allowing up to 40% water cuts for Arizona, California and Nevada amid 26-year drought. #ColoradoRiver
#Tooba_Moradi_Mogoei, known as "Tina", one of the detainees from the January 2026 protests in Tehran's bazaar, was transferred to prison to serve her sentence after receiving a summons to execute the sentence. #Iran
#Elahe_Naghiloo and #Aria_Kasaei, two graphic designers and independent artists, have been detained by security forces in Tehran, and after about ten days, there is still no official information about their whereabouts, condition, or charges against them.
Putin is a fool. He spends 25 years making cowards of the ordinary Russian people, so that he can keep his mafioso grip on power. But then he thinks he can win a war with the same cowards forcefully sent to the trenches! Cowards in the street, cowards in the trenches, Tovarich!
‼️ Worth watching: A Russian man explains to his former compatriots why they bear responsibility for what’s happening in their country.
Still basking in the glow of Chicago’s historic @wnba.com All-Star Game. Check out the moment when President @barackobama.bsky.social surprised a group of young girls participating in the WNBA’s Changemaker Day.
Yield curve steepening again. Perhaps the dissenters have made a good case?
1/16 I have added a few elements to my Fate or Failure piece to show how @gregfolkers.bsky.social influenced the Biden 90-day report, as the intermediary between Daszak coalition and Fauci. The "Critical Review" was rushed to Zenodo 4 hours before Fauci's meeting with Beth Cameron and the IC.
